Records Volume 46: Archdeacon Harpsfield's Visitation 1557: 2

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Archdeacon Harpsfield's

Visitation, 1557

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Visitations of 1556 and 1558 RAGMENTAS

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RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED

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PREFACE The editor regrets to record the death of Mr. W. Sharp, whose help in transcribing the first volume is there acknowledged, and which occurred while it was being prepared for the press.

Since completing both volumes we have consulted , through the courtesy of the Rev. Canon Claude Jenkins , librarian, and Dr. Irene Churchill, assistant librarian of Lambeth , a visitation of the Canterbury diocese made by Cardinal Pole through his Vicar- General in spirituals, David Pole, LL.D. , in 1556. is only once referred to in Harpsfield (p. 205) . The acta are preserved at Lambeth, and Cardinal Pole's Register (f. 32 seq.) also contains some account of .

It

it

According to the register, the visitation of the Cathedral began on 18 May and was prorogued till 27 October. That of the Canterbury and Westbere deaneries was held in the church of St. Alphege, Canterbury, on 19 May; that of Bridge and Elham in the church of Bishopsbourne on 20 May; that of Dover in St. Mary's , Dover, on 21 May ; of Sandwich in St. Peter's church , Sandwich , on 22 May; and of Sittingbourne and Ospringe in the church of Sittingbourne on Thursday, 28 May. The deaneries of Sutton, Charing and Lympne are for some reason not mentioned either in the acta or in the register.

The reference in Harpsfield , however, indicates that a visitation for Sutton deanery was held ; and , doubtless , the same may be inferred concerning the remaining two.

A detailed comparison between the injunctions of Pole in 1556 and of Harpsfield in 1557 would illustrate in a practical way the rate of progress achieved by the second of the missions from Rome to the English people, the third of which was so notably commemorated this year.

Mr. Donald Attwater has lately drawn our attention to a Cornish translation of some homilies of Archdeacon John Harpsfield , the English originals of which are printed in an appendix to Bishop Bonner's Profitable and Necessary Doctrine (1555). The Cornish translator was John Tregeere. The MS., which is contemporary and comes from the papers of the Puleston family of Flintshire, was acquired for the British Museum in 1947.

It is catalogued as Additional MSS . 46397 and has been translated by Mr. R. Morton Nance, who has discovered in it some new Cornish words .

November, 1950

L.E.W.

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CONTENTS Page HISTORICAL INTRODUCTION ORDER OF VISITATION , 1557

9

VISITATION OF 1557

..

16

VISITATION OF 1556

..

291

VISITATION OF 1558

314

INDEX

354

:

ARCHDEACON HARPSFIELD'S VISITATION RETURNS CONTINUATION OF THE RETURNS FOR 1557

[f. 171r.]

HOTHEFILDE

Rector Dominus Edwardus Bullifannte * Rectoria ex patronatu Magistri Tufton Nicholaus Topley Iconomi Henricus Godfrey Parochiani Richardus Wattes Marcus Mylles Robertus Haule Johannes Godfrey

Willimus Toppley Numerus parochianorumsacramentumaltaris.ccxj

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recipientium

et familiæ infra dictam ecclesiam parochialem lxvj Die et anno ... ecclesiam parochialem predictam [rest as before Ffirste yt is commanndid to prouyde a lampe to burne before the sacrament before All Sainctes To prouyde a hollie water stopp of latten before

]

Mychaelmas To prouyde a crosse of latten or copper with the image of the crucyfixe before Christmas To prouyde a paire of candlestickes of latten before All Sainctes, and to kepe the crismatorie vnder locke

and key

To prouyde a fronnte for the vpper parte of the altare for the woorkingdaies or else to paynte the table with the passyon of Christe [ . 171v .]

To prouyde fronntes for the hollydaies of silkenon for the altar aboue and beneathe To prouyde ij cruettes § a pyxe of iuerye or boxe to carrye the sacrament in, and to prouyde a corporas clouthe before All Sainctes To prouyde a canapie of silke or sey with fringies and convenyent staues before Lent To prouide a graile before All Sainctes To prouyde a vestment with an aube for the workingdaies before Christmas

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of Edward Slanye (Pole, 70b). * Adm. 9 Mar. 1556, on resignation 1552 A.C. , 271 .

Nicholas Toplef inhabitant ( ix, Michael Mylles churchwarden 1552 (Ibid.). § A non erased above the line here ?

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HARPSFIELD'S VISITATION RETURNS

To prouyede a convenyent lighte before the roode at before All Sainctes To sett vpp the patrone decentlie at the end of the altare, and to prouyde a vele with clothes to cover the imagies before Lent To repaire the churche * in glasinge, tymbre and other necessarie reparations before All Sainctes To repare the churche* personagde house whiche is greatelie in decave before Mychaelmas come twelmonthe , and also to repaire the channcell non in all thinges To enclose the churcheyearde decentlie and to prouyde a basonnon and an ewer with a handbellnon before All Sainctes, and to prouyde a mattocke bye

*

that tyme

[f. 172r .]

SANDHERSTE

In left margin : Ex patronatu Reuerendissimi / Archiepiscopi Cant Rector ibidem Dominus Ricardus Symones residet

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Iconomi

Ricardus Illinden Thomas Beche Thomas Pettar Joannes Twisden Ricardus Keacham

Parochiani

William Wattes

Thomas Welles Ricardus Wattes Joannes Sone senior Thomas Holnesse Numerus parochianorum sacramentum altaris recipientium c

} iiij

xx

Memorandum quod supradictus Dominus Archidiaconus die et anno superius descriptis ecclesiam parochialem de Sandherst predictam iconomos ac parochianos ad tunc comparendum monitos preconizatos et comparentes actualiter visitauit et visis ornamentis ac ceteris neccesariis que in vsum ecclesie et decor' eiusdem fuerant preperata necnon et articulis inquisitionis publice declaratis eisdem§ parochianis iudicialiter iniunxit et mandauit vlteriusque processit prout inferius habetur

* Pen through . has commenced Another writer to insert at the end of the line " and the chauncell," and " non" above, and then all crossed out. . , Richard Beselye B.D. , coll 27 Aug. 1560 on resignation of Richard (Parker, 345a) . § " iconomis et " inserted above the line.

Symons

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HARPSFIELD'S VISITATION RETURNS

To prouide a paire of curtynes of silk for the high alter for the holly daies, Item covers of tyne for the crismatorye.

Item a paire of lattyn candelstickes Item too or iijnon surpleses non and a handbell Item the patron of ye church to be amendede

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citra festum Animarum/

[f. 172v. ]

Sandherste To prouide a faire crossenon of latten with ye imagies of Mary and John bifore Ester To prouide a faire registor boke wherin they shall registor all cristenynges burialles and mariages, and also thaccomptes of the churche The channcellnon and the churchenon to be repaired in all thinges before mydsomer The parson is commannded that he doo not burye anny that doo refuse to be confessed or to receve the sacramente nether that he doo ministre the sacramente at Easter to suche as will not crepe to the crosse

Ffinche

Wheras it appered that Master Finche in the sale of copes gayned in monney the sum of five markes, he is perswaded and hath also promysed to delyuer the said v markes to thuse of the churche ; payeng xxsnon Awithin a yere etc And wheras Thomasnon Pettar and other had in their handes remeynyng of the churche plate xj oz of siluer, they ar perswaded and have promysed to make restitucon and therof they haue delyuered to the church a paten of siluer The church wardens accomptesnon to be putt into the register boke bifore All Sainctes

Pettar

Bate

John Bate conuented at that tyme is commannded to pay or to agree with the churchwardens for the thinges that he is bond to performe by Foules will etc

[f. 173r.]

Sandherste The boseholder had in commanndment to attache reformatus one younge Willard and to bringe him to Crambroke the next day . At whiche tyme and place the said Willerd was bond in recognisaunce and to conforme hymself to the vnytie of the church John Twisden presented for witholding for witholding [sic] of vjs ijd a yere dewe for an obite ther and he being convented saieth that he he [sic paiethe it to the Quenes Ma'estie yerely ]

Willard

Twisden

* In margin in another hand.

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HARPSFIELD'S VISITATION RETURNS

ARCHDEACON

HAUKEHERSTE

[f. 173v .]

Ecclesia ibidem dudum erat impropriata Collegio Christi Oxon viz tempore Edwardi vjti Regis Est ibidem vicaria indotata. Sed nullus adhuc xx libri valet in reali possessione eiusdem

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Curatus ibidem Dominus Christophorus Grene Georgius Scote generosus* Iconomi Georgius Afforde Parochiani

Andr' Beaching

Petrus Donncke Joannes Andrue Petrus Woodgate Edmundus Robertes§ Thomas Mercer Joannes Idynden Joannes Carpinter Joannes Goodman Robertus Bullocke Ricardus Daye Jacobus Donncke Thomas Mercer Edwardus Donncke§§ Thomas Sisseley

**

William Springet¶¶ Numerus parochianorum sacramentum altaris recipientium Memorandum quod Sandhurst ] To set vppe a side altero

viije

} [

.... de Hawkehurste rest as or two withe

ffurniture

To prouide two alter clothes To set vppe the table of the alter citra festum To prouide a purse or a boxe convenient Omnium Sanctorum to carry the not finished Item a crosse clothenon of silke Item a corporas case, before Item two grailesnon and two antiphoners non To painte the rode Marienon and John with the image of the patrone before Easter * Warden also in 1558, 1559, 1571 (A.C. , v, 346) .

Warden in 1548, 1556 (Ibidem, 333). § Ib., 72.

Ib., 59. name , . butcher this ( 72) of Ib A .

Warden of the poor men's box 1556 (Ib. , 70).

Ib., 60. § § Ib., 79 ?

Ib., 84 .

Ib., 64 Pen through . * Crossed out.

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ARCHDEACON

HArpsfield's visitATION RETURNS

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To prouide a faire registor booke, wherin they shall register all christenynges burialles and mariages and also thaccomptes of the churche To prouide iij banners and three streamers of silk before Rogacon weeke To prouide a lampe non before All Saintes That the farmer repaire the channcell from tyme to tyme as often as nede shall require The curate is commannded that he doe not burie anny that doe refuse to be confessed or to receive the sacramentes nether that he doe minister the sacramente at Easter to suche as will not crepe to the crosse [ . 174v. Also it is comannded that all the parishners be confessed before myddle Lente Sonndaie, and then to be confessed agayne and to receave the sacramente wekelie as the howseholdes shalbe appoincted To prouide a cover for the deske and a handebellnon before the feast of Sainte Andrewe

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BENYNDEN f left margin Olim impropriata Combewell

[ . 175r.]

: In [dicti Johannis Guylforde

* / ex patronatu / ] Proprietarius Johannes Guylforde miles corner

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of

leaf torn] et valet rectoria residet Vicarius Magister Ricardus Waters Johannes Harrodyne Iconomi Robertus Wyllard Johannes Everenden Johannes Morlen Johannes Sharpe Laurentius Daye Johannes Wyllard Laurentius Pattenden Gervacius Gibbon

Willelmus Wattes

Johannes Basden Thomas Cryor Ricardus Glover Stephanus Netter Robertus Everenden of the Wood Willelmus Ffowle Robertus Binge Robertus Basenet Robertus Stace Ricardus Welles The priory of Cumbwell, near Maidstone.

Richard Water , S.T.B., adm. 14 June 1545 (Cranmer , 395b) . William

Darrell adm. on 10 Nov. 1561 on his death (Parker, 351b) .

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ARCHDEACON

HARPSFIELD'S VISITATION RETURNS

Thomas Gibbon Johannes Kete Thomas Willard

Laurentius Golding

Johannes Austen Robertus Everenden of Grauchill Jacobus Everenden Numerus parochianorum sacramentum vje altaris recipientium Numerus familiarum infra dictam parochiam

[f. 175v.]

The vicar [sic Memorandum quod

]

- ije

de Benynden ....[rest as Sandhurst ]

The vicar is commannded that he shall not burie anny that doe refuse to be confessed or to receive the sacramente nether that he do minister the sacramente at Easter vnto suche as will not crepe to the crosse To take down the tombe stone from the alter and to laye it in his place To furnisshenon vpp their table of the alter withe alablaster

before Easter

To prouide more lighte before the rode citra festum Omnium Sanctorum To prouide a lampe To prouide à faier register booke wherin they shall registor all christenynges burialles

/

and mariages and also thaccomptes of the churche and the same book to be kept vnder lock

and keye

Also it is commannded that all the parisheners be confessed before myddle Lente Sonndaie and then to be confessed agayne and to receive the sacrament weekelie as the howseholdes shalbe appoincted [ . 176r. all blank.

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NOTE ON BENENDEN AND RECUSANCY. list of Catholics resident in the archdiocese of Canterbury in A 1676 , drawn up in answer to Archbishop Sheldon's enquiries , shews more recusants to have been living at Benenden at that time than in any other parish. The original returns are in the Library of the Dean and Chapter at Canterbury and were transcribed by Mr. Stuart Davis. The figures are as follows: 7 1 Canterbury (St. George's) Knowlton 18 2 Leveland (St. Paul's ) Capel-le-Ferne Benenden Boughton-under- Blean Boughton Monchelsea

24

Marden Rodmersham

7

Hythe

Bredgar

2

1

Sandwich Selling * Usual spelling in sixteenth century.

1

1

13215

3.

ARCHDEACON

Great Chart ..

Cranbrook Doddington Dover (St. James's) (St. Mary's) Faversham

HARPSFIELD'S VISITATION RETURNS 1 1

Sholden or 2

2 15 6

3 " whereof 2 53 are women 1 woman

Hackington Hothfield

4

181

Stanford Stonar

2 7

Tenterden

1

Westwell Wingham

1

Total

7

.. 123

The figures for Canterbury are comparatively large , but it would be a chronological error to ascribe them to the influence of the Hales family at Hales Place , for Sir Edward, the third baronet, born in 1645, was not converted to Catholicism till 1685. At Hackington, the parish in which the above mansion was situated, there was only one Catholic in 1676. We may, perhaps , . partly account for them on the ground that Canterbury, like Dover was an urban centre.

The incidence of Catholics in the Faversham and Sittingbourne area may be ascribed to the Hawkins family of Boughton-under-Blean and to the Ropers , Lords Teynham of Lynsted Lodge respectively.

The youngerbranch of the family of Guldeford, seated at Hempsted in the parish of Benenden , kept the Catholic faith. Their ancestor was George, second son of Sir Richard Guldeford, K.G. and Comptroller of the Household to King Henry VII, who died at Jerusalem in 1508. His son, Sir John Guldeford, was Sheriff of Kent in the sixth year of Edward VI . Richard, born to him by his second wife, Mary Fitzwilliam , died in exile for his religion at Rouen on 22 May 1586.

A widow, Benet (formerly married to Horne of Appledore ) , was also a Catholic and survived him . She died at Brussels, aged 37 , in July 1597 .

The eldest son of Sir John by his first wife, Barbara West, was Sir Thomas Guldeford, Kt. , whose son by Elizabeth, daughter of Sir John Shelley, of Michelgrove , Sussex, was Sir Henry Guldeford. He married the Lady Elizabeth Somerset, daughter of Edward, Earl of Worcester. Their son, Edward Guldeford of Hempsted , Esq ., married Catherine , daughter of Thomas , third son of the first Lord Petre . A daughter, Elizabeth, widow of John Brooke of Madeley , co . Salop, became a Benedictine nun and died at Pontoise in 1714, aged 57.

Her brother, Robert Guldeford, the only son of his parents , was created a baronet by James in 1685. He married Clare, daughter and coheir of Anthony Thomson , Esq. , of Northorp in Lincolnshire, but died in 1718 without issue. Sir Robert Guldeford'sstaunch Catholicism earned for him the favour of James II . The estate of Hempsted was sold underan Act of Parliament in the reign of Queen Anne to pay his debts.

The best known member of the elder branch of the Guldeford family , seated at Halden in the parish of Rolvenden , was the Lady Jane Grey. For the pedigree see art . The Family of Guldeford, by the Rev. R. C. Jenkins, in A.C. , xiv, 1-17 .

II

With the removal of Sir Robert Guldeford, Bt. , from Hempsted, the number of Catholics declined and finally died out altogether. Thus in answer to the articles of enquiry promulgated on 1 May 1758 by Archbishop Secker, the then incumbent wrote: " About 50 years ago the seat above mentioned [Hempsted ] belonged to a Roman Catholick family. There were at that time several Papists in this parish, which are now (God be praised ) reduced to one only, who is a large farmer . His place of worship used to be at Scotney , in ye

182

ARCHDEACON

HARPSFIELD'S VISITATION RETURNS

parish of Lamberhurst, in the County of Sussex, a house belonging to Dorril [Darrell], Esquire. But I am informed that there has been no priest there for a considerable time, and that our farmer, whose name is John Jenks , has been at no place of worship lately. His sister in law, on a visit to him from London, died here of small pox about 9 years ago, and immediately upon her death one Mr. Bennet , a Popish priest, came hither from Battle in Sussex on that occasion, and stayed here one night . And can't learn that he ever was here afterwards.

I This is all that I know of Papists with regard to my parish." This answer was extracted from the originals in Lambeth Palace Library by the Rev. Francis Haslewood in his Parish of Benenden, Kent (privately printed at Ipswich, 1889 ) , p . 228.

Thomas Wells the elder of Benenden , the same author notes (p. 219), was presented by the churchwardens " for keeping of beades and other bookes of Papistry in 1587. "

[f. 176v .]

CRAMBROKE

Proprietarius ecclesia Christi Cantuar xxxiij libri xiijsiiijd et rectoria valet

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Vicarius Magister Johannes Atkinson * Walterus Hendley Iconomi

residet

Johannes Hovenden

Iconomi anni Johannes Sharpie Ricardus Tailor preteriti Assistentes

Ricardus Dense Robertus Hovenden Petrus Courthoppe Alexander Dense Stephanus Sharpie Johannes Hovenden Henricus Earsden Johannes Sharpie Walterus Hendley Ricardus Tailor senior Willelmus Earle

Willelmus Tailor

Johannes Aware Willelmus Courthoppe Thomas Waterman Thomas Burgies Willelmus Hovenden Johannes Hartredge Johannes Brickenden Jacobus Stottesford Ricardus Cusheman

* Adm . Bethersden 27 Feb. 1549 (Cranmer , 410b). Richard Fletcher, M.A. , adm. Cranbrook on resignation of George Atkinson on 17 Oct. 1561 (Parker, 350b ) .

ARCHDEACON

HARPSFIELD'S VISITATION RETURNS

183

Numerus parochianorum sacramentum xve altare [sic] recipientium Numerus familiarum infra dictam parochiam

- iijc

[f. 1777.] Memorandum quod .... de Crambrok [rest as Sandhurst ] To prouide surplessies and rochettes convenient

for the quire before All Saintes To set vppe the patrone of the churche and to gilte or paynte the same before All Saintes To prouide a faire register booke wherin they shall register all the christenynges burialles and mariages and also thaccomptes of the churche and the same to be kept vnder lock and keye That the churchewardens and parishners doe enquire of the ornamentes of the churche that were solde and by whome, and to what vse it was put and to make certificate therof the Twisdaie after Michaelmas daye at Cannterburye To repaire the northe ile of the churche before mydsommer

To enclose the churcheyarde before the feast of All Saintes, and to kepe it well enclosed

The vicar is commannded that he shall not burie any that doe refuse to be confessed or to receive the sacrament nether that he doe minister the sacramente at Easter vnto suche as will not crepe to the crosse [f. 177v.] * Also it is comannded that all the parisheners be confessed before myddle Lente Sonndaie and then to be confessed agayne and to receive the sacrament weekelie as the howseholdes shalbe appoincted Also that one of everie howse be at procession apon the Wednisdaies and Fridaies To prouide convenient bookes for the quire before the feast of All Saintes Beale Philpott Also it is comannded that Thomas Beale James Living Exton Livinge James Philpotte and Thomas Exton be attached by the connstable or bosholder and to be sett [sic] to Cannterburye Wodesetters Also that no wodesetters woorke apon the Sonndaies

[f. 178r.]

STAPLEHERSTE

Rector Dominus Thomas Henden Ex patronatu Johannis Baker Iconomi Walterus Tailor Johannes Turnor militis

* Corner of page torn.

residet

The Staplehurst Register is described by T. S. Chamberlain in A.C., The entries are continuous from 26 September 1538

xxviii , 283-99 .

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ARCHDEACON

HARPSFIELD'S VISITATION RETURNS

Parochiani

Walterus Mayney generosus Johannes Pickenden Simon Draner Ricardus Harrold Thomas Batherst Thomas Osborn Thomas Goldam Johannes Rede Johannes Rumney Johannes Barefote Thomas Peke

Numerus parochianorum sacramentum .iiije

}

altare recipientium Memorandum quod

....

de Stapleherst [rest as Sandhurst

To prouide a canapie of silke with fringies before Lente

]

to 30 October 1596. They illustrate the religious changes of the time. The children of Richard Beesley , rector, and of his curate, Robert Stockton, both having married, ' are entered in the register of baptisms. There is the note, partly illegible, relating to the end of 1554, or beginning of 1555, that " Master parsone begone to have all maner [ trib] ulacyonswt hys wffe -which indicates, " early in the reign perhaps, that some action had been taken against Stockton of Queen Mary . From June 1556 the names of godparents as well as the name of the father of the child are given, in compliance with Cardinal Pole's injunctionof 1555. Two of these entries relate to children of John Rumney, mentioned in the list of parishioners. His son , Robert, was christened on 4th July 1556, his daughter, Agnes , whose godfather was Thomas Henden, on 13th September 1558 [?]. Thomas Henden succeeded as rector in

May 1557, when Beesley was deprived as a married priest. Several names mentioned in the list of parishioners occur in the register, viz. Drayner, Mayney, Rumney, Rede , Osborne , Batherst, and Turner .

Of special interest are three notices which seem to corroborate the suspicions entertained against Ffaunte's wife, the wife of Batherst, George Taylor , and Thomas Rede and his wife, viz.: The child of William Fant was not baptized until 7 April 1560, which childe was borne in troublous days & therefore not christined tyll it was a yere old." This looks as if the child's baptism had been deliberately deferred to avoid the Marian ( Catholic) minister. a baptism of a child on 5 February 1559, shortly after Queen Mary ii At was dead , we find Margaret Batterst , the godmother, vituperante sputi " ceremoniam , thus shewing once again and openly her aversion to the " ceremonies of the Church. iii On 8 February, three days later, a Joan Taylor died without the sacraments or sign of the cross over the body or coffin- sine sacramentorum et crucis signo super corpus vel sarcophagum quo deportabatur inter duodecimam et primam horam nulla satisfactionefacta. It would appear that she was buried by the priest, but he was not allowed to carry out the

i

"

"

"

full ceremonies .

iv When one Henry Rede died on 14 February following, " pater noluit eum

in ecclesiam introduci ." This refusal to allow the body of his son to lie .

in the church was clearly a protest against Catholic rites .

Richard Beseley, M.A. , who was originally admitted to the rectory of Staplehurst on 19 November 1537 ( Cranmer , 356b , 357a) , was re-admitted under Elizabeth.

ARCHDEACON

[f. 178v .]

[f. 179r.]

HARPSFIELD'S VISITATION RETURNS

185

To prouide curteynes of silke for the hallie daies and a fronnte for the alter above of seye for the woorkingedaies with curteynes of the same before the feast of Allsaintes To prouide twono or three surplessies or rochettes for the quire before the feaste of Allsaintes To prouide a graile before Christmas To prouide an antiphonerno before the feast of Allsaintes To painte the roode Marie and John with the patrone and to set vpp the patrone decentlie before Christmas Also it is comannded that all thoose that can singe doe serve in the quire vppon the Sonndaies and halliedaies and that the churchewardens doe make due certificate of them that refuse To prouide a veleno and coveringesnon for the imagies before Lente To prouide a conuenient lighte before the roode at this side the feast of Allsaintes To prouide a faiernon registor booke wherein they shall register all christenynges mariages and burialles and also thaccomptes of the churche To prouide a lampe before the feast of Allsaintes Also it is commannded that the wallnon of the southe side of the channcell be amended by the parishners before mydsomer Also that the channcell be repaired in glasinge and other reparations necessarie before the feast of Allsaintes To repaire the churche also in glasinge and other reparacions before the feast of Allsaintes That the churchewardens do diligentlie enquire what ornamentes plate jewelles and other gooddes belonginge to the churche were solde and to whom by whom and to what vse the same was put and that the saide wardens make due certificat

therof Also it is commannded that the personage be thoroughlie repaired before Michaelmas

come twelvemonethe

That the person burie none that refuse to be confessed or to receive the sacramente Neither that he doe minister the sacrament at Easter to suche as will not crepe to the crosse

Also it is commannded that oneno of everie house nighe to the churche be at procession the Wednisdaies and Fridaies

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ARCHDEACON

Faunte Garland

HARPSFIELD'S VISITATION RETURNS

Memorandum that there is commanndemente

geven to the connstable to attache Ffauntes

* abiit wife and Robert Garland suspected of * abiit heresie and to bringe theim to the commissioners at Cannterburye

Matheus Medherst

vxor Batherst vxor predicti Medherst

Thomas Rede et qui sepius detecti eius vxor quod perverse sentiebant de sacramentis et cere Buckland vidua Petrus Marden moniis ecclesie etc Thomas Robertes * bedrid Georgius Tailor * abiit Thomas Clifford Omnes conventi humiliter agnoscentes culpas submiserunt se vnitati ecclesiae etc .

179v quod Thomas Scranton et eius [. ] *Detectum receperunt sacramentum Paschate non vxor vltimo et quod recesserunt a parochia ad Calisiam Wherefore the connstable hathe in commanndemente to attache them when they come into the countrie and to bringe them before the commissioners at Cant Detectum that Iames Austen hathe caried the pretensed wife of Sir Robert Smithe late curate of Apledor to the same Sir Robert prevelie sithens the tyme of their divorse Vnde evocatus dictus Iacobus et oneratus iuramento ad tacta evangelia negauit obiecta et sic dimittitur cum monitione de bene se gerendo etc

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[f. 180r.]

GOODHERSTE

Firmarius rectorie Rectoria impropriata ecclesie Roffensi

Robertus Gawen

Vicarius Dominus Ricardus White § residet Vicaria ex patronatu dicte ecclesie Roffensis et valet xx libri Johannes Horsemonden Iconomi Willelmus Steven Parochiani

* Added in another hand.

Edwardus Horden Thomas Nepsam Thomas Austen iunior Radulphus Wyborn

Calais.

The corner of the page is torn. § Adm. 27 Mar. 1557 Richard White , B.D., on resignation of Stephen Baker (Pole, 71a, b) . William Walter collated 21 Feb. 1560 (Parker, 347b).

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Johannes Hardeglas Johannes Tomeden Thomas Sable Johannes Pattinden Willelmus Atree Robertus Gawen Johannes Love mercer Jacobus Coggar Allanus Cryar Thomas Craddock Johannes Stevens Ricardus Besbiche of Trigges Ricardus Coggar Ricardus Austen Simon Sabbe [Sable ?]

Jasperus Rode Ricardus Rode Johannes Smithe myller Edwarde Rode Thomas Pattinden Walterus Marten Walterus Coucheman Alexander Stevens Johannes Stone Thomas Smithe Jacobus Craddock

[f. 180v.]

Numerus parochianorum sacramentum altare recipientium

ixc

Die et anno prescriptis Dominus

Archidiaconus ecclesiam parochialem predictam iconomos ac parochianos [rest as Sandhurst ] Firste it is commannded that the alter stone that lieth in the northe side of the churche be taken vppe before Michaelmas To enquire wherenon the highe alter stone was bestowed and to make certificate therof the Twisdaie after Michaelmas at Cant To prouide an able and convenient clerck as they have bene accustomed to have before Christmas To prouide fronntes for the alter above and benethe of seye with curteynes of the same for the woorkingedaies before the feaste of Allsaintes To prouide a convenient boxe or a purse to carrie the sacramente in to the sick before the feast of Allsaintes To kepe the crismatorie vnder lock and keye

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[f. 1817.]

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To prouide a convenient paxe of latten with the Image of Christe before Allsaintes To prouide a canapie of silke with fringies and staves conveniente before Lente To prouide a convenient sepulchre with a frame for the lighte before Lente Also it is commanded that the churchewardens and parisheners warne Thomas Lake John Steven Alexander Steven Roberte Lake and William Lake

to singe in the quire

aponn the Sonndayes and hallidaies , and the churchewardens to make due certificat of theim that refuse the Twisdaie after Michaelmas at Cannt The parishners annsweringe and shewinge a cawse , why the forfeiture of xx libri for lacke of their patrone not provided should not be certified accordingelie they saye they laid ernest apon a patrone and the wourkman is fled oute of the countrie And also they saide that they have an other a making at Aisheford To paynte the roode Marie and John and to prouide the patrone before Allsaintes To prouide a convenient lighte before the rood before Allsaintes 181v To prouide a faier register booke wherein .] [. they shall register all christeninges marriages and burialles and all thaccomptes of the churche To prouide two convenient banners before Rogacon weeke To repaire the channcelnon in sealinge and other things before Allsaintes vnder payne of sequestracion of the fructes To repaire the glasse windowesnon of the churche before Allsaintes Also that the windowe in the belferie be glased before mydsommer , and to be closed otherwise decentlie ( so that no pigeons may com into the churche) before Allsaintes Primus annus* That the vicaredge howse be repaired in necessarie reparations as tilynge and otherwise before the feaste of Allsaintes And the same to be thoroughelie repaired within this three yeares and the vicar to accompte what he dothe bestowe apon the same yerelie 1.e. for not fulfilling the injunction.

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That the churcheyarde be enclosed decentlie before Michaelmas and if it be not done then the churchewardens to certifie in whoise default it is the Twisdaie after Michaelmas daye at Cannt'

[f. 182r.]

To make a hollie water stoppe at the church door before Allsaintes To prouide a lantern to goo in visitacon, a handebell a bason and ewer and a mattocke before the feaste of Allsaintes That there be procession Wednisdaies and Fridaies and that one of everie howse nighe to the churche be at the same To put oute the Kinges Armes in the roode lofte before Allsaintes

To prouide a lampe before Allsaintes To prouide a veleñon and coveringes for the imagies before Lente Memorandum it is commannded that the bosholder attache Henrie Muddle and to bringe hym to * reformatus Muddle Boughton to morrowe at none The constable is commannded to attache the) suswidowe of John Smithe Smithe miller the wife of pecti William Walter the wife of Arthure Lye de Walter and to bringe them to the commissioners to Cant heresi Lye Dalington Detectum est quod vxor Ricardi Dallington non frequentauit ecclesiam iam mortua est Filia dicte Dallington similiter detecta et ad iudicium evocata ac agnoscens culpam et negligentiam suam humiliter se vnitati ecclesie submisit et sic dimittitur cum monitione de bene gerend Vxor cuiusdam Skambler detecta quod incontinenter vixit que peperit prolem ad iudicium evocata fatebatur culpam et submisit se ordinacioni iudicis Skambler cui Dominus iniunxit penitentiamcanonicam in ecclesia predicta more poenitentis inter diuinorum solempnia peragendam quam penitentiam dicta Skambler penitenter peregit et sic dimittitur cum monitione de se bene gerend 182v .

That the churchewardensnon and sidemen doe [f. make a perfecte accomptes the Twisdaie after Michaelmas daie at Cant of the crosse censures and other plate and jewelles solde by the churchewardens parte for xvj yeres agon and parte for ix years agon

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Thomas Duddys, Constable , living at Marden, is ordered these three offenders again in the Visitation of 1558 (p. 328).

to arrest

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That the churchewardens warne William Coggars wife to appeare at Cannterburiethe Twisdaie after Michaelmas daye and to make certificate the same daie whether she doe com dewlie to the churche and behave her self reverentlie there in the meane tyme or no MARDEN

[f. 183r.]

Rectoria impropriata Reuerendissimo Olim impropriata Domino Archiepiscopo Cant monasterio de Schene Vicarius Dominus Robertus Haynes olim Firmarius rectorie Johannes Edmede coniugatus et mulier habitat apud Braborn et valet 1 libri Vicaria ex patronatu Reuerendissimi xv Domini Archiepiscopi / Cant et valet libri

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Nicolaus Pennyale Vsburt Osborne Parochiani Ricardus Bodiam Oliverus Symon Johannes Edmede Thomas Duddie Johannes Aulcock Johannes Blushe Willelmus Mascall Jacobus Coppinge Johannes Rolf Johannes Garforde Johannes Brattell Johannes Welles senior Johannes Teboll Thomas Tirrey Thomas Mayhewe Robertus Swynnerton Johannes Harris Bartholomeus Yonge Johannes Garford Rogerus Raynold parochianorum sacramentum1 ve Numerus

The churche and the chauncell was burned

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[f. 183v.]

altaris recipientium et familie infra dictam parochiam iije when stone chauncellis set vppe an the alter of To buylded and then to prouide fronntes for the aulter above and benethe

* A note is made to enquire whether she had obeyed these injunctions in the Visitation of 1558 .

This town is remarkable for religious disaffection, which is most prevalent in the Weald of Kent . Women, as often, preponderate.

Adm. Braborne 28 Oct. 1545 (Cranmer , 396b).

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To prouide two alter clothes of lynnen before the feast of Allsaintes To prouide towelles conveniente for the priestes handes and for theim that receive at Easter with crewettes and a conveniente boxe to carrie the sacramente in to the sicke before Christmas To prouide a canapie of silke with fringes and staves conveniente before Lente To prouide a crosse of latten with the image of the crucifixe and also a crosse of silke before Passion Sonndaie To prouide a convenient sepulchre with a frame for the lighte againste the channcell is buylded To prouide a hollie water stoppe of latten or tynne and also a surples or a rochet for the clerck before the feast of Allsaintes To prouide a grailenon and an antiphonernon before the feaste of Allsaintes come twelvemonethe To prouide a convenient vestmente with albe fannelles and other thynges belonginge to the same and also an albe for the vestment they have before Christmas To prouide a velenon and coveringes for the imagies against the channcell is buylded To prouide a roode Marienon and John with the patrone of a decent stature against the channcell is builded To prouide ij banneresnon and ij streamers againste Rogacon weeke . 184r. To prouide a paier of censures before Christmas To leade the northe ile before the feast of Allsaintes To shutte vppe the open places of the churche before Michaelmas so that no pigeons may com in Domus rectorie To repaire the vicaredgenon howse thoroughelie est sufficienter before Michaelmas com twelvemonethe reparata To prouide a faier register bookenon wherein they There booke shall register all christeninges mariages and was burned burialles and also thaccomptes of the church / To prouide a lantern to goo in visitacon a handebell a bason andnon ewer before Christmas et anno prescriptis dictus Dominus . de Marden Die prout superius habetur et inferius sequitur [rest as Sandhurst ] Rogerus Raynold bosholder comparuit et fatetur se cepisse et in suo custodio habuisse Johannem Ham seniorem alias detectum de heresi quo clausus in domo predicti Fannell was the mediaeval word for the maniple, worn on the left arm of the priest at mass.

Head constable of a borough, in Kent part of a hundred.

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Raynold effugit atque recessit et ut asserit sine sua scientia vnde mandatum est dicto Raynold ut apprehendat tam dictum Ham quam alios quorum nomina sequuntur et eos sic apprehensos producat coram commissariis Cant Jacobum Ham et eius vxorem * abiit Johannem Ham iuniorem non receperunt * abiit *Willelmum Affelde et Doritheam eius vxo- sacramentum altaris Helenoram Mayhowe * abiit [rem * abiit / per tres annos

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[f. 184v .]

Detectum est quod vxor Willelmi Maschall absentauit se ab ecclesia personaliter coram iudice comparuit vir et asseruit se non scire vbi eius vxor sit cui mandatum

est ut apprehendat vxorem suam Detectum est quod Margareta vxor Johannis Garford * reformata absentauit se ab ecclesia ac monita ad comparendum coram iudice die et anno prescriptis non comparuit vir tamen personaliter in iudicio comparens allegauit se nescire vbi vxor eius sit cui mandatum est quod apprehendat vxorem suam et producat eandem sic apprehensam coram comissariis in proxima sessione Detectum est quod Johanna Cleve non frequentauit ecclesiam que Johanna effugit et a parochia recessit deinde personaliter comparuit Bartholomeus Yonge bosholder qui allegauit sub sui iuramenti vinculo ad tacta Dei evangelia prestita quod diligenter quesiuit dictam Cleve quam non potuit apprehendere cui mandatum est quod dictam Cleve celeritate qua fieri poterit apprehendat et producat coram commissariis Detectum est quod Ricardus Everendenabiit* et eius vxor non receperunt sacramentum altaris per tres annos vir effugit et a parochia recessit vnde mandatum est bosholder quod apprehendat et producat coram comissariis mulier vero adversa valetudine laborat quarto Octobris personaliter comparuit vicarius et certificauit quod mulier agnoscens culpam et negligentiam suam seque vnitati ecclesie submittens debite iam frequentat ecclesiam et reverenter se habet et preterea quod dicta mulier penitenter erat confessa ac reverenter et devote recepit sacramentum altaris in vigilia Sancti Michaelis

vltim preterit

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Detectum est quod Johannes Ffowleabilt * non recepit sacramentum altaris per tres annos habitat nunc apud Pluckley ideo evocetur

* Another hand.

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Detectum est quod Thomas Smithe non debite frequentatecclesiam monitus et preconizatus comparuitet agnoscens negligentiam fate-

batur

se abesse ab ecclesia die Dominica vltima cui iudex assignauit

et iniunxit penitentiam canonicam peragendam in ecclesia predicta more penitentis et ad certificandum personaliter vel per litteras vicarii die Martis proxim post festum Sancti Michaelis proximefuturum die Martis non comparuit nec certificauit ideo iudex pronunciauit ipsum contumacem et in penitentia contumacionis sue huiusmodi excommunicandum fore decreuit

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[f. 1857.]

Detectum est quod Agnes Bassock non recepit* sacramentum altaris in festo Paschatis evocata ad iudicium ac personaliter comparens agnoscebat culpam suam ac se vnitati ecclesie et ordinationi iudicis submisit cui Dominus assignauit quod declarabit se esse penitentem pro comissis suis in hac parte perpetratis ecclesia predicta et deinde prius vicario penitenter confessa sacramentum altaris die Dominica proxim sequenti reverenter recipiet et quod bene et obedienter se habeat in omnibusquod si non perimpleverit iudex mandauit bosholder quod diligenter caveat ne dicta Agnes a parochia recedat et ad certificandum die Martis post festum Sancti Michaelis proxim futurum quid dicta in premissis fecerit Quo die adveniente certificatum est quod dicta Agnes omnia sibi ut prefertur iniuncta penitenter ac reverenter peregit

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Johannes Edmede firmarius rectorie alias in iudicio constitutus monitus est ad comparendum Cantuar die Martis post festum Sancti Michaelis archangeli ad dicendam causam quare fructus et decime dicte Frectorie sequestrari non debeant eoque procurationes ex dicta rectoria debite minime sunt persolute

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Willelmus Randolf detectus est quod irreverenter se gerit tempore elevacionis sacramenti altaris qui Randolf aduersa valetudine laborat

reformatus

Ricardus Hiderabiit detectus quod non recepit sacramentum altaris per tres annos iam recessit a parochia et habitat apud Lynton cum vxore sua que similiter est detecta

Corner of page torn .

Another hand.

"A retro per xx" annos " in margin.

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Johannes Knoll abiit* Katherina Nicolasabiit*

similiter detecti recesserunt a parochia vnde mandatum est bosholder quod apprehendantur et producantur coram comissariis

[f. 185v . ]

Thomas Smithe detectus de crimine adulterii cum vxore Thome Smede evocatus ad iudicium ac personaliter comparens negauit crimen in presencia Johannes [sic Merden et Ricardi Harrenden accusantium dictum Smithe

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deinde etiam mulier personaliter comparuit et negauit crimen postea iudex decreuit ut hoc negotium correctionis assignaretur alicui viro idoneo ad examinandum procedendum ac iuris forma finiendum et expediendum .

Thomas Walter detectus de crimine adulterii cum Jeroppa vxore Nicolai Rabettes moniti ad comparendum vir recessit et habitat apud Maidestone mulier autem personaliter comparuit et negauit crimen in presencia Johannis Garford accusantis dictam Rabbettes deinde iudex assignauit dictam Rabbettes ad purgandam se septima [ manu crastino die apud Boughton postea iudex decreuit ut hoc negotium correctionis assignaretur alicui viro idoneo ad examinandum procedendum expediendum et iuris forma finiendum

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Johannes Brattell detectus de crimine adulterii cum Johanna vxore Thome Harris evocati ad iudicium vir personaliter comparuit et negauit crimen in presencia dicte Johanne comparentis et dicentis prout sequitur viz that the seide Brattell woulde divers tymes mysvsed her Quarto die mensis Octobris anno predicto dictus Brattell personaliter constitutus in iudicio monitus est ad purgandum se quintain proxima curia postea Dominus commisit vices suas rectori de Stapleherst ad recipiendam purgacionem

dicti Brattell

Detectum est quod Walterus Walter suspiciose vivit cum quadam femina soluta quam dictus Walter habet in domo sua propria

[f. 186r.]

Olim impropriata collegio de Maideston

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ProprietariusAlexander Griggbee xj libri et rectoria / valet Non est vicaria ibidem indotata

Delegation.

Quinta manu 11 a form of trial by compurgation.

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For the college of Maideston was allwaies wonnte to geve or lett lease the same and the curate to have the smalle tithes and fouer markes with the vicaredge howse whiche smale tithes are nowe woorthe iiii libri And the proprietarie hathe promised to geve the seide fower marckes to the curate quarterlie

to be paide

Curatus magister Johannes Platte* Iconomi Ricardus Riche Willelmus Abarnes Parochiani Thomas Busshopp Johannes Swynnerton Jacobus Blacke Thomas Cowper Antonius Patrick Richardus Stertout Numerus parochianorum sacramentum altaris$ vj xx recipientium Numerus familiarum infra dictam parochiam - XXX de Lynton [rest as Sandhurst Die et anno prescriptis ] [ . 186v.] Detectum est that William Abarnes bought a tombe stone that lay in the churche yarde sold

by John Swynnerton and John Joice Wherefore the saide Swynnerton is commannded to cause the same tombe stone to be layed agayne vpon the grave before Michaelmas and to make certificate thereof at Cant the Twisdaie after Michaelmas daye That the churche wardens doenon diligentlie enquire what became of the alter stones and to make due certificat thereof the Twisdaie after Michaelmas daye at Cant To prouide fronntes for the alter above and benethe of paynted clothe for the woorkingedayes and for the halliedaies of silkeor sey with curteynes of the same before the feast of Allsaintes To prouide a patten of silver for the challice before the feast of Allsaintes and the curat not to mynister withoute a paten of silver after the same daye Memorandum that for lacke of a curate the parishners have divers tymes departed withoute confession and receivinge of the sacramentes To prouide a conveniente boxenon or a purse to carrie the sacramente in to the sick before Christmas * A Richard Perse collated as perpetual vicar 2 Sept. 1562 (Parker, 357b)

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To prouide a corporas casenon before Michaelmas To prouide a paier of latten candelstickes before the feast of Allsaintes To prouide a crosse of lattennon and a crosse clothenon of silke before Palme Sonndaie and to amende their crosse staffenon immediatlie To prouide a convenient sepulcrenon with a frame for the lighte before Lente [ . 1877.] To make a holliewater sprinckell oute of hande To set vpp the patrone of the churche decentlie before Michaelmas To prouide a velenon and coveringesnon for the imagies before Lente To prouide a conveniente lighte before the roode before Allsaintes and to set vpp the roode in the olde place immediatlie To prouide a lock and a keye for the fonnt before the feast of Allsaintes To prouide a faier registernon booke wherein they shall register all christenynges mariagies and burialles and also thaccomptes of the church To prouide a lampe before Allsaintes That the channcelinon and churche be repaired in glasinge and shingle with all other thinges before Allsaintes and that the belferienon be made close before Michaelmas in suche that no pigeons may come in That the churchewardens do diligentlienon enquire who toke awaye the seates in the channcell and quire and to make due certificat thereof To prouide a vestement non of silke with albe and other necessaries before Allsaintes Memorandum that thenon proprietarie hath Est ibidem domus promised to repaire the vicaredge howse before

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Whitsontide To prouide a canapienon of silke with fringes and staves conveniente before Lente To prouide a lanternnon and a cover non for the deske a bason andnon ewer and a mattocke by Allsaintes 187v . To bringe the Bible and Paraphrasis * to Cant . [ ] the Twisdaie after Michaelmas daye

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To sett vppe the sacramente decentlie before Allsaintes That the proprietarie provide that there be fower sermons yerelie And because the smale tithes and the iiijor marckes by yeare aforesaide be not able and sufficient to finde a curate Grigbee the proprietarie was demanded whether he woulde geve so muche to the same as shalbe able to finde a priest He

* Underlined.

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annswereth that he thincketh no cause whye for because he paide for the same ccxxxj libri and x libri for the patente and saithe that he is well contented to surrender his patente so that he

Grigby

may be repaide his monney agayne It is also commannded that Grigbee the proprietar' doe make a perfecte accomptes of all thinges belonginge to the vicaredge whiche he hathe received sithens the tyme he hath had it, and the churche wardens and other honest men of the parishe to surveye and peruse the same accomptes and to make certificate therof the Twisdaye after Michaelmas daye at Cant'

LOOSE [f. 188r. ] [In left margin : Olim impropriata / collegio de Maideston /

Robertus White / firmarius rectorie / Rectoria+ impropriata Dominis Regi et Regine v libri xiijs

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iiijd

per The curate hathe fower markes yerelie oute of the colledge whiche is nowe paide by the Kinge and the Quene Also he hathe the smale tithes whiche is worthe yerelie vi libri Also of olde tyme as they saye the curate was wonnte to have all the tithes paying to the college yerelie xls and that the same was at the gifte of the colledge of Maideston Memorandum that there is no parsonage howse but a barne and a stable, whiche the > farmer is bounde to repaire and paieth also v libri xiijs iiijd yerelie to Master Roper farmer of Maideston Curatus dominus Thomas Luntwicke olim sub matrimonii effigie coniugatus cuius vxor pretensa iam habitat apud Mallinge Johannes Charleton Iconomi Ricardus Cocheman Iconomi anni Willelmus Crippes Thomas Crudde preterriti Alexander Grigbee Parochiani Georgius Ovenden Thomas Ffissher Johannes Stace Edwardus Cocheman Johannes Cannon

collated perpetual vicar 28 May 1567, on death of last * John (Bendall incumbent Parker, 381a).

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Numerus parochianorum sacramentum altaris recipientium

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[f. 188v .] Die et anno .... de Loose [rest as Lynton ]

To take vppe the alter stone that lieth in the side ile and to sett vppe an alter there with furniture and to laye the same stone apon before the feast of Allsaintes To prouide fronntes non for the alter above and benethe with the image of Christe in the myddes of silkes or seye with curteynes of the same before Allsaintes To prouide a pynne for the crismatorie and also a convenient boxe or a purse to carrie the sacrament in to the sicke before Allsaintes To prouide a patten of silver before Allsaintes and that the curate minister not withoute after the same daye To prouide two towelles for the priestes handes before Allsaintes and also a corporas clothe To prouide a paxe of latten with the image of the crucifixe before Allsaintes To prouide a canapie of silke with conveniente staves and fringes before Lente To prouide a paier of latten candelstickes and to set vppe a hollie water stoppe at the churche door before Allsaintes crosse ys very litell without Mary and John * Memorandum thercrosse of latten and a crosse cloth To prouide a of silke before lente

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f To painte the roode Marie and John , and the

patrone before Christmas To prouide a convenient lighte before the roode at this side Allsaintes To prouide a vele and coveringes for the imagies against Lente To prouide a lock and a keye for the fonnte before Allsaintes To prouide a paier of censures and a lampe before Allsaintes To prouide a faier register booke wherein they shall register all christeninges mariages and burialles and also thaccomptes of the church Memorandum to speak to Master Roper to repaire the vicaredge howse because the same is so small

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To prouide a basonnon and an ewer before Christmas Also it is commannded that the nonchurche wardens bringe the Bible and the Paraphrasis to Cannterburye with a true and perfecte inventarie of the churche goodes the Twisdaie after Michaelmas daye

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Rectoria impropriata ecclesie cathedrali Roffensi Vicarius Dominus Willelmus Hall* olim sub matrimonii effigie coniugatus et vxor eius pretensa habitat apud Sonndregge et vicaria valet

Iconomi Parochiani

x libri

Edwardus Marten Johannes Combe Johannes Iden Johannes Williams Thomas Mylles Phillippus Hudson Johannes Coppyn Thomas Yonge Thomas Hunte

Numerus parochianorum sacramentum

altaris recipientium

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Die et anno [as Goudhurst ]

: The Kinges armes is over the alter] [InTomargin set vppe a side alter with furniture to provide

a fronnte of silke for the halliedaies with the image of Christewith curteynes to the same of silke or seye also to enlarge the nether fronnte also to provide fronntes of paynted clothes with the image of Christe for the woorkingedaies and to set vppe the sacramente decentlie and also to take vppe the alter stone that lieth in the churche and to leye the same on the side alter

citra festum Omnium Sanctorum

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[f. 1907.] To prouide a challice of silver with a patten before

Christmas and the vicar not to minister withoute after the same daye To prouide a paxe of latten with the image of the crucifixe before Christmas To prouide two towelles for the priestes handes before the feast of Allsaintes and also a fine corporas cloth and to kepe the crismatorie vnder lock and keye

Stephen Pole adm. 26 June 1559 (Post Mortem Poli , 17a).

* 1561 , when Anthony Carriar adm. (Parker, 350b) .

4 Sept.

Died before

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To prouide a faier registor booke wherein they shall register all christeninges mariages and burialles and also thaccomptes of the churche To prouide a convenient canapie of silke or seye with convenient fringes and staves before Lente To prouide a crosse ofnon latten with the image of Christe before Palme Sonndaie To prouide a paier of latten candelstickes before the feast of Allsaintes To prouide a copenon before Easter and also an albe with other thinges belonginge therto for the best vestemente before Christmas To prouide a vele and coveringes for the imagies before Lente The Marie & John and the patrone of the church be not carved *

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but painted To prouide a convenient lighte before the roode at this side the feast of Sainte Michaell tharchaunngell To prouide a lock and keye for the fonnte before

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Allsaintes and also a lampe To prouide two convenient banners before Rogacion weeke sunt reparate * Domus rectorie et vicarie / sufficienter That the channcell non and the churche be repaired in glasinge and tile before the feast of Allsaintes To prouide a cover for the deske before the feast of Allsaintes and also a handebellnon a basonnon an ewer before Christmas 190v .] [. * Detectum est quod Johannes Master non recepit sacramentum altaris in festo Paschatis vltim recessit a parochia et habitat apud Loose Detectum est quod vxor Georgii Rouse non debite accedit ad ecclesiam Wherefore the bosholder is commannded to bringe her to Vlcombe tomorrowe

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CHARTE iuxta SUTTON

Rectoria impropriata ecclesie cathedrali Roffensi Firmarius rectorie Robertus Mascall viij libri vjs v .. qui tenetur ad onera reparacionis cancelle et soluit annuatim Vicarius Dominus Stephanus Poole

valet vicaria

et

Marginal note to following item, same hand. * Corner page .

of

xij libri

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is torn Nicholas Haymon adm. on his death 16 Apr. 1562 (Parker, 354b) . Pole had been adm . 14 Mar. 1559 on death of previous incumbent (Parker, 342a) .

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HARPSFIELD'S VISITATION RETURNS

Iconomi Parochiani

Gilbertus Partredge Georgius Carpinter Johannes Dreison Walterus Godwyn Johannes Wood Willelmus Keysar Thomas Bredgeman Stephanus Ffrannckeleyn

Numerus parochianorum sacramentum altaris recipientium

[f. 191v.]

201

} clxxxxj

Die et anno [as Goudhurst] Firste it is commannded that the grave stone be removed from the highe aulter and to be leide agayne apon the grave and to make vppe the highe aulter before Michaelmas To enquire diligentlie of their alter stones and to make due certificate therof the Twisdaie after Michaelmas daye To prouide an alter clothe of lynnen and fronntes for the aulter above and benethe of silke or seye with the image of Christe with curteynesnon to the same before Allsaintes To sett vppe the sacramente decentlie before Michaelmas

To prouide a canapie clothe of silke or seye with

convenient fringes and staves before Rogacion weeke To prouide a paxe of latten with the image of the crucifixe and a convenient portisse before Allsaintes To prouide a crosse of latten beforenon Palme Sonndaie To prouide a hollie water stoppenon of latten before Michaelmas Also it is comannded that thies persones folowing (who can singe) to serve in the quire apon the Sonndaies and halliedaies William Keyser Steven Ffrannckelen Thomas Ffranncklen Thomas Bridgeman John Wood John Luck Thomas Mascall

To prouide twoo antiphoners non and a grailenon and also to set vpp a side alter with ffurniture before the feast of Allsaintes

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To painte the roode Marie and John with the patrone of the churche before Christmas To prouide a conveniente lighte before the roode at this side Michaelmas To prouide a vele and coueringes for the imagies before Lente To prouide a faier register booke wherein they shall register all christeninges mariages and Burialles and also thaccomptes of the churche To prouide a paier of censures before Allsaintes Also Master Harper beinge presente is commanded to deliver the leade of the churche before Christmas and that the churche wardens and parishners doe make due certificat therof Also the churchewardens and parisheners doe clayme a waye thoroughe Master Harpers grounde aswell to goe to the churche to bring corsies * to the churche as also to goo in procession in the Rogacion weeke whiche they seye hath bene accustomed and vsed tyme oute of mynde payinge therefore a wedde viz a token it were demaunded Domus rectorie et vicarie sufficienter sunt reparate To repaire the channcell andnon the churche in glasinge and other reparacions before Allsaintes To prouide a lampenon before Allsaintes To enclose the churcheyardenon decentlie before Allsaintes and if it be not done then to certifie in whoise defaulte is To prouide a cover for the deske a handebell a bason and an ewer before Allsaintes

[f. 1927.]

if

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it

[f. 192v.]

SUTTON VALLAUNCE

Proprietarius ecclesia cathedralis Roffensis

Willelmus Iden firmarius et Ricardus xiij libri vjs viijd , valet Walsingham subfirmarius rectorie ibidem que Vicarius Dominus Christoferus Warrington § et ix ix libri vicaria valet Johannes Barley Thomas Sare Iconomi

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Parochiani

Ricardus Gennynges Stephanus Vsmer Stephanus Collinson Johannes Peter Edmundus Robins

Rogerus Crynishe

Marginal note to following item .

Late use. * Corpses. § Christopher Waddington adm. Langley Regis 13 July 1557 (Pole, 72b) .

Resigned Sutton Vallance before 30 Oct. 1566, when David Smyth succ. him here and also in chapelry of East Sutton (Parker, 378b) . Died incumbent of Langley before 17 June 1569 when Henry Wyborn adm. in his place (Ibid., 394a).

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Numerus parochianorum sacramentum

altaris recipientium et familie infra dictam parochiam

203

ixxx

>

xl

Die et anno [as Goudhurst ] Ffirste it is comannded that Turners wife and Dreisons wife be apprehended and brought to Maideston and that there husbandes be also warned to be there To painte the roode Marie and John with the patrone decentlie and to provide a lampe before Allsaintes To prouide a patten of silver for the challice before Allsaintes and that the vicar mynister not withoute after the same tyme

[f. 193r.]

To prouide cruettes by Michaelmas a paier of censures by Allsaintes and to make vppe the vestrie

by Christmas To prouide a paier of fronnte clothes of seye with the crucifixe in theim with curteynes to the same and a paynted vpper fronnte for the woorkingedaies

by Allsaintes margin that the alter / stone of the highe In [aulter lieth: inMemorandum the chymney of / Master Harper and a tombe / stone at his gate ] To prouide an alternon clothe a lockenon and a keye for the fonnte before Allsaintes To prouide a sufficient lighte before the roode by Michaelmas and a crosse of latten by Palme Sonndaie To prouide a paier of latten candelstickes an antiphonernon and a grailenon by Christmas To make vppe the particon of the channcell as it was before Allsaintes To warne them that can synge to serve in the [blank appon the Sonndaies and halliedaies and to make certificate of theim that refuse To prouide three rochettes non for them that can singe before Christmas To prouide a convenient sepulcre with a frame for the lighte and a frame for Judas lighte before Lente To prouide a handebell by Michaelmas a mattock a bason and an ewer and a cover non for the deske by Allsaintes To prouide a canapie of silke fringed with conveniente staves before Lente To repaire the vicaredgenon in necessarie reparacions by Allsaintes and the residewe to be thoroughlie repaired by mydsomer

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To enclose the churcheyarde immediatlie To prouide a vele and coueringes for the imagies before Lente To make vppe the seates in the quire as they were before at thisside Christmas 193v to speake to the Deane and [f. .] Memorandum chapter of Rochester for the makinge of the vestrie the seates in the quire and the particion of the channcell To prouide a faier registor booke wherin they shall registor all christeninges mariages and buriall [sic and also thaccomptes of the churche That the churchewardens and parishenersnon doe make a perfect accomptes of all suche gooddes jewelles plateand ornamentes belonginge to the churche that where [sic] solde or alienated at anny tyme within this xij yeares by whome suche gooddes were solde and to whatt vse it was put with the nomber of the ounces of plate and to exhibite the same accomptes subscribed with their handes the Twisdaie after Michaelmas daye at Cannterburye To take off the tombe stone from the highe aulter and to laye the same in the olde place and to take vppe the alter stone that lieth in the ile of Inquiratur * the churche and to laye it apon the alter and to cause the same to be newe consecrated and also to make inquisition of the residewe of the alter stones /

]

To set vppe the sacramente reverentlie before Michaelmas To set vppe a side alternon with a superaltar and other furniture before Allsaintes To repaire the chaunceill non in all thinges and likewise the churche before Allsaintes To repaier the steple and the frame for the belles before Michaelmas come twelvemonethe

[f. 1947.]

CAPELLA de EASTSUTTON ecclesie de Sutton Vallaunce annexa

Rectoria impropriata ecclesie cathedrali Roffensi et dimissa ad firmam cuidam [blank] Ffranckeleyn qui soluit annuatim decem libras xxti quarter tritici et xxti quarter auenarum Vicarius Dominus Christoferus Warrington qui dixit et coram iudice allegauit quod ista ecclesia est capella ecclesie de Sutton Vallaunce antedicte annexa et quod fructus et decime istius ecclesie tam tenues sunt quod ex eisdem curatus sustentari non potest vnde orat vicarius ut ab inveniendo capellanum exoneretur et valet vicaria xij libri

* Another hand.

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205

Also order was taken by Master Doctor Pole * that the parishners of East Sutton shoulde finde a priest with the profectes of the saide chappell vntill our Ladye daye in Lente and to supplie the rest of their good will Curatus Dominus Edwardus Robertes qui aduersa valetudine laborat Henricus Bensted Iconomi Henricus Reader mortuus Parochiani Willelmus Perrye Henricus Pratte Johannes Spillet Henricus Clerck Edwardus Pinde vjxx Numerus parochianorum sacramentum altare recipientium Die et anno predictis [rest as Goudhurst ] To prouide coveringes for the crismatorie before Michaelmas 194v prouide a paten of silver before Allsaintes and To . .] [ that the priest doe not celebrate after the same tyme

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withoute To prouide a paier of latten candelstickes and a crossenon of latten before Allsaintes To prouide fronntes for the alter above and benethe of seyenon with the image of the crucifixe with curteynes

of the same before Allsaintes To make inquisition of the alter stoneson and to certifie therof the Twisdaie after Michaelmas daye To prouide a lynnen alter clothe a here clothe for the aulter and to set vpp a hange lampe before Michaelmas To prouide a canapie of silke fringed with convenient staves before Lente To sett vppe the sacramente reverentlie before Michaelmas To make cleane the faces of the imagies blotted in the glasse windowes before Michaelmas To prouide a lighte of sixe tapers at the leaste before the roode at this side Allsaintes To prouide a lanterne a bason andnon an ewer before Allsaintes rayneth into the chaunceill ] [In marginTo: repaire the chauncellnon in all poinctes and the bodie of the churche before Allsaintes

It

* Cardinal Pole's Vicar General , later Bishop of Peterborough (see p. vii) .

Crossed out.

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To warne theim that can singe to helpe serve in the quire apon the Sonndaies and halliedaies and to certifie of theim that refuse To prouide an antiphoner and ij rocchettes for the

quire before Allsaintes To prouide an albe and furniture for the vestment that lacketh and a lock and a keye for the fonnte before Allsaintes To bringe the Bible Paraphrasis and other vnlawfull bookes to Cannterburie the Twisdaie after Michaelmas daye To prouide a faier registor booke wherein [ . 1957. they shall registor all christeninges mariages and burialles and also thaccomptes of the churche and the same to be kepte vnder lock and keye Memorandum it is commaunded that the bosholder doe apprehende the wife of one Dolman and to bringe her to Vlcombe quia non recepit sacramentum altaris in festo Paschatis

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[f. 195v.]

vltimo

VLCOMBE

Rector Magister Arthurus Seintleger* Curatus Dominus Johannes Rede Ricardus Ffynne Iconomi Robertus Ffowle Parochiani Johannes Stile Johannes Reader Andrianus Barlinge Willelmus Gemet Ricardus More Edwardus Luccas Thomas Moswell

non residet

Numerus parochianorum sacramentum ixxx altare recipientium Die et anno manduit et iniunxit [rest as Goudhurst To remove the alter stone that lieth apon the tombe in the churche before Allsaintes To prouide fronntes for the alter above and benethe of seye with the image of Christ and curteynes of silke before Allsaintes To prouide a canapie of silke fringed withe convenient staves before Lente To prouide two covers for the crismatorie and to kepe the same vnder lock and keye 21 . June 1537 (Cranmer , 361b). Also adm. Hollingbourne chapelry * Adm 21 Feb. 1537 (Ibid. , 364a). Succ . by John Townesley at Ülcombe 29 Jan. 1558 (Post Mortem Poli , 15a ).

Resigned prebend in Canterbury cathedral before 6 Apr. 1568, when Arthur Rushe succ . him (Parker, 385a).

....

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207

To prouide a convenient boxe for a priest to carrie the sacramente in to the sicke before Allsaintes To amende the hollie water stoppe at the churche door and to prouide two processionalles before Allsaintes To warne theim that can singe to serve the quier apon the Sonndaies and halliedaies and to make certificate of them that refuse The rode Marienon and To prouide a convenient lighte before the rode at thisside Allsaintes John and the patrone are nether decentlie To prouide a lock and a keye for thefonnte before Allsaintes made nor yet of a To prouide a faier register booke wherin decent stature they shall registor all christeninges mariages and burialles and also thaccomptes of the churche To repaire the chavncell and the churche in glasinge before Allsaintes and in other reparacions before mydsomer To prouide a basonnon and an ewer before the feast of Allsaintes Memorandum that Richard More boughte More certeyne landes belonginge to the churche of Vlcombe solde by the churchewardens and parishners whiche is ordered by the commissioners

[f. 1967.]

Detections Detectum est quod Elizabeth Postenon recepit sacramentum altaris in festo Paschatis vltim elapso evocata ad iudicium personaliter comparuit et fatebatur obiecta seque humiliter vnitati ecclesie et ordinacioni iudicis submisit vnde Dominus iniunxit ei penitentiam peragendam die Dominica proxima more Poste

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[ . 196v.]

f

* penitentis viz that she shoulde openlie in the parish

churche apon Sonndaie nexte declare that in the sacramente of the alter there is the verie bodie and bloude of Christe reallie and also that she shoulde confesse that all the sacramentes sacramentalles and all the ceremonies nowe vsed in the churche be good and godlie and afterwardes to be penitentlie confessed to the curate and then reverentlie to receave the Blessed Sacramente of the alter and to make certificate therof at Cannterburie the Twisdaie after Michaelmas daye * Corner of page torn .

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208

Ffowle Adams [ inserted in margin after apprehendatur nisi satisfecit est apud Stapleherste * ] Detecum est quod Petrus Ffowle et Johanna recepit * Adams non receperunt sacramentum altare in festo Paschatis vltimo elapso et moniti ad comparendum coram iudice non comparuerunt tamen Dominus Archidiaconus ob certas cawsas (viz quia sperat reformacionem et submissionem) ordinauit atque decreuit prout sequitur viz that the seide Ffowle and Adams shoulde make a declaracion of their faithe as is aboveseid and so likewise to be confessed and to receive the sacramente before Michaelmas and the churchewardens to make due certificate therof at Cannterburie the Twisdaie after Michaelmas daye postea vero personaliter comparuit dicta Adams et humiliter se vnitati ecclesie et ordinacioni iudicis submittens culpam suam agnouit cui Dominus iniunxit (fidei sue declaratione in ecclesia parochiali prius enarrata) quod curato ibidem erit penitenter confessa ac post confessionem huiusmodi reverenter recipiat sacramentum altare die Dominica ad quindenam ad quod perimplendum fideliter promisit sed si sic facere recusaverit tunc mandatum est quod apprehendatur et producatur coram comissariis Cant Barlinge Detectum est quod Joanna Barlinge et quedam Helenora Moswell Mosewell non debite frequentant ecclesiam et moniti ad comparendum coram iudice et preconizat non comparuerunt tamen Dominus (quia reformacionem sperat) ordinauit quod iconomi certificent die Martis post festum Michaelis proxim futurum an debite ad ecclesiam accederint nec ne

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[ . 1977.]

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Kingesnothe Detectum est quod vxornon Georgii Kingesnothe accedere ad ecclesiam et sacramentum altare recipere recusauit § postea apparebat predictum Georgium obligatumest Dominis Regi et Regine coram commissariis quod vxor eius obedienter se gerat in omnibus , quamobrem Dominus mandauit iconomis ad monendum dictum Georgium ut compareat Cant die Martis post festum Sancti Michaelis Archanngeli

'

Another hand. * An indication

of Harpsfield's methods when dealing with religious offenders . Peter Fowle occurs again in Visitation of 1558, f. 49v.

These commissioners were appointed by Queen Mary on 8 Feb. 1557the bloody commission" of Foxe. They were special commissioners and

not part of the Archdeacon'snormal jurisdiction . § The page is torn here , but there is trace of a note (faded ) in another hand . George Kingesnothe and his wife occur again in the Visitation of 1558 (f. 49v.), as living at Lenham.

The grammar is confused .

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209

Johnson Gates

Detectum est quod Margareta Johnsonnon et Isabella Gates recusant accedere ad ecclesiam et recipere sacramentum altare ac moniti ad comparendum coram iudice certificatum est quod dicta Johnson recessit a parochia et quod dicta Gates aduersa valetudine laborat vnde Dominus ordinauit et mandauit quod secrete apprehendantur et producantur coram commissariis Cant Delman Detectum est quod Margeria Delman * de Estsutton non recepit sacramentum altar' in festo Paschatis vltimo elapso et quod non debite frequentat ecclesiam ac personaliter in iudicio constituta humiliter se vnitati ecclesie ac ordinacioni iudicis submittens negligentiam et culpam suas agnoscebat cui Dominus iniunxit quod (fidei sue declaratione prius in ecclesia publice enarrata ) curato ibidem penitenter erit confessa ac post confessionem huiusmodi reverenter sacramentum altare recipiet die Dominica ad quindenam proximam et ad certificandum die Martis post festum Sancti Michaelis Archangeli proxim futurum etc Quo die adueniente certificatum est quod omnia sibi iniuncta peregit

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[ . 197v.]

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OTHAM

Rector Magister Thomas Cailieet valet x libri rectoria [He]ndeley armiger[?

Iconomus Johannes Maye Parochiani Thomas Hendeley armiger Thomas Ellis generosus Robertus Bettes.

Walterus Sudger Johannes Wickes Thomas Crompe Willelmus Crompe Thomas Brensheley Henricus Pemble ornamentes Memorandum that the of the churche were taken by Master Harper and xlti marckes Master Wotton commissioners to the value of Numerus parochianorum sacramentum altaris lxxx. recipientium

]

Die et anno [as Goudhurst ]

}

Firste it is commannded that there be a side alter set vppe a side alter [sic] with furniture before Allsaintes Page torn and writing faded.

See 1558 (f. 49v.). * also Visitationof Peter Hendle adm . on death of Thomas Cayley 28 Apr. 1567 (Parker, 380b).

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To prouide a corporas clothe and twonon fronntes for the alternon againste Allsaintes and also curteynes to the same

[ . 1987.]

f

To prouide a crossenon of latten a conveniente sepulcre with a frame for the lighte a vele and coveringes

for the imagies and a canapie fringed with conveniente staves before Lente To prouide a convenient lighte before the roode two wipinge towelles for the priestes handes two alter clothes a cover for the deske a lantern a shovell a mattock a spade and a locke and a keye for the fonnt before Allsaintes To repair the chauncell and the churche before

Allsaintes To prouide a faier registernon* booke wherin they shall register all christenynges burialles and mariages and also thaccomptes of the churche To remove the grave stone from the alter and to laye the same in his place agayne and to leye the alter stone apon the alter agayne To prouide a patennon of silver before Allsaintes and the parson to seye no masse withoute after the same tyme To prouide a bason and an ewernon by Allsaintes

[f. 198v .]

LANGELEY

Rector Dominus Christoferus Warrington Curatus Dominus Gregorius Squire Iconomus Parochiani

Willelmus Wood Thomas Tilden Ricardus Cailye Ricardus Peerse Ricardus Swanner Johannes Rodes Michael Ffetherbie

Numerus parochianorum sacramentum altaris recipientium et familie infra dictam parochiam

xlt xiij

Die et anno [as Goudhurst ] Firste it is commannded that the parson doe bringenon his

pluralitieto Maideston

To prouide a paier of latten candelstickesnon before Christmas * Crossed out.

I.e. licence to hold more than one living.

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211

To prouide a lampe two towelles two alter clothes a corporas clothe a lantern a mattockenon * a shovell a spade and to set vppe a side alter with furniture non with an alter stone before Allsaintes To prouide a bason and an ewer before Christmas To prouide an amys for the vestmente before Michaelmas a buckett of wood [ . 1997.]

To prouide a hollie water stoppe A of latten before Allsaintes To prouide a convenient lighte before the roode at thisside Allsaintes To prouide a patten of silver for the challice before Allsaintes and the curate not to minister withoute after the same tyme To prouide two processionalles before Michaelmas To prouide fronntes of seye with curteynes for the alter before Allsaintes and also a crewet before

f

the same tyme To prouide a lock and a keye for the fonnte and a conveniente boxe or a purse to carrie the sacramente in to the sicke before Michaelmas The old parson caried To prouide a faier register booke wherinthey shall registor all christenynges mariages and awaye the booke burialles and also thaccomptes ofthe churche To prouide two convenient banners before Rogation weeke To repaire the chauncellnon and the churche in glasinge and other thinges before Allsaintes To repaire the parsonage howsenon in all necessarie reparacions before Allsaintes and the residewe to be thoroughelie repaired before mydsomer To enclose the churcheyarde immediatlie and so to kepe the same sufficientlie enclosed To prouide a cover for the deske before Michaelmas To prouide a frame for the lighte of the sepulcre and a conveniente frame for Judas lighte before Lente To prouide coveringes for the roode Marie and John and the other imagies before Lent

[f. 199v .]

Detections

Ffirste it is presented that Master Harper witholdethe from the churche a pece of land

called Mayden Crofte whiche saide pece of lande is worthe yerelie ijs

* Crossed out.

The Paschal candle.

Another hand.

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Also it is presented that the saide Master Harper witholdethe from the churche an other pece of grounde called Playstole

[f. 200r.]

LEEDES

Rectoria ibidem olim impropriata monasterio* et nunc in manibus Reuerendissimi Domini Archiepiscopi Cant et valet Prior monasterii ibidem solebat invenire curatum

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xix

libri

Vicaria vacat / The farmer of the personage paieth to my Lorde Cardinalles Grace for the same yerelie xx libri and with the same he is bounde to finde a curate here and an other at Bromefeld viz vij libri vjs viijd to Ledes and v libri to Bromefeld There is nether parsonage howse nor vicaredge howse

But there is a howse belonginge to the Quenes Maiestie that goeth for xs by the yeare

whiche woulde be a mete and conveniente house for the parson or the vicar And the parishe is well contented to bye the same howse for the parson or vicar if they mighte have one The channcell is greatelie in decaye and there hathe not ben done anny reparacions manny yeares so that the parisheners have bene constreyned to leye their owne tile appon the same to the value of xxvs xd Curatus Dominus Willelmus Johnson Henricus Mason Iconomi Thomas Ffoxe Parochiani Johannes Lambe Johannes Pinde Johannes Reynold Georgius Sethe Simo[n Browne Numerus parochianorum sacramentum xiiij xx altaris recipientium .

200v. [ ] Die et anno [as Goudhurst ] To prouide curteynes of silk for the alter a conveniente boxe or a purse to carrye the sacramente in to the sick a coveringe for the crismatorie and a corporas clothe before Allsaintes To painte the roode Marie and John with the patrone decentlie before Easter To prouide a vele and coveringes for the imagies before Lente Corner of page torn. * Leeds Priory.

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213

To prouide a lock and a keye for the fonnt before Allsaintes To prouide a faier register booke wherin they shall register all christeninges mariages and burialles and also thaccomptes of the churche To set vppe a lampe before Allsaintes To prouide a cover for the deske before Allsaintes To repaire the churche inon* glasinge and tilinge before Allsaintes To sett the image of Christe of latten apon the crosse before Allsaintes Detections [ . 2017.]

Detectum est quod Robertus Bridger custodit feminas suspectas de crimine incontinentie in domo eius evocatus ad iudicium personaliter comparuit et negauit obiecta Quem Dominus ob certas causas monuit dictum Bridger ad comparendum Cant die Martis proxim post festum reformatus Sancti Michaelis Archanngeli proxim futurum ad videndum vlteriorem processum in hoc negotio et ad audiendam voluntatem iudicis

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[f. 201v . ]

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Impropriata olim monasterio ibidem et nunc in manibus Reuerendissimi Domini Archiepiscopi Cant Curatus nullus Willelmus Christian Iconomi Rogerus Britten

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Parochiani

Robertus Thomson Ricardus Ffetherstone Joannes Pixelie Willelmus Cotinge Henricus Mascall Numerus parochianorum sacramentum altaris recipientium Die et anno [as Goudhurst Firste is it comannded that the parisheners go to Leedes to churche apon the Sonndaies and halliedaies vntill suche tyme as further order be taken and that the curate of Ledes com to theim to burie and christen as ofte as nede shall require and that parisheners and churchewardens do all other thinges savinge providinge of their ornamentes as is comannded to the parisheners of Leedes The channcell is greatlie decayed See Visitation of 1558, f. 49v .

Another hand. * Crossed out.

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[f. 202r.]

MAYDESTONE

Fuit olim collegium ibidem ac dissolutum ratione actus parliamenti et rectoria ibidem fuit impropriata dicto collegio cxlt annis peractis et nunc in manibus Reuerendissimi Domini Archiepiscopi Cant' cui etiam conceditur palatiumetdomus

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collegium concessum est Domino Cobham cum lx acris terre dicto collegio pertinentibus ac omnes decime fructus et alia proficua quecumque dicte rectorie dimissa sunt ad firmam Christofero Roper armigero que cum predicto collegio et terris eidem pertinentibus valent in toto annuatim cxl libri Firmarius rectorie Christoferus Roper *lxxiiij libri armiger et valet rectoria annuatim Et allocatur curato ibidem xx libri per annum Et vlterius allocatur per predictum Dominum Archiepiscopum pro alio idoneo curato cur ibidem deseruitur x libri annuatim quo stipendio parochiani idoneum curatum comparare non possunt Memorandum that there hathe ben vj priestes together and scarse able to serve the cure annexe Detlinge annexe sunt collegio predicto Loose There is a village called Loddington belonging to Maideston and three myles distaunt from the towne whiche village beinge xiiij howseholdes have neither churche nor curate but were allwaies accustomed to goo to Linton to churche savinge apon the principall feastes and then they came to Maideston and bare contribution bothe to Linton and to Maideston There is also an other village of fower howseholdes called Harberland distannte from the towne a mile whiche com to Maideston to churche There is also an other village of three howseholdes called Half Yoke beinge a mile of whiche com to Maideston to churche [ . 202v . There is also an other village belonginge to Maideston called Willington and Shouffotte of xxvijti howseholdes beinge distannte from the towne a mile and they com to Maideston to churche Memorandum that the hole parishe is tenne miles in compasse Curatus Dominus Johannes Daye Willelmus Moustherst Iconomi Willelmus Smithe Thomas Coveney Ricardus Hoker c crossed .

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Thomas Gore Jacobus Barret Thomas Haggard Willelmus Collett Joannes Beale Willelmus Bassock Georgius Pinde Nicholaus Austen Thomas Hopper Ricardus Jackson* Walterus Henneker Edwardus Boossom Johannes Sadler Willelmus Tilden Robertus Balser Jacobus Catlot David Barham Clemens

Lutwick

Johannes Beale

Numerus parochianorum sacramentum altaris recipientium

xvje

[f. 203r.] Die et anno supradictis [rest as Goudhurst ] Firste it is comannded that the threeon alter stones that lie in the churche be taken vppe To prouide ij alter clothes of lynnen before Allsaintes and a conveniente boxe or a purse to carrie the sacramente in to the sicke before Michaelmas To warne thoise that can singe to serve the quire apon the Sonndaies and halliedaies and to certifie of theim that refuse To prouide an antiphoner and a graile before Allsaintes To painte the patronenon before Christmas and to prouide a convenient lighte before the roode at thisside Allsaintes To prouide a velenon and coveringes for the imagies before Lente To amende the covernon of the fonnte and to prouide a locknon and a keye for the same before Allsaintes The parson was wonnte to finde To prouide a lampenon before Allsaintes the same To prouide a faier registor booke wherin they shall registor all christenynges mariages and burialles and also thaccomptes of the churche and to kepe the same booke vnder lock and keye Crossed out. * Hopper crossed out.

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[ . 203v .]

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That John Bennet David Barham et Ricardus Lyllie * be warned that they put no more cattell in the churcheyarde Also it is comannded that the channceill and the churche be repaired so sone as convenientlie

it

may be To sett vpp a holliewater stoppenon at echechurche

door before Allsaintes The scolemaster The scolemaster dwellithe in the free scole there and [sic] ix libri vjs viijd yerelie Detections

Turner Smithe

Firste touchinge the gooddes and ornamentes belonginge to the churche that were solde the parisheners have accompted before the commissioners and that there remayned after the comen sale lvj libri whiche was bestowed apon the churche as theye saye John Turner scrivener teacheth scolers to write and reade who is permitted so to doe Nicolas Smithe tailor hathe dwelled in Maideston three weekes who is suspected in matters of religion and he personallie appearing dothe saye that he did receive the sacramente of the alter at Easter laste in Northumberland wherapon he is comannded to appeare at Cannterburie the Twisdaie after Michaelmas daye to enter into bonde for his good behavior in obeying the orders of the church Cowdale beinge of the age of a hundred yeares is suspected of inchanntemente and wichecrafte and beinge examined saith that he helith people onelie by prayer havinge no respect to the manner of the sicknes appoinctinge v Pater Noster v Aves and a Cred to be seide in the worshipp of God the Holy Gost and Our Blessed Lady /

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Creffeld That Creffeldes wife Helsons wife and [torn Hennekers wife be admitted mydwifes before Helson Hennekar Allsaintes or ells not to practise the same Ridgeway Also it is commannded that the churchewardens Thomas and sidemen doe duelie certifie whether John Ridgewaye and his wife and John Thomas reformati and his wife doe come dewlie to the churche and reuerentlie behave theim selfes there or no

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Drowley Detectum est quod Johanna Drowley non recepit sacramentum altaris in festo Paschatis vltimo elapso et monita ad comparendum coram iudice personaliter comparuit ac se vnitati ecclesie ac ordinacioni iudicis submittens culpam suam agnoscebat cui Dominus mandauit quod (prius curato penitenter confessa ) recipiet sacramentum altaris die Dominica proxima ad septimanam sed si sic facere recusauerit tunc mandatum est quod carceri committatur et iconomi habent ad certificandum quid in hac parte dicta Johanna fecerit Elsmere Richard Elsmere beinge presented for a dronncker and personallie appearinge is admonisshed to refrayne from the same vice and to behave him self honestlie herafter and the churchewardens to make certificate whether he doe reforme him self or no Taunton Jocosa Taunton detecta prout sequitur viz that she is a commen scolde postea personaliter comparuit Thomas Taunton maritus dicte Jocose qui monitus est quod vxor eius reformetur suis mediis Mapisden Detectum est quod Thomas Mapisden absentauit se a consortio vxoris sue et quod male eam tractauit evocatus ad iudicium personaliter comreformatus paruit qui monitus est ut bene tractet vxorem suam maritali affectione Bochers Also it is commannded that the bochers kepe not open their shoppes apon the Sonndaies

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BOXELEY

Rectoria impropriata ecclesie cathedrali Roffensi et

xlt marce

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valet

Johannes Dunckyn firmarius rectorie non exoneratur a solucione procuration expressis verbis et preterea dicit quod Decanus et capitulum ecclesie cathedralis Roffensis promiserunt solutionem dict procuration Vicarius Dominus Rogerus Jones et vicaria xx marce ex patronatu predicte ecclesie Roffensis et valet

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preteriti Parochiani

Johannes Dunckyn Robertus Hartredge Johannes Recorde Johannes Stile

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Joyce.

In right margin in another hand. * Died before 25 Aug. 1566, when succeeded

Philip Hilles

(Parker, 378a).

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Johannes Burbage senior Johannes Beere Johannes Ffidge Ricardus Goldesmithe Willelmus Boote Nicolaus Tesdale Thomas Browne Numerus parochianorum sacramentum recipientium et familie infra dictam parochiam

- xijxx lx

Die et anno prescriptis [as Goudhurst ] [f. 205r .] To prouide curteynes of silke or seye for the alter and fronntes for the alter benethe before Christmas To prouide two alter clothes of lynnen for the highe aulter and two alter clothes for the side alter before Allsaintes None of their owne To prouide a paten of silver before Easter and after the same tyme the vicar not to minister

withoute To prouide an albe for the vestmente before Christmas and a lock and a keye for the fonnte

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before Allsaintes To prouide a streamer before Rogation weeke To prouide a faier registor bookemon * wherin they shall registor all christeninges mariages and burialles and also thaccomptes of the churche Also it is comaunded that nonthe churchewardens doe exhibite a perfecte accomptes the Twisdaie after Michaelmas daye at Cannterburie of a silver crosse a silver paxe and ij challices which were solde by the parisheners aboute xij yeres agone and also that they bringe the Bible and Paraphrasis to Cannterburie To enclose the churcheyarde before Allsaintes and to provide a bason and an ewer before Christmas Detect

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Detectum est quod Johannes Bausemortuus recusat venire ad ecclesiam et recipere sacramentum altaris iam moritur Vxor Johannis Johnson suspecta est quod non bene sentit de sacramentis et ceremoniis ecclesie personaliter comparuit vir et suscepit in se ad producendam vxorem suam * reformata apud Bersted .

Another hand.

Hence such persons were sometimes called ' sacramentaries.

* Crossed out.

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[ . 205v . ]

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CAPELLA DE DETLINGE

f

ad Maideston annexa

Dominus Johannes Lewgar * Willelmus Saier Iconomi Johannes Christian Parochiani Willelmus Morton generosus Willelmus Webbe Willelmus Polhell of the Forstall Johannes Pedinden Thomas Collet Willelmus Polhell Johannes Smithe Thomas Cristian Numerus parochianorum sacramentum altaris recipientium Et numerus familiarum infra dictam parochiam xxiiiit Curatus

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Firste it is commannded that the olde alter stone be removed and to put awaye the stone that is nowe apon the alter To prouide a fronnte for the nether parte of the alter and curteynes of silke or seye before Allsaintes and also a cover for the crismatorye before the same tyme [ . 206r.] To prouide a paten of silver before Christmas and the curate not to minister withoute after the same tyme To prouide a crosse of latten with a crosse clothe of silke by Easter com twelvemoneth To prouide a hollie water stoppe at the church door before Christmas The patrone of the churche is not of a decent stature but it is their olde To prouide a faier register booke wherin they shall register all christeninges mariages and burialles and also thaccomptes of the churche To prouide a lampe before Allsaintes and a streamer before Rogation weeke To repaire the chauncell non and the churche before Allsaintes Chauncell The chauncell hathe greate nede of reparacions for there was none done this xvtene yeares but by the parishe

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named (Parker, 406b ).

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HARPSFIELD'S VISITATION RETURNS THORNEHAM

[f. 206v .]

Proprietarius Thomas Wotton armiger * cand pro Vicarius Robertus Grenewood in artibus magister O Vicaria ex patronatu predicti Thome

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Wotton et valet [no figure

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Est capella de Aldington ecclesie de Thorneham annexa que capella corruit multis abhinc annis tamen vicarius tenetur celebrare ibidem certis temporibus Memorandum that the channcell is greatlie in decaye in glasinge sealinge and otherwise and the reparacons stande in variaunce betwene Master Stoneherste the farmer and Master Thomas Wotton Est ibidem domus vicarie bene et sufficienter reparata Willelmus Tailor Iconomi Johannes Howtinge Parochiani Jacobus Knighte Robertus Sharneden Robertus Whitinge Willelmus Adams Willelmus Sawre Johannes Culter

Numerus parochianorum sacramentum iiijxx altare recipientium et numerus familiarum infra dictam parochiam

xxiijt'

Die et anno [as Goudhurst ] To set vpp the highe aulter of stone and the alter that is nowe to be made a side alter with furniture before Allsaintes

[f. 2077.]

The sacramente is not set vpp but standethe decentlie in a frame apon the alter To prouide a paten of silver before Christmas and that the vicar shall not mynister withoute after the same tyme To prouide a conveniente boxe or a purse to carrie

the sacramente in to the sicke and also a corporas clothe before Christmas To prouide fronntes and curteynes of seye for the alter by Allsaintes a canapie of seye fringed with convenient staves by Lente and a crosse clothe of silke by Easter To prouide a convenient lighte before the roode at thisside Allsaintes and an albe for the vestmente before Christmas Page torn and writing faded . * Robert Grenehoode of Thornham and Aldington died before 26 June 1572 when William Merick succeeded him (Parker, ii, 91b).

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To prouide a faier register booke wherin they shall register all christeninges mariages and burialles and also thaccomptes of the churche To prouide a lampe by Allsaintes and a streamernon

by Rogacon weeke To repaire the churche in all chancell non thinges as glasing and other necessarie reparacions before Christmas and also to provide a handebell a bason an ewer by the same tyme and a vele and coveringes for the imagies before Lente Johanna Wood vidua de Huckinge detecta prout sequitur viz that she hathe the canapie clothe and the seide Johanne personallie appearinge saith that she had the seide canapie clothe whiche her husband as she saith boughte and further she promiseth to deliver the same agayne to the churche so that the churchewardens doe repaye vnto her agayne the monney that it coste and the churchewardens have in comanndment to certifie the Twisdaie after Michaelmas daye at Cannterburie whether she have deliuered the same or no BERSTED

[f. 207v .]

Rectoria impropriata ecclesie cathedrali Roffensi Firmarius rectorie Magister Stoneherst > vij libri xiijs iiijd et rectoria valet annuatim Domus vicarie Vicaria ex patronatu predicte ecclesie Roffensis ne reparata que vacat proptertenuitatemfructuset vj libri

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Curatus nullus

Iconomi

Willelmus Roper

Robertus Sharsted Robertus Bause Jacobus Tilden Robertus Joise Parochiani Henricus Love Ricardus Joise Johannes Sharpe Thomas Kippes Thomas Thompson Walterus Adie Jacobus Thompson Simon Mason Numerus parochianorum sacramentuma cc CC altare recipientium

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* Tanguid Bealecke adm. 11 Jan. 1558 on death of Stephen Singuldon (Post Mortem Poli, 14a) . John Braynford collated perpetual vicar 2 Nov. 1563 (Parker, 362a).

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Die et anno [as Goudhurst There was a supplicacon First it is commannded that half the deliuered to my Lorde parishe go to Thorneham / to churche Cardinall whiche was and the other half to Otham vntill suche tyme as they have a priest and comitted to my Lorde the one churchewarden to go to Otof Rochester ham and the other to Thorneham to churche to see that the parisheners do go dewlie to the same churches

]

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[f. 2087.]

To make cleane the imagies blotted in the glasse

windowes before Allsaintes To prouide a bason non and an ewer and curteynesnon of seye by Christmas a fronnte over the alter for the woorkingedaies two alter clothes a paten of silver and also to amende the crismatorie and to make a cover non for the hole of the same before Allsaintes To warn theim that can singe and to serve the quire and to certifie of theim that refuse To prouide a conveniente lyghte before the roode and a paier of censures before Allsaintes To prouide a velenon and couerynges for the imagies before Lente To prouide a faier register bookeo** wherin they shall registor all christeninges mariages and burialles and also thaccomptes of the church Memorandum to speake to Master Stoneherst and to the Deane and chapter of Rochester to repaire the channcell non whiche is gratlie in decaye that the same may be repaired before Allsaintes Memorandum that the vicaredge tithes remayne in the parisheners handes sithens Easter Detect ' Abiit Jude Herne detectus quod non debite frequentat ecclesiam personaliter in iudicio constitutus fatebatur se non audiuisse missam per tres ebdomadas vnde Dominus monuit dictum Hern ad comparendum Cant die Martis post festum Sancti Michaelis Archaungeli proxim futurum ad audiendam voluntatem iudicis et ad certificandum vbi interfuit misse et aliis diuinis officiis interim dictus Hern detectus est quoque de crimine adulterii cum Johanna Woodvidua de Huckinge . Quinto Octobris reformatus personaliter comparuit dictus Hern et negauit obiecta qui assignatus est ad purgandum se quinta in Crastino Animarum In margin in another hand. * Crossed out .

Both re-appear in the Visitation of 1558 (f. 50r.).

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[f. 208v .]

223

HOLINGBORNE

Rector Magister Arthurus Seintleger * et ex patronatu Reuerendissimi Domini Archiepiscopi Cant Vicaria vacat Curatus Dominus Willelmus Bucke Johannes Ffilcote Iconomi

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Ricardus Sethe Thomas Reynold Johannes Sowthowson Johannes Kingesdowne Willelmus Wood Johannes Raynolde Johannes Stonehowse Johannes Wade Johannes Mason Johannes Atwood Willelmus Bechinge Nicolaus Doe Johannes Howlet Stephanus Achamber Willelmus Combe Edmundus Atwood Henricus Wattes Ricardus Troye

Numerus parochianorum sacramentum1

[ ] altaris recipientium Die et anno [as Goudhurst , with viz added after habetur] To gilte the roode Marienon and John and the patrone and to painte and garnishe the other imagies by Easter and to provide a lampe bynon Michaelmas and to enclosenon the churcheyarde by Allsaintes

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[f. 209r . ]

CAPELLA DE HUCKINGE ecclesie de Hollingeborne annexa

Curatus

Dominus Dionisius Oddaye

Iconomi

Nulli because the churchewardens of

Parochiani

with the hole Johannes Wolgate Ricardus Duck

Hollingeborne have ben allwaies charged

Henricus Staple

364a) . * Collated 21 Feb. 1537 (Cranmer , 12 Collated on death of John Bayly Oct. 1557 (Pole, 74a) . Died before 3 Feb. 1566, when John Banke succeeded (Parker, 379b). A William Bucke also adm. to Bicknor 16 Jan. 1552 (Cranmer , 421b) . John Alchen adm . on death of last, 30 May 1567 (Parker, 381b).

Sometimes called the Keepers of the Poor Men's Box.

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Numerus parochianorum sacramentum altaris recipientium et familie infra dictam parochiam capellam predictam et pariochianos Die et anno capelle eisdem vero parochianis [rest as Goudhurst ] To prouide two alter clothes a crosse of latten ij fronntes with curteynes of seye a bason and an ewer a handebell a mattocke and a spade a cope and to sett vppe a hollie water stoppe of stone at the churche door before Christmas They have a vestmente and an albe of Master parsons CAPELLA DE BREDHERST* [ . 209v .] ecclesie de Hollingeborn annexa Curatus Dominus Georgius Dunham Thomas Kemesley Iconomi Nicolaus Cassingale Parochiani Willelmus Kemesley Willelmus Champnes Numerus parochianorum sacramentum

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altaris recipientium et familie infra dictam parochiam X Die et anno .... capellam predictam.... in vsum ecclesie

[rest as Goudhurst ]

To prouide an alter clothe of lynnen a lampe and a conveniente lighte before the roode before Michaelmas

To prouide two fronntes for the alter above and benethe of seye with curteynes of the same and

also a bason and an ewer before Allsaintes To prouide a vele and coveringes for the imagies before Lente To prouide a faier register booke wherin they shall register all christeninges mariages and burialles and also thaccomptes of the churche

[f. 210r.]

HARIESHAM

Rector Magister Johannes Warner Curatus Dominus Johannes Barlinge olim coniugatus et mulier habitat apud Caliseam * Bredhurst must be considered very fortunate in possessing one of the few remaining pre-Reformation patens, of which about only one hundred examples are known in England " (A.C., xxviii, 301).

John Warner, M.D. , adm . 4 Mar. 1545 to Elmeley (Cranmer , 399b) ; to Harrietsham on 7 Dec. 1549 (Ibid. , 410a) . He retained Harrietsham and Elmeley until his death, a successor being appointed 25 Mar. 1565 to Harrietsham (Parker, 368a, b, and 374a, b). William Jones was adm. to Hayes in the deanery of Croydon by Warner's death, 5 Apr. 1565 (Ibid. , 368b) .

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Domus rectorie est Rectoria ex patronatu Magistriet sociorum sufficienter reparata collegii | [Animarum] Oxon Iconomi Nicolaus Eton Edwardus Topley Parochiani Johannes Stede Willelmus Stede Thomas Brockwell Johannes Aden Jacobus Smodinge Johannes Hinckley Thomas Chamber Ricardus Wayte Henricus Tailor Jasperus Dreyson Willelmus Barlinge Thomas Ffrannces Thomas Archeley Numerus parochianorum sacramentum altaris ccxlv recipientium Die et anno predictis [rest as Goudhurst Firste to enquire where the alter stonesnon became and to make certificate therof the Twisdaye after Michaelmas daye at Cannterburye [ . 210v .]

To prouide a fronnte of silke for the alter benethe and also a fronnte for the woorkingedaies above before Christmas To prouide one howselinge towell against Easter To prouide a paier of latten candelstickes a paxenon of latten with the image of Christe and a lampenon before Allsaintes To prouide a vele and coveringes for the imagies against Lente and an antiphoner againste Christmas To prouide a faier register booke wherin they shall register all christeninges mariages and burialles and also thaccomptes of the churche Because they be To painte the roode Marie and John withe the patrone of the churche before Easter grene To prouide a bason and an ewer and a conveniente lighte before the roode at thisside Allsaintes To repaire the churche in glasinge and stonewoork and to put owte the scripture in the roode lofte before Allsaintes

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Proprietarius Anthonius Seintleger miles Vicarius Dominus Edwardus Slaney *

* Adm. East Farley 22 Oct. 1550 (Cranmer , 412b) . Died before 30 Apr. 1558, when William Johnson succeeded him at Lenham (Pole , 77b).

See also ante under Hothfield .

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Vicaria ex patronatu predicti Anthonii Seintleger et valet annuatim Firmarius rectorie Robertus Prett qui tenetur ad onera reparacionis cancelle Iconomi

Dunstanus Clerck Edwardus Eliot mortuus

Parochiani

Johannes Packnam Nicolaus Elson Johannes Garner Thomas Atwater Rogerus Drawbredg Johannes Stede Thomas Rayner Henricus Adam Christoferus Waters Thomas Henman Blank] Waters [Ffrannciscus Pratte Robertus Drake Johannes Spice Robertus Adowne

Parckhurst

-xiij libri xs

...*

Willelmus Allen of the Court Ricardus Wooddyer Willelmus Allen Memorandum that thies parcelles folowinge were geven to the churche by Master Parckhurst a surples a cope a vestment an albe iij cusshions

[f. 211v .]

ij candelstickes of wood

standing before the alter a towell for the houseling people a crismatorie a hollie water stoppe a corporas with a clothe and for the mending of two crewettes XXS the organes Memorandum that thies parcelles folowinge were geven to the churche by Mestres Parckhurst The alter clothes in Our Ladie channcell the curteynes a super altar a vestmente an albe a masse booke

a pricket* a wipinge towell

a corporas with a clothe and faded. There may have been another figure. * Page torn candlestick or stand.

A spiked

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Numerus parochianorum sacramentum altaris ve recipientium et familie infra dictam parochiam vjxx

)

Die et anno [as Goudhurst ]

To laye the alter stone apon the highe alter and to remove the tombeñon stone from the alter and to laye it in his former place before Allsaintes To prouide a paten of silver for one of the challices before Allsaintes and a paten of silvernon for the other challice before Christmas and the vicar to seye no masse after the same tyme withoute To prouide an other crosse before Lente To painte the table of the alternon with imagies and to prouide curteynes non of silke before Allsaintes To prouide a vele and coveringes for the imagies before Lente Lenham

[f. 212r.]

To prouide iiijor towelles"on* for howselinge people against Easter and two antiphoners "on * by Christmas To prouide a conveniente boxe or a purse to carrie the sacramente in to the sicke before Allsaintes To prouide a surplesnon and a rochet non before Christmas To warne theim that can singe to serve in the quire apon the Sonndaies and halliedaies and to make certificate of theim that refuse To prouide two bannersnon before Rogation week and a handebell non before Michaelmas To prouide a lantern and a spade before Allsaintes and a bason non and an ewer before Christmas To prouide a lock and a keye for the fonnte and a covernon for the deske before Michaelmas To prouide a faiernon register book wherin they shall registor all christeninges mariages and burialles and also thaccomptes of the churche To set vppe a hollie waternon stoppe at the church door before Michaelmas

It will cost xx libri /

To repaire the churche and the steple in glasinge and necessarie reparacions by Allsaintes and the residewe to be thoroughelie repaired

as they saye before Michaelmas com twelvemonethes

To repaire the vicaredge howsenon before All Saintes and to enclose the churcheyard before Michaelmas

* Crossed out .

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That the churchewardensnon and parisheners aforeseide doe personallie appeare at Cannterbury the Twisdaie after Michaelmas daye to make a perfect certificate of the estate of the same

CAPELLA de

Royton

ecclesie de

Lenham annexa

HARPSFIELD'S VISITATION RETURNS

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chappell

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Memorandum that there is neither roodenon lofte nor particon betwene the churche and the quire neither lighte before the roode

[f. 212v. ]

STALLESFFELDE

Rectoria impropriata nuper monasterio Sancti Gregorii Cant et nunc in manibus Reuerendissimi Domini Archiepiscopi Cant et valet xvij libri sed dimissa est ad firmam pro x libris Firmarius rectorie Magister Parckehurst et est ibidem domus rectorie sufficienter reparata Vicaria vacauit per tres annos propter exilitatem fructuum et valet per annum vj libri Memorandum that there was a pention accustomed to be paide oute of the parsonage of iiijor marckes towardes the vicars livinge whiche pention as it is thoughte hath not ben paid this xvj yeares And further because there is no sequestraton of the tithes and fructes belonging to the vicaredg the sequestracon of the same is grannted to William Grenestrete and Austen Hennekar

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Curatus

Iconomi Parochiani

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Dominus Rowlandus Jackson* olim coniugatus Willelmus Crafte Edwardus Downe Johannes Elvyn Willelmus Grenestrete Augustinus Hennekar Ricardus Ffarwood Henricus Leese Willelmus Bunse

Numerus parochianorum sacramentum

altare recipientium et familie infra dictam parochiam xxxij mandauit prout inferius habetur Articulis Die et anno inquisitionis prius publice lectis et declaratis [rest as Goudhurst] . to Northgate, Canterbury, 29 Apr. 1557, by death of Thomas * Adm Graves Pole, 71b) . , 13 Sept. 1558,

......

( Then to Milkstead by death of David Lomley (Ibid., 81b). Died before 4 June 1578, when John Hurte succeeded him at Milkstead ( Grindal, 520a). Left Stallisfield before 23 May 1561, when John Abbey succeeded on death of another incumbent (Parker, 349b ).

Jackson also held Kingsdown at the time of his death (Grindal, 523a) .

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[f. 213r.]

To make vpp the highe aulter of stone and to provide anon here clothe for the same by Michaelmas and a greate stone for the same alter by Christmas To prouide fronntes for the alter of seye with curteynes for the halliedaies and of paynted clothe for the woorkingedaies three alter clothes two towelles for the priestes handes a hollie waternon stoppe of latten and to sett vppe a side alter with furniture before Allsaintes To prouide a crosse of latten and a convenient surples for the priest before Christmas To prouide a velenon and coveringes for the imagiesnon againste Lente To prouide a faier. register booke wherin they shall register all christeninges Aburialles mariages and also thaccomptes of the churche

To prouide one streamernon and three banners against Rogation weeke To prouide a lampe before Michaelmas Memorandum To repaire the channcell in glasinge and to sende to other reparacions so sone as convenientlie may be the farmer for / To repaire the churche in glasinge and other necessarie reparacions before Allsaintes and the the same residewe to be thoroughelie repaired by Easter To enclose the churcheyarde by Michaelmas and then to make certificatin it be not don whoise default is To prouide a handebell before the feaste of Sainte Michael tharchanngellnext comynge To prouide a basonnon and an ewer before Allsaintes Domus vicarie Memorandum Quod domus vicarie ibidem non est sufficienter reparata Also it is commannded that the churche wardens [ . 213v .] and sidemen doe traivele and take order with all sucheasdoe withholdeannythinge from the church and if they refuse to pay the same Then to make perfect certificate therof the Wednisdaie after Michaelmas daye at Cannterburie and further to warne all suche as refuse to appeare there the same daye Detections Detectum est quod Nicolaus Kinge et apud Aisheford* Juliana Kinge non receperunt sacramentum altaris in festo Paschatis vltim elapso qui recesserunt a parochia Quamobrem manInquiratur de istis datum est quod apprehendantur et producantur coram commissariis Cant Another hand. * Crossed out . Page partly torn .

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[ . 214r.]

OTTRENDEN

Rector Dominus Ricardus Rogers* non residet Domus rectorie est / sufficienter reparata * Firmarius rectorie Johannes Remmyngton qui soluit annuatim x libros et tenetur ad onera reparationis ac omnia alia preter curatum inveniendum Rectoria Curatus est Johannes Whitehorse olim coniugatus Anthonii Johannes Remmyngton Iconomi militis Reginaldus Ffilmar Robertus Packham Parochiani Johannes Church Clinche Jacobus Bunce Willelmus Gooddyn Numerus parochianorum sacramentum altare recipientium et familie infra dictam parochiam

xxxiiij XV

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[

Die et anno Goudhurst ] To set vpp a side alternon with furniture and to prouide a hearenon clothe before Allsaintes To prouide fronntes of seye for the alter above and benethe with curteynes of the same and also an alter clothe before Allsaintes To prouide a paten of silver for the challice before Allsaintes , and the curate not to mynister after the same tyme withoute To prouide a hollie waternon stoppe of latten before Allsaintes To prouide a crosse of lattennon by Easter , and a streamer by Rogation weeke To prouide a frame for the sepulcre lighte a frame for Judas lighte a vele and coveringes for the imagies against Lente To prouide a faier register booke wherin they shall register all christeninges mariages and burialles and also thaccomptes of the church To prouide a paier of censures non by Christmas and a lampe before Michaelmas as

* Adm . to Great Chart 19 Jan. 1566 on resignation of Richard Storer (Parker, 379b). A Richard Rogers , Bishop of Dover, adm. to Midley 16 June 1569 on death of Martin Collins (Ibid., 394a) . A Richard Rogers died as ncumbent of Eastling before 13 May 1574 (Parker, ii, 98b).

In margin opposite the next two lines Page torn . Missing word probably impropriata . § Doubtless Seintleger.

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To repaire the churche in glasinge and other reparations and to provide a basonnon* and an ewer before Allsaintes Also the parisheners do seye that the ornamentes of the churche viz a challice two patentes a vestment and a cope and a hundredweight of latten were taken awaye by the comissioners And further the parisheners doe alleage yt they are verye poore for because the moste part of the parishe is in Master Auchars handes [f. 215r.]

EASELINGE

Rector est Magister Thomas Slayney residet Domus rectorieest Rectoria ex patronatu Thome Moile sufficienter reparata militis et valet annuatim xvj libri

Iconomi Parochiani

Thomas Austen Robertus Grenestret Thomas Grenestrete Thomas Adie

Willelmus Waller Johannes Elie Thomas Perse Johannes Collard Thomas Clerck Robertus Gates Numerus parochianorum sacramentum

altaris recipientium et familie infra dictam parochiam

iiijxx

- xxvj

Die et anno [as Goudhurst ] To make vppe the roode lofte and to provide a roode of a decente stature with a conveniente lighte before the roode at thisside Candelmas To set vpp a side alternon with furniture before

Allsaintes To prouide a fronnte of seye for the alter with curteynes of the same , and two alter clothes before Allsaintes Crossed out ? *

Resigned Stallisfield before 25 Sept. 1540 and Hugh David succeeded, Slaney being himself the patron for this turn (Cranmer , 377a, b) . Adm. to Eastling 11 Oct. 1545 (Ibid., 396b) . Resigned Cheriton before 23 Oct. 1551, when John David admitted (Ibid ., 418b) . Adm . to Preston next Faversham 10 December 1557 on death of Richard Maupase (Pole , 74b) . Resigned it before 20 Oct. 1558, when Edward Parrat succeeded (Ibid., 81b). non annotations in new hand as ante under Stallisfield.

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[f. 215v .]

To amende their crosse before Michaelmas and to prouide annon other crosse before Easter To prouide a sepulcrenon with a convenient frame for the lighte and a frame for Judas lighte a velenon and coveringes for the imagies before Lente To prouide a faier registornon booke wherin they shall register the names of all christenyngs mariages and burialles and also theaccomptes of the church and to prepare a cheste for the same before Allsaintes To set vpp a lampe immediatlie and to provide a streamer by Rogation week To prepaire the channceill in all thinges before Allsaintes To repaire the churche in glasinge and the necessarie reparacons before All Saintes and the residewe to be thoroughelie repaired and paved before Easter To prouide a handebell non a mattock a spade and a shovell before Allsaintes That the churchewardens and parisheners doe travele with all suche as withold anny thinge from the churche and if they refuse to paye the same or to take order for the payment therof Then to make perfecte certificate therof at Cannterburie the Wednisdaie after Michaelmas daye

[f. 216r.]

Non est domus rectorie sed est horreum

DODDINGTON

Rectoria* impropriata Reuerendo Domino Archidiacono Cant Firmarius rectorie Christoferus Roper/

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Vicaria vacat per tres annos et valetDomus vicarie est ruinosa

xij libri

Curatus Dominus Thomas Ffeldinge

Iconomi

Andreas Stere Nicolaus Wattes Parochiani Simon Rayner Henricus Adie Arnoldus Whitlock Willelmus Scere Thomas Pye Thomas Adie Charles .

8 1561 Garlike adm Dec. (Parker , 352a). * No doubt meant to be ' Stere.

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233

Numerus parochianorum sacramentum

altaris recipientium et familie infra dictam parochiam Die et anno [as Goudhurst

]

xxxijt'

To make vppe a side alter with furniture non* The churche before Allsaintes and to provide a here clothe

was robbed

before Michaelmas

To paintethe table with the imagenon * of thecrucifixe

[f. 216v. ]

Motie Reformatus

and other imagies decentlie and to provide fronntes for the alter above and beneth of seye with curteynes of the same before Allsaintes To prouide two alter clothes two towelles for the priestes handes before Allsaintes and to kepe the crismatorie vnder lock and keye To prouide an other crewet and a convenient boxe or a purse to carrie the sacrament into the sicke before Michaelmas To prouide a corporas case and a clothe by Allsaintes and a conveniente canapie fringed with staves before Lente To prouide an other crossenon and an albe for the best vestmente before Christmas To prouide a convenient sepulcre with a decent frame for the lighte and also a velenon and coveringes for the imagies before Lente To prouide a faier register booke wherin they shall registor all christeninges mariages and burialles and also thaccomptes of the church To prouide a crosse clothe by Christmas and a streamernon before Rogacon week To repaire the channcellnon in all pointes before Allsaintes To traivele with all such as doe owe or withold annythinge from the churche and if they doe refuse to pay the same or to take order for ye paymente therof then to warn the make a perfecte certificate therof the Wednisdaie after Michaelmas day at Cannterburie That the churchewardens doe warne Robert Motie to appeare at Newenham apon Monnday nexte , because he doth witholde certeyne goodes from the churche postea concordauit cum iconomis et parochianis et persoluit debita prout in actis plenius liquet

non' in same hand as under Stallisfield. * 'Crossed .

Same out

hand as ' nons ' above.

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[f. 2177.]

HARPSFIELD'S VISITATION RETURNS WICHELYNGE

Ex patronatu Magistri Adams

Rector Dominus Ricardus Robertes* et valet rectoria vj libri

Iconomi Est ibidem domus rectorie

Robertus Barnes Thomas Tassell Parochiani Jacobus Parker Thomas Brode Ricardus Deacon Ricardus Down Edwardus Brook Johannes Lawe

Numerus parochianorum sacramentum altaris recipientium et familie infra dictam parochiam

xxviij xj

Die et anno [as Goudhurst ]

To set vppe a side alter with furniturenon before Allsaintes and to set vppe the sacramente decentlie before Michaelmas had none They of silver To prouide a challicenon and a patennon of silver / before Christmas this xviij yeares as they sey, for the To repaire the chauncell non before Allsaintes parishe is verie poor.

To repaire the churche in nonglasinge before Allsaintes and in shingle and other reparacons before Easter [ . 217v.] To set vpp the roodenon lofte and to make the particon betwene the churche and the chaunceill before Whitsontide To prouide fronntes for the alter abovenon and benethe withe the image of the crucifixe in the same, and curteynes of seye before Allsaintes To prouide an alternon clothe three towellesnon for the priestes handes and one crewet before Allsaintes To prouide a convenient boxe or a purse to carrie the sacramente in to the sicke and also two corporasnon clothes with cases before Michaelmas To prouide a canapienon of seye fringed with conveniente staves a velenon and coveringes for the imagies before Lente and also a crosse of lattennon with the image of the crucifixe and a crosse clothe before Christmas

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Richard Roberts, resigned Preston by Faversham, with pension (£4), 18 Dec. 1535 (Cranmer , 30a). Nicholas Simpsonadm. to Wicheling by death of Richard Roberts 7 Feb. 1563 (Parker, 362b).

Page torn .

Crossed out.

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HARPSFIELD'S VISITATION RETURNS

To prouide a rochett* or A a surples for the clerck before Michaelmas and a conveniente sepulcre with a frame for the lighte, and a frame for Judas lighte against Lente To kepe the fonntenon and the crismatorie vnder

locke and keye To prouide a faier nonregister book, wherin they shall

register all christenynges mariages and burialles and also thaccomptes of the churche To prouide ij banners and a streamernonbefore Rogation weeke To prouide a lampenon before Michaelmas a sacceringe bell a bason non an ewer a lantern, a cover non for the desk a shovell non a mattock on a spadenon before Allsaintes To bringe in the Bible Paraphrasis and the Common Book to Cannterburie the Wednisdaye after Michaelmas daye KYNGESDOWNE

[f. 218r.]

Rectoria vacat per tres annos propter exilitatem fructuum Ex patronatu Domine Regine et valet per annum v libri Evocetur ad Sequestrator fructuum rectorie Radulphus

reddendum compotum

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Ffinche generosus Curatus Dominus Robertus Halman Iconomus Parochiani

Willelmus Amys Petrus Harman Johannes Steble Jacobus Tobie

Die et anno prescriptis Dominus

Archidiaconus ecclesiam parochialem predictam

actualiter visitauit atque iconomos et parochianos ad tunc comparendum monitos preconizatos satisque diu et sufficienter expectatos ac nullo modo comparentes pronunciauit contumaces et eorum quemlibet contumacem pena reseruata usque in diem Mercurii apud Milkested

Et quia fructus et decime predicte rectorie tam tenues sunt ut curatum sustentare non possunt videatur consentaneum ut anex ad ecclesiam de Lynsted Cancella ibidem est ruinosa et ecclesia omnibus fere ornamentis destituta

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* ' and ' crossed out.

Crossed out.

This is the only record of non-appearance in this Visitation . common in 1558 and before .

It is more

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[f. 218v . ]

HARPSFIELD'S VISITATION RETURNS LYNSTED

Impropriata Reverendo Domino Archidiacono Cant Vicarius Dominus Robertus Shefe * et valet vicaria xij libri et cura deseruitur alternis vicibus in absentia vicarii Cancella et ecclesia ibidem cum omnibus ornamentis et aliis neccessariis eidem ecclesie pertinentibus combuste fuerunt Johannes Bixe Iconomi

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Johannes Bateman Henricus Bateman Simon Cowland Thomas Graungeman Thomas Sparrowe Numerus parochianorumsacramentum

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Parochiani

ixxx altaris recipientium et familie infra dictam parochiam xlviij Die et anno [as Goudhurst] Ffirste it [is] commannded that the churche wardens and parisheners sett vpp a side alter with furniture , To provide fronntes for the alter for the woorkingedaies and halliedaies, two towelles for the priestes handes two crewettes a boxe or a pursenon convenient to carrie the sacramente into [the] sicke a paxe of latten , a canapienon of silke or seye, a crosse of latten, a crosse clothe of silke, a frame for the sepulcre lighte and a holliewaternon stoppe of latten, and a holliewater stopp at the churchedoor To prouide also surplessies non and rochettes [f. 219r.] convenient for the quire an other vestment with albe and other thinges to the same belonginge To prouide a roode non Marie and Johnnon with the patrone decentlie paynted and of a decente stature a vele and coueringes for the imagies and to kepe the fonnte vnder locke and keye To prouide a faier registernon booke wherein they shall

})

register all christenynges mariages burialles and also thaccomptes of the churche To prouide conveniente banners and streamers a lampe a lantern a spade a shovell and a deske with a cover To fynishe the chauncell and the church to buylde vpp the roode lofte and to doe all thinges above rehersed so sone as convenientlie they can * A Robert Shoghe adm. 1 Nov. 1556, " pro eo quod Willelmus Stapleford,

ultimus vicarius ibidem acceptavit aliud beneficiumabsque ulla dispensacione " (Pole, 70a).

In same hand as under Doddington and predominateshenceforth.

See article The Ropers and their Monuments in Lynsted Church , by Aymer Vallance (A.C., xliv , 147-65 ), for the long association with Lynsted

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[f. 219v .]

237

MILKESTED

Rector Dominus David Longeley * Ex patronatu Thome Henman et valet rectoria Ricardus Highsted Iconomi Thomas Ffinge Parochiani Thomas Heniman Robertus Ponet Thomas Allen Petrus Sutton Henricus Rayner Numerus parochianorum sacramentum >

altaris recipientium et familie infra dictam parochiam Die et anno as Goudhurst

[

]

x libri

lx

- xviij

To set vpp a side alternon with furniture and to set vpp the sacramentenon reverentlie before Allsaintes To prouidetwo fronntes but one providedfor the alter of seye and curteynes of the same for the halliedaies and one fronnte for the woorkingedaies of steyned clothe before Allsaintes To prouide a challice with a patennon of silver before Christmas and the parson not to minister after the same

tyme withoute That the churchewardensnon and sidemen doe exhibite a true and perfect accomptes of all suche gooddes ornamentes plate jewelles belonging to the church that were solde of what value it was to whome it was solde and by whome and to what vse it was put the Wednisdaie after Michaelmas daye

at Cant

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of this Catholic family. Henry , the eleventh Baron Teynham, tookthe oath and his seat in the House of Lords on 10 July 1781. The burial registers of Lynsted from 1656 down to 1802 contain more than 60 names to whichthe entry " Rom. Cath " or " R.C. " is appended . 56 of these names occur after 1716. The commonest name is Allsworth (12 times), and this is the last entry (under 1802). The traditional site of the Catholic chapel , writes Vallance, p. 149, " used to be pointed out in a slight hollow, on the borders of Lynsted and Kingsdown parishes , in a field some three hundred yards or so to the south of Ludgate farmhouse, and just west of the cart-road which runs from Lynsted No remains of this building are known to village to Kingsdown Street have been standing above ground within living memory ; nor is it marked on the OrdnanceMap, even of the largest scale ; but the late Mr. Thomas Back, who died in 1909, aged 67, used to tell of lumps of brickwork and masonry having been frequently turned up on the spot by the plough."

For other particulars of recusancy in the parish of Lynsted see Teynham Manor and Hundred, by Elizabeth Selby (Ashford, no date), passim .

13 Sept. 1558 Rowland Jackson adm. by death of David Lomley (Pole, 81b). Jackson died before 4 June 1578 (Grindal, 520a).

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Milkested To kepe the crismatorie vnder lock and keye and to prouide a wipinge towell before Allsaintes To prouide an other crewet and a convenient boxe or a purse to carrie the sacramente in to the sick before Michaelmas To prouide a canapie of seynon * fringed with conveniente staves and an other non crosse with the image of the crucifixe a sepulcre with a convenientenon frame for the lighte a velenon and coveringesnon for the imagies before Lente To prouide a convenient lightebut one taper before the roode and to paynte the patrone decentlie before Allsaintes To prouide a faier registernon booke wherin they shall registor all christenynges mariages and burialles and also thaccomptes of the churche To prouide a streamernon by Rogation weeke To prouide a lampe and to set vpp the quire in the olde place before Allsaintes To repaire the chaunceill in glasinge and other necessarie reparacions before Allsaintes and the residewe to be thoroughelie repaired before

[f. 220r.]

Whitsontide To repaire the churche in all poinctes before Allsaintes To prouide a bason and an ewernon a shovell and a spade before Michaelmas

[ . 220v.]

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FFRENSTED

Rector Dominus Georgius White olim sub matri monii effigie coniugatus et habitat iam in parochia et peperit Idcirco monitus est dictus rector

ad comparendum Cant in crastino Sancti Michaelis archanngeli proxim futur' ad audiendam voluntatem iudicis Rectoria ex patronatu Henrici Haddesxx Domus rectorie generosus et valet annuatim marce est ruinosa Edwardus Harris Iconomus Parochiani Henricus Haddes generosus Robertus Allen ? Petrus Barner. [ ] Stephanus Knotte Numerus parochianorum sacramentum131

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altaris recipientium et familie infra dictam parochiam Die et anno [as Goudhurst ]

* Crossed out.

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John Pygden collated 27 Aug. 1560 by death of last incumbent, unnamed

(Parker, 345a) .

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To set vpp a side alter with furniture before Michaelmas and to set vpp the sacrament reuerentlie

by the same tyme To painte the table of the alter with imagies and to provide two fronntes of seyenon for the alter with curteynes of the same before Christmas To kepe the crismatorie vnder lock and keye prouide a challice of silvernon and a paten before [f. 221r.] To Christmas and the parson not to minister withoute after the same daye To prouide a wipinge towell a conveniente boxe or a purse to carrie the sacrament in to the sick

before Michaelmas To prouide a corporas clothe and a case before Allsaintes and twoo lattennon candelstickes before the same tyme To prouide a canapie of seye fringed with conveniente staves before Lente To set the image of the crucifixenon apon their olde crosse before Michaelmas To prouide a vestmente withnon albe and other furniture therto belonginge and to painte the roode Marie and John and to make the patrone of a decent staturenon before Christmas To prouide a velenon and coveringes for the imagies non against Lente and to kepe the fonnte decentlie vnder lock and keye To prouide a faier register booke wherin they shall registor all christeninges burialles and mariages and also thaccomptes of the churche To prouide cheynes for the censures before Allsaintes and twoo banners and a streamer before Rogation weeke To repaire the parsonagenon howse the churche and the steplenon in necessarie reparacions before Allsaintes and the residewe to be repaired thoroughelye before Easter

That the churche wardens and sidemen doe exhibite a true and perfecte accomptes the Wednisdaie next after Michaelmas daye at Cant of all plate jewelles ornamentes and other goodes * reformat' belonginge to the churche yt were sold by whome to whom, of what value , and to what vse it

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* Another hand .

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[f. 221v . ]

HARPSFIELD'S VISITATION RETURNS WORMESHELL

Rector Magister Willelmus Horwood * non residet Curatus nullus sed cura desseruitur alternis vicibus per rectorem de Ffrensted Domus rectorie es Firmarius rectorie Johannes Carpinter sufficienter reparata Qui soluit annuatim rectori x libri atque tenetur ad inueniendum curatum Thomas Holman Iconomi Johannes Hatche Parochiani Robertus Cooke Thomas Thatcher Nicolaus Reader Willelmus Pepper Numerus parochianorum sacramentum lx altare [sic] recipientium et familie infra dictam parochiam xvj Die et anno [as Goudhurst ] Firste it is commannded that they set vppe a side alter with furniture before Allsaintes To prouide two fronntes for the alter of seye with curteynes of the same to amende their olde and to provide two alter clothes before Allsaintes To prouide a wipinge towell before Allsaintes and a crewett before Michaelmas 222r . To prouide a paten of silver before Allsaintes and [. the curate not to minister withoute after the same

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tyme To kepe the crismatorie vnder locke and keye and to provide a conveniente boxe or a purse to carrie the sacramente in to the sicke before Allsaintes To make fringies for the canapie before Lente and to prouide two latten candelsticks before Christmas To set the image of the crucifixe apon their olde crosse before Lente and to provide coveringes for the imagies before the same tyme To prouide a hollie water stoppe of latten and to paynte the roode Marie and John and the patrone of the churche decentlie before Allsaintes To prouide a faier register booke wherin they shall register all christeninges mariages and burialles and also thaccomptes of the churche To prouide a streamernon by Rogation weeke and a bason and an ewer before Allsaintes To repaire the chauncell in all thinges before Christmas

* Adm. 22 Mar. 1547 (Cranmer , 404a) . John Harris collated 5 May 1569

by death of last incumbent (Parker, 391b).

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To repaire the churche in glasinge before Allsaintes and in all other thinges by Christmas Also it is comannded that the farmer provide a curate immediatlie

[f. 222v .]

BICKNOR

Rector Dominus Willelmus Bucke * et valet rectoria v libri Iconomi et Willelmus Mede Parochiani Willelmus Knighte Ricardus Christian Robertus Heire Numerus parochianorum sacramentum viij altare recipientium et familie infra dictam parochiam Die et anno [as Goudhurst ] Firste to prouide two fronntes non for the alter above and benethe of paynted clothe and the image of the crucifixe and to provide one wipinge towell before Allsaintes To kepe the crismatorie vnder locke and keye To prouide a conveniente boxe or a purse to beare the sacramente to the sicke and also to prouide an other corporas case before Christmas To prouide a canapienon of seye fringed with convenient staves before Lente To prouide a sepulcrenon with a conveniente frame for the lighte a vele and coveringes for the imagies before Lente To prouide a crosse of lattennon or copper with a crosse clothe before Christmas To kepe the fonnte vnder locknon and keye To prouide a handebell non and a lampeno before [ . 2237. Allsaintes To prouide a lantern a mattockenon a shovell a spade a bason and ewernon a deske with a cover before Christmas To prouide a faier register non booke wherin they shall register all christeninges mariages and burialles and also thaccomptes of the churche To prouide a patennon of silver by Christmas and the person not to minister withoute after the same tyme To prouide a paier of censures non before Christmas and ij nonbanners and a streamernon by Rogacion weeke That the person repaire the chaunceillnon before Allsaintes To repaire the churchenonin necessarie reparacions before Allsaintes and the residewe to be thoroughelie repaired before Easter

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* of. last incumbent (Parker, 381b) . by death

Adm 16 Jan. 1552 (Cranmer , 421b). John Alchen adm . 30 May 1567

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[f. 223v.]

Rectoria impropriata ecclesie cathedrali Roffensi et valet xx" marce Vicarius Dominus Galfridus Wilson * et valet vicaria ix libri xjs

Iconomi anni preteriti Parochiani

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Thomas Drurie

Iconomi

Willelmus Baket Rogerus Bet Simon Lacket Thomas Hott senior Ricardus Knighte Robertus Plotte Johannes Mylles Johannes Allen Eliseus Graye Henricus Pilcher

Numerus parochianorum sacramentum

blank] altaris recipientium Die et anno [as Goudhurst ] Firste to paynte the roode Marie and John before Michaelmas and to provide a convenient lighte before the roode before Allsaintes To sett vppe a side alter with furniture before Allsaintes To prouide two fronntes non of seye for the alter and curteynes of the same for the halliedaies and twonon fronntes of paynted clothe for the woorkingedaies with the image of the crucifixe before Allsaintes To prouide a paten of silver before Christmas and the vicar not to minister withoute after the same tyme [f. 2247. ] To prouide two wipinge towellesnon before

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Michaelmas To amende the crismatorienon immediatlie and to kepe the same vnder lock and keye To prouide two crewettesnon a fine corporas clothe and to amende the challice out of hande To prouide a canapie of seye fringed with convenient staves a crosse of latten and a decente staffe and a sepulcre with a frame for the lighte before

Lente To amende the hollie water stoppenon immediatlie or ells to provide a newe before Allsaintes and to set vppe a hollie water stopp at the churche door by the same tyme 6 May 1550 ( Cranmer , 411a). George Hawkes adm . by death of Adm . last *incumbent 21 Aug. 1571 (Parker, 406a, b) Geoffrey Wilson, vicar of Stockbury, was paid a stipend of 50s. per annum according to a brief of 14 Elizabeth (Parker, ii, 68a, b).

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They haue no copes To prouide a faier copenon and a vesteof their own but such mentenon for the as they borrowe halliedaies with furniture to the samebefore Easter That the chauncell be kept cleane and the duste had awaye To prouide a lock and a keye for the fonnte To prouide a faier register bookenon wherin they shall register all christeninges mariages and burialles and also thaccomptes of the churche non inv d [?]

To repaire the chauncell non and the churche in... timber and to enclose the churcheyarde and to provide a lanterne before Allsaintes To prouide a handbell non a bason an ewernon and anon cover for the deske before Michaelmas That the churche wardensnon and sidemen doe exhibite a true and perfect accomptes the Wednisdaie after Michaelmas daye at Cannterburye of all suche goodes plate ornamentes and jewelles belonginge to the churche that were solde and by whome the same was solde to whome of what value it was and to what vse the same was put There is a gutter non in decaye which the Deane and chapter of Rochester oughte to amende and repaire as they seye [ . 224v.] That the myddle stone wallnon and the glasse be repaired immediatlie becawse the priest cannot convenientlie saye masse Also it is comannded that the parisheners doe paye the clerckes wages by Michaelmas or ells the churchewardens to present them that * reformat refuse the Wednisdaie after Michaelmas daye and to warne theim that refuse to appeare the same daye at Cannterburie Also that the churche wardens doe bringe in the Bible and Paraphrasis to Cannterburie the Wednisdaie after Michaelmas daye

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Detectum est quod Johannes Beckett non debite / freBeckett nunc habi- quentat ecclesiam et Dominus monuit iconomos ad tat apud certificandum de conuersatione illius et mandatum Tenham est patri dicti Johannis ut filius eius reformetur suis

mediis Reformatus * Detectum est quod Henricus Baker non debite accedat ad ecclesiam et evocatus ad iudicium personaliter comparuit et fatebatur se abfuisse ab omnibus diuinis officiis in festo Sancte Crucis vltimo elapso vnde Dominus monuit dictum Baker ad comparendum Cant ' die Mercurii proxim post festum Sancti Michaelis ad audiendam voluntatem iudicis et ad videndum vlteriorem processum in hoc negotio postea vero quia dictus Baker humiliter se submisit Dominus monitionem predictam revocauit et mandauit iconomis ad certificandum die Mercurii post festum Sancti Michaelis de conuersatione dicti Baker quo die adueniente certificatum est quod iam bene se gerit in omnibus et debite frequentat ecclesiam [ . 225r.]

Detectum est quod vxor predicti Henrici Baker non debite accedit ad ecclesiam et ad iudicium evocata personaliter comparuit et fatebatur se abfuisse ab omnibus diuinis officiis in festo Sancte Crucis vltimo elapso ac preterea confessa est se non recepisse sacramentum altaris ante partum suum ac deinde coram iudice declarauit fidem suam in sacramento altaris viz that she dothe beleve that in the sacramente of the alter there is verie reall and substannciall bodie and bloud of our Savior Christe vnder the formes of bread and wyne cui sic confitenti Dominus iniunxit prout sequitur viz that she be presente at all devyne * reformata service apon Sonndaie next and than to go in procession and to doe all other ceremonies reverentlie and that the vicar shall there declare her faithe in the sacramente and also her negligence in not comyng to the churche and she to stande by and affirme and confesse the same and to make certificate therof the Wednisdaie after Michaelmas daie at Cannterburie But afterwardes because she did humblie submitte her self and acknowledged her fault the judge did respitte the seide pennannce and warned the churchewardens to make certificate of her behavior Et postea certificatum est quod iam reformata est et quod bene et obedienter se gerit in omnibus

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* abiit nunc apud / Borden Detectum est quod Alicia Kemesley non recepit sanctum panem nec aquam benedictam nisi semel per quatuor annos evocata ad iudicium personaliter comparuit et fatebatur obiecta quam Dominus monuit quod intersit omnibus diuinis officiis die Dominica proxima et quod eat in processione etc et quod vicario tunc declarabit fidem suam in sacramento et negligentiam suam non obseruando ceremonias ecclesie et quod dicta Alicia tunc presens in ecclesia affirmabit dictam declarationem etc et ad certificandumper manum vicarii et iconomorum die Mercurii post festum Sancti Michaelis Archanngeli postea certificatum est quod recessit a parochia et habitat apud Borden Also it is commannded that John Allen the bosholder do warne John Knighte to appeare at Hartlipp or at Reyneham and to make certificate therof. postea dictus Allen certificauit quod dictus Knighte non est

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Rectoria impropriata ecclesie cathedrali libri Roffensi et valet annuatim Vicarius Dominus Michaell Weste et vicaria valet vj libri xs Firmarius rectorie Phillippus Sampson Thomas Holman [Decanu]s et capitulum Iconomi ecclesie predicte tenetur Eliseus Grenehill [ad onera] reparacionis Parochiani Johannes Hilles Phillippus Sampson Ricardus Brapson Domus vicarie est Johannes Reader ruinosa Thomas Harrison Numerus parochianorum sacramentum

altaris recipientium XXX et familie infra dictam parochiam Die et anno [as Goudhurst ] To repaire the chaunceillnon in glasinge and other reparations and to prouide a lampe immediatlie To amende their copes vestementes and the sepulcre clothe before Allsaintes

And wheras there were solde by the parishe two greate candelstickes of latten and the candelstickes of the roode lofte it is commannded that the parisheners doe prouide them agayne or as good before Easter To prouide a challice and a paten of silver They had none this seaven yeres before Christmas and the vicar not to minister because thers was withoute after the same tyme stollen as they say . * Another hand, in margin .

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Memorandum that the highe aulter stone is at Norwood as it is supposed and lieth in Master Nortons

chymney To take and remove the gravenon stone from the alter and to leye the same in his place before the feast of Allsaintes To prouide two fronntes non for the alter of seye with curteynes of the same and for the woorkingedaies of steyned clothe with the image of the crucifixe and also to prouide two towelles for the priestes handes and a processionall before Allsaintes To make certificate where the alter stones became the Wednisdaie after Michaelmas daye To set vppe a side alternon with furniture by Allsaintes To prouide a canapie of seye fringed with convenient staves before Lente To prouide a velenon and coveringes for the imagies before Lente and to set vpp the sacramente

decentlie before Michaelmas To amende the handebell and the lantern and to prouide a lockenon and a keye for the fonnte and a conveniente lighte beforenon the roode before Michaelmas To prouide a crosse non of wood with the image of the crucifixe before Lente To repaire the churchenon and to enclose the churcheyarde before Allsaintes and to provide a convenient place for the sepulcre by Michaelmas To prouide a faier registernon booke wherin they shall registor all christeninges mariages and burialles and also thaccomptes of the churche To bringe in the Bible and the Paraphrasis * to Cannterburie the Wednisdaie after Michaelmas daye

[f. 226v .]

RAYNEHAM

Rectoria

impropriata ecclesie cathedrali Roffensi Firmarius rectorie Johannes Norden qui non tenetur ad onera reparationis nec ad solucionem procurationum

sed Decanus et capitulum ecclesie Roffensis ut patet per indenturam § Vicaria vacat Curatus Dominus Robertus Windestandlieolim coniugatus in " inserted in another hand. * Crossed " not brought out, and substituted for it in another hand above the line is Crossed out. " in disposicione Domini Legati." bene § Est ibidem domus vicarie reparata " in margin. " / Crossed out. In another hand above : " Dominus [blank] Wacklin vnus ex minoribus canonicis/ ecclesie cathedralis Diui Pauli London." John Holinshed adm. 15 Oct. 1562, by resignation of John Wakelyn (Parker, 357b, 358a).

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Iconomus Willelmus Hennekar * Parochiani Henricus Lawrance

Willelmus Seade

Thomas Butter Galfridus Merchaunte Thomas Elmeston Johannes Mendam Johannes Stoner Willelmus Turner Numerus parochianorum sacramentum altaris recipientium

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Die et anno [as Goudhurst ] Firste it is commannded that the alter stones yt lie in anny place in the churche or churcheyard be taken vppe immediatlie To prouide a lampenon by Michaelmas [f. 227r.] To bringe a copieñon of the inuentarie of the church gooddes in parchemente indented to Cannterburie the Wednisdaie after Michaelmas daye To prouide a sufficient lightenon before the roode and to prouide a convenient boxe or a purse to carrie the sacramente in to the sicke before Allsaintes .

To prouide a canapienon of silk fringed with convenient staves before Lent To warne theim that can singe to serve in the quire apon the Sonndaies and halliedaies and to make certificate of them that refuse To prouide an antiphonernon and a grailenon before Christmas a paxe of latten with a crucifixe by

Allsaintes To sett the imagies of the crucifixe Marie and John apon the pell of velvet To make certificate wherenon the greate candelstickes were bestowed To prouide a locke and a keyenon for the fonnte immediatlie To prouide a faier registernon booke wherin they shall register all christeninges mariages and burialles and also thaccomptes of the churche To make certificate who plucked non downe the chappell of the Trinitie and Sainte Katheryne and of the brotherhed of Saint Sepulcre To make also certificate howe they holde the ermitage and the three acres of lande there for the poor and also to certifie of the three seames of wheat geven to the poor To prouide two banners against Rogacon week To repaire the chaunceill which is sore in decaye before Allsaintes * Also warden in 1565-9 (A.C. , xv, 335-7).

Alive in 1569 (Ibid.).

Alive in 1569 (Ibid., 337).

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Rectoria impropriata collegio de Eton rectorie Oxon [ sic et valet per annum libri Vicarius Dominus Nicolaus Poor non residet Vicaria ex patronatu dicti collegii et valet per annum xiiij libri Curatus Dominus Johannes Bailie Iconomi Willelmus Moswell Johannes Swifte Parochiani Johannes Lyforde Reginaldus Boton Thomas Godfreye Thomas Barrett Johannes Dates Hugo Croche Johannes Wotton Numerusparochianorum sacramentum altaris .ccxlv

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Die et anno prescriptis Dominus Archidiaconus ecclesiam parochialem predictam iconomos ac parochianos ad tunc comparendum monitos preconizatos ac comparentes actualiter visitauit et visis ornamentis et ceteris necessariis que in vsum ecclesie et decor eiusdem fuerunt preparata etc necnon et articulis etc publice declaratis etc dictus Dominus Archidiaconus mandauit et processit prout inferius habetur margin against precedingitem .

In * Theright Archdeacon, like the Bishop of a diocese, had a summonerfor each whose deanery duty it was to serve a writ of summons on thosewho were due to appear before his court. The Raynham Church Wardens' Accounts for 1565 indicate his feesto the Somner at the vysytation at Raynh'm " It'm .paid iiijd " (A.C., xv, 335).

Page torn . § The Patrons were All Souls College, Oxford .

William Barker, B.A., collated 23 Dec. 1561 by death of Robert Howe , 353a, b) .

(ParkerWilliam Bucke adm . Hollingbourne by death of John Bayly on 12 Oct. 1557 (Pole, 74a).

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The vicar toke awaye Ffirste it is commannded that therenon be a side alter the alter stones set vppe with furniture in the chappell before Allsaintes To prouide two fronntes "on * of seye with curteynes a here clothe two wipinge towellesnon* a corporas clothe and a case before Allsaintes To prouide two alterno * clothes by Michaelmas To kepe the crismatorie vnder locke and keye To prouide a boxenon * or a purse conuenient to carrie the sacramente in to the sick immediatlie

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To repaire the vicaredgenon before Christmas To prouide two latten candelstickes before Christmas That the churchewardensnon and sidemen doe exhibit a true and perfect accomptes the Wednisdaie after Michaelmas daye at Cannt of the crosse of silver the pixe of silver and of other ornamentes belonging to the churche that were solde To prouide a convenient lighte before the roode at thisside Allsaintes To warne theim that can singe to serve the quire apon the Sonndaies and halliedaies and to certifie of theim that refuse Memorandum that the orgaynesnon be in decaye thoroughe the default of the parson who hath not repaired the chaunceill To prouide a rochet for the clerk before Allsaintes To prouide albes for the vestmentes viz one before Allsaintes and the rest before Christmas To prouide a velenon and coveringes for the imagies before Lente To prouide a faier register book wherin they shall register all christeninges mariages and burialles and also thaccomptes of the churche To prouide a lampe before Michaelmas To repaire the churche in all poinctes before the feaste of Allsaintes To repaire the chauncell in all poinctes before Allsaintes and in pavinge before Christmas To enclose the churcheyarde immediatlie

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[f. 228v .] * Also it is commannded that the churchewardens

doe warne Anthonye Allen and Thomas Blackborn to appeare at Sittingeborn quia non debite frequentant ecclesiam postea vero partes personaliter comparueruntac culpam et negligentiam suam agnoscentes sese ordinacioni iudicis humiliter submiserunt quos iudex monuit ut bene et obedienter se gerant in omnibus et quod debite accedant ad ecclesiam ad diuina officia audienda etc postea iconomi dicte parochie / certificauerunt dictos Allen et Blackborn reformatos esse et quod obedienter se habeant etc

[f. 229r.]

VPCHURCHE

Rectoria impropriata collegio Omnium Sanctorum [sic] Oxon Firmarius rectorie Ffrannciscus Holbrok Vicaria ex patronatu dicti collegii et valet xij libri Vicarius Dominus Johannes Townesley Curatus Dominus Nicolaus Blaunshe

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Willelmus Wingefelde Thomas Showell Clemens Milwaye

Willelmus Rickard Rogerus Iackson Edwardus Showsmith Numerus parochianorum sacramentum cxx altaris recipientium et familie infra dictam parochiam xlij Die et anno prescriptis Dominus Archidiaconus ecclesiam parochialem predictam iconomos ac parochianos etc visitauit etc vlteriusque mandauit et processit prout in actis superius scriptis habetur et inferius specificatur Firste to set vpp a side alternon with furniture before Allsaintes To enquire where the alternon stones became and to mak due certificat therof the Wednisdaie next after Michaelmas daye To traiveile with the churchewardensnon that have not accompted and also with suche as doe withold annythinge from the churche and if they refuse to tak order for the same with the parishners then to warne theim to appeare at Cannt the Wednisdaie next after Michaelmas daye The corner of the page is torn and faded. There may have been a *

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Adm. to Raynham 9 July 1547 (Cranmer , 403b).

Edmund Drakes adm, to Upchurch 25 Jan. 1560 by death of last incumbent (Parker, 347b ).

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[f. 229v .]

To prouide a here clothe for the alter immediatlie To kepe the crismatorie vnder nonlock and keye To prouide three wipingenon towelles before Allsaintes To prouide a canapienon of seye fringed with conveniente staves before Lente

To prouide a sepulcrenon with a conveniente frame for the

lighte before Lente To sett the image of the noncrucifixe apone the olde crosse before Lente To prouide a hollie water stoppe of stone or leade at the churche door before Allsaintes To prouide a surples and a rochetnon before Allsaintes To painte the roode Marie and John and the patrone and to set vpp the patrone decentlie before Christmas To prouide a velenon and coueringesnon for the imagies before Lente To prouide a faier register booke wherin they shall register all christeninges mariages and burialles and also thaccomptes of the churche That the churchewardens and sidemen doe mak and exhibit a true and perfect accomptes the Wednisdaie after Michaelmas of all suche gooddes plat jewelles and ornamentes belonginge to the church that were sold To prouide two banners before Rogacion week To repaire the chauncell in all thinges before Allsaintes [ . 230r.

To repaire the churche in all thinges before Easter To prouide a conveniente nonlighte before the roode at thisside Allsaintes To prouide an ewer nonbefore Allsaintes.

To prouide a mattock and a spade before Allsaintes To set vpp their roode lofte immediatlie

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Rectoria impropriata ecclesie Christi Cant et valet v marce Vicaria ex patronatu dicte ecclesie et vacat propter viij libri exilitatem fructuum et valet per annum Curatus nullus .* sufficienter Arthurus Holman sequestrator fructuum

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Arthurus Holman Johannes Bote Parochiani Johannes Busshopp Johannes Pullyn Johannes Stonard Thomas Hodge Johannes Helkyn Numerus parochianorum Sacramentum > Iconomi

altaris recipientium et familie et anno prescriptis dictus Die

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Dominus Archidiaconus ecclesiam parochialem predictam iconomos ac parochianos etc visitauit etc et visis etc iudicialiter mandauit et iniunxit ac vlterius processit prout in actis superius habetur et inferius specificatur Ffirste it is comannded that the parishners go to Vpchurche to church vntill suche tyme as they have a curat Also to sett vppe a side alter with furniture before Allsainctes [ . 231r.]

To paynte the table of the alter and to provide a fronnte of paynted clothe for the woorkingedaies and two fronntes of seye with curteynes for the halliedaies before Christmas To prouide a conveniente boxe or a purse to carrie the sacramente in to the sick before Allsaintes To prouide a corporas clothe before Christmas To prouide a frame for the sepulcre light before Lente To prouide a hollie waternon stoppe of stone at the churche door before Michaelmas To set the image of the crucifixe apone the olde crosse before Lente To prouide a surples and a nonrochet before Christmas To prouide nona vele and couerynges for the imagies before Lente To prouide a faier register book wherin they shall registor all christeninges mariages and burialles and also thaccomptes of the churche To prouide two banners before Rogacion week To repaire the chaunceill non in necessarie reparacions before Allsaintes and thorougelye by Easter To repaire the churchenon in necessarie reparacions before Allsaintes and thorougelye by Easter [ . 231v .]

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To prouide a lanterne a coueringenon for the desk before Allsaintes To painte the patrone decentlie before Christmas and also the roode Marie and John To prouide a conveniente lighte before the roode at thisside Allsaintes

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BOBBYNGE

Rectoria impropriata Magistro Grene Vicaria ex patronatu dicti Magistri Grene et valet x libri Domus vicarie est Vicarius Dominus Thomas Hicklinge olim ruinosa coniugatus

Iconomi Parochiani

Robertus Bone Robertus Williamson Edmond Barlie

Walterus Tomlyn

Thomas Goodwatte Robert Denwaye

Numerus parochianorum sacramentum >iiij xx altaris recipientium XXXt et familie Die et anno prescriptis dictus Archidiaconus ecclesiam parochialem predictam iconomos ac parochianos etc visitauit etc et visis etc iudicialiter mandauit et iniunxit acvlteriusque processit prout inferius

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habetur Ffirste it is commannded that the churchewardens and sidemen set vppe a side alter before Allsaintes To prouide a here cloth before Allsaintes To prouide two fronntes non of seye with curteynes before Christmas

To prouide two fronntesnon of paynted cloth before Allsaintes [ . 232v .]

To prouide two alter clothes before Allsaintes To kepe the crismatorie vnder nonlock and keye To prouide an other crewetton and a convenient boxe or a purse to carrie the sacrament in to the sick before Allsaintes To prouide a corporas clothe before Christmas To prouide fringes for the canapie before Lente To prouide a surplesnon for the clerck before Allsaintes To prouide a faier register booke wherin they shall register all christeninges mariages and burialles and also thaccomptes of the churche

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To prouide a chestenon for the register book before

Allsaintes To prouide an ewernon before Allsaintes Memorandum that the executors of Master Grene doth witholde from the churche a lampe of latten To repaire the gutter of the chaunceill before * reformat Allsaintes To repaire the channcell non in glasse and before Allsaintes 233r. . [ ] To repaire the vicaredgenonhowse in necessarie reparacions before Allsaintes and thoroughelie before Easter To repaire the church before Allsaintes Memorandum that the roode Marie and John * reformat with the patrone of the churche be not of a decente stature * The patron is not set vppe BORDEN [ . 233v .]

Rectoria impropriata Domine Margaret Roche vidue Vicaria ex patronatu dicte Margarete et valet xx" marce §Vicarius Dominus Johannes Drewrie non residet Curatus Dominus Willelmus Clercke nuper coniugatus et mulier habitat apud Maidestone Johannes Tirrenden Iconomi Robertus Hache Parochiani Johannes Sampson

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John Armerar adm. 25 May 1552 ( Cranmer , 420b) . John Harris adm.

29 Jan. 1557 by resignation of John Drewrie (Pole, 76a).

Harris resigned before 29 Nov. 1570 (Parker, 401a) .

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Ffirste it is commannded that non the highe aulter be made of stone before Allsaintes To sett vppe a side alternon with furniture before Allsaintes To prouide a hearenon clothe for the alter before Allsaintes To prouide a crewett non before Allsaintes To make fringes non for the canapie against Lente

[f. 2347.]

To prouide a hollie waternon stoppe of stone at the churche door before Allsaintes To warne them that can singenon to serve the quyre apone the Sonndaies and the halliedaies to certifie of them that refuse To prouide a grailenon and an antiphonernon before Christmas To painte the roode Marie and John with the patrone decentelie before Christmas To prouide coueringes for the imagiesnon before Lent To prouide a lampe beforenon Allsaintes To repaire the chauncell in sealinge and glasinge before Allsaintes To enclose the churcheyarde before Allsaintes To repaire the churche before Allsaintes To make vpp the fonntenon as it was and provide a crosse clothe before Christmas BREDGAR*

[f. 234v .]

Proprietarius Thomas Reader Vicaria ex patronatu eiusdem Thome Reader x libri et vacat per annum et valet Curatus Dominus Willelmus Lambe nuper coniugatus et mulier habitat Londini ut asserit Iconomus Parochiani

Thomas Reader

Willelmus Tonge Willelmus Drewrie Thomas Lak Johannes Rowe

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Die et anno sequitur [rest as Borden ] Firste it is commannded that there be a side alter set vppe with furniture before Allsaintes

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was a college and a chantry of the Holy Trinity at this church. * There Former patrons the Sisters the Hospital St. James , Canterbury-

of of in 1544 (Cranmer , 392b ).

Adm. Hartlip 6 Nov. 1560 (Parker, 346a). Died before 17 Feb. 1578 (Grindal, 524b ). Roger Hurte adm. Bredgar 5 Sept. 1562 (Parker, 357b).

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To prouide curteynes of silk for the alter before Allsaintes To prouide a fronnte of seye for the woorkingedaies before Christmas To prouide a convenient boxe or a purse to carrie the sacrament in to the sick at thissid Allsaintes To prouide a hollie water stoppe of latten before Michaelmas

[f. 2357.]

To painte the roode Marie and John with the patrone decentelie before Christmas

To prouide a crosse clothe of silke for the halliedaies and an other for the woorkingedaiesnon before Christmas To prouide coveringes for the imagies before Lent To prouide a coueringe* fornon the fonnte before Allsaintes To prouide two banners before Rogacon week

To prepaire a coueryngenon for the desk before Christmas To repaire the chauncell in all poinctes before mydsomer To repaire the churche and to enclose the churcheyarde before mydsomer To repaire the vicaredgenon in all poinctes before They lack a bele* Easter

TUNSTALL [f. 235v .]

Rector Dominus residet Willelmus Buncker .* Rectoria ex patronatu §Reuerendissimi § Domini Archiepiscopi et valet xiiij libri /

Iconomus Parochiani

Thomas Potman Simon Spachehurst Antonius Spachehurst Arthurus Hilles Philippus Churche Jacobus Newland Robertus Homewood Numerus parochianorum sacramentum altaris lx recipientium et familie infra dictam parochiam xvj Die et anno prescriptis Dominus Archidiaconus ecclesiam parochialem predictam iconomos ac parochianos etc visitauit etc et visis etc iudicialiter iniunxit et mandauit prout inferius habetur With lock and key " inserted beneath the line. * "Page torn ; some words missing .

9 Dec. 1538, William Bouker, chaplain, was collated (Cranmer, 366a).

Thomas Thacker collated by death of last incumbent 30 July 1560 (Parker, 344b) . § Added above line.

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Firste it is commannded that there be a side alter with furniture non set vpp before Allsaintes To sett vppe the sacramente decentlie before Michaelmas To prouide two fronntes non of seye for the alter with curteynes of the samenon before Allsaintes To prouide one alter clothe before Allsaintes

No [ te ?] that the church was robbed

[f. 236r.]

Tunstall

To prouide three towellesnon for the priestes handes before Allsaintes To prouide a convenient boxe or a purse to carrie the sacramente in to the sick before Christmas To prouide a corporasnon case before Allsaintes To prouide a canapienon of silk or seye fringed with conveniente staves before Lente To prouide a crosse of latten before Lente and an other crosse before Christmas To prouide a framenon for the sepulcre light and for Judas lightnon before Lente To prouide a hollie waternon stoppe of latten before Christmas To prouide an albe with furniture for the vestment before Allsaintes To prouide a velenon and couerynges for the imagiesnon before Lente To prouide one streamernon against Rogacion week To prouide a paier of censures before Christmas To set vppe a lampe immediatlie * But without oile.

To prouide a nonhandebell a lantern a mattock a spade a shovell a couer for the desk before Allsaintes To repaire the churche before Christmas

* Another hand ?

The so-called Hales chapelin this church was built during the fifteenth century, and would be more accurately named after the Crowmer family.

Martha, widow of Sir James Crowmer who died in 1613, married secondly Sir Edward Hales , a widower, created Baronet in 1611. Her daughter, Christian, also married Sir Edward Hales's son, John. Thus the connection of the Hales family with Tunstall began. Hales House itself was built about 1630 and there have been two restorations since the eighteenth century. The Hales chapel has been recently restored. Sir Edward Hales , fourth baronet, an eccentric recluse, who died at Hales Place, near Canterbury, in 1744, was buried in the vault . Likewise Lady Barbara Hales , wife of his grandson and successor, Sir Edward, and Miss Anne Hales . They died in Oct. 1770 and in 1749 respectively ( cf. The Church and Village of Teynham , by A. Midwinter, privately printed , 1937).

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[ . 236v .]

HARPSFIELD'S VISITATION RETURNS LYMPE

* Rectoria impropriata Domino Archidiacono Cant Vicaria ex patronatu dicti Domini Archidiaconi

Vicarius Dominus Ricardus Keete Johannes Carden Iconomi Thomas Salter§ Parochiani Willelmus Dilnot§ Michael Aden Willelmus Browninge Numerus parochianorum sacramentum1 [blank altaris recipientium Die et anno prescriptis Dominus Archidiaconus ecclesiam parochialem predictam iconomos et parochianos etc actualiter visitauit et visis etc iudicialiter iniunxit et mandauit

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prout sequitur Ffirste it is commannded that the channceill be repaired and the glasse windowes amended before Allsaintes To prouide a here clothenon and two alter clothes

before Allsaintes To set vppe a side alter with furniture non before Allsaintes To prouide two fronntes non for the alter above and benethe for the woorkingedaies and also for the halliedaies of silk or seye with curteynes to the same before Allsaintes Memorandum that they have no challicenon of their owne but have borrowed one for the tyme

[f. 2377.]

To prouide a corporas clothe and two latten . . . . **

before Christmas To prouide a crosse of latten before Easter with a crosse clothe of silk for the same To prouide a conveniente sepulcre before Easter and also a graile before Christmas To make a lock and keye for the fonnte before Allsaintes To prouide a vele and couverynges for the imagies before Lente To prouide a handebell before Allsaintes To prouide a bason and an ewer and a lampe before Christmas Top of page torn ; words missing.

The rectory belonged to the Archdeacon of Canterbury from the time of Lanfranc. " Of Lymne Castle, or the Archdeacon's House, the outer walls remain very much as they were when the building was first erected in the reign of Henry V (A.C. , xviii , 436). " Also known as John Kyte or Robert Keete. Vicar in 1555, died in 1563 (Ibid. , 445).

Henry Westphaling was adm . to Lympne 4 June 1563 by death of John Kyte (Parker, 361a). § Also in Visitation of 1558.

Warden in 1552 (A.C. , ix, 283).

Torn. Probably candelstickes .'

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HARPSFIELD'S VISITATION RETURNS SELLYNGE

[f. 237v.]

* Rectoria impropriata Domine Regine et olim impropriata Domui Dei Dovor Vicarius Dominus Robertus Browne et vicaria valet xij libri Curatus Dominus Thomas Rieley nuper coniugatus Petrus Knighte Iconomi Johannes Fforbred Parochiani Stephanus Goldefinche Stephanus Hatche Andreas Whit Numerus parochianorum sacramentum altaris viij xx recipientium Die et anno as Lympne, less actualiter Firste it is commaunded that there be inquisition made of the alter stones and to make certificat therof [twice the Twisdaie after Michaelmas daye To prouide a here clothe for the alter and to set vppe a side alter with furniture before Allsaintes To prouide a fronnte for the alter of silke or seye with curteynes of the same and also a paxe of latten with the image of the crucifixe before Allsaintes To prouide a crosse of latten before Easter To prouide a canapie fringed with conueniente staues before Lente

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[f. 2387.To] prouide a graile a vestmente with an albe for the

halliedaies before Allsaintes To prouide a conveniente lighte before the roode at thisside Allsaintes To prouide a vele and coueringes for the imagies before Lente To prouide a lampe before Allsaintes To repaire the chaunceill and the churche with the glasse windowes before Allsaintes To prouide a handebell before Allsaintes That the roode lofte be paynted with the imagies of the twelve apostelles be before this tyme twelvemoneth Deinde coram predicto Domino Archidiacono personaliter comparuit Johannes Harte aquebaiulus quem iudex ad tacta Dei evangelia iuramentoonerauit quod obedienter se gerat erga vicarium in omnibus licitis et honeste ac officium suum concernentibus ac etiam ut reverenter se habeat in officio suo peragendo George Picard adm . 12 Aug. 1558, by resignation of Robert Browne (Pole, 81a). Thomas Gryffith adm. by death of last incumbent, not named, 13 Sept. 1560 (Parker, 345b ) . * Page torn .

A small slab or tablet , of ivory, wood or metal, having on the front some sacred object or device and at the back a handle. From about the middle of the thirteenth century it was used to convey the kiss of peace (A.C. , xli , 64 ). Still used when a bishop is present.

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Postea dictus Dominus Archidiaconus monuit curatum antedictumac personaliter in iudicio constitutum ad exhibend / litteras ordin et testimoniales die Martis post festum Michaelis '

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Cant

'

[f. 238v .]

CAPELLA de SMETHE ecclesie

de Aldington annexa

* Rector Magister Johannes Lede

Curatus Dominus Nicolaus Haye Scotus cui Dominus iniunxit quod deinceps non vtatur romano usu in publico servicio

Iconomi

Thomas Smithe

Anthonius Kennett Parochiani

Thomas Castell§

Willelmus Stock

Jacobus Warrey§ Numerous parochianorum sacramentum altaris recipientium vijxxx

Die et anno

. . . . prout inferius sequitur [rest as Borden]

Firste it is commannded that they prouide two fronntes for the alters with curteynes of silke or seye for the halliedaies with the image of the crucifixe in the myddes of them against Allsaintes To prouide a corporas clothe before Allsaintes To prouide a paxe of latten with the image of the crucifixe before Christmas To prouide a portisse before Michaelmas To make a locke and keye for the fonnte before Michaelmas To prouide a vele and coueringes for the imagies before Lente

[f. 2397. ]

To prouide a lampe before Allsaintes To repaire the chaunceill and the bodie of the

churche before Allsaintes savinge in thoise thinges

which cannot be amended vntill the next yeare for lack of leade or shingle To prouide a bason and an ewer before Michaelmas To prouide a lantern before Michaelmas Cited 9 July 1569 to appear 18 July to say why John Caldwell should not be instituted . Deprived (Parker, 394b ) .

An injunction in favour of the Sarum rite. § Also in 1552 (A.C., x, 411). * Page torn .

ARCHDEACON

[f. 239v .]

HARPSFIELD'S VISITATION RETURNS BIRCHOLTE*

Christoferus Hawke [RRectoria ]ector Dominus ex patronatu Magistri Scotte et

261

non residet

t}liij iiij d s

valet per annum The churche chaunceill and belferie is greately in decay and they have had no service there thies manny yeares Also there is belonging to the churche a vestment a paier of latten candelstickes two belles in the steple withoute clappers and the[sic haue also a faier alter stone And nowe it is ordered that the parishners beinge in nomber iiiior or five goo to Smethe to churche And also the churchewardens have commaundement to look to the parisheners of Bircholt for commynge to the churche as well as to the parisheners of Smethe

]

[f. 240r.]

ALDINGTON §

Rector Dominus Johannes Lede Rectoria ex patronatu Reuerendissimi Domini Archiepiscopi Cant

'

Iconomi

Ricardus Kenwood Ricardus Elvie Parochiani Jacobus Blachinden generosus Jacobus Tofte Nicolaus Hawk Numerus parochianorum sacramentum altaris$ ixxx recipientium Die et anno prescriptis Dominus Archdiaconus ecclesiam parochialem predictam iconomos ac parochianos etc visitauit etc et visis ornamentis etc iudicialiter iniunxit et mandauit necnon et processit prout sequitur Compare previous erased entry (f. 7v.) which says no service had been held*for twelve years . The church goods as registered in 1552 (A.C. , viii, 1089) were : First a vestment of yelow of old silke with an albe " Item a chalis of copper & gilt Item ij bells in the steple Page torn.

Item a corporess_cloth Inhabitants mentioned in 1552 are William Halk and James Mapisden (Ibid.). § This parish does not often occur in previous archidiaconal visitations . was an exempt parish, presumably because it was in the Archbishop's It collation. A list of these exempt parishes is printed from the Black Book of the Archdeaconof Canterbury (f. 34) , in Batteley's Somner (App . to Supplement No. xxix), and from the same source in Canterbury Administration, by Dr. Irene Churchill (1933), i , 109. They numbered 28, exclusive of annexed chapels . In the Archidiaconal Visitation of 1502, however, printed by C. E. Woodruff in A.C. , xlvii , 13-54, there are 58 churches and chapels so listed.

See ante under Smeeth .

Also in 1552 (A.C. , viii , 101 ) .

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Firste it is commannded that they prouide a fronnte for the alternon above for the woorkingedaies, with curteynes non and also an other for the halliedaies before Christmas To prouide a canapie of silke fringed with convenient staves againste Lente To prouide a paier of candelstickesnon of latten against Christmas To couer the fonnte decentlie , and to prouide a vele and couerynges for the imagies againste Lente To prouide a streamer by Rogacion week To repaire the chaunceillnon within this twelvemonethe and the necessarie reparacions to be don immediatelie To enclose the churcheyardenon by Allsaintes and so to kepe the same sufficientelie enclosed [ . 240v.]

To prouide a lantern before Allsaintes and to amend [the deske immediatelie To repaire the churche thoroughelie before Allsaintes To furnishe repaire and amend the steple with leade before Michaelmas cum twelvemonth

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Detect'

The parishe doe declare that Sir Anthonye Auchar knighte doth owe them xxviij hundred of leade lackinge xij pound whiche they nowe deisire to have for the furnisshinge of the steple the monney beinge paide for the same anno xxxo Henrici Octaui ut patet per billam in manu dicti Anthonii Auchar subac in curia exhibita [scriptam Cregges Detectum est quod Dionisia Cregges non recepit sacramentum altaris in festo Paschatis vltim ac evocata in iudicium personaliter

comparuit

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et negauit obiecta , et allegauit se recepisse sacramentum etc

in ecclesia parochiali de Hithe die Mercurii post Dominicam in Albis quo die etiam Thomas Cregges maritus eius recepit etc et quia dicta allegacio vera esse apparebat Dominus dimisit dictam Cregges cum monitione de bene et obedienter se gerend

' in

[f. 241r.]

omnibus

HERSTE

Rector Dominus Johannes Wall § non residens per xxt annos Ecclesia omnino corruit et convertitur in prophanos vsus viz porcorum Margin. * Page torn . used This church to stand almost due south of Aldington , close to the north bank of the Military Canal. A farm called Falconhurst preserves the name (cf. Ordnance Map). § Adm. I Aug. 1526 (Warham, 391a) . Also adm. 3 May 1532 on resignation of last incumbent, unnamed (Ibid., 415a) . William Wood collated 18 March 1568 (Parker, 390b ) . N.B. The living is also styled " alias Faukenerhurst. "

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Rectoria etiam omnino corruit preterquam vnum horreum Numerus parochianorum sacramentum altaris recipientium vij et familie infra dictam parochiam Memorandum quod non habent campanas neque alia ornamenta ecclesie tigna neque tegula preterquam vnum calicem quem quidam Anthonius Hardewick (iam mortuus ) vendidit viginti solidos que pecunia distributa erat inter parochianos Postea vero personaliter comparuit Jacobus Cloke et Georgius Browninge qui fatebantur dictum calicem venditum esse ut supra et quod pecunia inde proveniens distributa erat inter dictum Cloke et Browninge ac Ricardum Brockman et Ricardum Elgar nunc de Aldington ac insuper promiserunt restituere pecuniam predicte ecclesie etc Also it is ordered that the parisheners doe go to Aldington to churche to here the devine service

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BONNYNGTON [f. 241v .]

Re Dominus Ricardus [Rectoria ]ctor ex patronatu blankHeydon [ ]

residet

et valet x libri

Simon Welde Willelmus Gate Parochiani Johannes Rowe Jacobus Brette Johannes Sparrowe Numerus parochianorum sacramentum altaris XxX

Iconomi

recipientium Die et prescriptis Dominus

}

Archidiaconus ecclesiam parochialem predictam iconomos ac parochianos visitauit etc et visis ornamentis etc iniunxit mandauit atque processit prout sequitur Firste it is commannded that the sacramentenonbe set vp reverentelie in the pixe before Michaelmas To provide two fronntesnon for the alter one of seye with curteynes of the same for the halliedaies and an other for the woorkingedaies before Allsaintes To prouide a patten of nonsilver for the challice and also a paier of lattennon candelstickes before Allsaintes To prouide a canapienon fringed with conveniente staves before Allsaintes To prouide a corporas clothenon before Allsaintes To prouide a surples a rochet non for the clerck before Christmas

* Page torn .

Hugh David adm. on 14 Nov. 1551 ( Cranmer , 418b). David Cotton adm. 13 Feb. 1560 by death of Richard Heton (Parker, 347b).

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To prouide a velenon a clothe for the rode and coveringes for the imagies before Michaelmas To prouide a sufficientenon lighte before the .

242r . . [ .* thisside Michaelmas To prouide some silke or lynnen onto couer Patronus Sanctus the patrone / immediatlie Gromaldus in To prouide a lock and a keyenon for the fonnte forma pueri nudi before Michaelmas To prouide a streamernon before Rogacion weeke To prouide a lampenon before Allsaintes That the chauncell and the churche be repaired before Allsaintes To prouide a hollie waternon stocke at the churche door

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]

..

immediatlie

To prouide a lanternnon before Michaelmas and also a couernon for the deske in the channceill To prouide a mannuellon before Michaelmas

[f. 242v .]

BILSINGTON

Rectoria impropriata olim monasterio ibidem § et nunc in * manibus et possessione Anthonii Seinteleger militis Non est ibidem vicaria indotata sed cura per vnum ex canonicis quondam desseruiebatur Curatus dominus Henricus Signet ¶ alias Surand gallus Willelmus Stace Iconomus Parochiani Henricus Byam Hugo Hunte Numerus parochianorum sacramentum 1x

altaris recipientium Die et anno prescriptis Dominus

Archidiaconus ecclesiam parochialem predictam iconomos ac parochianos etc visitauit etc et visis ornamentis etc mandauit iniunxit et processit prout inferius habetur Firste it is commannded that they prouide an alter clothe, and a clothe of heare before Michaelmas To set vppe the sacrament decentlie before Michaelmas To prouide an honest fronnt for the alter above and benethe with curteynes before allsaintes To prouide a coueringe for the crismatorie before Michaelmas To prouide a challicenon and a pattennon of silver before

Allsaintes To prouide two conveniente towelles for the priestes handes before Allsaintes Page torn . * St. Rumwald.

Crossed out.

§ Bilsington Priory.

William Quythem curate in 1552 (A.C. , viii , 108) . Insertion above line in a later hand.

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[f. 243r .]

Memorandum that there hathe be . . . . * for the most parte thies two or three yeares also they lacked a priest at Easter last To prouide a paxe of latten"on with the image a crucifixe of the / crucifixe and a crossenon of latten with of the image of the crucifixe [sic] before Christmas To prouide a canapie fringed with conveniente staves before Lente To prouide a lock and a keye for the fonnte before

....

Michaelmas To prouide a paier of censures non before Easter and a lampenon before Christmas To prouide a vele a ^ §clothe fornon the roode and couerynges for the imagies against Lente That the personage be repaired non (which is greatelie in decaye) as muche as may be immediatelie and the rest before Whitsontide Also the farmer is admonisshed to kepe the enclosure of the churcheyard decentelie To prouide a conveniente holliewater stoppe before Easter To prouide a couer of lynnen for the desknon in the chaunceill , and a handebell non before Easter That the necessarie reparacions of the chaunceill and the churche be amended and repaired in all thinges before Allsaintes WYLLESBOROUGHE [f. 243v.] ]toria impropriata ecclesie Christi Cantuar' ** [Rec Vicaria ex patronatu eiusdem ecclesie que iam

vij libri

vacat et valet per annum Sequestracio fructuum vicarie commissa est Magistro Brent armigero Memorandum quod domus vicarie est ruinosa et fructus vicarie tam tenuis est quod reparari non potest Curatus Dominus Christoferus Chalfonnt Johannes Braye Iconomi Nicolaus Bargar Parochiani Robertus Master Johannes Norden service " ? Page torn .

Crossed out. no * Another hand, in margin. Page torn. § clothe for ye rode" inserted above , in same hand as marginal note.

This is the last of the parishes here under the deanery of Lympne .

/

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The returns have been considerably misplaced . Cf. ordo visitacionis at Page torn . the beginning and ff. 100 seq.

Clement Stapleton adm . on 26 Nov. 1545, by resignation of John Wyldebore (Cranmer , 397a) . John Irelond adm. 12 Mar. 1561 (Parker, 354a).

Also in 1552 (A.C. , xiv , 299).

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Neipensparochianorumsacramentumaltaris xjxx

)

recipientium

Die et anno prescriptis Dominus Archidiaconus ecclesiam parochialem predictam iconomos et parochianos etc visitauit ac visis ornamentis etc iudicialiter iniunxit mandauit ac processit prout inferius habetur

Firste it is commannded that the patrone of the churche be decentelie paynted before Allsaintes To repaire the sealinge of the channceill and to amende the glasse windowes before Allsaintes To prouide a locke and a keye for the fonnte before Allsaintes Memorandum that there is no parsonage howse but a barne RODMERS[ HAM ]*

[f. 244r.]

Rectoria in possessione Joannis Porr Vicaria ibidem est ex patronatu dicti Porrege et valet xiij [libri]* Vicarius Dominus Thomas Colinson§ Domus vicarie ibidem valde ruinosa Ricardus Cole Iconomi Parochiani

residet

Willelmus Denway Ricardus Tristram

Joannes Porrege Joannes Brigman Joannes Bowell Joannes Norden .

Numerus parochianorum

lxxxix

Die et anno prescriptis Dominus

Archidiaconus ecclesiam parochialem predictam iconomos ac parochianos ad tunc comparendum monitos preconizatos et comparentes actualiter visitauit Et visis ornamentis ac ceteris necessariis que in vsum ecclesie et decor' eiusdem preparata fuerant necnon articulis inquisitionis publice declaratis eisdem vero iconomis et parochianis iudicialiter iniunxit et mandauit vlteriusque processit

prout inferius habetur First it is commannded that the sacramente be sett vp decently over thalter bifore Mighaelmas * Should be Rodmersham. Page torn .

John Pordage , gent . , patron of the living, died in 1569 (Parker, 396b).

Page torn . § Robert Halman adm. 17 Mar. 1557 by death of Thomas Collinson (Pole, 77a). John Hurte adm. 26 Oct. 1569 (Parker, 396b) .

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To provyde the lampe before the sacramente and the lighte bifore the rode by All Saynctes and also two curtyns of say with frontes of the same, for the hie alter [ . 244v.

[To provide a close cover for the fonte by All Sainctes [To pro ] vide a lantron[sic] a shovell a mattocke and also to make clene the imagies faces in the glasse wyndowes by All Saynctes To repaire the chauncell non and the churche by All Saynctes and the vicaredgenon howse to be repayred

by Christmas Detectum erat quod Joannes Porrege detinet ab ecclesia ibidem viginti marcas debitas pro anniversario etc prout in billa parochianorum ad tunc exhibita continetur Vnde prefatus Joannes evocatus ad iudicium negauit obiecta in presencia parochianorum tacentium et nihil dicentium Et sic dimittitur

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[f. 245r.]

BABCHILDE

Rectoria impropriata Decano et capitulo Cic [istrensi ] Vicarius Dominus Ricardus Cranmer * residet Vicaria ex patronatu episcopi Cicistrensis et valet viij libri Iconomus Salmon Newland Parochiani Laurentius Baker Thomas Furmynger Ricardus Byxe Numerus parochianorum lx Die et anno prescriptis prefatus Dominus Archidiaconus , parochianos modo et forma superius descriptis visitauit etc Ffirste it is commannded that the churchewardens and paryshioners doe set vpp the sacrament decentlie bye All Sainnctes To prouyde ij frontes of saye and courteynes by Christmas etc To prouyde a box or a purse and all by All Sainctes To prouyde a corporas clouthe and a case bye All Sainctes To prouyde a paxe of latten with the image of Christe by All Sainnctes day To prouide a hollienon water stocke of stone at the churche doore before All Soulues [sic

...*

]

* Richard Cranmer adm . 28 Feb. 1543 (Cranmer , 391a) . Christopher Badcock adm. by resignation of Ralph Dowell 14 Nov. 1560 (Parker, 346b) .

William Browne adm . by death of last incumbent, unnamed, 15 Aug. 1565

(Ibid., 374a).

Page torn .

Rodmersham hand ends here and a new one begins , which continues to the end of the volume.

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p] rouide a surples bye All Sainnctes [f. 245v.] [Toprouyde a and John To

Mary

with the patrone

and to be prouyded and nonpainted bye All Sainctes To prouyde a faier registernon booke To prouyde a censures non [sic] of lattyn bye Christmas To prouyde a lampenon bye Christmas To prouyde a lightenon before the rode bye All Saintes To provyde an ewernon bye Christmas To repaire the chauncell non bye All Sainnctes and the churche.

To repaire the vicaradgenon house in all pointes

by Christmas

[f. 2467.]

TONGE

Rectoria impropriata Reuerendissimo D[omino ] * Archiepiscopo Cant Vicaria ex patronatu Domine Regine et valet xx m [arce Vicarius Dominus Ricardus Cramer non residet sed cura deseruitur alternis vicibus Curatus nullus Iconomus Salmon Wilkins Parochiani Willelmus Catlet Thomas Metcalf Ricardus Harrison Memorandum quod cancellum omnino corruit et prostratum iacet in terra Numerus parochianorum sacramentum altaris

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.lx recipientium et familie infra dictam parochiam xviij Die et anno [ as Rodmersham ] [f. 246v.] [ Firs ] te it is commanndid that the churchwardens doe provyde furniture for the syd alter before Christmas To paynte the table with imagies bye All Sainctes To prouyde fronntes of saye with courteynes bye Christmas

To provyde ij alter clothes bye All Saynctes And for the reste of theire charge the [sic] haue to appeare in Cantorburie the Wedensday after Michaelmas day and to exhybyte an inventory of the churche goodes ye same day The chauncell is so decayde that it is fallen doune and lieth so open that they can kepe no thinge in the churche nor kepe anye lighte vppon the alter To repaire the vycarage bye Christmas

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MORSTON

[ f. 247r.]

Rector Dominus Thomas Ware *

Rectoria ex patronatu Magistri Cromer et valet xiij ....

Iconomus Parochiani

nullus Johannes Tonge Thomas Parris

Numerus parochianorum sacramentum altaris recipientium et familie infra dictam parochiam Die et anno prescriptis Dominus Archidiaconus ecclesiam parochialem predictam iconomos ac parochianos etc visitauit etc et visis etc iudicialiter mandauit et iniunxit vlteriusque processit prout inferius habetur Memorandum that the northenon chauncell is greatlie in decay and is lyke to fall doune Ffyrste yt is commannded that a sydenon altar be sett vpp with all fourniture bye All Sainctes To prouyde a heare nonclothe bye All Sainctes for the hie altare To set vpp the sacramentnon of the altare bye All Sainctes To prepare one fronnte of painted clouthe of say with courtenesnon bye Christmas [To pr] epare an altar clouthe bye the same tyme To exhibite a perfect nonaccompt of the churche goodes die Mercurii a festo Mychaelis To provide a convenient boxe or a purse to carry the sacrament in to the sycke before Christmas To provide a canabienon fringed with convenyent staues againste Lent To provide ij lattyn candelstickes bye Christ

In Master Nordens chardge

ij

[f. 247v .]

mas

To provide a crosse of lattyn bye Christmas To provide a frame for the sepulcher lighte with a holie waternon stocke of stone bye Christmas To provide a surplesnon for the clarcke bye Allsaintes To provide a copenon bye Christmas

* Adm. Swalecliff 17 Feb. 1540 (Cranmer , 379a, b) . Resigned before 28 Nov. 1541 , when Thomas Sill adm. (Ibid., 383b) . Adm. on 27 Nov. 1545 to one of the Roper chantries in St. Dunstan's, Canterbury, by death of Hugh Crompton (Ibid. , 397a). Robert Howe adm. to Murston 12 Dec. 1545 (Ibid., 397b) . Simon Clerke adm . 15 Oct. 1561 (Parker, 248a).

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but not of good proportions * It is provided To provide a roode of Marye and Jhon with the patrone decentlie painted and a lighte before the roode bye Christmas To provide a velenon with coueringes for the imagies againste Lent To kepe the funt vndernon locke and key

[f. 248r.]

Morston To prouyde a lampnon before the sacrament by .

To prouyde a lanterne non a mattocknon a spade a shouell and ewernon and a covernon for the deske in the responce bye All Sainctes The southe chauncell is nongreatlie decayd in master Cromers defaulte and to be repayrid by Whitsontyde To repaire the highe chaunncellnon in all things bye

Whitsontyde To repaire the churchenon in all pointes bye Whit-

sontyde SYTTINGBORNE .

248v. [ ] Rectoria impropriata Dominæ Reginæ Vicaria ex patronatu dictae Dominæ Reginæ, et valet x libri Vicarius§ Dominus [blank] Thomas Jacob Iconomi Thomas Chartam Johannes Norden armiger Parochiani Mychaell Symon Thomas Huckinge Robert Jhones iunior [ ?]

Symon Golde egrotat Rycharde Sparow non John West bosholder Willelmus Jearram Numerus parochianorum sacramentum altaris re-

f

cipientium et familie infra dictam parochiam Die et anno prescriptis dictus

cccxlx

Dominus Archidiaconus ecclesiam parochialem pre

dictam iconomos ac parochianos etc visitauit et visis etc iudiciali [sic] iniunxit et mandauit prout inferius habetur

* Inserted above in another hand.

Page torn.

Possibly the stall on the right-hand side of the chancel , nearest the nave, i.e. return stall.

The most important stalls were not infrequently furthest from the altar (V. J. Torr) . §7 June 1558, Thomas Burges , M.A., adm. by death of Christopher Richardson (Pole, 78a) . Simon Clerke adm . 15 June 1559 by death of last Thomas Jackson adm. 21 Nov. 1561 incumbent (Post Mortem Poli, 17a) .

(Parker, 351b) . William Marsh adm. 3 Nov. 1562 by resignation of the last incumbent (Ibid. , 358a).

1.e. non comparuit.

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Ffirste yt is commannded that a paxe of latten

[f. 249r.]

with the image of the crucifixe be provided bye All Sainctes To prouyde ii corporas clothes bye All S[ainctes]* a lattyn paxe with the image of the crucifix[e] To provide a canapie of sylke with staues and

fringies decentlie bye Lent To prouyde a crosse of latten or copper with the image of the crucifixe and a crosse clouth of sylke and to amend theire olde crosse bye Christmas To prouyde ii surplessies xii rotchies bye All Sainctes To prouide ii antyphonies [sic] a graile and a portise bye Christmas To prouyde a masse booke ii hymnalles bye all Sainctes To enquire of the beste cope and to certifie the same the Wedensdaye after Mychaelmas day To repaire the churche in all pointes bye all Sainctes To enclose the churche yerd ende bye All Sainctes

[ . 249v .]

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[f. 250r.]

Detections

MYDDE [LTON § ecclesiae Rectoria impropriata Christi Cantor Vicaria ex patronatu eiusdem ecclesiæ et valet xiij [libri . . .

]

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Vicarius Magister Nicholaus Morten Curatus Dominus Johannes Hobson Thomas Fydge Iconomi Robertus Sayer Parochiani Thomas Norton armiger Thomas Bull Thomas Heyworde Johannes Woode Robertus Woode

]

Willelmus Hartinge

Richardus Bedforde Thomas Master Johannes Warner Johannes Bailie bosholder Ffranncys Gerrar Johannes Nunwycke Thomas Nethersole

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do . Septembris 1558 [?]

Note in margin, possibly same hand to provyde a nother by All / Saynctes and an / emanuel.

Crossed out. § Milton Regis , next Sittingbourne .

Collated to Pluckley 22 Sept. 1558 (Pole, 81b) . He was S.T.B. Symon Clerke adm . Milton 8 March 1560 (Parker, 348b). Resigned before 15 Jan. 1571 , when Hugh Smith succeeded (Parker, ii, 90a).

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Numerus parochianorum sacramentum altaris ccclx recipientium et familiæ infra dictam parochiam iiij xx as anno iconimos Die et . [rest Sittingbourne] Ffirste yt is commanndid that a frunt of painted clouthe be made for the syde altare bye My-

..

chaelmas

[f. 250v.] [To]* provide ij fruntes of sylke with courteines bye [Chri ]stmas

To prouyde iij towelles for the priestes handes, ij cor poras clothes a latten paxe with the image of the crucifixe bye all Sainctes To prouyde a canapie of sylke with staues and frin gies decentlie bye Lent To provide a crosse of latten or copper with the iImage of the crucifixe and a crosse clouthe of sylke bye Christmas and to amende theire olde crosse bye Christmas To prouyde ij surplessies and ij rochettes bye All Sainctes To prouyde ij antiphonies a graile a portis by Christmas To prouyde a masse booke ij hymnattes [sic] bye All Sainctes To enquire of the best cope and to certyfie the same the Wedensday after All Sainctes To repaire the churche in all pointes bye All Sainctes To enclose the churcheyearde bye All Sainctes

[f. 251r.]

IWA[DE] Rectoria impropriata Domino Archidiacono Curatus nullus sed cura seruitur [alternis ] vi- * -cibus per curatum de Borden

Iconomi Parochiani

Robertus Gurner Jacobus Hancocke Richardus Bayle Thomas Peryman Thomas Ryckarde Johannes Gayt Henricus Norman

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Numerusparochianorum sacramentum altaris 1 lx recipientium et familiæ infra dictam parochiam xvj

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Ffirste it is commanndid that a syde altareчon with all furniture thearunto appertenninge be set vpp bye All Sainctes To painte the table of the aultare and to provide ij nonfronntes of say with courteines by Christmas To kepe the cresmatorie vnder locke and key To prouyde staves for thenon canapie bye Lent To prouyde noncandlestickes of lattyn by All Sainctes To kepe the funte vnder locke and key To provide a streamer bye Rogation weke

[f. 251v.] [To] prouyde a lampenon bye Mychaelmas repaire churchenon necessarie reparations

To the in bye All Sainctes and throughlie bye mydsomer To provide nonan other crosse by Lent Memorandum the paryshioners desyre to haue a curate and offer to giue a stockenon to the church so they maye haue one * Memorandum that ther is no howse for the prest assigned

[ . 252r.]

f

CAPELLA [de QUEENBOROW

]

Curatus nullus sed cura deseruitur [per curatum de Mynster alternis vicibus Memorandum they haue no fonnte, for as they saye they did neuer marie, burie nor christen but

]

at Mynster Iconomi Parochiani

Christopherus Robinson Johannes Noke Thomas Harris Alexander Pilgreme

xlviij }xxiij

Numerus parochianorum sacramentum alta-ris recipientium Et familiæ infra dictam parochiam

Die et anno [as Sittingbourne] Ffirste yt is commanndid to haue a heare clothe

bye All Sainctes To painte the table and to prepare ij fronntes of sey and courteynes bye Christmas To prepare an ewer bye All Sainnctes Memorandum they haue no roode Marye nor John but of paynted clouthe for they say they §allowed for a tyme neuer had other To prouyde a corporas clouthe bye Christmas

* Different ink and hand.

Page torn.

The cloth which was placed under the altar cloth. § Inserted by another hand.

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To prou]yde a paxe of latten by All Sainctes [f. 252v.] [To prouyde a crosse of latten bye Christmas To prouyde a holie water stocke of stone bye

All Saincts

To prouyde a surples for the preste and to painte the patronenon and to set yt upp bye Christmas The churche was To prepare a lampe bye All Saincts robbed and they To prouyde a booke for the churchewardens accomptes loste ii chalices and a pax of siluer ii banners and a streamer bye Whitson weke

[f. 253r.]

MYNSTER*

Rectoria impropriata Domini Thomæ Ch e nye Vicarius nullus Curatus Dominus Johannes Shaife qui etiam deseruit curæ capella de Quinborow vicibus alternis

[]

Iconomi [sic]

Thomas Brodestreate Willelmus Swalmon Thomas Rycharde Richardus Patryn Johannes Cotsall Henricus Creke Willelmus Greyne Willelmus Carden Robertus Edmonde Numerus parochianorum sacramentum altaris CCXX recipientium familiæ blank et infra dictam parochiam [ ] Parochiani

Die et anno [as Milton] Ffirste to prouyde furniture for the saide aultar by

All Sainctes and heare clothes for the aultares To exhibite an inuentorie of the churchenon goodes

the Wedensday after Mychaelmas To kepe the crismatorie vnder locke and key [ . 253v.] [To prouyde a ca ]nabye of sylkenon with stauesand frin ges bye Lent [To ]prouyde ij crosse clothes one of sylke and the other for the workingedaies bye Christmas To prouyde a holie waterstoppnon of lattyn and an other surples for the preste bye All Sainctes Sheppey . Minster Abbey was founded by St. Sexburga , widow of * In

f

Ercombert, King of Kent , the grandson of Ethelbert , probably about 675.

The nuns ' chapel is now the north aisle of the parish church (A.C. , xxii, 145, 146).

By his will, dated 1559, Sir Thomas desired " a tombe to be made nygh to the place where my lat wyef Frydeswyth do lye in my chapel at Minster " (Ibid ., 152) . The monument is still there, though moved to the body of the church.

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To prouyde a masse booke a antyphonor and a grailenon bye Christmas To prouyde a velenon bye Lent To kepe the fonntenon vnder locke and key To prouyde a faire register booke and a booke for

the churchewardens accomptes To make accomptenon of the churche goodes soulde, the Wedensday after Michaelmas To prouyde convenient banners and streamers bye Whitson weke To prouyde a lampe non bye All Sainctes and a couer for the deske

[f. 254r.]

ESTCHURCH

*

Rectoria impropriata Domini Thoma Chayn [ye Vicarius nullus Curatus Dominus Hugo Kenrycke

]

Iconomi Parochiani

Anthonius Hitchcocke Christopherus Harris Peter Besen Philip Reines John Glyperte Robert Sampson

Thomas Pashlie Thomas Clinton Vincent Dale Edwarde Haynes John Segar John Elmer Numerus parochianorum sacramentum altaris recipientium cum familia Domini Cheynye

ccxl

Die et anno [as Sittingbourne] Ffirste to painte the roodenon Marye and Johnnon with

the patronenon bye All Sainctes To prouyde a couenyent lighte before the roode bye All Sainctes To prouyde furniture for the syde altare , a heare clouthe for the aultare ij fruntesnon with curteines non of sey and an altare clouthe by All Sainctes To kepe the crismatorie vnder locke and key To prouyde a conuenyent boxe or a purse to put the sacrament in bye All Sainctes To prouyde a cor]poras case and a clouthe bye . 254v.

All Sainctes] To prouyde a canopienon of sylke with staues and a fringe decentlie bye Lent .

This fine church was built in 1432. The old parsonage Page torn * farm- house stands about one eighth of a mile from the church (A.C., xiv,

[f

] [ [

374, 375, 379) .

In 1551-3 Robert Browne; in 1555 Dominus Hugo (Ibid., 386) .

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To prouyde a latten crossenon bye Christmasand also an other crosse bye Lent To prouyde a holie water nonstopp of latten bye

All Sainctes To prouyde ij surplicies bye Christmas To prouyde an antiphonarienon and a grailenon bye Christmas To prouyde an albenon for the vestment bye Christe mas

To prouyde a velenon bye Lent To kepe the fonntenon vnder locke and key To prouyde a faire register booke and a booke for the churchwardens accomptes To prouyde a paire ofnon censors before All Sainctes To prouyde a lampenon bye Mychaelmas To prouyde a couernon for the deske bye All Sainctes 255r WAR[ DON]* . . [ ] Rectoria impropriata Domini Thomæ [Chey nye Ibide]m ? domus Curatus nullus nec habuerunt diuina officia [rector]ie ? cum per vij annos Ecclesia omnino corruit § Et sunt nisi quatuor . acr ] terre familie infra dictam parochiam viz Roberte Segar beinge distaunte John Ruffyn a litle mile from Phillipp Raynes Robert Wildie Easterchurche Memorandum that my Lorde Warden is contented to indewe a vicar at Easterchurche (which churche is verie commodious) so that this be

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]

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vnyted to the same Also at Easterchurche there is a vicaredge howse .]

[L]EISDOWNE f. 255vVica ]ria impropriata Reuerendissimo Domino Arche

[piscopo

Vicarius nullus et vicaria ex patronatu Reuerendissimi Domini Archiepiscopi vacat Curatus Dominus Johannes Delamere

Page torn.

* The Lord Warden, who died in 1559, as mentioned above.

Humfrey Cotton, LL.B., adm . 16 April 1547 (Cranmer, 403a) . § " Warden Church was rebuilt in 1836 by Mr. Delamark Banks, with the materials of Old London Bridge, but further inroads of the sea made it necessary to take down the new church in 1877 " (A.C. , xxvi , 214).

The patron was the Abbey of St. Radegund in 1533 (Cranmer , 343a) .

John Shereve adm. 15 Mar. 1557 on death of Robert Gates (Pole, 77a) .

Robert Halman collated on death of John Shereve 18 Feb. 1559 (Parker, 341b ) . Thomas Jackson collated 24 Aug. 1562 ( Ibid., 356a) .

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Iconomi Parochiani

[ . 256r.]

f

277

Symon Clinche Peter Sutton Steven Gray Willelmus Childe

[BADLESMERE]*

[Iconomi ]

Mychael Hilles Thomas Tritton Parochiani Willelmus Cocke Johannes Weldish Numerusparochianorumsacramentum altaris xxxvth recipientium et familiæ infra eandem ecclesiam parochialem vj visis eisdem iudicialiter [rest as Sittingbourne] Die et anno Ffyrste it is commanndid that the highe aultare be made of stone ij fronntes to be prouyded for ye workingdaies , a syde aultare with furniturenon a crismatorie, non a pax of lattyn, a boxe or a purse for the sacrament a corporas clouthe, ij lattennon candelestickes, a surples for the clarcke bye Easter To prouyde a Marye and John and to paintenon the roode Marie and John decentlie To kepe the fonnte vnder locke and key To repaire the parsonagenon in thatchinge bye All Sainctes daye To repaire the churche in all thinges that is to say the gutter betwene the chauncell by All Sainctes and to enclose the churcheyeard by that tyme

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...

[SHELDWICH] § Rectoria impropriata ecclesie [.

[f. 256v . ]

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Vicarius [sic vacat Curatus nullus sed curatus de Badlesmer deservit Page torn .

Edward Kebill adm. to Baldesmere 16 March 1556 by * Peter Place adm . by death of resignation of William Robertes (Pole, 71a) . last incumbent, 27 Feb. 1559 (Parker, 342a).

Also in Visitation of 1556, thus enabling us to identify these returns

]

**

as those of Badlesmere .

On the carved bench ends in Baldesmere church see A.C. , xliii, 161-6. § The page is torn , but the church can be identified by the Visitation of 1558, in which Thomas Vpton and Alexander Bottell are still churchwardens.

The patron was the Dean and Chapter of Canterbury.

Henry Bredkyrke adm. 19 Mar. 1550 (Cranmer , 413b). He was deprived by Cardinal Pole, and Edward Keble was adm . in his place 15 Jan. 1557 (Pole , 75b ). John Aven was adm . on Keble's death on 10 April 1851 (Parker, 348b) .

Probably Bredkyrke had been prevented from officiating previously to his deprivation , as there was a curate, John Raper, in 1554 and in 1555 Geoffrey Asheley was curate (A.C. , xviii , 298) .

**

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Iconomi Parochiani

Alexander Bottle Thomas Vpton Clement Snode George Marrishe Andrew Cooke

Richard Bottle Numerus parochianorum sacramentum altaris

}vij xvj xx

recipientium et familiæ infra predictam ecclesiam parochialem Die et anno [as Badlesmere] Ffirste yt is commanndid that ij fronntesnon of say or sylke be prouyded To prouyde a challice of syluer with a patten, to kepe the crismatorie vnder lockenon and key, one wipinge towell a conuenient boxe or purse for the sacrament a surplis for the preste and to kepe the fonnte vnder locke and key To repaire the churchenon in glasinge bye Christemas and the resydew in shingle, and other repa rations bye mydsomer

[f. 257r.] [.

[LEAVELAND ]*

Curatus nullus , sacramentum

sed vicarius de Throughlie

Iconomi

Johannes Giles Edwardus Amys Richardus Norrington Christopherus Becke

Parochiani

ministrat

Willelmus Hilles Henricus Whithed Numerus parochianorum sacramentum altaris xxyth recipientium et familiæ infra predictam ecclesiam parochialem vj Die et anno et eisdem [ rest as Badlesmere] Ffirste it ys commanndid that the paryshioners go to Throwlie to churche untill they haue a curate To make the highe aultarenon of stone and a syde aultarnon with all fourniture and to set vpp the sacrament

...

decentlie bye Christmas torn. Church identified by nearness to Throwley. * Page John Wood presented 23 Aug. 1554 by Anthony Sandes, armiger , 224b) . The latter died on 7 Mar. 1559 at Ulcombe, according (Parker to a note by Frampton. There exists a certificate by the churchwardens of Faversham and Lovelane (sic) and other parishioners to the Archbishop of Canterbury certifying that John Wood, " late parson of Lovelane did take possession of the same parishe churche of Leveland by opening of the doore of the churche and in tollinge the belles there the last day of August 1554 (Parker , 224b) . The certificate is dated 6 April 1560. Leaveland is adjacent to Throwleigh.

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279

To prouyde a fronnte for the aultare, of sey, benethe and to repaire the churche steplenon bye Easter and to prouyde one alter clothe iij wipinge towelles a purse or a boxe for the sacrament a corporas clouthe and a case bye Christmas [f. 257v.] * [. .

]

To prouyde the roode Marye and [John to be] caruyd bye this tyme To kepe the crismatorye vnder locke and key To prepare a faier register booke and a booke for the churchwardens accomptes To prouyde a lamp, non a bason and ewernon a shoellnon a mattocke , a spadenon againste Easter

[f. 258r.]

[NORTON]

[ Rector Magister Edwardus Pa ? rret [Rectoria ex patronatu] Reuerendissimi Domini Episcopi [Roffensis] Simon Anstrey Iconomi Parochiani Nicholaus Ffynche Waterus [ sic Lytleforde Willelmus Harrison Numerus parochianorum sacramentum altaris recipientium et familiæ infra dictam ecclesiam parochialem [blank] Die et anno [as Badlesmere Ffirste yt is commandid to repaire the channcell non bye Christmas To set vpp a side aulternon with all fourniture thearto apperteyninge and iijnon aultare clothes bye Christ-

]

/

]

]

mas

To prouyde a challice and a pattenenon of syluer bye

Christmas To prouyde iij towellesnon a cruet, a boxe and a purse forthe sacramente, and a conuenyent non lighte before the roode bye Chrystmas To kepe the fonntenon vnder locke and key To prouyde a fayre registernon booke and a booke for the churchewardens accomptes and a lamp bye All Sainctes .]§ [ . 258v.] [To ] set vpp the sacr[ament To prouyde ij fronntes non of sey with courteines, a fr[inge of paynted clothe with the image of Christe for the workingdaies bye All Sainctes To prouyde a shouell, a mattocke, a spade a lanterne bye Christmas

f

]

torn and two lines missing. * Page Page torn and name missing . Simon Austen warden in 1558.

Torn. Master Edward Parret is given as rector in Visitation of 1556. § Torn.

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[f. 259r.]

[OVER]*

Rectoria impropriat [a Reuerendissimo Domino Archie] piscopo Curatus Dominus Jacobus Reiman Johannes Arnolde Iconomi Thomas Quicke Parochiani Willelmus Hart Willelmus Pecocke Rogerus Myles Peter Gonnseley Willelmus Brodewoode§ Johannes Trontes Rychardus Lanway, alias Brogdale Numerus parochianorum sacramentum altaris faded

}

]

[ recipientium ffamiliæ infra dictam ecclesiam XX Die et anno [as Sittingbourne] Ffyrste it is commanndid that ij fronntes of sey with courteynes be provided bye Christmas To set vpp the sacrament immediatlie To prouyde a towell bye All Sainctes To kepe the crismatorie vnder locke and key To prouyde a boxe or a purse for the sacrament bye All Sainctes

[ . 259v.]

f

[. [cifixe

] with. ]the image of the cru-

T o prouyde and [sic] other crosse bye Lent [To ] prouyde a holie water stopp at the doore bye All

Sainctes To prouyde a surples for the prest bye Christmas To prouyde halfe a portes for the sommer by All Saintes To kepe the funt vnder locke and key To prouyde a faire register booke, and a booke for the churchwardens accomptes and a lamp bye All Sainctes To repaire the steple bye mydsomer

[f. 260r.]

[LUDDENHAM]**

Rector Dominus Richardus Tho[ mpson ? ] Rectoria impropriata Dominæ Reginæ Oare by Faversham. The top of the page is torn.

**

Also in Visitations of 1556 and 1558.

Torn.

Churchwarden in 1556. § Also in 1558.

Confer Visitation of 1558, in which William Arnolde is a parishioner and William Wade churchwarden; and Visitation of 1556, in which Richard Thompson is rector and William Ward churchwarden.

Adm. 10 Mar. 1555 on death of Robert Cole (Parker, 249b) . George Bassett adm. 16 July 1563, on death of the last incumbent (Ibid., 361b) .

**

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Iconomi Parochiani

Johannes Dewarde Willelmus Wade Richardus Freend

Willelmus Arnolde Numerus parochianorum sacramentum altaris

xliiij recipientium parochialem ecclesiam et familiæ infra dictam xiiij Die et anno [ as Badlesmere] Ffirste it is commanndid to repaire the chauncell and the personage throughlie bye Marche To kepe the crismatorie vnder locke and key To prouyde ij fronntes of sey to hange before the aultare bye Christmas To repaire the churche bye Marche To enclose the churche yearde by Mychaelmas To prouyde a wypinge towell for the preste

by All Sainctes pur]se to carrie the sacrament [f. 260v.] * [[in. to the sick. by All] Sainctes coueringe imagies, by Lent To rouyde a p ] [To prouyde a lighte beforeforthetheroode,

by All Sainctes To kepe the fonnte vnder locke and key To make a faire register booke and a booke for the churchewardens accomptes bye Rogation weeke To prouyde a lampe by All Sainctes To prouyde a bason and an ewer bye Christmas

[f. 261r.]

[BUCKLAND ?]

Rector Dominus Clemens N[orton ?

Domini Archiepiscopi

Iconomi Parochiani

* Torn.

.. . . ]

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[blank, and rest of page also]

The top of the page is torn and the title missing. Probably Buckland , is probably ClementNornear Faversham, since the rector, "Clement N ton , the rector of Faversham. Also Clement Norton was admitted to Buckland 30 Oct. 1556 " pro eo quod Johannes Fyssher , ultimus rector ibidem ad ecclesiam parochialem de Stisted, Decanatus de Bocking, absque ulla dispensacione in ea parte obtenta, se admitti obtinuit, Patronus Rex et Regina

....,"

" (Pole, 70a).

In Essex the peculiars ' of Bockinge, Stisted, Southchurch, and Luckington with Larlinge were subject to the Archbishop of Canterbury in Middlesex , Hayes , Harrow and the free chapel of Throkyngton in the ' ' possessed the following pecuparish of Harrow . In London the Archbishop liar ' churches , 13 in number : St. Mary le Bow, All Saints' in Lombard Street,

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St. Mary Aldermary, St. Pancras in Cooper Lane, St. Michael in the Royal, All Saints' in Bread Street, St. John Evangelist in Watling Street, St. Dunstan in the East, St. Mary Bothaw by London Stone , St. Vedast, St. Dionysius in Lyme Street, St. Michael in Crooked Lane, and St. Leonard in Eastcheap.

Also part of the archdiocese , though separated from it territorially, was the deanery of Croydon; and so remains. For the six other deaneries " of the immediate jurisdiction " see Canterbury Administration , by Dr. I. J. Churchill (1933), , 60-81.

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[ TEYNHA ] M * impropriata Reuerendo Domino Archidiacono [Rectoria Vica rius Dominus Willelmus Stafforde

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]

Iconomi Parochiani

Johannes Kyle Johannes Derton Richardus Derton Christopherus Helman Simon Darbey Robert Kenner

Numerus parochianorum sacramentum altaris ixxxth recipientium et familiæ infra dictam parochialem ecclesiam Die et anno [as Sittingbourne] Ffirste yt is commanndid that a fronnte of sylke or sey withe courteynes be prouyded and that theire table be paintednon bye All Sainctes To prouyde thaltare clothes bye All Sainctes To kepe the crismatorie vnder locke and key To prouyde a wipinge towell bye All Sainctes To prouyde a corporas and a case with a paxenon

< -1

of lattyn bye All Sainctes

[f. 262r.]

To prouyde an othernon crosse bye Lent To prouyde a sur [ples bye Christ] §

mas To [sic the fonnte vnder locke [and key To prouyde a faire registor booke and [ a booke] for the churchewardens accomptes of the churche goodes and plate solde bye the Wedensday after Mychaelmas To repaire the chauncellnon and to prouyde a lampe bye All Sainctes

]

]

* Torn. In the Visitation of 1558 William Stapleforde is vicar, John Kighte and John Dourton are churchwardens, and Robert Kennett and Simon Darby are parishioners.

In 1229 the churches of Teynham, Lynsted , Doddington and Iwade were given by Archbishop Stephen Langton to his brother, Simon, who was Archdeacon of Canterbury. The orchard opposite to Teynham Court was the Archdeacon's glebe land and was sold in the nineteenth century. Some time before 1291 the deaneries , of which Teynham was then one, were rearranged, and the parishes of Lynsted , Stone , Doddington and Teynham were placed under Öspringe . The ceremony of the Archdeacon's induction was, beforethe Reformation, by a mandate directed to the vicars of Teynham, Lympne, etc. His induction was to one of the churches belonging to the archdeaconry, since he then held no stall in Canterbury cathedral, according to Hasted, iv, 774. See Teynham Manor and Hundred, by Eliz . Selby (Ashford , 1935) , p. 13.

Ralph Dowell adm . 15 Feb. 1558, on death of William Stapleford 13 July 1547 ( Post Mortem Poli , 15b). Stapleford had been adm. to Lynstedsucceeded him and was deprived before 31 Aug. 1549, when John Elys (Cranmer , 403b, 406b) . § Page torn .

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top corner torn , but probably blank, as is the [Left rest of the page.

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Vicarius [ . * Curatus Dominus Joh[annes Trowman Iconomi Stephanus Shroubs[ole] Gulielmus Maifeld Parochiani Thomas Rayner Johannes Moise Johannes Shroubsold Numerus parochianorum sacramentum altaris re >

]

]

iiij cipientium XXXth et familiæ infra dictam ecclesiam parochialem Die et anno [as Badlesmere] Ffirste yt is commanndid to make a syde aultarenon withe fourniture and to prouyde an aultare cloth a boxenon or a purse for the sacrament a corporasnon and xx

a case,non a canapie with conueniente staues, a surplesnon a vele,non a basonnon and an ewer to kepe the fonnte vnder locke and key bye All Sainctes To repaire the churche in necessarie reparations bye All Sainctes and the resydew bye Mychaelmas

[f. 263v .]

[HERNHILL]§ Dominus Edwardus M]inge [Vicarius

Willelmus ] Rolfe Willelmus Parker Parochiani Richardus Younge Richardus Hull Thomas Potter Robertus Snode Henricus Cockman Christopher Potter constable Willelmus Cockman bosholder Numerus parochianorum sacramentum alta ris recipientium et familiæ infra dictam ecclesiam parochialem lx . Name deduced from Visitation of 1558, in which Stephen ShrobTorn * sole and William Mendfelde are churchwardens and John Moyse and Thomas

Ico[nomi

Rymer are parishioners.

Torn. Hugh David adm. 15 June 1557, on resignation of George Gillam (Pole, 72b) . David Edwardes adm. 25 May 1565, on death of last incumbent (Parker, 372a, b).

From Visitations of 1556 and 1558. § Top of page torn. Identified from Visitations of 1555 and 1558, in which William Rolfe and William Parker are churchwardens.

Adm. 20 Mar. 1556 on death of last incumbent (Pole , 71a) . John Stybbing collated 4 June 1567 , on death of Edward Mynge (Parker, 381b).

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Die et anno [as Badlesmere] Ffirste yt is commanndid that ij fronntes non be prouyded for the aultare of sylke or sey, a shouell, a spade a velenon , an other crosse , non to kepe the fonnte vnder locke and key To repaire the churchenon in all necessarie reperations , and the reste bye mydsomer

[f. 264r.]

[BOUGHTON subtus le BLEAN ?]*

Rectoria imp[ropriata .

Vicarius Dominus Johannes Porredge Iconomi Johannes Kaile Parochiani Thomas Haukins Raginoldus Smith Johannes Tenaker Stephanus Norman

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xvjxxt recipientium et familiæ infra dictam ecclesiam parochialem lxxxx

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* Deduced from its proximity to Selling, and the names Hawkins and Tenaker among the parishioners. Boughton-under-Blean is mentioned by Chaucer in the Chanones Yemannes Prologue (1. 16022-6 of Canterbury Tales ): that tolde was the lif of Seinte Cecile " Whan Er we had ridden fully five mile At Boughton under blee us gan atake , that clothed was in clothes blake, A man And undenethe he wered a white surplis. ' More interesting, however, from the Catholic point of view, was the adherence of the Hawkins family, seated at Nash Court in the same parish, to Catholicism despite penal disabilities . The Pettits of Colkyns' were also Catholics, like their namesakes of Chilham. Foley ( iii, 491-3 ; iv, 700) prints accounts of the Hawkins family and a pedigree . Bishop Challoner in his visitations stayed at Nash Court. When the chapel at Nash Court was closed down in the last century the inlaid predella of the altar was presented to the Catholic church at Canterbury, according to Canon Burton in his Life and Times of Bishop Challoner . It cannot now be traced. On the chapel erected in the parish church in 1616 for the burial of members of the Hawkins family see art. The Hawkins Monuments by Epiphanius Evesham at Boughtonunder- Blean , by K. H. Jones (A.C., xlv, 205-8; xxii , 189-90 ) . See also xxii , 189-90.

The Registers of Boughton -under-Blean were printed for the Parish Register Society in 1903 by the Rev. John Adolphus Boodle . They contain several entries relating to the Porredge family, though not the name of the churchwarden above. A Raynold Smith, possibly the parishioner of 1557 or his father, was buried 5 Mar. 1558. The baptisms of several children of John Tenaker occur, as also of Stephen Norman and Thomas Hawkins . There are 29 entries relating to the Hawkins family.

Boughton was exempt from visitation by the Archdeacon.

Robert Thompson was adm. vicar on 16 April 1554 and George Bassett by the resignation of Robert Thompson on 10 Nov. 1574 (Ibid., p. x) .

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Die et anno prescriptis Dominus Archidiaconus predictam ecclesiam parochi alem iconomos et parochia

nos etc visitauit etc eisdem visis

iniunxit prout inferius habetur Numerus parochianorum

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[sic]

Ffirste yt is commanndid to prouyde a purse or a boxe for the sacrament, a locke and a key for the fonnte, a crismatorie of latten or tynn bye All Sainctes, and to repare the churche bye All Sainctes

[SELLING]*

[f. 264v.]

chinum ]

Iconomi Parochiani

]beane

Nicolaus Tilman Thomas Elwyn Anthonius Breddam Christephorus Southouson Richardus Waller Johannes Waller Stephanus Olbarde Thomas Ffouler Thomas Hilles

Numerusparochianorumsacramentum altaris vijxx recipientium et familiæ infra dictam ecclesiam parochialem lxxxxth anno Die et prescriptis Dominus Archidiaconus ecclesiam parochialem iconomos ac parochianos etc visitauit etc et visis eisdem iudicialiter iniunxit prout inferius habetur Ffirste yt is commanndid that a fronntenon for the aultare be prepared one non benethe and an other aboue with courteinesnon of sey, or better to haue the crismatorie vnder locke and key to prouyde twoo toweles an other crossenon a portissenon and to kepe the funtnon vnder locke and key bye All Sainctes * Clear from Visitation of 1558, in which Nicholas Tilman and Richard

Waller are parishioners and Thomas Hills and Stephen Holbarde are churchwardens. Thomas Deve adm. 13 Feb. 1544 (Cranmer , 394a) . Richard Foorde adm. on his death, 7 Mar. 1558 (Post Mortem Poli , 15a) . John Avyn adm.

27 June 1560, on death of Richard Ford (Parker, 344a) . Letters of presentation to John Farbrace, dated 19 March 1563, on resignation of John Avyn (Ibid., 372b) .

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[CHARTHAM]*

#

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P arochiani

[N icholaus ]us Binge Michaell

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Supple Stephanus Swifte Willelmus Rigden Numerus parochianorum sacramentum altaris

-xiiij xx recipientium et familiæ infra dictam ecclesiam parochialem lx

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Die et anno prescriptis Dominus Arche diaconus dictam ecclesiam [rest as Selling ] Ffirste yt is commanndid to prouyde ij fronntes of silke withe courteynes, iij aultare clothes a corporas clothe and a case an other crossenon ij surplessis to apparell the aube§ and to kepe the fonntenon vn der locke and key bye All Sainctes To repaire the churche and to prouyde a mattok a spade, a shouell by All Sainctes

[f. 265v .]

[CHILHAM]

Dominus Robertus Browne ? ** . . . . ] Dominus N[icholaus Brette ?]

Richardus Shipwashe Iconomi Willimus Turnor §§ Parochiani Reginaldus Amys

[Vica]riu [s [C]uratus

*

Moises

Haulle

Johannes Pimbe¶¶ Henricus Maxted Willelmus Payne Johannes Webbe Robertus Laborne Johannes Fryer Thomas Clement Dauidus Ball

* Top of page torn, but probably Chartham, because (i) of proximity to Chilham; (ii) a William Rigden mentioned as a parishioner in a Visitation

of 1554.

Also torn . Vicar John Milles (Visitations of 1554-8 ).

Torn . Curate in Visitations of 1554 and 1555 was Edward Myndge; in 1558 one, Nicholls. § Aultare crossed out. ' This entry, which should have come under the deanery of Bridge (as also Chartham) has been misplaced . The title is torn off.

Visitation of 1558.

Visitation of 1556.

Warden in 1556 and 1558. § § Warden in 1558.

Probably of the Kentish family of Pympe ?

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Numerus parochianorum sacramentum altaris vijxx recipientium et ffamiliæ infra dictam ecclesiam parochialem lxxv Die et anno [as Selling]

}

Ffirste yt is commanndid to prouyde ij fronntes one of silke the other of sey to kepe the crismatorie vnder locke and key, to prouyde a wipinge towell a boxe or a purse for the sacrament and to kepe the fonnte vnder locke and key bye All Sainctes

[f. 266r.]

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Parochiani

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J]ohan[nes Gen ? .. ] [Johannes Got [ ..

Reginaldus H .

Thomas Amy[s

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Valentinus M[ ]

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Numerus parochianorum sac [ramentum altaris ] recipientum et familiæ infra dictam ecclesiam paroch [ ialem

iiijlxx

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Die et anno [as Badlesmere] Ffirste yt is commanndid to prouyde ij fronntes of sey, ij cruettes , a boxe or a purse for the sacrament

a corporas clouthe and case a canapie with convenient staues, ij lattyn candlestickes. a crosse of copper a vele, a convenient lighte before the roode, to kepe the fonnte vnder locke and key , bye All Sainctes To prouyde a banner, and to reparie [sic] the churche bye All Sainctes and to repaire the chauncell which is in decaye

[f. 266v.] [All blank]

[NEWENHAM]

[f. 2677.]

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Iconomi Parochiani

Thomas Goddie Roger Sixewe Robertus Ticknore Johannes Eliot

.]#

* Head of page torn . May be Molash . A Reginald Harris warden there in 1554.

Identified by Visitation of 1558, in which Thomas Goddyn and Roger Sixwith are churchwardens.

Charles Garlyck adm. 31 May 1570, on death of last incumbent (Parker,

399a).

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Numerus parochianorum sacramentum altaris recipientium et familiæ infra dictam ecclesiam parochialem

xxiij

Die et anno predictis . . . ecclesiam parochialem predictam [rest as Selling ] Ffirste yt is commanndid that a fronntenon for the aulter beneth be made of painted clouthe and a fruntuon of saye aboue bye Christmas To prouyde a boxe or a purse for the sacrament bye Mychaelmas To prouyde a paxenon of latten by All Sainctes To prouyde a canapienon of sey with staues and fringies bye Lent To prouyde a portisse and processioner bye Christmas To kepe the fonnte vnder locke and key To prouyde a faire register booke a booke for the churchewardens accomptes only first line torn off here [f. 267v.] [Probably ] . . [ . .] All Sainctes

To repaire the churchenon [?] bye Christmas [Rest of the page is blank]

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[THROUGHLEY]*

] Dominus Gryffinus Powell

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Iconomi Parochiani

Steuen Saunder Edmonde Sether Thomas Tyrrey Richarde Gotelie§ Willelmus Steuen John Hauewye Johannes Tritton

Arnolde Terrye Robertus Vpton

Richardus Terrie Richardus Kingslande Thomas Brattell

bossholders

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recipientium et familiæ infra predictam ecclesiam parochialem Die et anno as Selling ]

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Thomas Byrkhed adm.

). ii, 95aSede

in Visitation of 1558.

July

, on death of Peter Place (Parker,

§ Gotley (Ibid.).

Havejoye (Ibid.).

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Ffirste yt is commanndid that a side nonaltare with all fourniture be set vpp and ij fronntes non for the

altare of sylke or sey to be prouyded by Christmas with courteines To prouyde ij aultarenon clothes, a towell, an other crosse ,non a conuenyent boxe or a pursenon for to carrie the sacrament in a corporas case and a corporas clouthe a sepulchre, with a convenient frame for lighte and for Judas lighte by Christmas

[f. 268v.] [First line torn off]

.. .] bye Christmas [To make vpp the particionnon of the chauncell b ye

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Easter and to repaire the churche bye the same tyme To enclose the churcheyearde bye Christmas

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Iconomi

Parochiani

Thomas Ffeldinge

Willelmus Tailer Robertus Baker Edwarde Sougate John Cooke constable John Baker John Brockholde Robert Ffagge Willelmus Ffinche

Numerus parochianorum sacramentum altaris recipientium Ffamiliæ infra dictam ecclesiam parochialem -xlviij Die et anno [as Selling ]

Ffirste yt is commanndid to prouyde a bason and an ewer a syde aultarenon with fourniture, ij fronntesno of say or sylke ij aultare clothes, ij wipinge towelles a boxe or a purse to carie the sacrament to the sycke A canapie of sylkenon or sey a sepulchre with a frame, and a frame for Judas lighte bye Christmas.

To prouyde a holie waternon stop of latyn To prouyde an othernon cope for the workingdaies within this twelmonth 269v . .] [This page is torn at the top and the rest is blank] [f

* Suggested by Visitations of 1556 and 1558, in which Thomas Tailer

is warden.

348a) .

Thomas More adm. on death of last incumbent, 27 Feb. 1560

Also in 1556 and 1558.

(Parker,

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[f. 270r.]

[FAVERSHAM] .

[ Iconomi ] Parochiani

Geo rgius

]

] Goodwyn [Geoffrey

B[ ev] erley

Willelmus Ffynner Johannes Droyland

Johannes Castlocke Thomas Straunsham Willelmus Marchall Thomas Norton Thomas Belke Robertus Colwell Christopherus Amys Johannes Snode Thomas Mustarde Johannes Gibb

Numerus parochianorum sacramentum altaris xic recipientium et familiæ infra dictam ecclesiam parochialem [no number]

[f. 270v.]

Die et anno prescriptis Dominus Arch idiaconus ecclesiam parochialem predictam ico nomos et parochianos etc visita uit etc visis eisdem iudicialiter in iniunxit prout inferius habetur Ffirste yt is comanndid to prouyde vj altare clothes iij wipinge toweles a boxe or a purse convenient to carrie the sacrament in with a crosse of lattyn and to prouyde a locke and a key for the fonnte bye Mychaelmas To enclose the churchyearde bye All Sainctes To repaire the churche within this twelmonthe [Blank]

The top of the page is torn. The population ( 1,100) and the reappearance of the names of parishioners in other lists shew that this town was Faversham . Thomas Norton and Robert Colwell were churchwardens in 1558. Castlock was the name of the last abbot. King Stephen is buried in the parish church of Faversham, which is also noted for its fine Easter sepulchre . The regulations governing the parish clerks and sexton of Faversham , which are of great interest in connection with the duties of the church officials in pre- Reformation times, are edited in A.C. , xx, 203-9, by F. F. Giraud.

Clement Norton , M.A., was admitted to the vicarage on 7 Aug. 1535 Cranmer, 355b). Thomas Taylor was adm. 7 Oct. 1570, on the death of (Nicholas Calver (Parker, 400b).

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291 HARPSFIELD'S VISITATION , 1556 INTRODUCTION Proceedings relating to 1555 and Visitation of 1556.

The Visitation of 1556 is bound up in a small folio volumetogether with those of 1538-41, 1560 , and some fragments of acta of 1555 and 1558. is catalogued Z.3.5 in the Dean and Chapter Library, Canterbury . An analysis of some of the immediately preceding contents will illustrate the nature of the business transacted by the Archdeacon's

It

court.

We begin with a title-page and a few fragmentary returns belonging to a visitation made in 1555, not to be confused with those held at Sandwich or Chilham that year bound up in Z.3.6 , discussed in Part , p. 8. The title - page has been covered by much scribbling and doodles .

Between them and the returns of 1556, partly illegible because of some black ink spilled over it, and also bound upside down, is a page containing some very fragmentary notices of certain court proceedings .

The first is unidentifiable: the names Thomas and Smythe can be made out, also the sum of £ 3..3..6d evidently a will case. There follows a reference to the will of William Barrowe, senior, of Lydd, deceased ; of James Long of Saltwood , whose executors must appear at the next court to be held at Canterbury shortly before Christmas; and of Leonard G of New Romney. Then comes a presentment of Hythe, on a charge of fornication with a person of Silvester of New Romney, which must be answered before the next court at Ashford . Then another probate entry, in which the form fiat copia (let copy be made) and the name " Ric . Gayle " are distinguished.

After the returns for 1555 follow proceedings of a court held

by Robert Collens, Commissary , in St. Mary's, Dover, on 2 March that year . * The churchwardens of St. Peter's , Dover, present that their church is not served .

The Summoner , Stace, reports that he has served a writ on the executors of Thomas Harding of Dover to appear .

One of them could not be found. [ . 94r.] " ACTA habita et facta in ecclesia parochiali Beate / Marie

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Dictis die et loco comparuerunt Ffynne et Smythe gardiani ecclesie parochialis Sancti Petri ville Dovor in quorum presentiis Iudex decreuit omnes et singulos / parochianos dicte ecclesie eo quod dicta ecclesia inofficiata existit monendi fuerunt Dominica proxima ad interessend in diuinis in ecclesia parochiali Beate Marie predicte singulis diebus Dominicis donec Reuerendissimum Dominum Cardinalem alias fuerit et festiuis per stabilitum et ordinatum pro celebracione diuinorum in dicta ecclesia Sancti Petri iuxta consuetudinem etc vsitatam etc ab antiquo ."

Testamentum Thome Harding ville / Dovor' defuncti executores Thomas Awood / et Robertus Ward de eadem Stace certificat se citasse Ward preconizatuscomparuit et allegauit quod / testamentum dicti defuncti coexecutorem etc et quod non potest eum remanet penes dictum Wood apprehendere / vnde facta fide iudex decreuit eundem citandum fore viis et modis erga proxim sessionem etc ad exhibendum dictum testamentum vel [consid etc " Crossed out- postea dictus Ward exhibuit testamentum dicti defuncti xxiijo Martii Stace exhibuit ad executores per affix etc cuius expens ' iudex taxauit ad xijd Wood preconizatuscomparuit.

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Thirdly, the widow of Thomas Browne , deceased , of Dover, has been notified by the same summoner to bring her husband's will before Mulier preconizata ." This entry is crossed out. the court.

Fourthly , Hugh Adam, one of the Charlton churchwardens , intimauit Iudici quod dicta ecclesia siue rectoria est inofficiata, et quod nulla fuit celebracio diuinorum in eadem duobus annis iam vltimo elapsis."

Fifthly, Thomas Clerke of St. James's , Dover, refused to pay the sum of 4s . towards the stipend of a curate during the past year, iuxta assignacionem et decretum iconomorum ecclesie," etc. , which he now, however , undertakes to do.

Sixthly, William Morrys, sequestrator of the fruits of the vicarage of River, sues Thomas Blacher of St. James's, Dover, for payment of tithes ( causa subtractionis decimarum ) . The judge assessed the Summoner Stace's expenses at 4d .: " Actor persolvit."

Seventhly, Henry Wood , Rector of St. Mary's, Dover, " notatur quod vsus est consortio Gertrudis Wood alias . . citra tempus redintegrationis sue. Comparuit et negat et monitus est ad tondendam barbam suam et ad comparendum in proximo consistorio tonsus ad certificandum de huiusmodi tonsura per testes etc.

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Next are recorded proceedings transacted in the church of St. Nicholas , New Romney, on Tuesday , 3 February [ 1555 ?

(1) The will of John Beacham of Lydd, deceased . Katherine, his relict and executrix, cited by Silver ( evidently the Summoner for this deanery ), appeared before the court. She was granted till the next court after Easter ad acceptand vel [resignand ].' She paid by way of fee ( soluit in partem feode ") the sum of 2s . Witnesses : Nicholas Pyx and Richard Beacham , both sworn.

(2) The will of John Type of Lydd , deceased . Thomasine , his relict and executrix, cited by Silver, appeared " et exhibuit, i.e. shewed the will. John Cockerell and John Church swore to the truth of the same, etc.

(3) John Jeffred of Lydd, deceased . His widow, Alice, was summoned by Silver. This entry is crossed out.

(4) Henry Ffyssher of Fairfield, deceased and intestate ( defunctus abintestato ). Administration was granted to Edward Rockley and his wife, sister of the dead man. The same Edward Rockley, husbandman of Fairfield, John Kechin, and John Curteys , husbandman , obligantur." Inventory of goods submitted.

(5) Richard Martyn of Fairfield, deceased. " Margareta eius relicta comparuit et obligantur dicta Margareta Johannes Kechin clericus et

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(6) John BakerofWittersham, deceased. Joan , his widow, appeared and was granted administration. She and Thomas Pyper of Wittersham and Gilbert Ffydge of the same are bound likewise.

(7) The will of Harneden of Woodchurch, deceased . Thomas and William Harnden, executors , summoned by Silver, duly appeared . They have paid 20d. " per scripturam." This entry is crossed out.

(8) Next comes a suit brought against Thomas Reed of Lydd .

The defendant was cried (' preconizatus ) to appear and answer the charges, having already been summoned by Silver, expenses 4d.

The prosecutor was John Cryes, Vicar of New Romney.

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(9) Joan Hebbynge of Newchurch reported for absence from church.

" Johanna Hebbynge de Newchurch notatur quod absentat se ab ecclesia. Citata per Siluer suscepit in se ad interessendum in diuinis

catholicis Dominica proxima. ( 10) Officium Domini " or suit brought against Elizabeth Hassell of St. Mary's in the Marsh by William Mason, Rector of Hope All Saints , near New Romney . The woman appeared in answer to the summons by Silver ad respondendum articulis cui Dominus obiecit " quod absentat se ab ecclesia," etc. Again, absence from church. ( 11) Margaret Brok of Woodchurchwith child by Nicholas Byrkyn of the same place . Summoned by Silver to court, she confessed and was assigned the usual penance to be performed the Sundayfollowing, and to certify performance of the same " in proximo consistorio . " Birkyn did not appear, but the Summoner brought a letter , dated 15 March, of the curate of Woodchurch. Birkyn , who was a servant of William Gilbert of Woodchurch, appeared 18 April. ( 12) Juliana Bonyard of Woodchurch, accused of fornication and cited by Silver, did not appear , but sent letters , exhibited by Silver, from the curate of Woodchurch . ( 13) A suit by Walter Ffenne , one of the wardens of Newchurch , against William Walter of St. Mary's in the Marsh; and another against John Bowe of Dymchurch. Both dismissed with a fine. ( 14) Stephen Dreston of New Romney, " citatu sper Siluer ad respondendum certis articulis ad promocionem vicarii ibidem presens fatetur se male dixisse etc. " Perhaps heretical sentiments . ( 15) Agnes Wallys of New Romney , cited by the same " ad instanciam Ricardi Bunting balliui dicte ville de Nova Rumney." ( 16) Agnes Daimson of Fairfield, accused of fornication with John Agas of the same by the Vicar of Stone . Confessed to being pregnant

by John Agas. The usual penance to be done and certified.

(17) The will of John Pickell of Woodchurch. Philippa Ely, executrix, did not appear . Penalty for contumacy reserved .

There follow seven more headings or items: Joan Johnson , excommunicatedat the instance of Hollock, is absolved ; the will of John Geoffry of Lydd (again) ; a cause of defamation brought by William Rolf of Woodchurch against Robert Androw of the same; another concerns the possession of a prohibited book. The last entry but two shews a court was held at Ashford on 4 May ; the last that anotherwas held in the same church on 30 May 1556.

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The main interest of the Visitation of 1556, to which we now come, is that it incorporates under each parish the name of the parish clerk. On their duties see article referredto ante, p. 290, n . 2.

According to these regulations they acted as servers at mass and as cantors. They slept in the steeple, helped the sexton in ringing and cleaning , and carried holy water to each house every Sunday. They taught children to read and sing in the choir.

Originally, the parish clerk was a cleric . The name aquebaiulus derives from one of his chief duties, which was to carry the holy water for the priest at the Asperges before mass. He also read the epistle at mass when there was no subdeacon, and might also be vested in an alb when performing this office. Another duty was to prepare the altar for divine service and perform those tasks which devolve on a full -time sacristan .

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ARCHDEACON

HARPSFIELD'S VISITATION RETURNS ABBREVIATIONS

RUCDMIPA

= Rector === Vicarius = Curatus = Dominus Magister = == Iconomi

V

Al N

= Alexander

Ant

Andrew Anthony

Aug Bar

= John

La

= Lawrence

Joseph

Leonard

Leon

Ma -Mark Mart Martin Matthew Mat Mi = Michael Nicholas Nic

Ambrose

Oswald

Osw

Arthur

Pa = Paul Patrick Pat Peter Pet Ph = Philip Ra = Ralph Reg = Reginald or Raynold Ri == Richard Ro = Robert

Augustine

Bartholomew

Chr Christopher Cl = Clement Dan Daniel

Dav

David Dunstan Ed Edmund or Edward Edm Edmund Edw Edward Fr == Francis Geoffrey Gal Dun

'

Geo Ger

Jo

Jos

= Aquebajulus

Art

= Henry = James

Jasp = Jasper

= Parochiani

Amb And

He Ja

Rog = Roger Row Rowland Sim Simon = Stephen St Th = Thomas

George Gervase

Vi

Wal

= Vincent Walter William

===

Gi = Gilbert Wi Gre Gregory N.B. These abbreviations are used indifferently whether the Christian names in the original are in English or in Latin, shortened or extended .

THE RETURNS FOR 1556 VISITACIO REUERENDI DOMINI ARCHIDIACONI CANT INCHOATA DECIMO DIE SEPTEMBRIS ANNO DOMINI MILLESIMO QUINGENTESIMO LVJ to APUD CANT * PER VENERABILEM VIRUM MAGISTRUM NICOLAUM HARPISFILD LEGUM DOCTOREM ARCHIDIACONUM CANT DECANATUS CANT

[ f. 100r.]

'

Parochia Sancti Georgii Martis post festum Michaeliss

Exhibita

debet iijd§

R. C.

'

'

nullus

D. Jo . Basleden A. Wi . Sweting I. St. Thorney Al. Hawlet

S

'

* Clearly this visitation was held in Canterbury itself.

All these headings are underlined.

A long 's. Probably refers to the payment of the synodalia or fees paid to the Archdeaconwhen he held his court . § Words printed in italics throughout these returns except those within brackets are crossed out in the original .

I.e. billa - the bill to be presented by the churchwardenshas been shewn .

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HARPSFIELD'S VISITATION RETURNS

295

V. D. Chr. Badcocke comparuit* iuratus A. Th. Cotland

VAL

Sancte Crucis de Westgate

Exhibita

Wi . Swifte

Omnium Sanctorum

REAL

nullus

A. Th. Pecock Ra. Ordymer R. D. Jo. Alday

Debet Marie Bredman

iuratus

'

nullus iuratus

Ed George

'

He. Questonbury

Exhibita [f. 100v.]

REAL

Sancte Andree

R. D. Th. Ickham D. Th . Sherland A. Jo . Bery I. Jo . Nutte

Exhibita

iuratus R. iuratus M. Th. Ffissher non A. Ri. Brok Mi. Dericker VAE nullus V. Wi . Cole iuratus egrotat I. Ja. Pers RAT

Marie Magdalene

Exhibita Sancti Pauli

Exhibita

REAL

Sancti Petri

nullus nullus

R.

C.

Exhibita

A.

Wi. Dogrell

Martis a festo Sancti Dunstani

Jo . Walker

VON

Northegate Michaelis Debet

non §

**

D. He. Morrey A. [blank ] Geldyche .

nullus

Nic Raynolde

nullus

D. Wi . Blossome A. Jo. Hawkisby A C.

Exhibita

'

S

Chr . Cortope non Symon Gason

Sancte Mildrede

* I.e. appeared .

REAL

R. Ra . Prescott D. Ra. Prescott A. Jo. Cockson I. Ja. Wolf

comparuit iuratus

I.e. took the oath of office .

Item payd at ye vysytacyn for an oferyng at the curte iija (Churchwardens Accounts of St. Andrews , Canterbury [1549-50 ], A.C. , xxxiv , 45) . ' § " Non comparuit "-i.e. did not appear.

I.e. he is absent through illness.

Compare note above and also under St. George's parish. In both cases the sum of 3d occurs , which may be the sum owed here.

In 1558 he was curate at St. Paul's church.

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ARCHDEACON

296

[f. 1017.]

V. D. Wi . Dobinson A. Ma. Wright I. Th. Gyles non

Marie Bredin

Exhibita Sancte Margarete

C.

Exhibita

A.

I.

C.

Thannyngton

Exhibita

Ra. Doowell * Jo . Bryttyn Jo. Williams D. Dun . Goodhewe

A. Wi . David I. Wi. Younge non Ri. Eggrley V. D. Jo . Brittayne recessit A. Wi . Marrabell

Sturrey Exhibita

I.

Hackington Martis post

A. Th. Wynston

/

I.

Harbaldowne Ad exhibend Martis a festo Michaelis Cosmi et Damiani de Bleane

S

'

Jo. Mortymer . Crosse

R. D. Ric A. Jo. Myller I. Wi . Goldfinch

'

V. D. Geo . Higges

Wi . Hawke iuratus iuratus I. Th. Myles R. D. Bar. Inckpen non

A.

Exhibita Mylton

A. [faded or blank]

I.

[ . 101v.

] f Ffordwiche

Wi . Sacre

S

'

non §

R. D. Jo . Hichecock

A. Wi. Wright

I.

Edw . Jacobe

I.

Th. Hawke

non

R. D. Edm. Knighte renunc' A. Ro . Westbech

Hardes Parva

Exhibita Nakington

non

C. [blank] A. [blank] I. Jo. Shipton

Exhibita Whitstable Martis a festo

Gre. Hewson

V. D. Th. Nicolles

Michaelis

Exhibita

'

S

nullus non

DECANATUS WESTBERE C. D. Wi . Cope

A. Wi . Cowaye

Michaelis

I.

Ja. Pers

Wi . Litellwood

Hugh Barret was adm. rector 27 July 1554 and also Master of the Poor Priests' Hospital (Sede Vacante Register, f. 75, cited in The Rectors of St. Margaret's, Canterbury, by R. Kaehler, p . 19 , an MS. in Beaney Institute, Canterbury). The Hospital is in Stour Street.

I.e. die Martis, Tuesday.

I.e. has left the parish.

Or possibly " iur" (iuratus).

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ARCHDEACON

Swalclif

HARPSFIELD'S VISITATION RETURNS PEATACARA

297

non residet

D. Th. Steynes nullus A. Jo. Alee R.

C.

Exhibita Chistlett Exhibita Westbere

[ . 102r.]

Sancti Joannis

f

in Thanet

D. Th. Hewet D. Th. Spreynt A. Gi. Baker

V.

C.

Sancti Petri

V.

A. A.

I.

Mynster

iuratus per me

VALYTAUTATYTAN

Sancti Laurentii in Thanet

in Thanet

iuratus

Th . Lunsse Ro. Sherwood M. V. C. D. Wi . Vere A. Th. Ffermer I. Ro. Rose R. D. Jasp. Hopkins A. Wal. Mallybe I. Jo. Lamyng

Jo. Baker [blank ] D. Edw . Saier [blank] [ blank]

non monit *

'

non monit

'

>[all blank]

V. M. Jo. Wildebore non monit D. Ger. Linch

iuratus iuratus

A. Chr. Aplebye

Ro. Wessynden

Sesalter

'

[blank] DECANATUS DOVOR

Alkeham Newington

Exhibita

[f. 102v .]

Ffolkestone

Exhibita Lydden*

V. D. Jo . Burnell A. Geo. Bechfilde I. Wi . Turrolde VAR V. D. Reg. Beeke A. Th. Mone I. Wi. Carder

non

VARATAL

V. D. Ri . Sherington A. Jo. Godden I. Geo . Kennett

V. C.

egrotat egrotat

nullus nullus

A. [ blank]

I.

Th . Fisher

non

* Apparently had not been warned of the visitation by the Archdeacon's apparitor or summoner ? It is not possible to tell whether this note refers to all or some.

On this church and parish cf. A.C. , xliii, 1-27.

298

ARCHDEACON

Hugham

Exhibita

HARPSFIELD'S VISITATION RETURNS

V. D. Jo. Russell A. Ri . Clifton

Ja. Cullyng R. D. Jo. David A. Jo. Cowper I. Ja. Man

I.

Cheriton

Exhibita Hawkinge Exhibita Bewisfeld

R. D. Wi . Mercer

non

A.

nullus

I.

Ro . Nethersole iuratus

V.

nullus nullus

C.

A. [blank]

Th . Brokman

I. [f. 103r.]

Caplefern

Exhibita Charelton

nullus

C.

iuratus Th. Wyer I. He. Fflynsten nullus R. A.

nullus nullus nullus

C.

A.

I. Swinfeld

Exhibita

C.

non

V.

nullus nullus

I. River Exhibita

D. Fr. Pivall

A. Jo. . Goddyn Nic Ladde

C.

A. Th. Garrod

I. Ewell

Exhibita Bircholte

Westclif Exhibita

[f. 103v .]

Elham

Exhibita

* Non- resident.

Wi. Moryce

V. D. Wi . Almanson A. Jo. Laurence iuratus S I. Wi. Clement . residet non D. Chr R. Hawk * A. [blank]

'

I. [blank] C. [blank ] A. La : .... ... ch....

I.

DECANATUS ELHAM

V. M. Th. Carden A. Osw . Osborn I. Jo. Rolf

Much fading and damp have made these entries illegible. Most entries

at the bottom of the page in the MS . have suffered in this way.

ARCHDEACON

HARPSFIELD'S VISITATION RETURNS

Elmested Ad exhibendum in ecclesia Omnium / Sanctorum * in proxim

VAT

Wotton Ad exhibendum in

REAL

'/

ecclesia Omnium Sanctorum in proxim

'

Exhibita

V. D. Gi. Heron A. La. Mershall I. Gi. Woode Ro. Jull

S

R. D. Wi . Dobinson D. Wi. Thompson Wi. Elgar I. Th. Martyn Jo . Pilcher

C. A.

R. Ri . Fforde nullus A. Ro. Pette I. Ri . Pett

non residet

C.

Exhibita

Ro. Jull

C.

I.

Acris

iuratus iuratus nullus

Pet . Mantell

R. D. Ph. Metcalf A. Wi. Bushe egrotat I. Jo . Wise R. D. Ro . Carrior A. Andrian Jonson

Exhibita Horton

I.

Exhibita

[f. 1047.]

Jo . Chittenden

V. D. Ro. Carryor

Braborne

Exhibita

S nullus

C.

A. Jo. Frotsam I. Mat. Smyth

Postlinge

In proxim'in ecclesia Omnium Sanctorum

Non

'

A. Th . Howsell [?]

Exhibita

Hastingeleigh

S

R. D. Cl. Stapleton Gregory

Stowtinge

Exhibita

'

iuratus iuratus iuratus

RCAL

Denton

299

'

V. D. Ri . Bocher A. Ja. Whit recessit renunc ' [?]

I.

Jo. Kyttam

R. M. Ant . Holmes non residet C. Th. [blank] A. Ri. Churchman

I.

Jo. Pilcher

Eligitur in decanum§ Dominus Robertus Carrior Rector de Horton

The churchwardens are to present their billa at the next court to be held* in the church of All Saints, Canterbury.

Adrian .

I.e. " in proximo consistorio " ? § The Archdeacon of Canterbury obtained the right of appointing rural deans from Archbishop StephenLangton (Churchill , op. cit. , i, 81).

300

ARCHDEACON

HARPSFIELD'S VISITATION RETURNS DECANATUS BREDGE

[f. 104v.]

Chilham

V.

Ad exhibendum iconomis

C.

Martis proxim post

'

festum Michaelis Bisshoppisborn

nullus D. Nic. Brette

S

'

A. Ri. Jonson

Ri . Shipwash iuratus I. post proxim In ' festum Omnium Sanctorum R. Ri . Episcopus Dovoriensis D. Jo. Newbey

C.

A. [blank]

Wickham

I. [blank]

R. D. He. Latham D. Wi. Hering

C.

Exhibita

A. Jo .. Deale

Ri Swynor [?]

V. M. Jo. Ffissher

I. Patrickesborn

C.

Exhibita

A.

I. Littleborn Exhibita Chartham

[Exhibita ?] [ . 105r.]

Bredge

f

Exhibita Hardes Magna

Stellinge

Pat . Browne Jo. Stokes [blank]

V.

non non residet nullus

nullus

C.

D. Jo . Woddye A. Jo Stonehowse I. Wi . Eluer [?]

R. M. Jo. Mylles C. D. Edw. Myndge A. Ro. Hardyng [? ]

'

I.

[faded and illegible]

V. M. Jo. Ffissher nullus

C. D. Pat. Browne A. Ri . Ryall I. Ro. Cochye R. D. Nic. Knewestubbe A. [blank] non moniti § I. nullus C. A. [blank]

I.

non moniti

* This year the Tuesdayafter Michaelmaswas selected for the Michaelmas visitation , but some parishes were respited till after All Saints.

Michaelis crossed out and " Omnium Sanctorum" inserted above here . Both were " regular periods for visitations .

Upper Hardres. Lower Hardres (Hardres Parva) is in the deanery of Canterbury. § Some bad staff work may be indicated by such entries. The churchwardens did not appear because they had not been notified of the visitation, not because they were contumacious.

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ARCHDEACON

‫مت‬ R.

Crondall

Ad exhibend'

Martis a festo Michaelis

301

HARPSFIELD'S VISITATION RETURNS

D. Jo. Porter

‫ےن‬ Th. Clarke A.

iuratus

‫رت‬

' Exhibita S

Dav. Yonge iuratus D. Th. Sowthebie non Wi. Qwested non comparu't I. Geo. . Hall Ro Alard ‫ خن‬D. Hugo David V. ‫نیرت‬

C. A.

Wye

Boughton Aluphe

A. [blank] apud Ashford* ‫رہ‬ I.

‫ےن‬ M. Wal. Jones non residet R. ‫نینر‬

Sturmouth

D. Edw. S

Pat. Browne

....

A. Jo . Owen non I. And. Jode [f. 105v .]

‫یرنوخ‬

C.

Barham

I.

'

D. Rog. Aphoell

A. Wi . Golde

Exhibita

S

'

S

St. Laurence

Bekisborn V. D. Marmaducus Smithe ‫نرب‬ Martis a festo Michaelis A. Wi . Greder Exhibita I. Al. Harlakenden ‫من‬ Kingeston R. D. Ro . Russell non residet Ad exhibendum C. D. Jo. Charnock nullus Martis proxim post A. Th. Grene egrotat festum Michaelis I. Wi. Aden

'

Waltham Martis a festo Michaelis Molash

Exhibita Preston iuxta Wingham

'

‫ن‬

V. C.

A. I. C.

A.

I.

V. C.

nullus S D. Hu. Lambert Wi. Hoggyn iuratus Th. Hamond iuratus D. Ro. Lommes Reg. Harrys iuratus iuratus Wi. Woode M. Jo . Wildebor egrotat D. [Jo.?] Charnock comparuit

'

* Visitations were frequently held at Ashford . One had been held on 30 May of this year (ante, Vol . I , p. 8) , and it may have been this at which the churchwardens of Boughton Aluph had appeared. Another was held on Saturday, 12 Sept. 1558 (Ibid. , p. 9).

Compertum est quod Marmaducus Smyth fuit conjugatus et quod nonnunquam habet accessum ad concubinam suam , et etiam accedit ad civitatem Cantuariensemuna cum dicta concubina, ubi palam et publice cum illa epulare et potare non erubescit in grave scandalum et offensam aliorum Christi fidelium . " He is charged also with serving other churches quia omnia quae lucrari possit non sufficient sustentationi concubinae et liberorum a ) we suorum ." From later entry (under Patrixbourne find that the wife is from the diocese " (Diocesan History of Canterbury, by R. C. " expelled , , , 1880 .

285 Pole's Jenkins p citing from Cardinal Visitation , 1556, preservedat Lambeth) .

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ARCHDEACON

HARPSFIELD'S VISITATION RETURNS

A. [blank] I. Jo. White

Exhibita

[Stodmershe f. 106r.]

CAL

egrotat

D. He. Jobson

A. Jo . Nicolas

Exhibita

Jo . Durrant

PAL

Brooke

R.

Exhibita

A.

D. Ro. Hare non Hamond Edman Jo. Densse And. Martyn

PAL

R. M. Ri . Stertover

Chillenden

A. Ro. Lockwood Wi. Taylor PAL V. M. Art . Butler

Exhibita Petham

A.

non monitus

I.

nullus Jo. Carpinter egrotat

Ri. Hawke PAL R. M. Ger. Linche

Elmeston

S

'

DECANATUS SANDWICI [f. 106v.]

Sancti Petri R. D. Ro. Charles Ad exhibendum Martis C. [blank] proxim post festum Wi . Jakeson iuratus ' Michaelis I.A. Pet . Knight Jo . Wybrand .

Steward Jo Beate Marie D. V. S A. Ri. Wolton iuratus Non I. Sim. Lynche

'

habet cartas absencie*

Clementis Non Woodnesborough

Exhibita Ham

Exhibita Estlangdon

Exhibita

V. D. Jo . Hall egrotat A. Fr. Shelton iuratus I. St. Wood generosus egrotat egrotat V. D. Jo. Hall C. D. Wi. Brigges S A. Th. Backes I. Th. Neame R. D. Wi . Singleton nullus S A. I. Ri . Arrowe R. D. Ri . Alstone non residet S C. D. Hu . Evans iuratus A. Ro . Mershe iuratus [?]

I. Ro. Powte

' ' '

* I.e. letters giving leave of absence .

ARCHDEACON

[ . 107r.]

Stonarde

f

HARPSFIELD'S VISITATION RETURNS

303

R. D. [blank] Salisburye non residet

A. [blank] Westlangdon

Exhibita

I. [blank] C.

nullus nullus Jo. Browne

A.

Ripple

Th. Kempe R. D. Wi . Man A. St. Qwydler

Tilmanstone

I. V. A. I.

I.

Exhibita Bettishanger

Exhibita Mongeham Parua

Bar. Kennete D. Th. Alforth Jo. Knot iuratus S Ja . Den iuratus R. D. Wi. Deacon non residet C. [blank] A. [blank] I. St. Napleton

'

C.

A. [All faded] non sunt parochiani *<

I.

[f. 107v.]

Colred

V.

D. Al. Barton non residet

A.

] [blank . Sauce

C.

Wal. Monery Th R. M. Geo. Bullock non residet C. D. Th. Burton A. Ri . Parker I. Wi . Ferrar V. D. Wi . Man C. D. Jo . Clarke S A. Ro. Myston egrotat Sowthowsannde Th. I. R. D. Th. Gibson D. Wi . Watson s A. Th. Hornet Wi . Nethersole iuratus I. Th. Harnett iuratus R. M. Ri . Stertover nullus A.

I.

Mongeham Magna

Exhibita Norborn

Exhibita Eythorn Exhibita Knolton Exhibita

'

'

I. Ringewold

R.

C.

Exhibita

nullus

A.

I.

M. Jo . Peyton M. Jo. Mylles Gal. David faded] Hill Ra. Rogall [?

[

]

[?]

* This means there were no parishioners to assist the churchwardens, not, of course, no inhabitants .

T

304

ARCHDEACON

HARPSFIELD'S VISITATION RETURNS

[ . 1087.]

Waldershare

f

PAT

R.

Exhibita Sheperdeswell

Exhibita

Bredgar

Exhibita

Th . Grante Edw . Gibbon nullus

Wi . Wood

‫نينرت‬

a festo Michaelis

Exhibita

I.

D. And, Pettinden egrotat A. Edm . Burges I. Ingram Wood non Pet. Veryar iuratus ‫ننن‬ .

S C. D. Ro Carrior Pyborn ' A. Th. Bolden iuratus .

Ri Dikson iuratus C.

Ad exhibendum inuentarium* Martis

Newington

D. Rog. Jackson egrotat

I.

Sholdon

Exhibita

V.

'

A. Th. Grante

Exhibita

f Sittingborn

VAT

C.

Sutton

[ . 108v . ]

I.

He. Wood

R. D. Rog. Jackson

Exhibita Ad exhibendum Martis post Michaelis

Exhibita

S

egrotat

REAL

Berston

Walmer

D. St. Nethersoll

A. Aug. Horn

‫ننرن‬

nullus

C.

A. Th. Botefisshe iuratus

And . Harris iuratus He. Sheapie iuratus Eligatur in decanum D. Robertus Charles Rector Sancti Petri Sandwici Iudex pronunciauit omnes absentes contumaces reseruata pena vsque in proximam curiam etc

I.

/

DECANATUS SITTINGBORNE

V. D. Chr. Richardson egrotat A.

He . Segar

I. Th . Chartham V. D. Nic . Power

VCAL

C.

iuratus iuratus

non residet

D. Ro . Wynstanlee quesitus [?]

A. Jo. Bate Jo. Swifte nullus V. C. D. Wi. Lambe A. Th. Harris iuratus Th. Reader iuratus

VCAL

* I.e. of the church ornaments and goods . One of the chief functions of the archdeaconwas the supervision of the material fabric of churches and

For such inventories see Vetus Liber Archidiaconi Eliensis parsonages .

(Cambridge Antiquarian Soc., 1917), ed. Feltoe & Minns. passim .

ARCHDEACON

HARPSFIELD'S VISITATION RETURNS

Borden

VOAL

Backchild

VA

305

V. D. Jo. Drewrie non residet Martis a festo Michaelis C. nullus A. Jo. Morley iuratus Ro . Hache iuratus

V.

Exhibita

D. Ri. Cramer Th. Messinger non monitus

A.

Salmon Newland

I. Mylton Exhibita

I.

M. Nic . Morton* Th. Coting iuratus Ro. Sayer iuratus

‫خن‬ V.

D. Jo . Walkyn

I.

Th . Grenestrete

V. A.

[f. 109r.]

Rayneham

non residet grauatur morbo caduco non A. Geo Canon

C.

Martis a festo Michaelis

.

‫نوخ‬

V. D. Mi. Webbe Weste

Hartlippe Exhibita

A. ‫رت‬

I. Tonge

V. D. Ri . Cramer Habet ad reparandum citra festum Sanctorum et certificandum in proxima § C. D. Čl . Reynenoffe

Morston

Martis a festo Michaelis Halstowe

Th . Mason

Ellyce Grenwell

Stockburie

Exhibita Estchurch

Tailor

A.

Ri.

I.

Salmon Wilkins

R. D. Th. Ware

A. Jo. Purchesse egrotat nullus

I.

V. D. Jo . vacat per triennium C.

Exhibita

/

nullus

non monitus A. Jo. Grene .

V. D. Gal Wilson A. Th.. Kirbie I. Th . D .... le Wi Bakett ‫ننرن‬

C.

>[All faded]

A.

* The curate, William Cockes, was

(f. 114r.).

non monit

'

coniugatus ' in visitation of 1554

The falling sickness .

Or possibly Greg. § I.e. the vicar is allowed until All Saints to carry out repairs, which must be certified at the court next following . In margin .

Inserted above line ; Joannes crossed out.

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ARCHDEACON HARPSFIELD'S VISITATION RETURNS

[f. 109v. ] Mylkisted

‫ےن‬ R.

D. Dav. Lomley ‫ننن‬ out] C. [crossed A. Nic. Haddocke

Exhibita

Ri. Highsted non Ro. Ponette

‫ننن‬

Iwade

Exhibita

A.

I. ‫منننرنوخ‬

R.

Wichelinge

C. Rodmersham

nullus He. Evans He. Newman

iuratus iuratus

D. Ri . Robertes non residet crossed out non non D. Th . Collinson*

[

]

Ri . Damell iuratus Jo. Joseph iuratus ‫مت‬ R. D. Wi. Bucket non residet

Exhibita

:[ ]

Bicknor

‫ےن‬ A.

blank

‫رت‬

non moniti

D. Wi . Bunckar

R. ‫ون‬ ‫ےن‬ A. Art . Hilles ‫رتخا‬

Tunstall Exhibita

iuratus

Ja . Tonge Th. Potman iuratus

V. D. Ro. Gates non residet

Leisdown

‫ننن‬

[f. 110r. ] Mynster

A.

[All blank]

‫ننن‬

Jian blank [

]

non moniti

A.

[All blank]

non moniti

‫منننرن‬

1

A.

All

‫ننن‬

Quinborough

Wardowne

C.

[All blank]

non moniti

‫منرت‬

Kingesdowne

[All blank] * Coniugatus ' in .).visitation of 1554 (f. 115r.).

Religious (Ibid John Shereve in 1554 (f. 115r .). § Nullus per biennium in 1554 (Ibid.).

Vacat per vij annos " in 1554 ( Ibid.). Church being demolished (1950).

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307

VCALCAL

V. D. Jo . Townesley * non residet

Vpchurche

C.

Exhibita

nullus

A. Nic. Chynnynges Ro . Marchaunte

D. Th. Hyclynge A. Edw . Berde Bere I. Rog. Williamson

Bobbinge

egrotat

C.

Exhibita

Ro. Boniface

non

REAL

Elmeley

R.

[All faded]

C. A.

I.

Eligitur in decanum vicarius de Rodmersham [f. 110v. to f. 112r. all blank]

[f. 112v . ]

Ffaversham

Exhibita Hospringe

DECANATUS OSPRINGE

V. M. Cl . Norton A. Leon . Byse I. Jo. Beste non

iuratus Wi . Nele iuratus non Th. Hilles non vacat

Ri . Woode

V.

nullus

C.

Preston

Exhibita

A. Jo. Hilles I. Wi. Taylor V. D. Ri . Maupas A. Jo. Hutton

Lynsted

non

Aug. Easton V. D. Wi . Stapleforde Ro. Showe C. [blank AVA non [sic] A. Ro. Water non Jo. Bateman V. D. Wi . Stapleford egrotat A. Ri . Tyrrey iuratus recusat non tenetur Martis a festo / Michaelis I. Jo. Dyrton Jo . Kyte iuratus vacat V. C. D. Gal . Ashe A. Ri . Bodle Jo. Rocke [?]

I. Geo. faded

I.

]

Tenham

Exhibita Sheldwiche

Exhibita [ . 113r.]

Sellinge

f

Exhibita

MYCAL

[

]

V. D. Th. Devel

A. Jo . Giles

Nic . Tilman ," according to visitation of 1554 (f. 115r). * " Boxleybereligiosusconiugatus Or may iur (iuratus) ?

Religiosus de Faversham ," according to visitation of 1554 ( . 115v.) . f

I.

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ARCHDEACON

HARPSFIELD'S VISITATION RETURNS

VAT

Throwley Exhibita

V. D. Griffinus Powell A. Jo. Robynes Jo. Havejoy I. Ri. Gotley R. D. Th. Slaney A. Wi . Legatt

Easelinge

Exhibita

I.

Stallesfeld

Ro. Grenestrete

nullus est Gallus

V.

D. He . [blank] A. Jo. Jonkell Aug. Henekar C.

AVGATAL

Exhibita Newenham

vacat per xij annos nullus

V.

C.

A. Wi. Legatte

I. Doddington

V. C. A.

Exhibita

I. [f. 113v . ]

RAER

Buckland

non vacat *

D. Th. Fild Nic. Savage And. Skere

egrotat Nic. [faded]

R. C.

M. Jo. Ffissher

A.

[blank]

non residet

nullus

I. [blank] .

R. D. Ric Emotte Willimus vacat Eley M. Edw . Parrette A. nullus I. Ro. Ostwye Luddenham R. D. Ri . Thompson Martis a festo A. Wi. Pyle [ or Pyxe] iuratus Michaelis iuratus I. Wi. Wade C. D. Ja. Reyman Oure A. Jo. Shawe Exhibita Nondum exhibita I. Wi. Harte C. [blank]* Hartie Martis a festo Michaelis A. Jo. Amner

Norton Exhibita

ATRA

I.

Graveney

V.

Jo . Ambrose

D. Jo. Treman A. Th. Lee I. St. Sh[robsole] C.

Exhibita

vacat§

Wi. [Mendfeld ?]

* Robert Heynes, " religiosus coniugatus fratrum Minorum Cant , was rector in visitation of 1554 (f. 116r.).

Religiosus in visitation of 1554 (f. 116v.).

Dunstan Goodhewe , " Faversham religiosus coniugatus (Ibid.).

George Quyllym , " Cant religiosus (Ibid.). "

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ARCHDEACON

C.

Davington

Debet exhibita

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[f. 114r.]

Goodneston

HARPSFIELD'S VISITATION RETURNS

D. Radulphus Day Jo. Ollhetson

A.

Mendford

I. Wi. [faded]

R. D. Ra. Daye

egrotat egrotat

C.

Lamberte A. [blank]

I. Leveland

[blank] Bull

R. D. Jo . Woddye

A. [blank]

I. Badlesmere

Exhibita

non residet

nullus

C.

Exhibita

309

Jo . Giles

R. M. Wi . Robertes C. [blank] nullus A.

I.

Mi. Hilles

R. D. Ri . Rogers Ottridden Martis a festo Michaelis C. D. Jo . Whitehorse egrotat Exhibita A. Mat. Tynsey iuratus I. Ma. Furminger Omnes absentes iudex pronunciauit contumaces reservata pena vsque in proximam* post Michaelis etc Eligitur in decanum vicarius de Throwley

[ . 114v. ]

f Kennarton Exhibita Lympne

Exhibita

DECANATUS LYMPE

R. D. Jo . Ffarmer C.

[blank]

iuratus iuratus

A. Mart. Eldred I. Wi . Toppynden

V. D. Ri . Kete

A. Jo. Kallover

I.

iuratus

He. Wood

non Apledor V. D. Chr. James Jo. Kytchyn Martis a festo Michaelis A. Ro. Callege non non I. Ro . Dredge Ruckinge

Exhibita

R. D. Ri . Kierye A.

He . Byham

Wi . Ffollet R. D. Lodovicus Aprice

I. Warhorne

Exhibita

C.

A.

[blank ] Ri. Spark

I.

Wi . Blak

iuratus iuratus

non residet recepit obligacionem etc.

iuratus

* The penalty reserved until the next court , thus giving time to those absent and here pronounced contumacious to make their submission.

310

ARCHDEACON

Shaddockesherst R.

[blank]

D. Edw . faded ] A. Jo. Edmonds C.

Exhibita

HARPSFIELD'S VISITATION RETURNS

I.

[

St. Essex

egrotat

[f. 115r.]

Sancte Marie in R. Wi . Mason Marisco A. Wi . Russell

Exhibita

Ebeney

Exhibita

I.

Exhibita

R.

A.

Vetus Romenay R. C.

Mydley

nullus

A. Th. Parnell

I. Exhibita

iuratus iuratus

Th. Eddryck

C.

I.

Orlaston

non

A.

Ed . Raignold D. Th. Cannon Ri . Parkyn Th. Smyth M. Ja . Cortupe Wi. Jumpe Jo. Allyn

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Th . Reche

C.

[blank]

R. M. Mart*

non monitus

iuratus iuratus iuratus non

iuratus Robertus Colens

A. [blank]

I. Hope

[blank] R. D. Wi . Mason C.

Exhibita

[ . 115v .]

f

Burmersh

[faded]

A. faded] I. Ro. Cooper

[

iuratus

R. D. Ra . Whitling D. Jo . Mathewe

C.

Exhibita Willesborough

A. Ro . Abraham non I. Ri. Eccleston V. C. [All blank] A.

iuratus iuratus

I.

DECANATUS CHARINGE

Beatrisden

V. C.

Exhibita

D. Jo . Robson

A. Percie Holmes

Edw. Mylsted R. D. Wi . Barker C. [blank ] A. Jo. Baccheler .

I. Wi Poste

I.

Pluckley Exhibita

* Above line.

nullus iuratus iuratus iuratus

ARCHDEACON

Crambrok Exhibita

[f. 116r.]

Biddenden

V. D. Geo . Atkinson

A. [blank or faded]

I. [blank or faded] R. Doctor [sic] Jo. Leesse

C.

Exhibita Benynden

Exhibita

HARPSFIELD'S VISITATION RETURNS

[blank]

A. Jo . Sherman I. Sim. Day V. M. Ri . Waters A.

non

iuratus nullus

Jo . Harrodyn R. D. Jo . Tailor A. [blank] Taylor I. Ro . Cusheman R. D. Wi. Senden A. Ant . Mone

I. Frittenden Exhibita Sandherst

Exhibita

iuratus non

iuratus

iuratus Ri . Elynden iuratus R. D. Ro . Wanmersley A. Jo. Holte iuratus non iuratus non I. Th . Saunder

I. Newinden

Exhibita

[Lenham f. 116v.]

DECANATUS SUTTON

V. D. Edw. Slaney A. [blank]

I. [blank]

Boxeley

Exhibita Goodherst

Exhibita East Sutton

V. M. Rog . Jones A. Ed Roberts

I.

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Jo. Dunkyn

V. D. St. Baker A. Jo. Lorkyn I. Wi . Stevyne V. [blank]

Stapleherst

nullus A. Jo . Slade I. Th . Harynden R. M. Th. Henden

Vlcombe

A. [ blank] I. [blank] R. M. Art . Seintleger

Exhibita

f

[ . 117r.

Smarden] Exhibita

non

C.

C.

[blank]

D. Jo . Townesley

C. A.

Geo . Rede

I.

Ro . Ffowe

R. D. Geo. Heydon A. Th . Sharpe senior

I.

iuratus iuratus

Jo. Saunder

iuratus iuratus iuratus iuratus

311

312

ARCHDEACON

Tenterden

V. [ blank]

C.

Exhibita Hothefeld

Hawkeherst

Exhibita Boughton Malherbe Hedcorn

Exhibita

[Charte f. 117v .]

Magna

Exhibita Charte Parua

Exhibita Aisheford

Exhibita

I.

Geo . Mapisden

R.

D. Edw . Slaney D. Edw . [blank ]

Halden

Exhibita

iuratus non Th . Holnes iuratus

A. Jo . Burden I. Nic. Topley

iuratus iuratus

C. [blank] A. Ja. Prymer iuratus iuratus I. Geo . Aford R. D. Th. Langley [crossed out, then rewritten ]

A. [blank] I. [blank] V. D. Dav. Mathos A.

I.

Ric . Ho is..n Ric . St ... s

...

R. Ri . Episcopus Dovor Nic. Champion

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A.

Jo . Odymer Wi . Carpinter

iuratus iuratus

RCA

R.

D. Wi. Dorrell D. Th. Griffyn A. Ri . Hunte Ro. Kyng Jo. Ffuller D. V. A. Jo. Marchall A Edw . Whit

iuratus iuratus

D. Dav. Cotton Th. Ffrowde non Wi . Turner [Philpotte inserted below

Kennyngton Exhibita Estwell Exhibita

[blank]

A. Ja . Pelland C.

Exhibita

HARPSFIELD'S VISITATION RETURNS

]

RAR

D. Chr. Matteres A. Ri . Matteres I. Jo. Andrewe R. D. Pet . Hall A. St. Harneden Ri . Everynden R.

iuratus iuratus non

iuratus

Jo. Hall firmarius

Rolvinden Exhibita [f. 118r.]

V. D. Wi . Orphewe A.

I.

R. Hubberd

Ri . Fowe

[All blank]

egrotat

ARCHDEACON

[f. 118v .]

Cant

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313

Propter non solutas procuraciones* Parua Hardes VS

+ Thanyngton

VS VS

+ Nakington

Vicarius Sancti Pauli vs

Westbere

Swalclif

ijs vjd pro d

Elmeston Magna Hardes Boughton Aluph + Bekisborn + Waltham

Brig

Lympe

VS

vjs vjd vjs vjd pro d vijs vjd

... sa...s [?] ...s [? ] ... sa...

vijs vjd vijs vjd

Wye Kingisnoth

VS

Brenset Kennarton Brokland Warhorn Estbridge

et pentio vijd

vijs vjd vijs vjd vijs vjd

vijs vjd vs pentio vijs vjd

Apuldor

vijd

Bilsington ixs viijd Pentio de Iverchurch x [?]

.

[?]

[No f. 119r. or v.] [ . 120r.]

Charing

f

Halden

Estwell

VS VS

7

Hedcron vijs vjd Betrisden vijs vjd Pentio de Aishforde vjs viijd Pentio de Burley§ vjs viijd

7

Langley Pentio de Boxley

Sutton

Lynton

VS

vijs vjd

Marden

Sitingborn Elmeley Babchild

Sitingborn Newington

Hartlip 7

Rayneham Borden Bobbing

VS

vjs viijd

Ripple VS Parva Mongham VS Sancti Petri Sandwici

Sutton

vs!

VS

vij vjd Hawking ijs vjd vijs vjd Ewell Hougham vij vjd Stowting ijs vjd

Colred

Byrcholt

VS

vijs vjd vijs vjd vijs vjd

Evocetur Thomas Potman Tunstall de Tunstall Simon Spacherste vijs vjd vijs vjd VS

* These were the fees charged by the Archdeacon and his officials for their visitations and other services . The clergy also brought contributions to the synod which he or his representative held twice a year.

These were called synodalia. The procurations was originally the provisions supplied him when he came on visitation , which was afterwards commuted to a money § There was formerly a chantry here. payment .

314

ARCHDEACON

Ospring

HARPSFIELD'S VISITATION RETURNS

Luddenham VS Goodnestone vs Graveney vjs

Throwley Leveland

[f. 120v .]

Norton

[All blank]

viijd

vijs vjd vijs vjd [faded]

THE RETURNS FOR 1558 INTRODUCTION This visitation was the last, perhaps, to be held during Mary's reign by Nicholas Harpsfield. The loose cover in which it is bound belongs to an earlier visitation of 1556. At some time both became detached from the general bloc of the visitations in which the big 1557 volume never seems to have been included of which, however , they obviously once formed part . This is clear from the identical page measurements (12 by 81 ins . ) , the damp marks , corresponding in configuration, and the consecutive numbering of the pages in an early though not contemporary hand . The returns for 1558 were discovered about two years ago among various disjecta membra in the Dean and Chapter Library by Mr. W. Urry, and have since been bound and put

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into a better condition for preservation by Mr. Maple, the Library binder (Oct. Nov. , 1948 ) .

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They are now catalogued Z.3.33 .

All deaneries are included in the returns, save for Sandwich , which is represented only by the parish of Ash . The Archdeacon was to hold court for all the deaneries in Canterbury on consecutive days , beginning

on September the 15th and concluding on the 26th. The Poor Priests Hospital in Stour Street* or the church of All Saints were during the early Tudor period the most frequent venues for these sessions.

Also possibly the church of St. Margaret, the living of which was in the Archdeacon's gift, and where a new court-house was commenced early in Elizabeth's reign by Archdeacon Guest.

As to the format of the document here printed , the headings were first inscribed in block capitals. Names, notes and other details were later filled in during or subsequent to the visitation itself . One scribe reveals his name Edmond Blyth (f. 44r ) and he can often be recognized by his handwriting and brown-coloured ink. The handwriting in general is extremely hard to decipher .

The commonest annotationsand abbreviations have been indicated in our introduction to the previous volume. All abbreviations, with the exceptionof Christian names and the word ' Cant, ' we have extended for clearness sake. The Christian names are written indifferently in the original in English or Latin, and in our system of abbreviations we have not attempted to differentiate between them.

Returns for the Canterbury parishes, though scant , are welcome since those of 1557 are missing . The churchwardens accounts of the From an archidiaconal visitation of 1502: " They shall exhibit an account on St Jerome's day in the Poor Priests' Hospital " (A.C. , xlvii , 18).

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See Visitation of 1556 (ante, p. 299).

We are indebted for this information to Mr. B. L. Woodcock, Lecturer of Glasgow University , whose researches embrace the act books of the Archdeaconry of Canterbury during these and preceding years.

HARPSFIELD'S VISITATION RETURNS

ARCHDEACON

315

two city churches of St. Andrew's and St. Dunstan's have, fortunately , survived for all the years of Mary's reign. Many of the pur-

chases therein recorded of church furniture and other expenditure

throw light on archidiaconal injunctions, and on the gradual catholicization, at least in externals , which was imposed on these churches

between 1554 and 1558 .

Besides these visitation returns we have just considered, there are a few testamentary notices , bound with the visitation of 1556 and others in the volume catalogued Z 3.5. All belong, with the possible exception of the first four, to 1558. This is not only apparent from the date which figures in the text Ashford, 12 September 1558but also from the pagination. Their numbering is ff. 34, 35 and 36; and our visitations returns follow on at . 39 .

All the testators mentioned, except the last (Nicholas Peper), are included in Index of Wills preserved in the Prerogative Court of Canterbury ( 1920 ), edited by H. R. Plomer. The last page of these fragments relates to the reign of Edward VI , and has no connection with what precedes or follows . Being short, we have , however , printed it .

-f

part of 1558 Visitation, written on paper] [Vellum cover not VISITACIO DOMINI ARCHIDIACONI

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[

CANT

Inside of cover

]

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MDLVj

Citetur Vincent [ ?] Solye de Preston iuxta Wingham certis articulis ad promotionem Simonis Allen .... bonorum .... de Chartham defuncti / erga prox etc

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DECANATUS CANTUARIE VISITACIO DOMINO ARCHIDIACONI CANT ANNO MDLVj [?]

[f. 397.]

' VISITACIO VENERABILIS

VIRI MAGISTRI NICHOLAI HARPISFILD LEGUM DOCTORIS ARCHIDIACONI CANT PER IPSUM ACTUALITERS EXERCITA ANNO DOMINI MILLESIMO QUINGENTESIMO LVIII° IN PRESENCIA THOME PERCY NOTARII PUBLICI ET REGISTRARII

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SELLENGE

DECANATUS LYMPNE V. ibidem D. Geo . Pickard

Ad comparendum Cant xvto

'

egrotat

Jo. Fordred

Mi. Adrege And. White Pet. Knight A.C., xvi , ed . J. H. Cowper. * A.C., xxxv, ed. Chas. Cotton.

Added underneath in later hand : " MD LV iii." Then Septembris

I.

" 1556 See inside." § I.e. the visitation was performed by the Archdeacon personally.

Item unto my Lorde Cardenolles chaunseler for ye byll of presentemente and to Mr. Persye for makyng of yt xd (Churchwardens Accounts of St. Andrew's, Canterbury , A.C., xxxv, 46 under 1555/6) . Another of these notaries was P. Lylly, who recorded the acta at St. Mary's, Dover, 2 March

"

1555 (ante , 291, n.) .

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ARCHDEACON

HARPSFIELD'S VISITATION RETURNS

Billa

Chr . Short Jo . Yong

P.

LYMPNE

Ad comparendum Cant xvto Septembris

'

St. Golfinche

V. D. Ri . Kete I. Th. Salter Th. Smyth non * comparuitegrotat P. Wi . Dilnot Mi. Den

] [f. 39v.

APULDOR

V. D. Jo . Kytchen

monitus est ad comparendum Cant /

I.

xvto Septembris non

Wi . Shevalere

ROCKINGE

Ad comparendum Cant xvto Septembris

'

WARHORN

Ad comparendum xvto Septembris proxim

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Curatus reformatus

SHADDOKISHERST

}

Jo . Aredge billa Ro. Clarkeson R. D. Ric. Kyrrye I. Ric . Meller Wi. Folletnon Jo. Sqwire billa P. Wi. Hall§ R. D. Lodovicus Aprice C. D. Th. Smythe exhibeat litteras ordinacionis apud Cant coram Collens ** non I. Wi . Clarke Chr. Caterman P. [blank] billa R. D. Th. Olyver non C. nullus P.

+ Omnia reformantur

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/ **

}›

* This summons to Canterbury on 15 Sept. provides a terminus ad quem for the date of this visitation .

Last two words may be crossed through .

Severley first written and then crossed through . Shevalere written

'

above .

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§'Adown [?] crossed out .

One of the Archdeacon's duties was to test the fitness of ordinands.

He inspected letters of ordination and testimonial letters of clerics coming from outside the diocese and granted dimissorial letters to clerics proceeding elsewhere. A trace of these powers survives in the ordination service , when the Bishop asks the sponsoring priest , there called Archdeacon : Scis " hos esse dignos ?

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An indication of the procedure when the Curate of Warehorn exhibited his letters of ordination at Canterbury is supplied by parallel instances in the archidiaconal visitation of 1502 (A.C., xlvii , 33) : Sir Amphibelus Note,

chaplain ; he exhibited his orders which were countersignedand handed back to him. During the same visitation Sir Robert Lee, chaplain at Newington, near Sittingbourne , " was suspended from celebrating divine service within the jurisdictionof the archdeaconry, until he exhibits his letters of orders.

Robert Collens , LL.B., held office under Edward VI and Mary and was in 1554 appointed by the latter a canon of Canterbury cathedral, and stood proxy for Cardinal Pole at his enthronement. He is often mentioned by Foxe.

As Archbishop's Commissary he presided over his Consistory Court . He was a prebendary of Wingham and, together with Harpsfield and Thornden, Bishop of Dover, one of the most influential prelates in the diocese during Mary's reign. " Richard Meller / constable" added here .

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HARPSFIELD'S VISITATION RETURNS

317

Monitus est ad comparendum Cant xvto Septembris I. Ri. Chalker St. Essex egrotat P. Wi. Taylor egrotat billa Jo. Taylor SEUINGTON R. D. Gre. Clement C. D. Wal . Reve Ad comparendum Cant xvto Septembris He . Norrington iuratus P. [blank] billa HINXHILL R. D. Th. Wilson Omnia reformantur+ non I. Wi . Goldhell

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RCEPR

'

Geo . Paris

P.

[f. 40r .]

Jo . Gore

}

R. D. Th. Olyver Wi . Asherst

KINGISNOTHE

Ad comparendum xyto

non

exhibita billa * Ro . Cloke Jo. Acroche Wi. Wynston MERSHAM R. M. Wi . Mershall non Comparendum xyto C. D. Lancelotus Gilbancke Septembris I. Ro. Martyn Wi. Rokenon Edw . Pledger Jo. Taylor prestit iuramentum quod [credit egrotare ?]

DYMCHURCH R. D. Jo . Carlell Best nullus Certificauerunt [?] omnia C. reformata propter egrotat I. Th. Chambernon curam deserviendam quod omnia bene P. Jo. Smythe Jo . Bowes assumpserunt ad providendam citra xv Septembris et ad certificandum eodem die etc BROKLAND V. D. Ra . Blonde Omnia reformata I. Ro. Buttonnon non Ro. Pollard non egrotat Andro Robyns P. Wi. Warcope Jo. Gibbes billa BILSINGTON C. D. He. Swane Ad comparendum I. Wi . Darley fecit fidem quod egrotabat Cant xvto SepRi . Myller quatuor [sic / tembris postea Memorandum that attachment billa be made for Fisher and his wife differtur in aliud P. He. Bylyng tempus propter Rog. Pette reparacionem ecclesie etc citra festum Animarum § Septembris

P.

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The billa so often referred to exhibited by the wardens or ' the' account of the state of duly otherwise was the church and parish, as far as as

them, which had to be produced beforethe Archdeacon'scourt . it concerned Described as because have

the parishioners undertaken to ' reformed I.e. be arrested . obtain a priest to serve the cure. § Respited from appearing on 15 Sept. until this side of All Souls ' (2 Nov.) , owing to repairs to the church.

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ARCHDEACON HARPSFIELD'S VISITATION RETURNS

BRENSETE

Ad comparendum Cant

'

xvto Septembris

V.

D. Th. Chapman

I.

Ja. Collyar Wi . Cutberte

comparuit

P.

[f. 40v.]

'

Jo . Hammond

P.

non preparatis BONINGTON

STONE

Ad comparendum Cant xvto Septembris

'

SNAUE

Ad comparendum Cant

billa

R. D. Jo . Bucke I. Wi. Rikkard

SNARGATE

Ad comparendum Cant xvto Septembris et certificandum de aliis Ad comparendum Cant' xvto Septembris et exhibendam billam

non

Wi. Randall

R.

I.

Ra. Bright Jo. Hayward D. Ri . Eton [blank]

billa

debet

non

P. Jo. Franckishe Wi . Gate Jomnia / Edm . Kytte Wi. Taylor Hardwicke D. Th. V. non I. Jo. Pratte Ri. Kempe P. Th. Catar billa residet M. Calye Th R. non .

C. D. Th . Wilson egrotat

Grenock ' I. Jo. Gre Best

xvto Septembris

vlt' [? ] *

.

Th. Stopeney R. D. Th. Griffithe I. Leon . Martyn

Gre. Best egrotat

P.

BEATE MARIE

Ad comparendum Cant xvto Septembris

'

[ . 417.]

f

EBNEY capella

Wi. Cotynge P. Sim . Rocke C.

ad Apuldor

I. Reformantur omnia

P.

non

billa

nullus non Pet . Lawles Jo . Slater non Ro. Pellond non

billa And Potte R. D. Th. [ Cannon] conf .. act [ ?] comparuit non egrotat I. Ri . Ase Ri . Androwe vicarii iconomus§ P. Ri. Androw billa Ri. Godfrey

.

ORLASTON

'

Ad comparendum Cant xv Septembris

'

* I.e. churchwarden in the previous year ?

St. Mary in the Marsh.

This Christian name was usually spelt Androw , ' not Andrew. § In view of this instance of the distinction between a vicar's and a people's warden, earlier by 13 years , J. C. Cox (Churchwardens ' Accounts , 1913 , p. 5) is not quite correct when he says The modern custom of one

'

'

"

'

being appointed by the incumbent and the other by the parish had its origin in a canon of 1571." It is commonly said that the practice arose when vicar and parishioners could not agree.

ARCHDEACON

HARPSFIELD'S VISITATION RETURNS ‫منن‬ R.

ROMNEY VETERA

C.

M. Ro. Hill Wi. Jumpe

319

vlt ? non Ro. Anstey Jo. Stringer P. Jo. Mycchell billa ‫ےن‬ R. M. Ro . Collens * non residet C. nullus I. Jo. May non P. Wi. Awood comparuit ‫مت‬ R. D. Th. Sanden ‫یرت‬ C. D. Th. Griffithe I. Wi. Sowdland non monitus

Reformantur omnia

'[]

‫نون‬

MIDLEY

‫یرتون‬

Ad comparendum Cant xvto Septembris

'

HOPE

Ad comparendum Cant

xv Septembris

'

comparuit

P.

Ri . Stoke

non

debet omnia non residet nullus per annum nec habuerunt Ad comparendum Cant C. non curatum / Paschat vltim xvo Septembris Wi. Norres et fiat sequestration I. P. Jo. Davye immediate etc billa

[f. 41v.] BURMERSHE

R. D. Ra . Whitlynge

'

WILLESBOROW

'

'

nullus

V.

[blank].

I. R. Ro Bland

KENNARTON

Ad comparendum Cant xvto Septembris

'

] FAIRFILD [Ad f. 427. comparendum Cant

'

D.

Jo. Newell Wi. Topinden Edw. Bromborn non P. Pet . Knell Jo. Awborn billa Th . Philips Wi. Gybson Omnes absentes contumaces pena reservata vsque in xytum diem Septembris proximum C. [blank ] Jo . Tobbell

I.

xvto Septembris [ff. 42v. and 43r. blank .]

DECANATUS CHARYNG [f. 43v. ] AISHFOURDE

V. D. Jo. Ffuller Memorandum that the wardens and sidesmen her appering to mak a sess§ for the relif of the poore childern and other poverts [? ¶

Fiat sequestracio fructuum dicte vicarie

]

See , however, Vol . , p. 163, note. * I.e.

I had not been served the income of the rectory because the cure

is sequestrated .

A corruption of synodsuren , ' because they attended synods as witnesses and supported the wardens ' presentments. They then became their general assistants (J. C. Cox, Churchwarden's Accounts , 1913, p. 3) . § A collection or contribution levied by the wardens for parish purposes.

Not in Oxford English Dictionary. Probably means " poor persons . " U

320

HARPSFIELD'S VISITATION RETURNS

ARCHDEACON

Ad comparendum xvjto Septembris et tunc I. Ja . Wattes Ed White egrotat ad exhibendum billam Th. Bassenet P. Jo. Asherst Wi . Woodward egrotat Jo. Mylhall Ro. Hallnon Ed Gotley non Jo . Evet Th. Newstretnon [?] Ri. Nethersole egrotat

'

'

egrotat

Hu . Penbroke Wi . Padnall Ro. Lymster Jos. Wytte egrotat Ri. Coper Hu. Mycchell BEATRISDEN V. D. Jo . Julyan Ad comparendum Cant' I. Jo. Holnes iunior Edw . Mylkested Th . Gibbons xxx xvjto Septembris P. La. Twesnoth Jo. Bennette Gre . Taylor Billa et monetur vt Swan * apprehendatur PLUCKLEY R. D. Wi . Baker Ad comparendum Cant' xvjto Septembris / Billa non Wi . Poste non I. Ri . Sotherenden Ri . Woode non Ro. Bacheler Ad comparendum Cant P. Ri . Dowle xvjto Septembris Jo . Harrysnon non comparuit egrotat CRANBROKE V. D. Geo. Atkynson

'

Evocentur ad Cantuariam [ . 447. ]

f SMARDEN Billa

Ad comparendum Cant

I.

P.

[blank]

[blank]

‫ من‬Ro. Halsall R. D. Jo. Carlyon

C. ‫ن‬

' I. Jo.Sharpe Marlor

xvj to Septembris

Ja.

Omnia reformata TENTERDEN

Ad comparendum Cant I. xvjto Septembris

'

}

P. Jo. Sharpe Ja . Lake V. D. Jo . Spendlove

Jo. Pell

Ro. Pell

Ro. Marden

Geo . Mapesden

Walt. Bigge egrotat

egrotat

John Ro. Foch et Ashenden et P. Ri . Ashinden Wi. Besfyld Willelmus Gervice Th. Holmes moneantur ad Jo. Whitfild comparendum Cant et dictus Whitfilde monitus est ad comparendum die predicto per Cant xvito Septembris iconomos A religious offender, already mentioned in 1557.

Et quod balliuus

'

'

ARCHDEACON

HARPSFIELD'S VISITATION RETURNS

D. Edw. Bullifannte

R.

HOTHFILDE

321

* Whitfilde de Tenterden sayth he crept not to the cross bicause he was sick at that tyme

Ri . Wanderton

I.

Ri. Wattes

Th. Bull Iconomi habent ad comparendum Cant xvjto Septembris P. blank

'

He. Godfrey Nic . Topley

[ C. ]D. . Symon Jo Robson Ri .

HAUKEHERST

Curatus monitus est ad comparendum Cant xvto Septembris

'

I.

egrotat

Geo . Skot

[?] * vel vt certificetur de emendacionevestimenterum Edm . Duke by me Edmond Blyth qui mandauit [?]

Ad comparendum Cant xvjto P. Ja. Born Septembris etc

'

egrotat

Geo . Aford

Edm . Hamond

Jo. Goodman R. D. Th. Langley

Billa BOUGHTON

MALEHERBE

I.

Ri . Elson Jo . Gennynges Wi . Mershall Ri . Hammond

Ad comparendum Cant P. xvjto Septembris

'

egrotat

billa

[f. 44v.]

HEDCORN nullus V. C. D. Ri . Buckherst Fiat sequestracio fructuum Ric . Buckherst curatus I. Chr. Kelsam evoceatur [sic ad Cantuariam P. alii non fuerunt moniti habent vnde dictus ]curatus suscepit ad ad comparendum Cant xvjto ' Septembris ad exhibendam xxixs ixd quia pro subsidio debito Cant xvjto Septembris billam ' CHARTE R. M. Jo. Knighte MAGNA C. D. Nic . Champion Billa I. Wi. Okingfolde

Habent iconomi ad comparendum Cant xvito Septembris P. et curatus habet in mandatis ad comparendum eodem die [ . 44v.]

'

f

Jo. Hilles Edw . Bret Ri . Topley

Wi . Wich Tho. Bret

R. M. Wi . Darrell D. Ja. Gloffs Gallus natus Billa Geo . Hart Iconomi habent ad comparendum I. Ri. King Cant xvjto Septembris curatus P. Ri. Tery Ri. Mannyss ' habet ad comparendum Cant He. Hart CHARTE PARVA

C.

eodem die

Entry misplaced.

'

In another hand and ink, that of Edmond Blyth, which also occurs elsewhere in this visitation .

322

ARCHDEACON

HARPSFIELD'S VISITATION RETURNS

KENNYNGTON

Habent iconomi in mandatis ad comparendum Cant xvjto Septembris

'

Billa

ESTWELL

Iconomi moniti sunt ad comparendum Cant xvjto '

D. Dav. Cotton Wi . Wattes Jo. Turner Ri. Braye P. Wi. Philpot Wi . White egrotat V. D. Hu. David V.

I.

Jo. Androwe

I.

P. Jo . Jurden

Jo. Symon

Septembris

Billa

] [f. 457.

HALDEN

R. D. Pet. Hall Billa I. Jo . Agers Iconomi habent ad comparendum Ri. Hope Cant xvjto Septembris Ja . Sherlock P. Wi . Baker aut certificandumde preparacione Th. Virgyn St. Harris omnium neccessariorum eodem die dicte ecclesie pertinentium ROLUINDEN V. M. Wi. Orphewe Ad comparendum Cant I. Th . Paves xvjto Septembris Ri . Penfold P. Ger. Baker Billa Ri . Frencham Wi . Warden Wade Ri. Fogle BIDDENDEN non residet R. M. Ri. Pratte C. D. Pat. Browne Billa Ad comparendum Cant' xvjto Septembris Bateman Th. Barrowe I. St. Geo . Ramsden Ri . Snowde mortuus P. Th. Stonas Reformantur omnia non Jo. Moyse BENYNDEN V. M. Ri . Waters C. D. Pat. Browne Billa . Willard Reformantur I. Ro Ro. Aynescombe Ad comparendum Cant Jo . Harowdyne xvjto / Septembris P. Jo. Crotall Ro. Bassette Th. Goldyng Ja . Everynden FRITTENDEN R. D. Jo . Taylor egrotat Jo. Barnard Ad comparendum Cant I. Th. Bayly Ro. Cocheman xvjto Septembris Th. Hore

'

'

'

' P. blank [

]

Vide billam de fructibus*

[f. 45v.]

R. D. Wi . Symon Nic . Bat P. Ri . Wattes ad comparendum Cant / xvjto Septembris ' SANDHERSTE

Billa Iconomi

I.

* Another indication of the contents of the parish revenues .

egrotat

Jo. Twisden Th . Welles

' billa -an account of the

'

ARCHDEACON

HARPSFIELD'S VISITATION RETURNS ‫منیرت‬

NEWYNDEN

R.

Habent iconomi ad comparendum Cant xvjto Septembris

'

I. P. ‫من‬

Billa

Ri . Fytsall Jo . Hope Jo . Shadwell

323

vacat nullus Th. Saunders Jo. Hilles

Geo . Wilkinson ‫نریمن‬

PEVYNGTON

C.

I.

P.

[all blank]

Eligitur in decanum vicarius de Rolvynden Margareta Smyth de Orlaston [f. 46r.] detecta est quod negligens est adeundo ecclesiam Smythe comparuit et monita est quod diligens etc et quod reuerenter vtatur ceremoniis et maritus mulieris suscepit in se quod mulier bene se habeat et mulier fatetur quod die Paschatis vltimo non erat presens aliquo diuinorum nec recepit cineres mulier monita est ad comparendum Cant' xvjto Septembris subinde ex gratia iudex iniunxit quod si ipsa die Dominicaproxima publice fuerit in cancell' tempore misse etc et tunc benigne crucem * etc quod excusetur a comparicione Cant Inquiratur de quod Sheperde de Hedcorn decanatu Ex *

'

Bredgar

R. V. D. Hugo David

BOUGHTON

I. R . Abarrowe Geo . Marchall Habeant iconomi in mandatis P. Wi . Marchall ad comparendum Cant xvjto Jo . Dod Septembris Memorandum that wher one Mighell Aisherst of Kingisnoth standith bounde in recognizaunces that he do procure his children to be confirmyd at thissid the Sainct Mighell next comyng It is ordered that if or that tyme ther be none suffragane within the diocesse nor anny comyng within vij myles of his dwelling that then his said recognisance not to be hurtfull vnto him not withstanding he hath in comandement yet as sone as possibly be may to have them

'

ALUPHE

'

...

confirmyd kiss the cross. * I.e.hand

is drawn here, pointing upwards. There was no deanery of A Bredgar, which is in that of Sittingbourne .

Boughton Aluphe is in the deanery of Bridge. § A bond or obligation entered into before a judge.

See Pole's Visitation articles of 1557, no . 45, on Confirmation. Michael Aisherst had been ordered to have his children confirmed by Michaelmas the previous year (Vol . I , p. 103) .

324

HARPSFIELD'S VISITATION RETURNS

ARCHDEACON

[f. 46v. blank]

[f. 47r.]

DECANATUS SUTTON

Vicaria vacat nullus

LENEHAM

C.

Ad comparendum Cant I. die xvijmo Septembris

'

P.

BOXLEY

Iconomi ad comparendum Cant

'

xvijmo Septembris

GODHERSTE

comparuit

Wi . Clerke

comparuit

comparuit

Dun . Clark

Th. Atwater

Jo. Ggardener Jo . Spice Ad exhibendam billam Hen. Addam xvijo Septembris Wi. Symonds vicarius D. Rog. Jones . Dunkyn Jo comparuit I. Ro . Hartridge comparuit Jo. Ffletcher billa nunc P. Jo . Ffigge Jo . Style Jo . Allen Jo. Wylson

V. M. Jo. White egrotat C.

] [Riblank . Pate

egrotat Jo. Horsenden egrotat Wi . Stonnerd egrotat Ri . Austyn comparuit Edw . Rode comparuit

P.

Ipsi comparentes habent ad monendos iconomos ad comparendum Cant xvijo Septembris ' STAPLEHERST

'

et exhibendam billam presentacionis* eodem die R. M. Th. Hendon

2

Ad comparendum Cant I. xvijo Septembris billa P. Th. Vsborn

Wal. Taylor egrotat Jo. Turner comparuit comparuit Jo. Rumney comparuit Jac. Austyn comparuit / .

Jo Barfote comparuit Chr. Vynneynon exco VLCOMBE R. M. Art . Sentleger

'

C.

D. Jo . Rede

' I. Ri.. Ffynne Flowe

Ad comparendum Cant xvijo Septembris

Ro

comparuit billa comparuit Ri. More Wi . Gennett

P. Jo. Reder Jo . Style Ro . Woodd non Jo. Baldocke Andryan Barlingenon

* Another indication of the nature of the contents of the billa -the bill of presentments which included offences against moral and ecclesiastical law, denunciations, complaints, etc. They are sometimes called detections

-"

(see 1557 passim) or

I.e.

acta et comperta. " excommunicatus' ?

'

'

ARCHDEACON

HARPSFIELD'S VISITATION RETURNS

ESTSUTTON C. D. Edw . Robertes Capella I. He. Bensted Gre. Clercke Ad comparendum Cant xvijo Perrye Septembris billa P.Wi. He. Pratte Poll Master [ . 47v.]

SUTTON egrotat V. D. Chr. Waddington VALLEAUNCE I. Ri . Gennyng St. Warley Ad comparendum Cant P. Jo . Barlyng xvijo Septembris Ri. Marketman billa Rog. Crownege LEDES C. D. Wi. Johnson D. [blank non

325

'

f

'

comparuit

Ad comparendum Cant' I. Ja . Everynden Th. Foxenon

xvijo Septembris

P. [blank]

]comparuit

/

ad exhibendam billam xvijo Septembris

THORNEHAM M. Wi. Horewood Ro . Grenehood Ad comparendum Cant' C. D. Gregorius Squyre xvijo Septembris I. Wi.. Taylor billa Wi Salter Colter P. Wi . Adams BARSTED V. vacat Ad comparendum Cant' C. Tangridus Bolecke xvijo Septembris Wi. Roper I. Jo. Goddyn

Wi. Spice

Wi . Goddyn

P.

Ro . Bause

Ro. Shasted ad exhibendam billam presentacionis eodem die

[ . 48r.]

f

OTHAM R. M. Th. Cailie Ad comparendum Cant I. Ro. Bettes Jo. May xvijo Septembris J [faded] P. Wi. May

'

WORMESHILL

billa

M. Wi . Horwood D. Gre. Squyre Ro . Cooke Th . Holman P. [blank ]

Ad comparendum Cant C. xvijo Septembris I.

'

Billam Cant

'

R. M. Jo. Warner Ad exhibendam billam C. [blank] Cant xvijo Septembris I. Edw. Topliff ' He. Taylor To provid one to P. Ja. Tassell play on the organns at thissid the last of Jo. Hyncley HARYTTESHAM

September

'

billa Cant

326

ARCHDEACON

HARPSFIELD'S VISITATION RETURNS

To bring the Bible * and Paraphrasis and all other bokes of ynglish to Cant

'

C. Al. Gridgesby LYNTON Ad comparendum Cant xvijo I. Ri. Riche Septembris Gil . Beste et presentandam P. Th. Bysshoppe billam apud / Cant [ . 48v. ]

'

f

BOUGHTON

'

V. D. Wi . Hall

MUNCHELSEY

C.

Fiat sequestracio ob defectum

I.

out [Jocrossed ] . Iden

Ed Martyn

'

Chr. Foule Jo . Combe P. Jo. Copyn Sequestracio ad exhibendam billam Ad comparendum Cant xvijo Septembris xvij Septembris

'

FRENSTED

R. vacat Curator [sic] nullus Ad comparendum Cant I. Ed Harres vt deponetur ad exhibendam billam P. Ro. Allyn xvijo Septembris Pet. Barnard xvijo Septembris .

LANGLEY R. D. Chr Wooddington non nullus Ad comparendum Cant C. xvijo Septembris billa Cant' I. Wi.. Atwood P. Ri Swane CHARTE V. D. St. Poole iuxta SUTTON I. Gi. Patrich

'

'

'

Jo . Drayson Memorandum that ther be order taken with Master Harper for the leads of the church billa and for ye Ester [?] procession thorough his ground §

[f. 49r.]

ROYTON

Capella BROMEFELDE

C.

habent in mandatis ad monendum vicarium ad comparendum Cant xvijo Septembris

'

[blank]

C. [blank ]

* The large folio Bible in English was placed in every parish church by order in 1539. In the Churchwardens' Accounts for St. Andrew's, Canterbury, later ( 1547/8) we have: Item paid for a Bible of the largest volume xiiijs " (A.C., xxxiv, 41 )".

The Paraphraseof Erasmus, printed by Edward Whytchurch in 1548/9, was ordered to be placed in every parish church at the commencement of Edward VI's reign. Hence " Item payd for the Paraphras of Erasmus . . vjs vjd " (Ibid. , 43) .

The Communion office in English replaced the Mass in 1548 : Item payd for the sarvys boke . . . . vs " (Ibid.). All English service books were called in at the beginning of Mary's reign. § See Vol . I, p. 202.

..

"

ARCHDEACON

MARDEN

HARPSFIELD'S VISITATION RETURNS

327

V. D. Ro . Haynes Wi. Collyer

Ad comparendum Cant' I.

xvij Septembris

P.

Nic . Burde Bar. Younge Eligitur in decanum vicarius de Sutton Vallance

Advisement [ ? directed to Thomas Duddys dwellyng at Marden constable He must also apprehend for the attachment of the widowe of John Smyth ) thos named in the the wif of William Walter Goodherst bill of Marden

]

the wif of Arthure Lye Inquiratur de vxore* Coggar an peregit omnia quae sibi erant iniuncta superiore anno

[ . 49v.]

Detectus apud Vlcombe

f

Detectus apud Vlcombe

Petrus Fowle servant with Lawrence

Mayny at Staplehurst to be attached by the constable

George Kingsnothe and his wif now at Leneham by the constable James Snothing of Hartisham constable

The wif of Dolman of Est Sutton to be apprehended Henry Bensted iurat quod egrotat ijo [ ?] annis /

'

attachment directed to the bosholder John Spillet in Est Sutton The wif of Turner of Sutton Valannce to be attached John Dunyng [?]

Evocetur Robertus Bridger de Ledes

bosholder

Fiat sequestracio fructuum de Thornham propter reparacionem cancell' Fiat sequestracio fructuum de Barsted propter

[ . 50r.]

f

'

reparacionis [sic] cancell

Evocetur Joanna Woode de Hucking et Jude Heron nunc de Mylton propter incontinentiam

In causa diffamacionis mota per Agnetam Bennet de Ledes contra Iditham Byrry de eadem dicta Agnes confitetur Baker William Rede of Boughton Monchelsey to apprehend the wif of George Rowse of the same [ . 50v. blank Ante, p. 221.

Ibid., p. 222. * For these wives see Vol . I, p. 194.

f

]

328

ARCHDEACON

[f. 51r .]

HARPSFIELD'S VISITATION RETURNS

DECANATUS SITTINGBORN

SITTINGBORN

V. D. M. Th. Burges egrotat Ad comparendum Cant' C. [ blank or faded] xixo Septembris Iconomes Th. Chartham Th. Huckyng P. Jo . Norden Billa Th. Jacobe Chr. Ed Gay Mi. Symon egrotat NEWINGTON non residet V. D. Nic . Power Fiat sequestracio C. D. Dav . Lomley nullus propter reparacionem I. Th. Bowden Jo . Swifte Jo. Lyford et gardianis P. Reg. Bunton evocetur vicarius ad residenciam * Wi . Winge billa

'

BREDGAR

xixo Septembris

'

V.

vacat

Ad comparendum Cant C. Billa BORDEN

D. Wi . Lambe Iconomes Th. Reder P. Ra. Hennyger Wi. Drurey V. D. Jo . Harrys presenti anno

Ad comparendum Cant I.

xixº Septembris

'

P.

vltim

'

Jo . Tirrynden Ro. Hatche egrotat egrotat

Reg. Tirrinden

Ra . Thomas

egrotat /

Al. Stone

Sim . Bekkete

Wi. Apette BAPCHISELDE D. Ri. Cranmer [Vicarius f. 51v.] ad comparendum eodem die I.V. Th . Furmynger non Ad comparendum Cant xixo

'

P.

Septembris Master Wilkins suscepit in se ad reparand cancell / immediate MYLTON

'

'

I.

M. Nic . Morton Th. Ffiddge

Sawyer non ad exhibendam ' P. Ro Th. Busbridge billam Cant

Ad comparendum Cant xixo Septembris

V.

.

Th . Bull

Vide veterem librum RAYNEHAM

'/

non

Wi. Hartinge Ro. Woodde

non

billa

V. D. Jo . Wakelyn

Ad comparendum Cant' xixo C. Septembris

Salmon Newlond Jo . Bateman non Wi . Tenshe billa

I.

Master Norden hath vnder- P. taken / the reparacion of the chancell /immediatlye

D. Th. Bownell Th. Elmeston debet pr Th. Butte .

He . Lawrence Art . Holman

Vicar called to residence , there being no curate. * The Or Wilkes . ' Last word doubtful- ? procurationes. ' '

#

/

ARCHDEACON

329

HARPSFIELD'S VISITATION RETURNS

HARTELIPPE

V. D. Mi. Weste Th. Loman Jo. Hill

I.

billa

Ad comparendum Cant' xixo P. Jo . Baldwyn

Jo. Reder

Septembris

And to bring the Bible the Paraphrasis

[ . 52r.]

f TONGE

V. D. Ri . Cranmer

Ad comparendum Cant C.

non

' I. Salmon Wilkynes

xixº Septembris

nullus

P. [blank ] R. D. Th. Ware Comparendum Cant nulli I. xixo Septembris P. Jo . Tonge Wi . Pekham ad eligendos iconomos * Wi. Paris Geo. Ducke MORSTON

'

Jo . Rogers

HALSTOWE

V.

vacat

D. Jo. Treman . Pullyn egrotat I. Jo Jo . Stonnerd comparuit P. Jo. Bisshope egrotat

Ad comparendum Cant' C. xixo Septembris

STOCBURY

V. D. Gal. Wilson Iconomes

Ad comparendum Cant xixo Septembris

Jo. Allen

Wi. Edwardes egrotat

' P. Si Beckett .

billa

He . Baker

[f. 52v.]

C.

EASTCHURCHE

D. Hu. Kenryck egrotat Chr. Harris Ant . Hichcok Quod male se habuit

Ad comparendum Cant I.

'

xixo Septembris P. Pet . Hayn Jo . Eliot Pet. Busy

circa aque sancte aspersion

'

in ecclesia parochiali de

Sitingborn Ideo iniunctus est sibi that he by a holy water stock

of lattyn by the xix of September MYLKESTED

vacat

R. C.

D. Row. Jakeson Ad comparendum Cant I. Th. Fringe xixo Septembris Ri . Highsted P. Th. Henman Ro. Ponnette Billa

'

* Election of wardens.

Or Greg.

'

'

I.e. the Asperges on Sunday.

ARCHDEACON

330

HARPSFIELD'S VISITATION RETURNS

IWADE

C.

Ad comparendum Cant I. xvijo Septembris

'

xixo

P.

WHICELING

D. Jo . Bewley

Hen. Spender Th. Rikkard

billa

Ri. Bayly

R. D. Ri . Roberte non comparuerunt

[f. 53r.]

RODMERSHAM

V. D. Ro. Holman Wi . Dennewey Ri. Cole Ri . Tristram Jo. Northen R. Wi . Bucke Iconomes [blank ]

I.

'

egrotat

Ad comparendum Cant xixo Septembris P. BYCKNOR

Nihil actum est quia non comparuerunt *

P.

Wi. Nede non Wi. Knight

billa de non exhibenda

billa

Vt parochiani adeant ecclesiam de Hucking

quousque etc si parochiani ad id consentiant TUNSTALL R. D. Wi . Buncker Ad comparendum Cant I. Th.. Potman P. Wi Binge xixº Septembris The rodeloft vnbuyldid Ja. Newland

'

LEISDOWNE V. Jo. Sheryf Memorandum quod provideatur I. St. Greyne pro cancella ibidem quia Sim. Clynche parochiani sunt consentientes P. Wi. Child egrotat ad edificandam novam cancellam hita [?] veter [ . 53v.]

MYNSTER C. Jo . Sheryf Th. Brodstret Ad comparendum Cant I. Hen. Elyot xixº Septembris Wi . Weeke P. Wi. Swalman He. Creke egrotat Th. RichardesJo. Colson QUINBOROWE C. nullus Ad comparendum Cant I. Chr. Robinson P. Th. Harris xix Septembris

'

f

'

'

'

WARDOWNE

Assignatur ad Estchurche per decretum

R. C. blank Iconomes P. Ro . Segar

[

]

Jo. Ruffyn

vacat nulli inquiratur vbi sunt ornamenta ecclesie ibidem

* No business transacted as no one appeared.

ARCHDEACON

HARPSFIELD'S VISITATION RETURNS

KINGESDOWN

331

R.

vacat nullus Radulphus Finch Si non venerint ad Fauersham I. Wi . Amyas blank Brode assumpsit tunc excommunicentur * [ in se P. [blank] quod salarium C.

]

curati erit xx

marckes Parochiani to goo to Lynsted vntill they be fornished of a curat

[ . 547.]

f VPCHURCHE

V. D. Jo . Townsley

' I. D. Nic Myllway

Ad comparendum Cant C. xixmo Septembris

P.

C.

BOBBINGE

Ad comparendum Cant' I. xixmo Septembris

P.

. Blanche Ro. Merchannt Cl.

D. Th. Hicklinge

Ro . Williamson Ro. Boniface Jo. Ffouler Th. Godwatte

egrotat

R. Dortor [sic] Wardowne *

ELMELEY

C.

Capella

[blank]

Eligitur in decanum vicarius de Rodmersham

[ . 54v . blank.

f

]

[ . 557.]

f LYNSTEDE

DECANATUS OSPRINGE

V. D. Ro . Shoughe

Ad comparendum Cant xixo I. Septembris 1558

P.

nullus J. Bixe

Th. Grangeman

billa

FFEVERSHAM V. M. Cl . Norton Th . Barton In vetere libro I. Ro . Colwell Th. Norton Th. Littell egrotat Provideatur ordo pro isto oppido et aliis P. Jo. Week Wi. Fynner

Wi. Nele non

Ad comparendum Cant' xxº Septembris

Jos. Beverley

Memorandum to enquier how manny wroughte apon Our Lady day last OSPRINGE vacat V. C. nullus Ad comparendum Cant xx Septembris billa I. Wi . Taylor Memorandum quod cancella est valde P. Jo . Cok ruinosa et decernatur [? ] fructuum sequestracio ad faciend [?]

This penalty appears rarely at this period.

Both Elmeley and Warden are in Sheppey , so perhaps a place and not Too churchwardens

'

'

a person is here intended.

332

ARCHDEACON

HARPSFIELD'S VISITATION RETURNS

V. M. Th. Slayney *

PRESTON

Ad comparendum Cant' I. xxmo Septembris

P.

Ro. Barnes Th . Harrington

Billa

[f. 55v.]

V. D. Ro. Shoughe

LYNSTED

Expeditur

TENHAM

V.

'

I.

Ad comparendum Cant P. xxmo Septembris

D. Wi . Stapleforde Jo. Kighte Jo . Dourton Ro. Kennett Si . Darby

SHELDEWICH V. D. Edw . Kelby non residet nullus Ad comparendum Cant' xxº Septembris C. Th Vpton .

I. pentio vicarie ne subtrahatur Al. Bottell Valentine P. Billa Belk billa Cant' Memorandum that Mr Pettit of Th. Olyver Chilham witholdeth the home stall which the vicar shold have SELLINGE

Ad comparendum Cant' xxo Septembris

P. Billa

V. D. Th. Deve

St. Holbarde Th. Hilles

I.

Nic . Tillman Chr . Southtowson

Jo. Godard

non

V. D. Griffinus Appowell

billa

Ri . Waller

[ . 567.]

f THROUGHLEY

Ad comparendum Cant xxo

'

I.

Septembris Memorandum to enquier of H .. [?]

P. of Canterbury who causid him to pul down the rode loft

Edm . Sede Jos. Syllyng

Ri. Gotley Jo. Havejoye

"

* He was collated to the vicarage of Preston by Cardinal Pole on the 10th of December 1557. . . . but at Preston he remainedonly a few months.

Parratt was collated by Cardinal Pole on the 20th of October " Edward 1558 Mr. Paratt or Perott seems not to have resided here at all . In 1560 not only the churchwardensof Preston, but those of Faversham also, represented to the Archdeacon of Canterbury that he was not resident. The church wardens of Faversham alleged , in addition , that he had let his benefice to an unlearned man He was deprived of the vicarage of Preston in 1562 (A.C., xxi, 147).

Thomas Petytt, gentleman, signed the Inventory of Chilham 1552

...

....

(A.C. , viii , 132) .

Wotte crossed out.

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HARPSFIELD'S VISITATION RETURNS

333

R. M. Th. Stanney D. Fr. Hay

EASELINGE

Ad comparendum Cant C.

' I. Th. Grenestret

xxº Septembris

P.

STALLESFELDE V. Ad comparendum Cant xxº Septembris C. Billa Cancella ruinosa I. Wi. Crofte Ed Adown

vacat

'

P.

nullus non

'

egrotat

Jo. Elvyn Pet . Goffey

per proprietarium

Moniti ut adeant ad Duddington viz.

nullus .

Goddyn Th non I. Rog. Sixwith P. Ro . Motys C.

Sonndayes at ijDuddington and one

DODDINGTON

V. D. Ro . Hall C. D. Ro. Holman

vacat

Ad comparendum Cant xxmo Septembris

'And. Steyr

I. P.

Billa

at

Newenham and to have evensong at both places

St. Amys

[f. 56v.]

assignantur ad Otterden

non non pentio non est soluta

NEWENHAM .V. vacat Ad comparendum Cant' xxº Septembris

Billa

billa

Jo . Elye Ro. Grenstret Th. Ady

nullus

comparuerunt

Nic. Wattes He . Adye

comparuerunt Sim . Broke R. M. Cl. Norton nullus Iconomus

BUCLANDE NORTON

R. M. Wi. Elye D. Edw. Parrett

C.

Ad comparendum

I.

Jo. Porredge Sim . Austen La. Cok He . Plomer

P.

billa R. D. Ri. Thomson I. Nic. . White Wi Wade P. Wi. Arnolde non comparuerunt

Cant xxº Septembris

'

LUDDENHAM

Ad comparendum Cant xxo Septembris

'

Jo. Deave It [is] ordered that all saving Catlock and Webb shall come [to Ludenham wherfor* and they to Tenham It is it is [sic] provided that the vicar of Ludenham shall have xxs . and to [? Tenham xx xiijs iiijd per annum

]

]

* ' wherfor ' in another hand and ink.

334

ARCHDEACON

HARPSFIELD'S VISITATION RETURNS

f

[ . 577.]

OVER C. Ja. Reman Ad exhibend ' comparendum I. Ri . Humfrey

non moniti quia sunt in navigacione * circa negotiis [sic Regine Brodwood non P.Wi. non ad Cant Ad exhibendam billam Jo . Shawe

'

Cant xxº Septembris

]

D. Ffr . [blank ]

C.

HARTYE

'

nullus per annum integrum

Iconomus Wi . Hayward Jo . Butler Ad comparendum Cant P. Jo. Ambrose xx° Septembris ad tunc exhibendam billam continentem omnia bene in se billam omnium ornamentorum dicte ecclesie pertinentium Billa GRAVENEY nullus V. Ad comparendum Cant' C. D. Jo . Trewman deservit cur' secunda Dominica xx° die Septembris / I. St.. Shrobsole proxim' Wi Mendfelde P. Jo. Moyse Billa Th. Rymer is ordered the parson of Goodneston It

'

do serve Graveney alternis vicibus C. [blank]

DAWINGTON

.] [f. 57v GODNESTON

R. C.

nullus pr

[blank]

'

Ad comparendum Cant I. Ri. Pope Ja. Medeman xxº Septembris P. Ed Rycrofte Billa

'

LEVELAND §

R.

'

Ad comparendum Cant xxº Septembris

' C. I.

vacat nullus

Jo. Giles iunior

Edw. Amys R. D. Edw. Keble

BADLESMERE

billa non residet

Ad comparendum Cant' xxmo Septembris

nullus

C.

I.

Th. Trytton adveniantad Throwley

Wi . Cockes P. [blank]

* Oare, near Faversham, is on the sea coast . The churchwardenswere not summoned because they were at sea on the Queen's business.

This entry throws a little more light on the contents of the billa .

May stand for presentatus. §'NEW crossed out and LEVE inserted above.

Ricardus crossed out.

' '

'

'

'

'

'

ARCHDEACON

OTTRENDEN

HARPSFIELD'S VISITATION RETURNS

R. D. Ri . Rogers

335

non residet nullus

C.

Ad comparendum Cant' I. Reg. Filmer

xx to Septembris [f. 587.]

BOUGHTON

subtus LE BLEAN HARNEHILL

Jo . Clynch P. Jo . Remyngton

V. D. Ro . Thomson V. D. Edw. Minge Eligitur in decanum rector

de Luddenham Memorandum quod Wi . Goodhewe moritur apud Parretes habens xxvijs in pecuniis WICCHLYNG

Ad exhibend comparendum

'

Cant xxº Septembris

'Bill

R. D. Ri. Robertes I. Ri . Deacon P.

Jo. Mercer Ro . Barnes > Th . Tassell non comparuerunt

[f. 58v. blank.] [f. 59r.]

DECANATUS CANTUARIEN SANCTI GEORGII* R.

'

Georgius Smith, Johannes Smith C. et Willelmus Shouwell non frequentant ecclesiam I.

vacat D. Jo. Basden§

Al. Hallet non Gre. Rose egrotat Memorandum that the scolemaister is to be Jo . Motte egrotat P. Mr Ovington talk'd with Jo. Holte comparuit Th. Raffe Evocentur

SANCTI ANDREE

R. D. Th. Ickham** Chr. Skote non I. Dan. . Potter Nic Bremer

* The first church in England to be dedicated to St. George. Destroyed by enemy action 1 June 1941. Tower scheduled as an ancient monument.

Wi. Sweting adm. 23 May 1561 (Parker, 349b).

Geo . Smith , Jo . Smith , Alex . Hallet , Greg . Rose ( capper ), Thos . ' Ovington, John Holte (" householder of the Vernacle") , John Motte ( pewterer ) and Thomas Rafe ( carpinter ) are all mentionedin the Registers of St. George's , ' Canterbury , 1538-1800 , ed. J. M. Cowper (1891). § Apprehendedin 1559 at Dover, trying to cross the seas ( Victoria County History, ii , 83). From which we may infer that he had Catholic sympathies.

This church was taken down in 1763 (Gostling's Canterbury , ed. III, 1779, p. 43) .

It was situated in the centre of what is now the High Street, oppositeBoots' and Mence Smith's . The church was long and narrow. According to a tradition preserved in the firm of Amos & Dawton , a carriage-way ran the St. Margaret's Street side , a footpath the other (W. Urry) . See also A.C., xxxii , 182-3 .

Christopher Yaxeley, M.A. , adm. 27 June 1564 by death of Thomas

'

**

'

Ickham (Parker, 365a) .

All mentioned in Churchwardens ' Accounts of St. Andrew's, Canterwas an alderman. bury, ed . Chas . Cotton ( 1916). Henry Alday V

ARCHDEACON

336

HARPSFIELD'S VISITATION RETURNS

P. He. Alday He. Gere

SANCTE MARIE MAGDALENE*

R. D. Th. Ffissher non C. [blank] I. Mi. Derycker Jo. Hethers

P. Th . Neyler* Aug. Cok

SANCTE MARIE BREDMAN§

non non

R. [blank V.** D. Wi. Singleton

]

egrotat

Rog. Fowler He. Questonby Jo. Speyce Jo. Jenkynson

I.

P.

egrotat

[f. 59v. ]

SANCTI PAULY

V.

St Martyns is assigned to this churche Ones in a quarter to St

C.

I.

P.

Martyns

SANCTI PETRI

RCL

Ad Westgate assignatur viz. to com to Westgate

C.

vacat

D. Wi . Blossom mortuus Ja. Pers Ed Pratte non Jo. Wydope non egrotat

'

nullus§§

R.

I.

blank] [Wi . Dogrell

non

contynually saving that ones in a quarter the vicar to be at St Peters

* In Burgate Street. Taken down in 1871 , except for tower .

Stands

next to the present Catholic church.

Thos . Fyssher adm. Ulcombe 24 May 1560 by death of John Read, alias Townsley (Parker, 343a) . Died before 20 Apr. 1569 (Ibid., 391a) . Fyssher wasinducted to St. Mary Magdalen's in 1553 (Registers of St. Mary Magdalene , Canterbury, ed . J. M. Cowper, 1890, p. x).

Both mentioned in the above Register. § Pulled down 1900. The site is now occupied by a small garden on the south side of the High Street.

John Carlell adm. 4 Oct. 1552 (Cranmer, 421a). A John Carlell, priest, buried at St. George's , 22 Dec. 1558.

Crossed out ?

'

** Adm. All Saints , Canterbury,

St. Paul's 10 May 1558 ' by death of John Clerke (Pole, 78a) . Thos. Hevyside adm. 30 July 1560 by death of Wi . Blossom (Parker, 344b ).

John Persse buried 21 Oct. 1578 (Registers of St. Paul's, Canterbury, 1

June 1542 (Cranmer , 389a).

Adm .

1562-1800 , ed . J. M. Cowper, 1893, p . 204. § § Rich . Forde adm. 10 Aug. 1552 (Cranmer , 421a) .

Members of this family occur in Registers of St. Peter's, Canterbury , 1560-1800 , ed . J. M. Cowper , 1887.

ARCHDEACON

HARPSFIELD'S VISITATION RETURNS

OMNIUM SANCTORUM *

Assignantur parochianiad ecclesiam Sancte Marie Bredman viz alternis vicibus that , too dais at St Alphes and one day at Alhallowes de WESTGATE

Septembris

BEATE MARIE

P.

Ri. Hoke

St Hollynden

.

Ra . Ordynner

Ra. Myller P. Wi . Browne Jo. Pensock

Ad comparendum xxº die

de NORTHEGATE

I.

vacat

nullus§

V. D. Chr. Badcocker egrotat I. Wi. Swifte

SANCTE CRUCIS

[f. 60r.]

R. C.

337

Jo. Bell

V. [blank] §§

C. D. Nic. Knewestubbe¶¶ St. Redborn non Geo . Toftes non P. Jo . Lylly Th. Cutte non .

MILDREDE R. D. Ra Prescotte I. Ri . Everynden He. Gylvyn non P. Vmfry Penie Ja. Wolfe non

I.

SANCTE

**

* The tower of this church, which projected into what is now the main street, was pulled down by the paving commissioners in 1769 (Gostling, Walks in Canterbury, ed. II, 1777, pp. 52-3). The church was rebuilt in 1829 and this building was demolished in 1936-7 . It stood opposite the General Post Office (W. Ürry).

Alphegi crossed out.

Another name for All Saints' . § Sir Loye, curate of All Saints', in trouble before the Mayor in 1559 (V.C.H., ii, 83) .

Henricus crossed out. * Ricardus ' crossed out.

Adm. Doddington 18 Sept. 1528 ( Warham, 396a). Wi . Spillman collated to Holy Cross, Canterbury, 21 Sept. 1560, on resignation of Chr. Badcocke (Parker, 346a) . Adm . Bapchild 14 Nov. 1560 , on resignation of Ralph Dowell (Ibid. , 346b). Resigned Westwell 9 May 1561 (Ibid., 349a).

Wi. Mershe adm. Tonge by death of Chr. Badcocke24 July 1565 (Ibid., 373b).

The original north wall of this church alone is left (Parish Churches of the Diocese of Canterbury , by T. H. Oyler, 1910, p. 44). §§ Roland Jackeson adm. 20 Apr. 1557 by deprivation of Thos . Graves (Pole, 71b). Adm . Milkstead 13 Sept. 1558 by death of David Lomley (Ibid., 81b). Died before4 June 1578, when John Hurte adm. to Milkstead (Grindal,

'

'

520a).

Thos . Wise adm. Hardes Magna 6 Apr. 1559 by death of Nic . Kewstobbe

(Post Mortem Poli , 16a).

*

Rich . Hedleye adm. 29 Apr. 1563 (Parker, 360b).

338

ARCHDEACON

HARPSFIELD'S VISITATION RETURNS

SANCTE MARIE

V. D. Wi . Dobynson *

BREDYN *

I.

Hackington is appoynctid to this church viz too Sondais, at St Mary Bredyns and one Sonday at Hakington THANYNGTON

P.

Th . Giles Gerog [sic] Mylles Gre. Cosby Th. Palm

non non non non

V. [blank ] D. Dun . Goodhewe billa non I. D. .Ri . Eggerley Wi Alebery non P. Nic. Qwoyf He. Davy p..xx' [?]

C.

[f. 60v.]

SANCTI DUNSTANY

Assignantur ad

Hackington to be served alternis vicibus SANCTE MARGARET

‫خرن‬

vacat

C.

nullus

V.

I. P.

‫ن‬

Th. Wynston Wi. May

Ri. Thoraton Ja . Dreyton §

non

‫[ من‬blank R. ‫نرت‬ ] C.

I. P.

D. Ra . Dowell Jo. Awgor Ri . Bull

non

Th. Martyn

Hamond Vsborn

* Rebuilt in 1868, since destroyed by enemy action (Oyler , 48) .

Adm . 2 Mar. 1536 ( Cranmer , 361a) . Also adm. Wotton 12 Oct. 1537

(Ibid., 362b ). Thos . Panton adm. to St. Mary Bredyn 21 May 1561 by resignation of Wi. Dobynson (Parker, 349a, b) . Dobynson resigned Wotton also before 20 July 1560, when John Saintpere succ . him (Ibid., 344a).

For their accounts , dated 8 Aug. 1557-7 Aug. 1558, see A.C., xvii, 113-5. Some items probably derive from the visitation injunctions of 1557, e.g. payed for a showvell vjd " Item Item payed at ij vicytacyons vijd .

Item payed for a bell rope for the first bell xvd Item payed to Rychard Chamberlaynesmyth for mending of the yrons and broddis for the same bell xvd Item payd to the carpynters for mending of the frame and same bell hangyng of the iiijs viijd ijs Item for new castyng of the brases of the sayd bell ..

Item for glasyng and mendyng of the Churche wyndowes xiijs xd Item payd for a lampe and all other thyngis there vnto appertayning

Item payd to Wattson wydow for mendyng of a Surplys ..

xiijs d

ijd "

William May was buried 28 Oct. 1559 (Registers of St. Dunstan's, Canterbury, 1559-1800 , ed . J. M. Cowper , 1887, p. 107). § Buried 11 Oct. 1595 (Ibid., p. 113) .

See ante, p. 296.

ARCHDEACON

* SANCTI ALPHEGI SANCTI MARTINI

HARPSFIELD'S VISITATION RETURNS

R. D. Jo. Alday

I. [blank] R. [blank] C. blank [

[f. 61r.]

]

V. D. Jo . Bryttayne § I. Th. Apesley non Jo. Onyn egrotat

STURREY

P.

V.

HACKINGTON

I. HARBALDOWN

**

Chr. Blaksland Gre. Hewson D. Th. Nicholls Vi . Halbe

DAMIANI ABLEAN

Jo. Mortyn P. He. Drayton Th. Qwoif R. D. Ro. Mowberie C. D. Jo . Stone

Gre. Jerman Jo . Norcliff P. Ri . Fowle Wi . Saunder V. D. Geo. Higges . Myles I. Th R . Wikes P. Wi . Fulsnope

'

Wi. Smyth

. 61v.

]

[f

MILTON

R. D. Bar. Innckpen §§ C. [blank ]

I.

Wi. Sacre

billa

Jo. Allyn Nic . Nashe

I.

COSMI et

339

non

billa non non

non

egrotat egrotat

egrotat non non

This and the following entry crossed out . The Registers of St. Alphage, Canterbury, 1558-1800 , have been ed. by J. M. Cowper, 1889.

Humphrey Thyrdale , B.A. , collated by death of Th . Davyes 18 Nov. 1540 ( Cranmer, 378b ) .

Jo. Aldey collated 2 Mar. 1556 by deprivation fo Humphrey Churden (Pole, 70b). John Atkins adm. 8 Jan. 1570 (Parker, ii , 66a) .

Jo. Smyth colTh. Nicols collated 27 June 1547 (Cranmer , 403b). lated 1 Feb. 1552 by resignation of Th. Nicolles ( Ibid., 421b). David Robson , 18 1560 ( collated Dec. by death of last rector Parker 346b). § Master Th. Beacon collated 3 Apr. 1562 by death of last incumbent (Parker, 354a, b) .

See under St. Martin's . Rich . Coste adm . 3 Apr. 1568 (Parker, 385a ) .

The whole of this entry has a cross drawn through .

Rich. Crosse collated 16 Nov. 1534 (Cranmer , 353b ). Rob. Mowbery collated by his death 15 Nov. 1557 (Pole, 74b) . Rob. Pownall collated by death of Rob. Mowbery 21 Mar. 1562 (Parker, 360a). There was a chantry at Harbledown. Mowbray's signature occurs in the parish registers (Registers of Harbledown , 1557-1800 , ed . J. M. Cowper , 1907, p . v). He was buried at Harbledown 13 Mar. 1560 (Ibid., p. 73).

Occurs in the parish registers .

Adm . 28 Feb. 1552 (Cranmer , 422b ) . Ro . Rose adm. 1 Sept. 1564 by §§ resignation of Inkepenne (Parker, 366a) .

*

**

340

ARCHDEACON

HARPSFIELD'S VISITATION RETURNS

FFORDEWICHE

R.

vacat D. Jo . Hitchecocke * I. Ed Jacob Jo . Williamson R . Allyn .

P. Wal Bigge egrotat Mi. Ffrancklyn non Jo . Lukyne egrotat HARDES PARUA R. D. Edm . Knighte egrotat C.

NACKINGTON

''

I.

Jo . Darle

P.

[blank]

He. Rigdon

C.

Jo. Bikkar Jo. Shypton Th. Yonge

I. P.

[f. 62r.]

nullus

billa r

'

non non

Th. Mylner non Eligitur in decanum vicarius de Hakington Memorandum thaccomptes be taken of the benefices Omnes non comparentes Dominus pronunciauit contumaces etc reservata pena in proximam sessionem viz. xxmo Septembris

[f. 62v. blank.] [f. 63r.]

DECANATUS DOUER

V. D. Jo . Burnell Th. Joll egrotat Vi . Joll Jo . Ffagg

ALKEHAM

Ad comparendum Cant I. xxijdo Septembris

' P. JoHe. Swanton Jekyn .

Billa NEWINGTON

V.

Ad comparendum Cant I.

'

xxijdo Septembris Presentant omnia bene P. et sic dimittuntur FOLKESTON

Ad comparendum Cant xxijdo Septembris

'

Billa non est exhibita

Jo. Ffagg Ri . Wollet D. Reg. Boke Wi . Carder Ri . Bennett Ro. Simonds Ri . Wigge Nic . Stockwell

}

V. D. Ri . Sherrington I. Th. May

Jeronomius Robynson

P. Geo. Kennet Wi. Kennet egrotat P.

Th. Kers Wi . Jacobe non moniti

* Jo . Hichcolke adm . 18 Jan. 1547 by resignation of last incumbent

Hychecoke collated to St. James's , Canterbury, (Cranmer , 404a) . A John ,

20 Mar. 1538 (Cranmer 367a) . Wi. Harwood adm. Fordwich by death of last incumbent on 24 July 1563 (Parker, 361b) . St. James's Hospital for women stood at the far end of Wincheap Street.

Adm. 4 Nov. 1531 ( Warham, 405b) . Wi . Darrell , M.A. , collated by death of last rector 29 Oct. 1560 (Parker, 346a).

ARCHDEACON

HARPSFIELD'S VISITATION RETURNS

LYDDEN

V.

nullus

Iconomus [ sic Th. Ffissher non compar't Jo . Stokes

Billa

] [f. 63v.

HOUGHAM

]

341

V. D. Jo . Russell

Nic. Webbe Ja . Cullyng Milo Avery Wi. Hogeson

Ad comparendum Cant' xxijdo I. Septembris

Billa CHERITON

P. Egidius Pepper Al. Avery R. D. Jo. David

Ad comparendum Cant I. xxijdo Septembris

'

P.

He. Assherst Th . Palm Ja. Mannie

Ri. Brighte

Billa

HAUKINGE R. D. Wi . Mercer Ad comparendum Cant I. Wi. Nethersole Ro. Nethersole Wi. Smyth xxijdo Septembris Wi . Sutton Billa P. [blank] BEWISFELDE nullus V.

'

C.

I.

Billa

P.

[f. 647. ] CAPLEFERNE

nullus

Th. Bing Wi . Brensley Jo. Lilburn

C.*

nullus Iconomus He. Fflynston P. Wi. Gibbes

V.

Capella annexa ecclesie de Alkeham

Billa Ad comparendum Cant xxijdo die Septembris

'

SWYNEFELDE C. Ant . Bartell Ad comparendum Cant' I. Jo. Hamonde Ro. Rolfe xxijdo Septembris P. Jo . Ladde Billa Ri. Symond RYVER V. nullus C. nullus Ad comparendum . Ffawkenner Cant xxijdo Septembris Iconomus Ri ' P. Wi . Morres Edw . Mylton Billa Ri . Brockman

Jo . Parker

V. [blank]

EVELL

Ad comparendum Cant I. P. xxijdo Septembris

C.

D. Hu. Gryffyn Evans Th. Cheseman > Wi . Clement Edw . Holte

Billa

Jo . Braynsley Jo. Nethersole

'

* In this order.

342

ARCHDEACON

HARPSFIELD'S VISITATION RETURNS

[f. 64v. ]

BYRCHOLTE

C. R.

CHARLTON

R.

D. Chr. Hawke

[blank ] Hu. Adam P. [blank ] I.

WESTCLIFT [sic ] I.P. comparendum Ad Cant ' xxijdo Septembris

non moniti

Jo. Patman

Ri. Cooke

Exempt C. D. He. Raynesfourthe Ro. Croydon I. Valentin' Vpton

Billa

SANCTE

MARGRET

Jo. Jones

Bill

Wi . Croydon iunior

P.

Chr . Gardener

[f. 65r.]

C.

GUSTON

Th. Somes fermor de vicarie

[blank]

Bill BUCLANDE

Ad comparendum Cant xxijdo

'

Septembris et tunc ad exhibendam billam SANCTE

MARIE *

Dover Ad comparendum Cant xxij do Septembris

'

Billa SANCTE [sic PETRI Dover

]

Ad comparendum Cant ' xxijdo Septembris [ . 65v.]

f SANCTI JACOBI in Dover

billa non est exhibita Elegittur decanatus [sic] Rector de Haukeherste [sic

]

[ . 66r.]

f

DECANATUS ELEHAM

ELHAM V. M. Th . Carden Cant xxiijo Septembris .

I. Nic . Wrighte Memorandum ad inquirendumde Jo . Woodde non Wi Stanner susce impregnacione prolis P. Nic. Ladde per mulierem nuper vicarii Th. Wrighte non Billa Wi . Rigedon Th. Bryce * An E written over an M. This is probably a slip for Hawkinge, since Hawkhurst is not in the Dover deanery.

'

ARCHDEACON

HARPSFIELD'S VISITATION RETURNS

ELMESTED V. Ad comparendum Cant I. xxiijo Septembris P. Billa

'

343

D. Gi. Herne Gi . Woodde comparuerunt He. Spaigne Chr. Burges Arnolde Dunkyn comparuerunt

Jo . Corkes R. [blank C. D. Ri . Fforde I. Nic. Jefine

‫مننرن‬

WOTTON

Cant xxiijo Septembris

'

]

Wi . Elyer ‫من‬ P. Wi . Fforde Ad exhibendam billam Cant' solut vijd Jo. Symmes ‫منرت‬ DENTON R. D. Ri . Fforde Cant xxiijo I. Chr. Saye '

'

Septembris

P.

De fructibus apparent in libro vltime visitacionis [ . 66v.]

Ro . Pette And . Hatfelde Jo. Julle

in negotiis Regine

f

STOUTINGE R. D. Cl . Gregorie comparuit Ad comparendum Cant I. Ri . Afourd comparuerunt Jo . Myller xxiijo Septembris P. Jo . Bowcer iuratus Omnia bene non est billa comparuit Jo. Mount Jo. Inckpett comparuit .

ACRIS Ph Metcalf R. D. Ad comparendum Cant I. He . Maunger comparuit Jo. Wise comparuit xxiij to September [sic]

' '

P.

Ri. Maunger

Geo . Fferne

Billa HORTON

Billa

'

R. [blank] D. Ri. Sackvile

Ad comparendum Cant I. Th.. Hannyng >comparuerunt xxiijo Septembris Wi Gifford Rector de Stowting habet P. Jo. Chippinde in mandatisad deserviendum Andrian Jonson comparuerunt cur de Horton secunda Dominica et parochiani de Stowting adire illuc

'

eodem die sic et parochiani

de Horton adire Stowtinge BRABORN V. D. Ro . Caryer comparuit ?

. Burges [ ]

comparuit

Jo. Cheseman comparuit Billa I. Wi .* .

Sole et Mat. Smythe mortuus Ad comparendum Nic Cant xxiijo P. Jo . Patterson egrotat Septembris Jo . Rolphe comparuit A word beginning with ' b ' blotted out , illegible.

'

HARPSFIELD'S VISITATION RETURNS

ARCHDEACON

344

[f. 67r.]

POSTLINGE

V. D. Ri . Burcher

I. Jo.. Keteham Ad comparendum Cant Wi Kennet xxiijo Septembris [P.] Jo. Besbeche Billa

'

Standford Postlinge * assignatur ad [sic] quolibet fest die tercia die Dominica

'

}

Jo . Perrot

comparuerunt comparuerunt

/

R. D. Ro. Carior D. Th . [blank Ad comparendum Cant I. Jo . Hawk ] egrotat Jo. Pylcher xxiijo Septembris comparuit P. Chr . Bellyng egrotat Bill LYMMYNGE R. Ri . Parkehurste Billa V. D. He . Clerke Cant xxiijo HASTLINGE

C.

'

'

Septembris

Cant xxiijo

R. M. Nic . Harpesfelde C. D. Ro . Clarke

Billa [f. 67v.]

C.

SAULTWOOD

'

Septembris

HITHE

Billa

D. Wi. Quythyn

BEATE [sic NICHOLAI Capella ibidem coniuncta STANFORDE C. D. Jo . Ryvers

]

Billa PADLESSWORTHE

C.

Billa

[f. 68r.]

DECANATUS WESTBEARE

WHITSTABLE

Cant xxiiijo Septembris et tunc ad exhibendam

'

billam presentacionis Debet SEASALTER

Cant xxiiijo Septembris

'

Billa

[blank]

Rectoria impropriata Domino Archiepiscopo C. Pet. Place clericus iunior I. Jo.. Smelte Wi. Lyttyllwood Woodde

Ri

P. Wi. Coppyn

Th. Brydge

V. D. Hu. Lamborde

I.

Hamo Perse

Jo. Stanforde P. Jo. Porte

in milicia

Chr. Selleherst

* Inserted above line. This entry seems to mean that the parishioners of Stanford are to hear mass at Postlinge every feast day and every third Sunday. Compareunder Horton (ante, p. 343).

The M inserted above line.

Hastingleigh.

ARCHDEACON

HARPSFIELD'S VISITATION RETURNS

345

STURREY

R. Jesper Hopkyns Jo . Lamenge Jo. Hilde I. Mart . Cage P. Ja. Blachelande

WESTBEARE

Billa Cant xxiiijo Septembris

'

Th . Stanforde

R.

SWALCLIF

C.

I. [f. 68v.]

nullus

D. Ri. Davye Th. Lunce egrotat Jo . Churche

P. [blank] nullus V. C. D. He. Hevisede I. Amb . Dod

CHISTLETT

Assignatur Hothe adire Chistlet donec alias in mandatis habeat

P.

Cant' xxiiijo

Wi. Ouend[en ] Th. Rose

Vi . Pet

Septembris

Billa

V. D. Th . Sprynte I. La. Higedon -Th. Coddy

St JOHANNS in

Thannett

Jo . Bloyfelde

Cant xxiiijo

Bill

Lyncolne P.Jo. Hewett

' Septembris

Jo.

Nic . Sare

SANCTI LAWRENCii

in Thannett

Cant xxiiijo Septembris

'

V. [ blank] C. D. Edw. Sare Sackett Ri. Lames I. Wi..Cobbam Jo

Billa SANCTI PETRI

V. D. Jo . Lawson

in Thanet

I.

Cant xxiiijo

'

Septembris

P.

Ri. Emptydge

[ . 69r.]

f

Ro. Grannte Ri . Sampson iuratus Th. Hogebyn Th. Norwood yelder

non residet blank egrotat [ . Sayer ad comparendum Cant Jo Jo . Swynford xxiiijo Septembris

V. M. Nic. Wendon

MYNSTER

C.

]

Ad comparendum Cant I. xxiiij Septembris Iconomi habent in [P.] Wi . Parker

'

Geoffry Sandwell mandatis ad recipiendos fructus Jo. Paramor dicte ecclesie pro Rob. Wessynden solucione decimarum et subsidio soluendo infra Septembrem Fiat sequestracio sine districcione I.e. distraint. * Above the line.

'

346

ARCHDEACON

HARPSFIELD'S VISITATION RETURNS

HERNE

V. D. Jo . Johnson

Cant

'RECULVER

exhempt

V. D. Th . Hewett Ri. Cobbe Ja Ewell

I. Th. Cobbe

.

P. Th. Woodde Jo . Ffayreman

HOTHE

C.

[ . 69v . ]

f

SANCTI NICHOLAI

in Thanet OMNIUM SANCTORUM

in Thanet Nulla est ecclesia

[blank]

xexmt [ ?] *

V. D. Jasp. Hopkyns C. D. Pat. Browne C. nullus

ex

'

ex

MONCTON

V. M. Ro . Seales C.

D. Wi. Milles

BIRCHINGTON WOODDE DECANATUS BRIDGE

[f. 70r .]

V. D. Ro . Browne Ri . Shipwest Wi . Turnner

CHILLHAM

Cant xxvjto

'

I.

Billa

P.

Septembris

Al. Ames

Ro . Castlen R. M. Nic. Harpesfelde C. D. Wi . Deacon expedit per Archdeaconum [sic $

BYSSHOPPISBORN

]

'

‫مت‬ R. D. He. Latham ‫قرب‬

WICKHAM

C.

Cant xxvjto

'

I.

Septembris

‫مت‬ P.

Billa PATRICKESBORN

Ad comparendum Cant xxvjo Septembris et tunc exhibendam billam et examinand fore de

'

'

Ja. Owen R . Fforstall

egrotat

residet

nullus

'

Ri . Swynford Ri. Swynford [ again] nullus V. C. nullus

I.

P.

Jo. Claramore Jo. Stokes Wi . Denwodde

provisione facta meant for ' exempt.

I.e. exempt.' * Probably ' Marked in Thomas of Elmham's cadastral map, drawn c. 1400 (Chronicle

of St. Augustine's , Canterbury , ed . A. H. Davis, 1934, precedingp. 1). It has now disappeared through coast erosion .

I.e. for the cure to be served ? § I.e. discharged by the Archdeacon.

ARCHDEACON

HARPSFIELD'S VISITATION RETURNS

347

V. D. Wi . Herringe

LYTTELBORNE

Cant xxvjto Septembris Fiat ordo pro delapidacione domus vicarie de bonis vicarii Ad exhibendam billam Cant 70v. . [ ]

'

I.

P.

Nic. Reynard

Ri. Strong

Jo. Durrannt Geo . Owen

'

f CHARTHAM

R. M. Jo . Mylles

C.

D. Nicholls

Cant xxvjto Septembris

'

Bill BRIDGE HARDES MAGNA

Cant xxvjto

'

Septembris

Billa

‫نح‬ C.

nullus Vocentur Cant ‫ من‬D. Nic . Knewestubbe R. ‫ نن‬D. Ro. [ blank C. ] Jo. Cullinge

'

‫هن‬

non residet

Wi. Bryce

Wi . Cullinge Jo . Spaigne

STELLINGE

Cant xxvjto Septembris

'

Billa CRUNDALL

Cant xxvjto Septembris

'

Billa

‫قرت‬

C.

I. ‫مت‬ P. RUE

R. C.

I. P.

[f. 71r.]

WYE C. Cant xxvjto Septembris I.

'

Billa BOUGHTON

ALOUPHE

P.

blank] [He . Kyet

Th. Bayly Pa. White

Hu . Vnderdowne D. Jo . Porter nullus Ri . Hawkes Jo. Weston Geo . Carter Dav. Yonge

D. Th. Sothebye * Wi . Glouer

Wi. Payne

Ro . Allarde

Geo . Hall

V. D. Hu. David

Dischardged at Asheforde STURMOUTHE

Cant xxvjto

'

Septembris et tunc ad exhibendam billam

R. D. Wal. Jones deinde iudex verbo C. Mi. Elgar sequestrauit v libri [sic . Jode I. And ] Ro. Jervis remanentes in manibus

firmarii debendos

Previously curate of Chart Sutton . Appointed by John Rose of Wye an overseer of his will, dated 30 May 1540. "A fellow of Wye College at time of surrender, 1545. His burial is recorded in the earliest Wye register under 11 July 1560 (A.C. , xxviii , 318).

348

ARCHDEACON

HARPSFIELD'S VISITATION RETURNS

Fiat sequestracio P. fructuum pro reparacionibus

non moniti

Jode habet in mandatis quod incipiat reparare domos [sic] dicte rectorie * respectuatur vsque in xxvjt Septembris BARHAM C. D. Wi . Thomson I. St. . Lawrence Wi Horne P. He. Hawpeny Ri . Derne BEKISBORN Memorandum to V. D. Th. Wyse speke to Master Vicarius iniunctus Al. Harlackenden I. est ad deserviendum Lovelac / for the Jo . Perryn cure de PatrickesP. Wi . Grydyron reparacions born et / Bredge alterJo. Kember billa egrotat nis vicibus donec alias provideatur et quod parochiani ibidem moneantur adire Bekisborn hijs diebus quibus diuina . . . sunt ibidem celebrata

/

/

/

KYNGESTON

R. D. Ro . Russell

Billa Cant xxvjto '

Septembris

[ . 71v.]

f WALTHAM

C.

D. Elegidius [sic Wollarte

I.

Arkyn Walkeys Th. Hosekyns

P.

Vi. Nethersole

]

Ja. Aden

V. D. Rog. Appowell

Cant xxvjto Septembris I.

'

Th. Hammond Jo. Boldinge

P. Jo . Pilcherde

Billa

Ri. Pesinge

MOLASHE

C.

Cant xxvjto Septembris I.

' Billa

D. Ro . Linnes

Wi. Wood

Nic. Essex P. Reg. Carrys

Jo. Wanstall

iuxta V. D. Ger. Lynche egrotat Jo. White Ri. Smythe I. Cant xxvjto Th. Bisshoppe mortuus Th. Hollynden PRESTON

Wingham

'

P. Th. Hugham Ri . Welles

Septembris

Billa

C. D. He . Jobson I. Th. Gardner

STODMERSHE

Bill

* 1.e. the order is postponed.

de Patrickesborn begun and crossed out above line.

I.e. Erconwald.

'

ARCHDEACON

HARPSFIELD'S VISITATION RETURNS

Cant' xxvjto Septembris

P.

BROKE

Cant xxvjto

'

Septembris ad exhibendam billam Cant

'

349

Jo . Dyer Jo. Parker * Jo . Cowper R. D. Ro . Gare egrotat . Essex I. Pet Ro . Hamond Adman P. Jo . Dentes

R. D. Ri . Stertover

CHILLENDEN

Cant xxvjto

'

I.

Septembris

P.

He . Ffranckelen Cle. Dyer

egrotat

Wi. Taylor Ri. Mude Th. Craye

Billa

Wi . Ffene

[ . 72r.]

f

PETHAM

Cant xxvjto Septembris

'

V. D. Art . Bvtler I. Nic.. Skelton Memorandum pro C'rte et Wi Courte et [ sic] Gilbert pro campanis P.

Billa ELMESTON

Jo . Awoodd ecclesie He. Parrett R. D. Ger. Lynche C. [blank ]

Rector habet in mandatis ad monendos iconomos et [sic de parochianis ad comparendum Cant xxvjto Septembris proxim GODMERSHAM V. D. Th. Thomson

]

'

'

CHALLOCK

R. D. Wi. Pyock

ICKHAM

exhempt exhempt exhempt

C. [blank WELL * Anthony Maye of Fordwich presented for w'holding of certen goodes from the Church and hath nor will make any accompt, and also pulled down the rode wt Mary and John. And also he had xv bolles of pewter and a bar of iron that was in the rode loft .

John Parker of Stodmarsh for w'holding of a vestment of blewe sattyn, and that he awayed the sepulchre there.

They present that ther were two houses taken from the said Church; and that their steple is like to falle and that they have nothing to repaire w'all unless they may have the said two houses " From a presentment itrelating to Stodmarsh, time of Queen Mary (A.C., xxxi , 109) .

This chapel is mentioned in a presentment before CommissaryRobert Collens also in the time of Queen Mary as follows : They present that the Chappell of Well is putte to a prophane use for wher the parish of Ickham were accustomyedin the rogation weke to have Masse song ther, now ther is nothing wher w'all to minister . And there was such a savor of hogg skynnes that no man colde abide in the Chappell for

]

"

"

stinck thereof.

" Item they present Mr Isaac for that he hath made lofts ther, in the said Chappell for corne and haye, so that divyne service cannot be ther mynystred .

And also hath made ther a workhousefor a wever and a kennell for his hounds" (Ibid., 107). Note continued overleaf .

[

]

350

ARCHDEACON

HARPSFIELD'S VISITATION RETURNS

[f. 72v.]

ADDESHAM

Cant xxvjto

'

R. C.

[[blank ] blank ]

Septembris et tunc ad exhibendam billam et examinand fore de provisione facta

'

STAPLE

OVERLANDE

C. C. C.

GODNESTON

C.

WINGHAM

ASSHE

D. Wi . Harwood D. Ro . Charles

exhempt

[blank]*

D. Ant. Rogers V. D. Wi. Lynche Ric . Omer I. Th.. Gibbes Wi Penny St. Soly P. Th . Harplytt Jo. Broke Edw . Slaughter

[ . 73r.]

f NONNYNGTON

C.

D. Dav. Robynson

FFLETE

C.

WYMYSING WELDE§

[blank]

[Blank]

exhempt

[ff. 73v. and 74r. blank] [f. 74v .]

M faded

de bonis Lewes Ric . Gates petit -xls iuratus Gibson of Kennarton petit de bonis huiusmodi xjs Harry Biam Th. Richardes faded Harry Malam Bilsington Wi . Salmon Jo. Colsole Wi . Darbie egrotat There are also presentments of this period from the parishes of River,

[

]

[

]

Wotton , Hythe , Goodnestone , Dover, Petham, Patrixbourne, Thanington, Nackington , St. Laurence (Thanet), Burmarsh, Mersham, Romney, Bilsington, Chislet, Woodnesborough, Elmested, Stodmarsh, Overland, Barfreston, Wingham, Wymingswold , Chilham, Stowting, and Folkestone.

They present that the Chapel of Overland is destytute of a Curate (Ibid., 109).

Thomas Engelham, gentilman , and his wif and certen of his housholde presented for that they have not been at the parish Church by one moneth before this presentment, and that the said Thomas nor his wif have not ben at Church at the tyme of geving the hollywater nor hath gon in procession sythen the commandment was they sholde " (Ibid. , 107).

A chapelry near Ash. § Wymingswold . " Mr. William Hamond presented for that he toke away the roodelofte, and the fownte, a crosse covered wt lead, a crosse covered w¹ iron , certen led out of the steple to let in pygyons, and cut off the crosse beame that lay crosse the chauncell (Ibid ., 110).

In margin : " Iuramentum rectoris ibidem."

"

"

"

ARCHDEACON

Th. Godderde Raynarde Jo . Harte Geo .

Jo . Ffrankis

Chr. Ray Sitingborne Pet . Godfrey egrotat

Ruckinge

Wi . Abot Lidd Jo. Berrye

Bonyngton

Th . Knyghte Jo . Swifte Jo. Lyford egrotat

351

HARPSFIELD'S VISITATION RETURNS

Th. Man Newington

[On a slip, pasted at the end]

Folkestone

Th. Hunte Folkeston Th . Baker Th . Kees Aduoetur Ro. Holliday Ro. Dierband Iverchurche Jo. Harte Wi . Rouse

Nota quod comparent

]

FROM VOLUME Z.3.5 [ after Visitation of 1556

[ . 377.

f

]

Apud Fauersham xjo Septembris Bonorum Roberti Aberye de Fauersham abintestato decedentis quorum emanauit administracio Elisabeth relicte primitus iurate etc obligatur dicta Elisabeth vna cum Willelmo Peper Aberye de Fauersham in viginti marcis ad exhibendum inuentarium citra festum Michaelis solut ij s iiij d Testamentum Jacobi Foxton de Norton Rodmersham executrix Agnes relicta citata comparuit et monita est ad comparendum Cant die Ffoxton Mercurij proxim post Michaelis in ecclesia Omnium

-

'

'

'

Sanctorum ibidem

Ffoxton

Testamentum Ricardi Diggons parochie de Diggons Syttyngborn executrix Joanna relicta probationis onus executrici Postea commissum est onus executrici et habet ad producendos testes ad probandum testamentum

[ . 37v.] Apud Aishford die Sabbati viz xijo Septembris

f

Anno 1558

Bonorum Christoferi Stonas de Leneham / abintestato decedentis quorum emanauit administracioMarco Stonas filio dicti defuncti Alicia relicta renunciante etc Stonas obligantur dictus Marcus et Ricardus Balden de eadem yeomen in triginta libris sterlingorum et ad exhibendum inuentarium citra proxim post Michaelis Bonorum Willelmi Foreman Ffarmer de Stapleherst quorum emanauit administracio

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352

ARCHDEACON

HARPSFIELD'S VISITATION RETURNS

Godliue Mercer relicte etc obligantur Joanes Bayly * de Crambrok * Simo Drayner de eadem de Stapleherst in centum marcis sterlingorum exhib inuentarium xxxv libri vjs viijd Testamentum Margarete Norleyn de Haukeherst executor Willelmus Barlyng probationis onus executori exhib ' inuentarium *queratur inuentarium Testamentum Johannis Homersham * de Hedcron * executor Cristopherus Kelisham etc probatio etc ad exhibendum inuentarium

'

.

xls

....Testamentum Willelmi Harfild de Magna Chart

[f. 387.]

Vs

executrix Helena relicta probatio etc ad exhibendum inuentarium citra festum Animarum etc pro exhibicione recep

'

Testamentum Joannis Wodcocke parochie de Mersham executor Edwardus Wodcocke filius eiusdem probatur iuramentis Willelmi Colman clerici et Agnetis Dod executor habet Wodcock ad comparendum citra proxim post Michaelis ad § acceptandum vel refutandum etc Bonorum Roberti Hitchcocke parochie de Ebney abintestato vt dicitur decedentis quorum emanauit administracioAnne relicte etc iurate etc obligantur dicta Anna Dominus Johannes Kytchin clericus vicarius de Apledore et Willelmus a Wood de Newchurch yeoman Hitcocke marcis libris sterlingorum exhib inuentarium in xlti ** ad summam xix libri xvjs viijd Testamentum Alicie Godfrey de Willisborowe Godfrey defuncte exhibitur per Ricardum Godfrey filium etc Thomas Carpynter parochie de Parva Charte citatus per Tilly ad hos diem et locum ad Carpynter comparendum preconizatus non comparuit [ . 38v. Alixander Harelakynden and his felowes ad exhibendum Martis festo Michaelis Testamentum Willelmi Nicolai Peper de Wormsell debet obiit xl fiat copia pro Peper de Fauersham

'

'

fi

f

]

xij libri to Kenarton church

owing by Mr Horne .... Above the line .

In margin. ager

*

Last three lines much faded. totum Debet Clericus crossed out. . " " ' Vicarius habet inuentarium.

I.e. copy. " The Archdeacon's apparitor or summoner for this deanery.

§ In margin : In margin :

**

"

ARCHDEACON

HARPSFIELD'S VISITATION RETURNS

353

[f. 39r.]

Duodecimo die mensis Decembris Dominus Officialis * iniunxit omnibus rectoribus vicariis curatis et ministris quibuscumque quod singulis diebus Dominicis et fest legant Paraphrasen Erasmi etc parochianis etc Remembraunces The matter of Motie must be tried on Monday wherfore the partie is to be sent for againste

'

viz .

[Torn]

. . . Motie

Kinges matter and Pynes is not removed faded shalbe tried on Monnday com sevenight Master Twaites§ desireth you to talk with his mother Mistress Oxenden and to knowe of her what is to be done and to writ to him therof 39v . . blank] [

[

f

]

* The Official was the judge who presided overthe Archdeacon'sConsistory

Court .

The Paraphrase of Erasmus was ordered to be kept in every church at the beginning of Edward VI's reign.

A different hand from any before. § Edward Thwaites of Esture, in Chilham ? He died in 1550. Connected with the " Holy Maid of Kent.

"

INDEX

TO PARTS I AND II Italics indicate name of a deanery also. * Denotes

in more than one section on same page.

PARISHES AND CHURCHES ( headings of)

Acrise 12 , 16, 299, 343 Adisham 16 , 81, 350 Aldington 12, 261 Alkeham 12, 54 , 297, 340 All Saints ( in Thanet) 346

Appledore 13, 146, 309, 316 Ash 10 , 72, 350 Ashford 13, 116, 312, 319, 351 Badlesmere 15, 277, 309, 334 Bapchild 15, 267, 304, 328 Barfreston 11 , 42, 304 Barham 11 , 76, 301, 348 Bearsted 14, 221, 325 Bekesbourne 10 , 98, 301, 348 Benenden 14, 179, 311, 322 Bethersden 13, 121 , 310, 320 Betteshanger 11, 303 Bewisfield 12, 48 , 298, 341 Bicknor 14, 241, 306, 330 Biddenden 13, 128, 311, 322 Bilsington 13, 264, 317 Birchington 10, 88 , 346 Bircholt 12, 22, 261, 298, 342 Bishopsbourne 11 , 79, 300, 346 Blean 10, 95, 296 , 339 Bobbing 15, 253, 307, 331 Bonnington 13, 263, 318 Borden 15, 254 , 305 , 328 BoughtonAluph 13 , 110, 301, 323, 347 Boughton-under- Blean 15, 284, 335 Boughton Malherbe 13 , 171 , 312, 321 Boughton Monchelsea 14, 199, 326 Boxley 14, 217, 311 , 324 Brabourne 12, 21, 299. 343 Bredgar 15, 255, 304, 328 Bredhurst 224 Brenzett 16 , 166, 318 Bridge 11 , 80, 300, 347 Bromfield 213, 326 Brook 13, 105, 302, 349 Brookland 16 , 164, 317 Buckland ( near Dover) 12 , 66, 342 Buckland (near Faversham) 15, 281, 308, 333 Burmarsh 16 , 158, 310, 319

Canterbury-

All Saints 9, 295 , 337

St. Alphege 9 , 339 St. Andrew 9, 295 , 335 St. Dunstan 9, 295, 338 St. George 9, 294, 335 Holy Cross 9, 295, 337 St. Margaret 9, 296, 338 St. Martin 9, 339 St. Mary Bredin 9 , 296, 338 St. Mary Bredman 9, 295, 336 St. Mary Magdalen 9 , 295 , 336 St. Mary Northgate 9, 295 , 337 St. Mildred 9, 295, 337 St. Paul 9, 295, 336 St. Peter 9, 295 , 336

Hospitals Eastbridge 11 , 137 Maynards 137 St. Jacob 136 St. John 11 , 137 St. Lawrence 11 , 136 Capel-le-Ferne 24, 341 Challock 16 , 111 , 349 Charing 13 , 170 Charlton 12, 67, 298, 342 Chart, Great 13, 312, 321 Chart, Little 13 , 168, 312 , 321 Chartham 16, 286, 300, 347 Cheriton 12, 58, 298, 341 Chilham 16 , 286 , 300, 346 Chillenden 11 , 82, 302, 349 Chislet 10 , 90 , 297, 345 Coldred 11 , 44, 303 Cranbrook 14, 182, 311 , 320 Crundale 106, 301 , 347

Davington 15, 309, 334 Deal 11 , 34 Denton 12, 61 , 299 , 343 Detling 14, 209 Doddington 14, 232, 308, 333

INDEX

DoverSt. James 12, 53, 342 St. Mary 12, 52, 342 St. Peter 12 , 51, 342 Dymchurch 16, 159, 317 Eastchurch 15, 275, 305, 329 Eastling 14, 231, 308, 333 Eastry 11 , 32 Eastwell 13 , 112, 312, 322 Ebony 13, 151 , 310, 318 Egerton 13, 172 Elham 12 , 60, 298, 342 Elmley 307, 331 Elmsted 12, 17, 299, 343 Elmstone 10 , 71 , 302, 344 Ewell , Temple 12 , 64, 298 , 341 Eythorne 11 , 41 , 303 Fairfield 165, 319

Faversham 15, 290, 307, 331, 351 Fleet ( Richborough) 350 Folkestone 12 , 57, 297, 340 Fordwich 10 , 296 , 340 Frinsted 14, 238, 326 Frittenden 13, 123, 311, 322 Godmersham 16, 152, 349 Goodnestone (near Faversham) 15, 309, 334 Goodnestone (near Sandwich) 10 , 75, 350 Goudhurst 14, 186, 311, 324 Graveney 15, 283, 308, 334 Guston 12, 47, 342

Hackington 11 , 43, 296, 339 Halden 13, 135, 312, 322 Halstow 15, 251, 305, 329 Ham 11 , 31 , 302 Harbledown 10, 296 , 339 Hospital 11 " , Lower 9, 296 , 340 Hardres

Hardres , Upper 16, 155, 300, 347 Harrietsham 14, 224, 325 Hartlip 15, 245 , 305, 329 Harty 15, 308, 334 Hastingleigh 12, 18 , 299, 344 Hawkhurst 14, 178, 312, 321 Hawkinge 12, 56, 298 , 341 Headcorn 13 , 126, 312, 321 Herne 10 , 92, 346 Hernhill 15, 283, 335 Hinxhill 13 , 139, 317 Hoath 10 , 91 , 346 Hollingbourne 14 , 223 Hope 16 , 161 , 310, 319 Horton , Monks 12, 25, 299, 343 Hothfield 13 , 175, 312, 321 Hougham 12, 54, 298, 341 Hucking 223 Hurst 13, 262

355

Hythe 12, 26, 344 Hospital 12 53 Nicholas 344 ‫ ود‬St. Ickham 10 , 68, 349 Ivychurch 16 , 157 Iwade 15 , 272, 306, 330 Kennardington 13 , 143, 309, 319 Kennington 13, 113, 312 , 322 Kingsdown ( near Sittingbourne) 14 ,

235, 306, 331

Kingsnorth 13 , 102, 317 Kingston 11 , 78, 301, 348 Knowlton 11 , 303 Langdon, East 11 , 37, 302 Langdon, West 11 , 38, 303 Langley 14, 210 , 326 Leaveland 15, 278, 309, 334 Leeds 14, 212, 325 Lenham 14 , 225, 311, 324 Leysdown 15, 276, 306, 330 Linton 194, 326 Littlebourne 10 , 67 , 300, 347 Loose 14, 197 Luddenham 15, 280, 308, 333 Lydd 16, 162 Lydden 12, 63, 297, 341 Lyminge 12 , 59, 344 Lympne 12, 258, 309, 316 Lynsted 14, 236, 307, 331, 332 Maidstone 14, 214 Marden 14 , 190, 327 Mersham 13 , 317 Midley 16 , 163, 310, 319 Milsted 14, 237, 306, 329 Milton (near Canterbury) 9, 296, 339 Milton (near Sittingbourne) 15, 271 , 305, 328 Minster ( in Sheppey ) 15 , 274, 306, 330 Minster (in Thanet) 10 , 85, 297, 345 Molash 16, 301, 348 Mongeham , Great 11 , 33 , 303 Mongeham , Little 303 Monkton 10 , 84, 346 Murston 15, 269 , 305, 329

Nackington 9, 296, 340 Newchurch 16, 132

Newenden 14, 132, 311, 323 Newenham 14, 287, 308 , 333 Newington (near Hythe) 12 , 58, 297, 328, 340 Newington ( near Sittingbourne) 15, 248, 304 Nonnington 11 , 83, 350 Northbourne 11 , 33, 303 Norton 15, 279 , 308, 333

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INDEX

Oare 15, 281, 308, 334 Orlestone 13, 141, 310, 318 Ospringe 15, 289, 307, 331 Otham 14, 209, 325 Otterden 14, 230 , 308, 335 Overland 350 Oxney (near Dover) 37 Paddles worth 12, 344 Patrixbourne 10 , 97, 300, 346 Petham 16, 153, 302, 349 Pevington 13 , 121 , 323 Pluckley 13 , 118, 310, 320 Postling 12 , 19, 299 , 344 Preston (near Faversham ) 15, 307, 332 Preston ( near Wingham) 10 , 70, 301, 348

Snargate 16, 166, 318 Snave 16, 167, 318 Stallisfield 14, 228 , 308, 333 Stanford 12, 20, 344 Staple 10 , 73, 350 Staplehurst 14, 183, 311, 324 Stelling 16 , 155, 300, 347 Stockbury 15, 242, 305, 329 Stodmarsh 302, 348 Stonar 303 Stone ( near Faversham ) 15 Stone ( in Oxney) 13 , 148, 318 Stourmouth 10, 71 , 301, 347 Stowting 12, 22, 299, 343 Sturry 10, 296, 339 Sutton (near Dover) 11 , 39 , 304 Sutton, Chart 14, 200, 326 Sutton, East 14, 204, 311, 325 Swalecliff 10, 93, 297, 345 Swinfield 12 , 55, 298 , 341

Queenborough 15, 273, 306, 330

Tenterden 13 , 133, 312, 320 Rainham 15, 246, 305, 328 Reculver 10 , 89 Ringwold 11 , 36 , 303 Ripple 11 , 32 , 303 River 12 , 65, 298, 341 Rodmersham 15, 266, 306, 330 Rolvenden 14, 129, 312, 322 Romney, New 16, 162 Romney, Old 16, 164, 310, 319 Royton 326 Ruckinge 13, 140, 309, 316 St. John 10 , 87, 297, 345 St. Lawrence 10 , 86, 297, 345 St. Margaret- at-Cliffe 12, 50, 342 St. Mary-in-the- Marsh 16 , 160, 309, 318 St. Nicholas -at-Wade 10 , 83 , 346 St. Peter 10, 87, 297, 345 Saltwood 12, 27 , 344 Sandhurst 14 , 176, 311, 322

SandwichSt. Bartholomew's Hospital 11 , 30 St. Clement 11 , 29, 302 St. Mary 11 , 27, 302 St. Peter 11 , 28, 302 Seasalter 10 , 94, 297, 344

Selling (near Faversham) 15, 285, 307, 332 Sellinge ( near Hythe ) 12 , 259, 315 Sevington 13, 136, 317 Shadoxhurst 13, 100, 310, 316 Sheldwich 15, 277, 307 , 332 Shepherds well 11 , 45, 304 Sholden 11 , 34, 304 Sittingbourne 15, 270 , 304, 328 Smarden 13 , 124, 311, 320 Smeeth 12 , 260

Teynham 15 , 282, 307, 332 Thanington 9, 296, 338 Thornham 14, 220, 325 Throwley 15, 288, 308, 332 Tilmanstone 11 , 40, 303 Tonge 15, 268, 305, 329 Tunstall 15, 256, 306, 330 Ulcombe 14 , 206 , 311, 324 Upchurch 15, 250, 307, 331

Valence , Sutton 14, 202, 325

Waldershare 11, 42, 304 Walmer 11 , 35, 304 Waltham 16 , 154, 301, 348 Warden 15, 276, 306, 330 Warehorne 13, 142, 309, 316 Well 10 , 99, 349

Westbere 10, 297, 345 Westcliff 12, 49, 298, 342 Westwell 13, 114 Whitfield (see Bewisfield) Whitstable 10, 94 , 296, 344 Wichling 14 , 234, 306, 330 , 335 Wickambreux 10 , 69, 300, 346 Willesborough 13, 138, 265, 310, 319 Wingham 10, 74, 350 Wittersham 13, 149 Womenswold 11 , 45, 350 Wood 10, 346 Woodchurch 13, 99 Woodnesborough 11 , 46 , 302 Wootton 12, 62, 299 , 343 Wormshill 14, 240, 325 Worth 11 , 31 Wye 13 , 107, 301 , 347

INDEX

357

PLACES Acrise 78 Adisham 78

Aldermanbury ( London) 107 Aldington 260, 263 Aldington (near Maidstone) 220 Alkeham 25 All Saints (Canterbury) 299

Appledore 186, 313, 352 Ashford 104, 110, 229, 291, 293,

313,351

Badlesmere 277

Bapchild 313 Battle Abbey (Sussex) 107 Bearsted 218, 327 Bekesbourne 313 Bethersden 313 Biddenden 126 Bilsington 313, 350; (priory) 264 Bircholt 313 Bishopsbourne 77 Blean 137 Bobbing 313 Bonnington 351 Borden 245* , 313 Boughton Aluph 313 Boughton Malherbe 127 Boughton Monchelsea 189 , 194, 327 Boxley 313 Brabourne 19 , 22, 190 Bredgar 323 Brenzett 167 , 313 Bridge 97 , 98, 348 Bromfield 212 ; (priory) 213 Brookland 313 Buckland (hospital) 67 Burley chantry (Charing) 313 Burmarsh 159 Calais 186, 224 Canterbury passim

Charlton ( near Dover) 292 Chart, Great 352 Chart, Little 121 , 352 Chartham 315 Chilham 291, 332 Coldred 313 Cranbrook 119, 127, 129 , 132 , 147, 177, 352

Denton 62 Detling 214 Dover 63, 65, 147 , 291, 292 Maison Dieu 259 St. James 292 St. Mary 291 , 292 St. Peter 291 Dymchurch 158, 293 Eastbridge 313 Eastchurch 276

Eastwell 111 , 313 Ebony 148 , 352 Elmeston 86, 313 Elmley 313 Elmsted 19 Ewell 48, 65

Fairfield 292, 293

Faversham 331, 351 , 352 Folkestone 351 Frinsted 240 Godmersham 111 Goodnestone (near Faversham ) 314 Goudhurst 327 Gracehill (Benenden ) 180 Grain 87 Graveney 314

Hackington 138 , 338 Halden 313 Harbourland ( near Maidstone) 214.

Hardres , Lower 313 Hardres , Upper 313

Harrington (Hackington) 138 Hartlip 245, 373 Hawkhurst 342, 352 Hawkinge 24, 313 Headcorn 147, 313, 323, 352

Herne 138 Hernhill 243 Hoath 345 Hollingbourne 223 , 224 Holy Cross (Canterbury) 336 Hoo (Sussex) 132 Hope 293 Horton 343

Hougham 51 , 313 Hucking 221, 222, 327, 330 Hythe 38, 262, 291 Ivychurch 313, 351 Kennardington 313, 350, 352 Kennington 116 Kingsnorth 313, 323 Kingston 78 Knowlton 82 Langdon , East 38 Langdon, West ( priory) 39 Langley 313 Leaveland 314 Leeds 212 , 213 * , 327 ; ( priory ) 212 Lenham 327, 351 Lincoln ( diocese) 41 Linton 193, 214, 313 Loddington 214 London 22 , 28, 136, 255 Loose 214 Luddenham 314 , 333, 335

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INDEX

Lydd 291, 292 , 351 Lyminge 83 Lynsted 235 Maiden croft (Langley) 211 Maidstone 194, 195, 219, 254 ;

(college ) 197

Malling 197

Marden 313, 327 Mersham 352 Merton College, Oxford 98 Milksted 235 Milton ( near Sittingbourne ) 327 Molash 111 Mongeham , Little 313 Monkton 88

Nackington 313 Newchurch 293, 352 Newenham

233,

333

Newington (near Sittingbourne) 313, 351

Nonnington 46 Northgate (Canterbury) 78 Norton 314

St. Mary in the Marsh 293 St. Mildred's (Canterbury) 137 St. Paul ( Canterbury) 30, 93 , 313 St. Paul ( London) 22

Saltwood 291 Sandwich 291 St. Peter's 304, 313 Sevenoaks 133 Sheen (Charterhouse ) 190 Shouffotte (near Maidstone) 214 Sittingbourne 250, 313, 329, 351 Smallhythe 134 Smeeth 261 Stanford 20 Staplehurst 79, 194, 208 , 327, 351, 352 Stone 151 , 293 Stowting 25, 313, 343 Suffolk 122 Sundridge 199 Sutton, East 127, 209 , 327 Sutton (near Dover) 313 Swalecliff 313

Tarring (Sussex) 97 Teynham 244, 333 Thanington 313 Thornham 222, 323 Throwley 278 , 309, 314, 334 Trigges (Goudhurst) 187 Tunstall 313

Orlestone 323 Otham 222 Otterden 333 Oxford (diocese) 113

Patrixbourne 81, 348 Playstole 212 Pluckley 121 , 192 Preston ( near Wingham) 315

Ulcombe 200, 206 , 327 Valence , Sutton 204, 327

Queenborough 274

Walmer 37 Waltham 107 , 313 Warehorne 167, 313 Well 69 Westcliff 51 Willesborough 352 Willingham (Essex) 72 Willington (Maidstone) 214 Wingham 75; (college ) 46 Wittersham 292

Rainham 245, 313

Reculver 91 Ripple 313 River 292 Rodmersham 307, 331, 351 Rolvenden 133 Romney, New 291, 292 , 293 Romney, Old 163 Ruckinge 350 Rye ( Sussex) 134

Womenswold

350

Woodchurch 292

St. Gregory's priory ( Canterbury) 228 St. Martin's (Canterbury) 336 St. Mary Bredin (Canterbury) 338 St. Mary Bredman ( Canterbury) 337

Woodnesborough 36 Wormshill 352 Wye 107, 110, 313

Yoke, Half (near Maidstone) 214

PATRONS Adams , Master 234 All Souls College, Oxford 162, 224, 250 Archbishop of Canterbury 16, 17, 19, 21, 25, 27, 29 , 33, 34 * , 35, 37 , 38 , 39, 40 , 47 , 48 , 50 , 51 , 54 * , 56, 57 , 63 , 65 , 66, 72, 75, 83* , 86, 89, 90 , 92, 94, 98,

99 , 103 , 107,111,113 , 114, 118 , 121 , 124, 128, 132, 135, 140, 146, 150, 152, 154, 176, 190, 212, 213, 214 , 223, 228,256,261 , 268 , 276,280, 281 Archdeacon of Canterbury 232, 236,

258,272,282,285

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INDEX Baker , Sir Jo. 102, 123, 183 Bishop of Chichester 267

King and Queen 197

Cheyney, Sir Th. 97, 274, 275, 276 Christ Church, Canterbury 32 , 49 , 67, 70, 84, 85 , 87, 88, 94 , 105, 133, 148, 151, 164, 165, 168, 182, 251 , 265, 271, 277 Christ Church College, Oxford 178 Coole, Master 61 Cromer , Master 269

Merton College, Oxford 60 Moile, Sir Th . 112, 231 North, Lord 58 Palmer, Sir He. 55, 74 Porrege , Jo. 266

Queen 87, 162, 235, 259, 270 , 280 Reader , Th. 255 Roche, Lady Margaret 254 Rochester Cathedral 116 , 129, 186, 199, 200 , 202, 217 , 221, 242 , 245, 246, 279

Damsell, Sir Wi. 110, 166 Digges, Master 62 Eton College 248 Ffogge , Sir Jo. 58

St. John's College, Cambridge 126 St. Paul's Cathedral , London 170 Sakvile , Sir Ri. 64 Scotte , Master Th. 141 , 261 Seintleger , Sir Ant . 225 , 230, 264 Somer, Lord 142 Spilman, Th., Esq. 153 Swerder , Master Wi. 95

Grene, Master 253 Griggbee, Al. 194 Guylford, Sir Jo. 179 Haddes, He., gent. 238 Hendley , Esq . [? 209 Henman, Th. 237 Hoorn, Master He . 143, 145

]

Tufton , Master 175

Kempe , Lady Eleanor 22 Kempe , Sir Th. 106

Wotton , Th., Esq. 220

CLERGY Adowne, Wi. 38 Alday, Jo. 295 , 339 Alforth, Th. 303 Almanson, Wi. 298

Alstone , Ri. 302 Anthonye, Ro . 114 Aphoell, Rog . 301, 348 Appowell, Griffin (see Powell) 332 Aprice, Lewis 309, 316 Atkinson , Geo. 122, 182, 311, 320 Austen, Th. Alston 37

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]

Badcock , Chr. 114, 295, 337 Bailie , Jo . 248 Baker , St. 311, 320 Barker, Wi. 118, 121 , 133 (?) , 310 Barlinge, Jo. 224 Barrie, Wi. 139 Bartel, Ant. 341 Barton, Alex . 44, 303 Basleden , Jo. 294, 335 Becke , Reg. [Boke] 58, 297, 340 Bennet , Th . 32 Best, Jo. 317 Bewley, Jo. 330 Bland, Ro. 319 Blaunshe , Nic . 250, 331 Blonde , Ra. 317 Blossome , Wi . 295 , 336 Bocher , Ri . 299

Bolecke , Tancred 325 Bownell, Th. 328 Brette , Nic . 300 Brigges , Wi. 302 Brittayne, Jo. 296, 339 Bromley, Jas. 97 Browne, Pat . 45, 66, 76, 300*, 301, 322*, 346 Browne, Ro . 259, 286 Bucke , Jo. 318 Bucke, Wi. 223, 241, 306, 330 Buckherst, Ri. 321 Bullifante , Edw. 175, 321 Bullock, Geo. 303 Buncker, Wi. 256, 306, 330 Burcher, Ri . 19 , 20, 344 Burges, Th. 328 Burnell, Jo . 54, 297, 340 Burton, Th. 33, 303 Butler, Art . 302, 349 Cailie , Th. 209, 325 Calye , Th. 318 Cannon , Th . 310, 318 Carden, Th. 60, 298 , 342 317 Carlell, Carliar, Jo. [Carlyon] 124, 320 Caryer, Ro . 18, 21, 299 * , 304, 343, 344 Chalfont, Chr. 265 Champion , Nic . 312, 321

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INDEX

Chapman , Th . 318 Charles , Ro. 74, 302, 304 , 350 Charnock, Jo. 301 Chernwood , Ro. 90 Clement , Gre . 317 Clercke , Wi. 254, 272 Clerke, He. 59 Clerke , Jo. 33, 303 Clerke , Ro . 27, 344 Colens, Mart. 163, 310, 319 Colinson , Th . 266, 306, 307 Collens , Ro ., commissary 291 and n 316 and n ; 349n Colman , Wi . 103 Coope , Wi. 94, 296 Cortupe, Ja. 310 Cotton, Dav. 113, 312, 322 Cranmer, Ri . 267, 268 , 305 *, 328, 329 Crise, Jo. 162, 292 Crofte , Jo. 35 Crosse, Ri . 96, 296

;

133 Dartner, David, Geof . 303 , .

110, 112n, 301, 322, 323 , David Hu 347

David, Jo. 58 , 298 , 341

Davys , Ri. 93, 345 Day, Ra . 309* Daye , Jo. 214 Deacon , Wi. 79, 303, 346 Delamere , Jo. 276 Deve, Th. 307, 332 Doowell, Ra. 296, 338 Dorrell , Wi. 134, 312, 321 Dover, Ri . Thornden, Bishop of 76, 79 , 81, 300, 312 Dovinson, Wi . 62 , 296, 299, 338 Drewrie, Jo. 254, 305 Dunham, Geo. 224

Edw. 310 , 312 Eley , Wi . 308 Elgar, Mi. 347 Emotte, Ri. 308 Eton, Ric . 318 Evans, Hu . 47 , 66, 302, 341

-,

Ffarmer, Jo. 309 Ffeldinge , Th. 232 , 289 Ffissher, Jo. 300*, 308 Ffissher, Th. 295 , 336 Ffourd , Ri . 61 , 78 , 299 , 343 *

Fr. 334 Ffuller , Jo. 116, 312, 319 Fild , Th. 308 Gare , Ro . 105, 302 , 349 Gates, Ro . 306 Gibson , Th. 303 Gilbancke , Lancelot 317 Girdeler, Jo. 99

Glasier , Hu . 34 Glathos (or Gloffs ?) , Ja. 134, 321 Goodhewe , Dun . 296, 338 Gregory , Cl. 23, 299 , 343 Grene, Chr. 178 Grenewood , Ro . 220, 325

Gridgesby, Al . 326 Griffithe , Th. 318, 319 Griffyn , Th . 312 Guye , Wi. 99

Hale, Blessed Jo., martyr 1535, 74 Hall, Pet. 312, 322 Hall , Wi . 199, 326

Halle , Jo. 29 , 46, 302 * Halman, Ro. [Holman] 235, 330,

331, 333 Halsall, Ro . 320 Hardwicke 293 , 318 Hare, Ro. [ Gare 302 Harpsfield, Nic . 26, 27, 344, 346, and passim under Dominus and Archidiaconus Harrys, Jo. 328 Harwood, Wi . 350 Hawk , Wi., canon of St. Paul's 22 Hawke, Chr. 161 , 298, 342 Hay, Fr. 333 Haye , Nic . 260 Haynes , Ro . 22, 190, 326 Hearyng, Wi . 67 Henden , Th. 183, 311, 324 Hering, Wi. 300, 347 Herne, Gil. 17, 299, 343 Hevisede , He. 345 Hewet, Th . 89 , 91, 92, 297, 346 Heydon, Geo. 124, 311 Heydon , Ri. 263 Hichecock, Jo . 296, 340 Hicklinge , Th. 253, 307, 331 Higges , Geo. 95, 296, 339 Hill, Ro. 319 Hobson , Jo. 271 Holmes, Ant . 299 Hopkins, Jasper 83, 297, 345, 346 Horwood, Wi. 240, 325 *

]

Howe,<< 249 Howell , Ro . 63

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Ickham , Th. 295, 335 Inckpen, Bar. 296, 339 Jackson, Rog. 42 , 45, 304* Jackson , Rol. 228, 329 James , Chr. 309 Jobson , He. 302 , 348 Johnson, Jo. 92, 346 Johnson, Wi. 212 , 325 Jones , Rog. 311, 324 Jones , Wal . 71, 301 , 347 Julian , Jo. 63 , 121, 320 Jumpe, Wi. 310, 319

INDEX Keble , Edw . 334 Keete , Ri . 258, 309, 316 Kelby, Edw . 332 Kenrycke, Hu. 275, 329 Kierye, Ri . 309 Knewstube, Nic . 48 , 64, 65 , 300 , 337 , 347 Knighte, Edm. 296, 340 Knighte, Jo. 321 Kyrrye , Ric . 316 Kytchyn , Jo. 292, 309, 316, 352

Lambart , Jo. 52, 60 Lambe, Wi. 255, 304, 328 309 Lamberte, Lamberte, Hu . 94, 301, 344 Langley, Th. 312, 321 Latham, He. 69, 300, 346 Lawson, Jo . 87 , 345 Lede, Jo . 260, 261 Leese, Jo. 311 Lewgar, Jo . 219 Liffove, Jerm. 100 Linnes, Ro. 348 Lommes, Rog. 301 Longeley, Dav . [Lomley ] 237, 306, 328

Lowryns , Aug. 32, 35 Luntwicke , Th . 197 Lynch , Ger . 71, 86 , 297, 302, 348, 349 Lynch, Wi. 72, 350 Makeander , Th . 73 Mann , Geof . 33 Mann, Wi . 32, 303 * Marchall, Wi . 103, 317 Mason , Wi. 293, 310 * Mathewe, Ra . 310 Mathos, Dav. 126, 312 Matteres, Chr. 312 Maupas, Ri . 307 Mercer , Wi. 56 , 298, 341, 342 Metcalf, Ph. 16, 299, 343 Milles, Jo. 36, 303 Minge, Edw . 283, 300, 335 Morrey, He . 295 Morten, Nic . 271, 305, 328 Mowberie, Ro. 339 Mylles, Jo . 300 , 347 Myllis , Wi. 88, 89 Nethersole , St. 42, 304 Newbey, Jo. 300 Nicholles , Th . 43, 296 , 339, 340 347 Nicholls, Norton, Cl . 281, 307, 331, 333 Oddaye, Denis 223 Oliver, Th. 100, 102, 316, 317 Ollhetson, Jo. 309 Orphewe , Wi . 312, 322, 323

Parkehurst, Ri. 59, 344 Parret, Edw. 279

361

Pettinden, And . 36, 304 Piat, Wi. [Pyock] 68, 69, 349 Pickard, Geo. 85, 315 Pivall , Fr. 8, 55, 298 Place , Pet. 344 Platt , Jo. 195 Pole, Cardinal passim , and also under Archiepiscopus , Cardinalis and Legatus Pole , Dav. 205 Poole , St. 200, 326 Poore , Nic . 248 Porter, Jo. 106, 301, 347 Powell, Griffin 288, 308, 309, 332 Power, Nic . 304, 328 Pratte, Ri. 322 Prescott , Ra . 295 , 337 Pyborn , Ro . 34, 304

Quynthine, Wi. 26, 344 Rainsford, He. 49 , 50, 342 Rede, Jo. 206, 324 Reiman, Ja. 280, 308, 334 Reve, Wal . 317 Reynenoffe , Cl. 305 Richardson , Chr. 304 Rieley, Th . 259 Ro . 29 Ro . 347 Robertes , Wi. 309 Roberts , Edw . 205 , 325 Roberts , Ri . 234, 306, 330, 335 Robinson, Jo. 83 Robson , Jo. 310 Robynson , Dav . 350 Rogers , Ant. 75 , 350 Rogers , Ri . 230 , 309 , 335 Russell , Jo. 54 , 298, 341 Russell , Ro . 78, 301 , 348 Ryvers , Jo. 344

Saier, Edw. 87, 297, 345

Salisburye , 303 Sanden, Th . 319 Seintleger , Art . 206, 223, 311, 324 Senden, Wi . 311 Serles, Ro. 85 Shaife , Jo . [Sheryf] 274 , 330 * Sharland, Th . 70 Shefe, Ro. [Showe ] 236 , 307, 331, 332 Sherrington, Ri . 57, 297, 340 Sherwood , Ro . 297 Signet , He. [alias Surand] 264 Singleton, Wi. 46, 302, 336 Slaney, Edw . 225 , 311, 312 Slaney, Th. 231 , 308, 332 Smard , Jo. [Steward] 27, 302 Smith, Ro. 186 Smythe, Marmaduke 98, 301 Smythe , Th. 316 Sothebie , Th . 107, 301, 347 Spendlove , Jo. 133, 320

362

INDEX

Sprinte, Th. 88 , 297, 345 Squire, Gre. 210 , 325 * Stafford, Wi. [Stapleforde] 282, 307 * ,

332 Stanney , Th. 332 Stapleton , Cl. 299 Stenes, Th . 93, 297 Stertover , Ri. 302, 303, 349 Steward, Jo . 27, 302 Stone , Dav . 39 Stone , Jo . 68, 339 Surand , He. alias Signet 264 Swane , He. 317 Symon , Wi. 322 Symones , Ri. 176

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]

Tailor, Jo . 123, 311, 322

Thompson , Ri. 280 , 308, 333 , 335

Thompson, Ro . 335 Thompson , Th. 111, 349 Thompson , Wi . 62, 299, 348 Townesley, Jo . 250, 307, 311, 331 Trowman, Jo. 283, 308, 329, 334

PARISH

Bery, Jo. 295

Bodle, Ri. 307 Bolden , Th . 304 Botefisshe , Th. 304 Brok, Ri . 295 Bryttyn , Jo . 296 Burden , Jo . 312 Burges, Edm. 304 Bushe , Wi. 299 Byham, He. 309 Byse, Leon. 307 Callege, Ro . 309 Canon, Geo . 305 Churchman, Ri . 299 Chynnynges , Nic . 307 Clarke , Th. 301 Clifton, Ri . 298 Cockson , Jo. 295 Cole, Wi. 295

Coting, Th. 305 Cotland , Th. 295

325, 326

Waters, Ri . 179, 311, 322 Watson, Wi. 41 , 303 Wendon , Nic . 345 Weste , Mi. 245, 305, 329 White, Geo. 238 White , Jo . 324 White, Ri . 186 Whitehorse, Jo. 230 , 309 Whitling , Ra. 310, 319 Willbore , Jo. 70, 84, 297, 301 Wi . 31 Wilson, Geof. 242, 305, 329 Wilson, Th. 317, 318 Windestandlie, Ro . 246 , 304 Wise , Th . 81 , 348 Woddye , Jo . 300 Woddye , Jo . 309

Veyle , Wi . 90

Baccheler , Jo. 310 Backes , Th. 302 Baker, Gi . 297 Bate , Jo. 304 Bechfilde, Geo. 297 Bere, Edw . 307

Ware, Th. 269, 305, 329 Warner, Jo . 224, 325 Warrington , Chr. 202, 204, 210,

Wollarte , Giles 348 Wood , He. 292

Vere, Wi. 297

Abraham, Ro. 310 Alee, Jo . 297 Allyn, Jo. 310 Amner, Jo. 308 Aplebye , Chr. 297

Walkyn , Jo. [Wakelyn] 305, 328 Wall, Jo. 262 Wanmersley, Ro. 311

CLERKS Cowaye, Wi. 296 Cowper , Jo . 298

David, Wi . 296 Deale, Jo. 300 Edman, Hamon 302 Edmonds , Jo. 310 Eldred, Mart. 309 Elgar, Wi . 299 Evans , He. 306 Ffermer, Th. 297 Ffrowde, Th . 312 Frotsam, Jo. 299 Garrod , Th. 298 Geldyche , 295 Giles, Jo. 307 Godden, Jo. 297 Goddyn , Jo. 298 Golde, Wi. 301 Grante , Th . 304* Greder, Wi. 301 Grene , Jo. 305 Grene, Th. 301 Haddocke , Nic . 306 Hardyng, Ro . 300 Harneden, St. 313 Harris , Th . 304 Hawke, Wi. 296

Hawkisby, Jo. 295

Hill, [?].... 303

363

INDEX Hilles, Art . 306 Hilles, Jo . 307 Hoggyn, Wi. 301 Ho.... is..n, Ri. 312 Holmes , Percy 310 Holte, Jo. 311 Horn , Aug. 304 Howsell, Th. 299

Parker, Ri. 303 Parkyn, Ri . 310 Parnell, Th. 310 Pecock , Th. 295 Pelland , Ja. 312 Pette , Ro. 299 Prymer, Ja. 312 Purchesse , Jo. 305 Pyle [or Pyxe ] 308

Hubberd , R . 312

'

Hunte, Ri. 312 Hutton, Jo. 307

Qwested, Wi. 301 Qwydler, St. 303

Jakeson , Wi . 302 Jonkell, Jo. 308 Jonson , Adrian 299 Jonson , Ri . 300

Rede , Geo. 311

Roberts , Ed. 311 Robynes , Jo. 308 Russell , Wi . 310 Ryall , Ri. 300

Kallover , Jo . 309 Kirbie , Th. 305 Knot , Jo. 303

Savage, 308 Segar, He. 304 Sharpe, Th., sen. 311 Shawe , Jo. 308 Shelton , Fr. 302 Sherman , Jo. 311 Slade, Jo . 311 Spark , Ri. 309 Stokes, Jo. 300 Stonehowse , Jo. 300 Sweting, Wi. 294

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Laurence , Jo. 298 Lee , Th. 308 Legatt, Wi. 308* Lockwood, Ro. 302 Lorkyn , Jo. 311

Mallybe, Wal . 297 Marchall, Jo. 312 Marrabell, Wi . 296 Mason , Th . 305 Matteres, Ri . 312 309 Mendford, Mershall, La . 299

Tailor , Ri . 305 311 Taylor, Tynsey, Mat . 309 Tyrrey, Ri. 307

Mershe , Ro . 302 Messinger , Th. 305 Mone , Ant. 311 Mone , Th . 297 Morley, Jo. 305 Myller , Jo. 296 Myston, Ro . 303

Walker , Jo . 295 Water, Ro . 307 Westbech , Ro . 296 Whit, Ja. 299 Wolton , Ri . 302

Nethersole , Wi . 303 Nicolas, Jo. 302

Woode , Wi. 301 Wright , Ma. 296 Wright , Wi. 296 Wyer, Th . 298 Wynston, Th . 296

Odymer , Jo. 312 Osborn , Osw. 298 Owen , Jo . 301

CHURCHWARDENS Abarnes , Wi. 195 Abarrowe, Th . 110, 323 Abarrowe, Th . 128 Adam , Hu . 292, 342 Aden , Wi . 78, 301 Adman, Hamon 349 Adowne, Ed . 333 Adredge , Mi. 315 Afforde, Geo. 178, 312 , 321 Afourd , Ri . 343 Agers , Jo. 135, 322 Aishehurst, Wi. 102, 317

Alard , Ro . 301 Alebery, Wi. 337 Allen, Jo . 329 Allyn , R . 340 Ambrose , Jo. 308 Amyas, Wi. 331 Amys, Edw . 278, 334 Amys, Wi. 235 Andrew, Ri . 318 Andrewe, Jo . 112, 312, 322 Anstey, Ro. 319 Anstrey, Sim . 279

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364 Apesley , Th . 339 Aredge , Jo . 316 Arnolde, Jo. 280 Arrowe, Ri. 302 Ase , Ri. 141 , 318 Assherst , He . 341 Atwater , Th. 324 Atwood, Wi. 326 Austen, Jo .

Austen, Ri . 31 Austen , Ri. 115 Austen , Sim . 333 Austen, Th . 231 Austen, Val. 68 Avery, Miles 341 Awgor , Jo. 338 Aynescombe , Ro. 322 Bacar , Jo. 35 Bacheler , Ro. 320 Bafelde , Th. 155 Baker, Jo. 297 Baker, Ro . 289 Baket, Wi. 242, 305 Bargar, Nic . 265 Barley, Jo. 202 Barnard, Jo. 322 Barnes , Ro. 234 Barnes, Ro . 332 Barnes, Wi . 123 Barrowe, He. 170 Barrowe, Jo. 139 Barrowe, Th. 322 Barton, Th. 331 Basenett , Th. 116, 320 Bat, Nic. 322 Bate, Jo. 163 Bateman, Jo. 236, 307 Bateman, St. 322 Bayly, Th. 322 Bayly, Th . 347 Beasaunt , Jo. 42 Beche , Th. 176 Bencheley , Jo. 65 Bennett, Ri . 340 Bensted , He. 205, 325, 327 Beste, Gi. 326 Beste, Gre . 167, 318 Beste, Jo. 307 Bet, Rog. 242 Bettes, Ro. 325 Beverley , Geo . 290 Bigge, Wal . 320 Bikkar , Jo. 340 Bing, Th. 341 Bishoppe , Th. 70, 348 Bixe, Jo. 236 Black, Wi. 142, 309 Bloyfelde , Jo. 345 Bolden , Jo. 154 Boldinge , Jo. 348 Boll, Jo. 73

INDEX Bollinge , Ri. 106 Bone, Ro. 253 Boniface , Ro . 331 Bote , Jo. 252 Bottle, Al. 278, 332 Bowden , Th . 328 Boye, Wi. 157 Braye , Jo. 265 Braye , Ri . 322 Bremer, Nic . 335 Brenchley, Wi. 49 , 341 Bright , Ri. 59 Britten , Rog. 213 Brode , 331 Brodestreate , Th. 274, 330 Brokman, Th . 298 Bromborn, Edw. 319 Browne, Jo. 303 Bryce , Wi. 347 Bull , Ri. 338 Bull, Th . 321 Bull , Wi . 309 Burges , Wi. 343 Burrishe, Jo . 172 Burry, Jo. 29 Butler, Jo. 334 Butte, Th. 328 Button , Ro . 317 Byng, Th . 49

Byng, Wi . 66

Cage, Mart. 345 Cantes, Jo. 88 Carden , Jo. 258 Carder , Wi. 58 , 297, 340 Carpinter, Geo. 201 Carpinter, Wi. 312 Carpynter, Jo. 72, 302 Cassingate, Nic . 224 Castell , Jo. 83 Cater, Th. 148 Caterman , Chr. 142, 316 Chalker , Ri . 317 Chamber , Th. 327 Chambre , Ri. 170 Charleton, Jo. 197 Chartam, Th. 270, 304, 328 Chaundles , Wi. 66 Cheiseman , Jo. 21 , 343 Cheseman, Th. 341 Chittenden , Jo. 299 Chowchie , Ro. 80 Christian, Jo. 219 Christian, Th. 75 Christian, Wi . 213 Churche , Jo. 345 Claramore, Jo. 346 Clarke , Wi . 319 Claryngbold, Jo. 97 Clement , Wi. 298, 341 Clerck, Dun. 226 , 324 Clerck, He. 111

INDEX Clercke, Gre. 325

Clerk, Jo. 29

Clerke, Wi. 324 Cloke , Ro . 102, 317 Clynch , Jo. 335 Clynche , Si . 330 Cobbam , Jo. 345 Cobbe , Ri. 346 Cobbe, Th. 89, 346 Cocheman, Ri. 197 Cocheman , Ro. 322 Cochye, Ro. 300 Cockes, Th. 334 Coddy, Th. 345 Cok, La. 333 Cole, Ri. 266, 330 Collyar, Ja. 318 Collyer , Wi. 327 Colter , Wi. 325 Colwell, Ro. 331 Combe, Jo. 199, 326 Cooke, Ro . 325 Cooper, Ro. 310 Cortope, Chr. 295 Cotynge , Wi. 318 Courte , Wi . 349 Coveney, Th. 214 Crafte , Wi . 228, 333 Craye, Th . 82 Crispe, Ri . 88 Croydon , Ro . 342 Crynishe , Rog. 202 Culling, Ja. 54, 298 , 341 Cullinge, Jo. 347 Curtheppe , Wi. 28

Darle, Jo. 340 Darley, Wi. 317

Day , Sim . 311 Deacon , Ri. 335 Denn , Ja. 40, 303 Densse, Jo. 302 Denway, Wi. 266, 330 Dericker, Mi. 295, 336 Derton, Jo. 282, 307, 332 Dewarde , Jo. 281 Dikson, Ri. 304 Dive, Chr. 171 Dod, Amb . 90, 345 Dod, Ro. 92 Dogrell, Wi. 295, 336 Downe, Edw . 228 Dowtie, Jo. 99 Drayson, Jo. 326 Dredge, Ro. 309 Drurie , Th. 242, 305 Duke, Edm. 321 Dunckyn, Jo. 217, 311, 324 Dunse , Ja. 105 Durrant , Jo. 302 Dyer, Cl. 349 Dyer, Jo. 349 Dyxon, Ri. 34

Easton , Aug, 307 Eccleston , Ri. 310 Eddryck, Th. 310 Edwardes , Wi. 329 Eggerley , Ri . 296, 338 Eldston, Ri . 171 , 321 Elgar, Wi . 62 Elie, Jo. 162 Eliot , Edw . 226 Elmeston, Th. 328 Elnor , Wi . 67 , 300 Elvie, Ri. 261 Elwyn , Th. 285 Elye , Jo. 333 Elyer, Wi. 343 Elynden , Ri . 311 Elyot, He . 330 Essex, Nic . 348 Essex, Pet. 105, 349 Essex, St. 100 , 310, 317 Eton, Nic . 225 Everede , Val . 83 Everynden , Ja. 325 Everynden , Ri. 312 Everynden , Ri. 337 Everynge , Edw. 83 Ewell , Ja. 346

Ferrar, Wi. 303 Flagg, Jo. 340 Ffagge , Th. 24 Ffawkener, Ri. 66, 341 Ffenne , Wal . 293 Ffilcote , Jo. 223 Ffilmar , Reg. 230 Ffinge, Th. 237

Ffogge , Ri. 129 Ffollet , He. 309 Fforbred, Jo. 259, 315 Fforstall , Ro . 346 Ffourde, Ri. 23 Ffourde, Ri . 71 Ffowe, Ro . 311, 324 Ffowle, Ro . 206 Ffoxe, Th. 212 Ffranckelen, He. 349 Ffrend, Th . 32 Ffullagat , Dominic 126 Ffynne, Ri . 206, 324 Ffynner, Wi. 290 Ffysher, Th. 64, 297, 341 Filmer, Reg . 335 Flynston, He . 24, 298, 341 Foch , Ro. 320 Follet, Wi. 316 Foule , Chr. 326 Fowe , Ri. 312 Fowler, Rog. 336 Foxe, Th. 325 Fringe, Th. 329 Furminger, Ma. 309 Furmynger, Th. 328

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Fydge , Th. 271 , 328 Fytsall , Ri . 323 Gardner , Th. 348 Gason, Sim. 295 Gate, Wi. 263 Gaye, Chr. 61 Gen Jo. 287 Gennynges , Jo. 321 Gennynges, Ri. 202 , 325 Geo . 307 German , Geo. 96 Gibbes, Th. 72, 350 Gibbon , Edw. 304 Gibbons , Th . 320 Gifford, Wi. 343 Giles, Jo. 278, 309 Giles , Jo. jun . 334 Giles, Th. 338 Glover , Wi. 108, 347 Goddard, Jo. 31 Goddie, Th. 287 , 333 Goddyn , Jo. 325 Godfrey , He. 175, 321 Goldfinch, Wi. 296 Goldfinche, Silvester 46 Goldfynche , Wi. 96 Goldhell, Wi. 139, 317 Goodwyn , Geof. 290 Goodwyn , Th. 83 Gotley , Ri. 308 Grannte , Ro . 345 Graye, Ri. 45 Grenwell, Ellyce 305 Grenehill, Eliseus 245 Grenestret , Ro . 231, 308, 333 Grenestrete , Th. 305 Grenock , Jo. 318 Greyne , St. 330 Gurner, Ro . 272 Gyles, Th . 296 Gylvyn, He. 337

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Hache , Ro. 254, 305, 328 Halbe , Vi . 339 Hall , Geo. 301 Hall , Vi. 43 Hallet, Al. 335 Hammond, Jo. 318 Hammond, Th. 348 Hamond, Jo. 55, 341 Hamond, Nic . 66 Hamond, Th. 154, 301 Hancocke , Ja. 272 Hannyng, Th , 25, 343 Harlakinden, Al. 98 , 301, 348, 352 Harnet, Th. 41 , 303 Harris , And . 304 Harris, Chr. 275, 329 Harris , Edw. 238, 326 Harris, Wi. 308 Harrodyne, Jo. 179, 311, 322 Harte, Geo. 168, 321

Harte, Wi . 308 Hartredge, Ro. 217 , 324 Harynden, Th. 311

Hatche , Jo. 240 Havejoy, Jo. 308 Hawk , Jo . 18, 344 Hawke, Th. 296 Hawke, Ri. 302 Hawkes , Ri. 347 Hawlet, Al. 294 Hayward, Wi. 334 Helman, Jo. 73 Hendley, Wal . 182 Hennekar, Aug. 308 Hennekar, Wi . 247 Hethers , Jo . 336 Hewson , Gre . 296 Hichcok, Ant. 329 Higedon , La . 345 Highsted, Ri . 237, 306, 329 Hilde, Jo. 345 Hill, ,Jo. 329 Hilles Jo. 132, 321 Hilles, Jo. 323 Hilles, Mi. 209 Hilles, Th. 307 Hilles, Th . 332 Hitchcocke, Ant. 275 Hogebyn, Th . 345 Hogeskyns , Th. 29 Hogeson, Wi. 341 Hogland, Th. 87 Hoke , Ri . 337 Hoker, Ri. 214 Holbarde , St. 332 Hole, Nic . 46 Hollynden, St. 337 Hollynden, Th. 348 Holman, Art. 252 Holman, Th. 240, 325 Holman, Th . 245 Holnes , Th . 312 Holnes , Th. , jun . 320 Hopdey , Vi. 79 Hope , Jo. 323 Hope , Ri. 135, 322 Hopkyn, Jo. 79 Hore , Th. 322 Horne, Wi . 76, 348 Horsenden , Jo. 324 Huckyng, Th. 328 Humfrey, Ri. 334

Iden, Jo. 326 Ilinden , Ri . 176 Jacob, Th . 270 Jacobe, Edw . 296, 340 Jefine , Nic . 343 Jekine, He. 54 , 340 Jerman, Gre . 339 Jervis , Ro. 347 Jesar, Nic . 52

INDEX Jode, And . 71 , 301, 347, 348 Johnes, He. 74 Johnes , Jo. 50, 342 Joll, Th . 340 Joll, Vi. 340 Joseph, Jo. 306 Jull, Ro. 299 *

Kaile, Jo. 284 Keacham, Ri. 176 Keis , Arkenwald 78, 348 Kelsham , Chr. 126, 321 Kember, Wi. 81 Kemesley , Th. 224 Kempe , Ri. 318 Kenham, Jo. 19 Kennet, Ri . 91 Kennet, Ri. 138 Kennet, Wi. 57 Kennet, Wi. 344 Kennett, Ant. 260 Kennett, Bar. 32, 303 Kennett, Geo. 297 Kenwood, Ri . 261 Ketham, Wi . 19 , 344 Kighte, Jo . 332 Kinge, Ro. 168, 321 Knight , Pet. 302 Knighte, Pet. 259 , 315 Knighte, Wi. 241 Kyet , He. 347

Lacket, Sim . 242 Ladde, Nic . 298 Lambyn, Wi. 146 Lames , Ri . 345 Lamyng, Jo . 297, 345 Lamynge, Ri. 87 Laurence , St. 76, 301 Lawles, Pet. 151, 318 Lawrence, St. 348 Leonard, He. 51 Littel, Th. 331 Littil woode, Wi. 94, 296, 344 Loman, Th. 329 London, Ri . 94 Luccas , Th. 144 Lunce, Th. 93, 345 Lunce, Th. 144 Lydden , Ri . 115 Lynche, Sim . 302 Maifeld, Wi. 283 Maister, Jo. 28

Mapisden , Geo. 133, 312, 320 Marden , Ro . 133 Marchall, Geo. 323 Marchaunte, Ro. 307 Marche , Ro . 250 Marden, Ro . 133, 320 Marlor , Ja. 320 Marshe , Ja . 36 Marten, Edw . 199, 326

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Martin , Ja. 59 Martyn , And . 302 Martyn , Leon. 318 Martyn, Ro . 317 Martyn , Th. 299 Mason, He. 212 Maunger, He. 16, 343 May, Th . 340 May, Wi . 338 Maye , Jo. 163, 319 Maye , Jo. 209, 325 Maytam, Jo. 99

Mede, Wi. 241 Medeman , Ja. 334 Meller, Ri. 316 Mendfield, Wi. 308 , 334 Mercer , Jo. 335 Merchannt, Ro. 331 Mighell , Jo. 26 Milkested, Edw. 121

Milles, Th . 65 Milner , Jo. 23 Milward , Nic . 51 Mombrey, Wal. 44 Monery, Wal . 303 Monnd, Nic . 110 Morrice, Th . 20, 298 Mortimer , Jo. 43 Mortyn , Jo. 339 Moswell, Wi. 248 Moustherst, Wi. 214 Munday, Nic . 64 Mychaell, Jo. 164

Myles , Ri. 52 Myles , Th . 95, 296, 339 Myller , Jo. 343 Myller , Ra. 337 Myller , Ri . 140, 317 Mylles, Gre . 338 Mylner, Jo. 59 Mylsted, Edw . 310, 320

Napleton, St. 303 Neame, Th . 46, 302

Nele , Wi. 307 Nethersole , Ri. 74 Nethersole , Ri. 46 Nethersole , Ro . 56, 298 , 341 Nethersole , Wi. 341 Newell, Jo. 319 Newland, Salmon 267, 305, 328 Newman, He. 306 Noke, Jo. 273 Norcliff, Jo. 339 Norrington, He. 317 Norris, Wi. 158, 319 Norton, Th. 331 Nutte, Jo. 295

Okingfolde, Wi. 321

Omer, Ri. 72, 350 Orcharde , Libeus 85

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368 Ordymer, Ra. 275 Osborne, Osbert 190 Ostwye , Ro . 308 Ouyn , Jo. 339 Ovenden, Wi. 90, 345 Owen, Ja. 346 Owre , Jo. 111 Oxinden , Wi. 74

Packman, Jo. 49 Palm , Th. 341 Palmer, Jo. 159 Palmer , Th. 159 Panes, Th . 129 Paramor, Saferus 32 Paramor, Wi. 281

Paris , Geo. 317 Partredge , Gi. 201, 326 Partry, Wi. 35 Pasheley, Ri. 44 Pate, Ri. 324 Patman, Jo. 342 Paulyn, Wi. 93 Paves, Th. 322 Payne , Wi. 108, 347 Penfolde , Ri. 129, 322 Penny, Wi. 350 Pennyale , Nic . 190 Perryn, Jo. 348 Pers, Ja. 295, 336 Pers, Ja. 296 Perse, Hamon 344 Pett, Jo . 61 Pett, Ri. 299 Pett, Ro. 61 , 343 Pettar, Th. 176 Philpott , Th. 33 Philpotte, Wi. 312 Piers , Hamon 95 Pilcher, Jo. 18 , 299, 344 Piper , Jo. 41 Piper, Ro. 150 Pirrey, Jo. 98 Pledger, Edw. 103, 317 Plomer , He . 333 Pollarde , Ro . 164, 317 Ponette , Ro . 306 Pope, Ri. 334 Porredge , Jo. 284 Porredge , Jo. 333 Poste , Wi. 310, 320 Potman, Th. 256 , 306 , 313, 330 Potter, Dan. 335 Pouer , Jo. 163 Powte , Ro . 38 Pratte, Jo . 148, 318 Preston , Th . 47 Pullyn, Jo . 329 Questonby , He. 336

Raignold, Ed . 310

Ramsden , Geo . 322

INDEX Randall, La . 80 Randall, Wi . 166, 318 Ranolds , Leon. 35 Raynolde , Nic . 295 Reader, He. 205

Reader , Th. 255 , 304 Reche , Th. 310 Recorde , Jo . 217 Redborn , St. 337 Reder , Th. 328 Remmyngton, Jo. 230 Reynard, Nic . 347 Riche, Ri. 195, 326 Rigdon, He . 340 Rigdon , La . 88 Rikkard , Th. 330 Rikkard , Wi. 318 Robbins , Jo . 31 Robins , Jerome [or Robynson ] 57, 340 Robins , Ri. 39 Robinson , Chr. 273, 330 Robyns , And . 164, 317 Rocke , Jo. 307 Roger , Ra. 36, 303 Roke , Wi . 319 Rolf , Jo. 298 Rolfe, Ro. 55, 341 Rolfe , Wi . 283 Rooke , Wi . 103 Roper , Wi. 221, 325 Rose, Gre . 335 Rose, Ra . 297 Sacket , Wi . 87, 345 Sacre, Wi. 296, 339 Saier , Wi . 219 Salter , Th. 258 Sampson, Jo. 150 Sampson , Ri . 87, 345 Sande, Th . 132 Sare, Th . 202 Sauce, Th . 303 Saunder , Jo. 311 Saunder , St. 264 Saunder , Th . 311 Saunders , Th. 323 Saye, Chr. 343 Sayer, Jo . 86, 345 Sayer , Ro . 271, 305, 328 Scarlet , Jo. 38 Scote, Geo . 178, 321 Sethe, Edm. 288 , 332 Sethe, Ri. 223 Sethe, Ro . 92 Severn , Th. 29 Sharpe , Jo. 320 Sharsted, Ro . 221, 325 Sheipie , He. 35, 304 Sherwoode , He . 156 Sheverley , Wi. 146, 316 Shipton, Jo. 296, 340 Shipwashe , Ri. 286, 300, 346

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INDEX Shotwater , Edw. 27 Shroubsole, St. 283 , 308, 334 Simonds , Ro . 340 Sixewe, Rog. 287, 333 Skelton , Nic . 153, 349 Skere, And . 308 Skote , Chr. 335 Slater , Jo. 151 , 318 Smelte , Jo., jun . 344 Smithe , Th. 260 Smithe , Wi. 214 Smyth, Th. 310 Smyth, Wi. 341 Smythe , Leon. 33 Smythe , Mat . 21, 343 Smythe , Ri . 70 , 348 Snothe , Ri. 128, 322 Sole, Nic . 343 Soly , St. 350 Sotherenden , Ri. 118, 320 Southland, Wi. 161 , 319 Sowtsanders , Th. 33 , 303 Spain , He. 17, 343 Spender, He . 330 Spice, Edm. 172 Spice, Wi. 325 Spicer , Jo. 59 Stace, Wi . 264 Stanforthe, Jo. 95, 344 Stanner , Wi. 342 Starre , Th. 162 Stere, And . 232, 333 Steven, Wi . 186, 311 Stile, Jo. 217 Stokes, Jo. 341 Stokes, Jo. 346 Stone, Al. 328 Stonnard, Wi. 60 Stonnerd , Jo. 329 Stonnerd , Wi. 324 Stookis , Jo . 97 Stringer, Jo. 319 St s, Ri. 31 Sutton, Wi. 56, 341 Swifte, Ja. 124 Swifte, Jo. 248, 304, 328 Swifte, Wi. 295, 337 Swinford, Ri . , jun . 69 Swinford, Ri., sen. 69 Swynford, Jo. 86, 345 Swynor, Ri . 300 Syllyng, Jos . 332 Symons, Ro . 58

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Tailer, Wi . 289 Tailor, Wal. 183 Tailor, Wi. 220 Tassell , Th . 234 Taylor, He. 325 Taylor, Jo. 317 Taylor, Wal . 324 Taylor, Wi. 302 Taylor, Wi . 307, 331

Taylor, Wi. 325 Thomas , Ra. 328 Thorney, St. 294 Tilman , Nic . 285 Tirrenden, Jo. 254, 328 Tobbell, Jo. 319 Toddye , Th. 88 Toftes , Geo. 337 Tolkin , Sim . 166 Tome , Ri. 42 Tonge , Ja. 306 Topley , Edw. 225, 325 Topley, Nic . 175, 312, 321 Toppinden , Wi. 144, 309, 319 Trytton , Th. 334 Tuck, Wi. 31 Turner, Jo. 322 Turner, Wi . 113, 312 Turnor, Jo. 183, 324 Turnor , Wi. 286, 346 Turrell , Wi . 54 , 297 Twesnoth, La. 121 Twisden, Jo. 17 Twisden, Jo . 322

Upton, Th. 278, 332 Upton , Val . 50, 342 Veryar, Pet. 304 Veryar, Wi. 33 Wade , Wi. 281, 308, 333 Waite, He. 25 Wakeys, Erkenwald [ Keis] 348

Walker , Jo. 75 Wall, Ingram 39 Wanderton, R. 321 Warley, St. 325 Water, Wi . 49 Watson, Th. 152

Wattes , Bart. 57 Wattes , Ja. 320 Wattes , Jo. 113 Wattes, Nic . 232 , 333 Wattes , Ri . 321 Wattes , Wi. 322 Webb , Nic . 54, 341 Weeke , Wi. 330 Wekes , Ro. 95 Welde , Sim . 263 Welles , Mat . 74 Wellis, Sim . 68 Wessynden, Ro . 297 West , Rog. 38 Weston , Jo. 106, 347 Wettes , Gervinus 129 White, And . 315 White , Edw. 116, 312 , 320 White, Jo. 302, 348 White, Nic . 333 White, Wi. 152 Wi. 309 Wikes, R . 339

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Wilkins , Salmon 268, 305, 329 Willard , Ro . 322 Williams , Jo. 296 Williamson, Jo. 340 Williamson, Ro . 253, 307, 331 Willie , Th. 112 Winkcefeld, Wi. 27 Wise , Jo . 16, 299, 343 Wod, St. 29 Wodd , Gi. 17, 299 , 343 Wodd , Wi. 42, 304 Wolf, Ja . 295 Wood , He. 304 Wood , He. 309 Wood, Ingram 304 Wood , Ri. 118, 320

Wood , St. 302 Wood , Wi. 210 Wood , Wi . 348 Woodde , Jo . 342 Woodde , Ri. 344 Woode , Ri. 301 Woode , Wi . 307 Wreght, Jo. 26 Wrighte, Nic . 60, 342 Wybrand, Jo. 302 Wyllard , Ro . 179 Wynston, Th . 338 Yonge , Dav . 301 Younge , Wi. 296

PARISHIONERS Abarrowe, Th. 21

Abere, Wi. 47 Abraham, He. 84 Acroche , Jo. 317 Adam, He. 226, 324 Adams , Wi. 220 Aden , Ja. 78, 348 Aden , Mi. 258 Aden , Th. 78 Adie, Th. 231, 333 Adie, Th . 232 Admay, Th. 170 Admond, Hamon 105 Adowne, Wi. 156 Adye , He. 333 Aisehurst, Mi. 102, 323 Aishurst, Jo . 116, 320 Alchorne, Jo. 88 Alday, He. 336 Alden, Nic . 35 Allarde, Ro. 347 Allen, Ja . 162 Allen, Jo. 66 Allen, Jo. 242 Allen, Jo. 324 Allen, Ro . 238, 326 Allen, Th. 237 Allen, Wi., of the Court 226 Allyn , Jo . 339 Allyn , R. 340 Amys, Chr. 292 Amys , Reg . 286 Amys, Th . 287 Andrewe, Ri. 141 , 318 Androwe, Jo. 43 Andrue, Jo. 178 Anncell, Jo. 158 Anselme , Edw. 92 Anselme , Wi. 103 Apett, Wi . 254 Arnolde, Wi. 333 Arrowe, Ri. 31 Asshehurst , He . 59 Asshenden, Ri. 133

Athawe, Ri. 95

Atree , Wi. 187 Atwater , Th. 226 Atwood, Jo. 223 Aulcock, Jo. 190 Austen , Jo. 180 Austen , Nic. 215 Austen , Ri. 81 Austen , Ri. 187 Austen , Sim . 333 Austen, Th. 81 Austen , Th. 110 Avery, Al. 341 Aware, Jo. 182 Awborn , Jo. 319 Awdrie , Wi. 140 Awood. Wi. 319 Awoodd, Jo . 349 Baccheler , Jo . 68 Bacheler , Ro. 119 Bachell, Chr. 170 Bailie , Jo., bosholder 271 Baker , Chr. 133 Baker, Ger. 130, 322 Baker , He. 329 Baker, Jo . 88 Baker , Jo . 289 Baker , La . 164 Baker, Ri. 115 Baker, Wi. 135, 322 Baldocke , Jo. 324 Baldocke , Ri. 170 Baldwyn, Jo . 329 Ball, Dav. 286 Barefote , Jo. 184, 324 Barlie, Edm. 253.

Barlinge, Adrian 206 Barlinge, Wi. 225 Barlyng, Jo . 325 Barham, Dav. 215 Barner, Pet. 238 Barnes, Ro . 335 Barret, Ja. 215

INDEX Barrett, Th. 248 Barrowe, He. 170 Basden, Ro. 179 Bassette, Ro. 322 Bassock, Wi . 215

Bateman, He. 236 Bateman , Jo. 148 Bateman , St. 128 Batemane , Jo. 328 Batherst, Th. 184 Bause, Jo. 167 Bause, Ro. 325 Bax, Ro. 42 Bayle, Ri . 272 , 320 Baylif, St. 83 Beaching , And . 178 Beale, Jo. 215 Beane, Jo. 60 Beane, Th. 59 Beare, Jo. 86 Beching , Ri . 43

Bechinge, Wi. 223 Becke , Chr. 278 Beckett , Sim. 329 Bedforde, Ri. 271 Beeke, Ro. 67 Beere, Jo. 218 Bekkete , Si . 328 Belke, Th. 292 Bell, Jo. 337 Bell, Th. 165 Bellinge , Chr. 18, 344 Benes, Wi. 163 Bennett , He . 135 Bennett, Ja. 150 Bennett, Jo. 158 Bennett , Ri . 135 Bennett , Th . 129 Bennette , Jo. 320 Berrie , Jo. 163 Besbiche , Jo . 19, 344 Besbiche, Ri., of Trigges 187 Besen, Pet. 275 Besfelde, Wi. 133, 320 Best, Gre . 318 Bettes, Ro . 209 Beverley , Jos. 331 Bingam , Geo . 45 Binge , 286 Binge , Wi. 330 Birlinge, Ro. 254 Blacheland, Ja. 345 Blachinden, Art. 157 Blachinden, Ja ., gent. 261 Blacke , Ja. 195 Blacke , Th. 130 Blaksland, Chr. 339 Blushe , Jo. 190 Boddynden , Wi. 129 Bodiam, Ri . 190 Boise , Vi., gent. 75 Bolden , Wi. 102

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Boldinge , Geo. 166 Bolinge , Ri. 156 Bongior, Ro . 90 Boossom, Edw . 215 Boote, Wi . 218 Born, Ja. 321 Boton , Reg . 248 Bourne, Th. 168 Bowcer , Jo. 23, 343 Bowes , Jo. 317 Boyc , Th., gent. 41 Boycote , Jo . 172 Brapson , Ri . 245 Brattell , Jo. 190 Brattel , Th. , bosholder 288 Bray, Ant. 171 Braye , Ri. 113 Braynsley , Jo. 341 Breddam , Ant. 285 Bredgeman , Th. 201 Bredshaw , Maurice 89 Brensheley , Th . 209 Bret, Edw. 321 Bret , Th . 231 Brett, Gre . 108 Brette , Giles 102 Brette, Ja. 263 Brette, Ro. 36 Brickenden, Jo. 134 Brickenden , Jo. 182 Brickenden, Th. 134 Bridgeman, Jo. 26 Brighte, Ra . 166, 318 Brighte, Ri . 341 Brigman, Jo. 266 Briseland , Th. 163 Brissenden , Th. 121 Brockeman, He. 58 Brockholde, Jo . 289 Brockman, Ri . 341 Brockwell, Th. 225 Brode , Th. 235 Brodenex , Th. 158 Brode woode , Wi . 280, 334 Brogdale , Ri., alias Lanway 280 Broke, Jo. 72, 350 Broke , Mart . 47 Broke , Sim . 333 Brook, Edw. 234 Browne, Jo. 159 Browne, Miles 111 Browne , Th. 218 Browne, Wi . 29 Browne, Wi . 337 Browning, Cl. 19 Browninge, Wi . 258 Browton, Edw . 146 Bryce , Th . 342 Brydge , Th. 344 Bugge, Wal . 133 Bull , Th . 271, 328 Bull, Th. 321

372 Bullocke, Ro. 178

Bunce, Ja. 230 Bunse, Wi. 228 Bunting, Mi. 103 Buntinge, Ri. 162 Bunton, Reg . 328 Burbage , Jo. , sen. 218 Burch, He. 41 Burde , Nic . 327 Burges, Chr. 343 Burgies , Th. 182

Burgys, Wi. 21 Burrage , Ro. 150 Burtley, Wi. 123 Burton, Jo. 33 Busbridge , Th. 328 Busshopp, Jo. 252, 329 Busshopp, Th. 195, 326 Busy, Pet. 329 Butcher, Jo . 119 Butler, Si. 34 Butte, Th. 247 Byam , He. 264 Bylyng, He. 317 Byrg, He. 66

Byxe , Ri. 267 Cailye, Ri. 210 Cannon , Jo. 197 Cantes, Nic . 88 Cantes, Val . 88 Carden, Wi. 274 Carpenter , Th. 163 Carpinter, Jo. 148 Carpinter, Jo. 178 Carrys, Reg . 348 Carter, Geo. 106, 347 Castell, Th. 128 Castell, Th. 260 Castlen, Ro. 346 Castlocke Jo. 290 Catar, Th. 318 Catlet , Wi . 268 Catlot , Ja. 215 Chamber , Th . 225 Chambres, Ro . 159 Champnes, Wi. 224 Chapman , Jo. 126 Chapman , Jo. 151 Chawlker, Jo . 102 Chawlker, Ri. 100 Cheseman, Jo. 162 Childe , Wi. 277, 330 Chittenden , Jo. 25 , 343 Christian, Ja. 162 Christian, Ri. 241 Churche , Ph. 256 Churche , Wi. 95 Clarcke, Jo. 162 Clarkeson , Ro . 316 Clement , Th. 286 Clement , Wi . 65

INDEX Clerck, He. 205 Clerck , Humphrey, gent. 102 Clerck, Th. 231

Clerck , Wi. 112 Clerk , He., gent. 99 Clerk, Th. 106 Clerke , Th . 158 Clifford, Jo. 42 Clinche , Jo. 230 Clinton , Th. 275 Clok, Jo. 102 Cloke , Th . 102 Cobb, Si. 166 Cobbe, Ja . 89 Cobbe, Ri. 89 Cocheman, Edw. 197 Cock, Th., Mr. 40 Cocke, Chr. 156 Cocke, Moses 156 Cocke, Ri. 156 Cocke, Wi. 277 Cockman , He. 283 Cockman , Wi. , bosholder 283 Coggar, Ja. 187 Coggar , Ri. 187 Cok, Aug. 336 Cok, Jo. 331 Collard , Jo. 231 Collens, Edw. 128 Collens, Jo . 217 Collet, Th. 219 Collett, Wi. 215 Collinson , St. 202

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Colman , La . 103 Colson, Jo. 330 Colwell, Ro . 290 Combe, Wi. 223 Consent, Wi. 90 Cook, Jo. 17 Cooke, And . 278 Cooke, Jo., constable 289 Cooke , Ri . 49, 342 Cooke, Ro. 240 Cooke, Wi . 148 Cooper, Ri. 116 Coper, Ri. 320 Copping, Ja . 190 Coppyn, Jo. 199, 326 Coppyn, Wi . 344 Cotinge , Wi. 148 Cotinge , Wi. 243 Cotsall , Jo. 274 Cotton , Jo. 60 Coucheman , Wal . 187 Couchman , Chr. 157 Couper, St. 134 Courthoppe , Pet. 182 Courthoppe , Wi. 182 Coveney, Th. 214 Cowland , Si. 236 Cowling, Th. 38

INDEX Cowper , Jo. 349 Cowper , Th. 195 Craddock , Ja. 187 Craddock , Th. 187 Craye, Th. 349 Crayford, Edw . 33 Creke, He . 274 , 330 Cristian , Th . 219 Croche, Hu . 248 Croche, Wi. 163 Crocheman , Jo. 142 Crocheman , Ro. 142 Croidon , Ro . 50 Croidon , Wi. , jun. 50, 342 Crompe, Th. 209 Crompe , Wi. 209 Crotall, Jo. 134 Crotall, Jo. 322 Crowcher , Jo. 79 Crownege, Rog. 325 Cryar, Alan 187 Cryor, Th. 179 Cryppyn , He . 98 Crypse, Jo. 29 Cullinge , Wi. 347 Cullyng, Wi. 76 Culter, Jo. 220 Curlesse, Jo. 165 Cusheman , Ri. 182 Cutberte , Wi . 318 Cutte , Th. 337 Cutton , Th . 30 Dale ,

Vi . 275

Darby, Sim . 282, 332 Dates, Jo. 248 Davie, Jo. 158 , 319 Davy, He . 338 Davy, Morgan 30

Daye , Geo. 130 Daye, La. 179 Daye, Ri . 178 Daye, Sim . 128 Daye , Wi . 163 Deacon , Ri . 234 Deare , Ri . 348 Deave, Jo. 333 Dense, Al . 182 Dense, Ri. 182 Denwaye , Ro. 253 Denwodde , Wi. 346 Denwood , Wi. 97 Derton, Ri . 282 Dierson , St. 162 Dilnot , Wi. 258, 316 Dive, Chr. 171 Dod, Ro. 91 Dodd , Gi . 110 Dodde, W. 159 Doe, Nic . 223 Donneke , Edw. 178 Donncke, Pet. 178

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Donnye , Ro . 150 Dowle, Ri . 320 Dowlie, Al. 123 Down, Ri . 234 Downe, Jo. 112 Downe , Wal . 128

Draiton, He . 43 Drake, Ro . 226 Draner, Sim . 185, 352 Drayton, He . 339 Dreison, Jo. 201 Drewrie, Wi. 255, 328 Dreyson , Jasper 225 Dreyton, Ja. 338 Droyland, Jo. 290 Duck, Ri. 223 Duddie, Th., constable 190, 327 Dunkin , Ri . 155 Dunkyn , Arnold 343 Durbarn, Geo. 32 Durrannte, Jo. 67, 347 Duston, Jo. 113 Dyne , Ro . 163

Earle, Wi. 182 Earsden, He. 182 Eccleston , Ri. 158 Edmede, Jo. 190 Edmonde , Ro . 274 Elam, Ri . 52 Elgor, Ri . 67 Elie, Jo. 231 Elingworth , Giles 26 Eliot , Jo. 287, 329 Ellens, He . 39 Ellis , He. 142 Ellis , Th. , gent. 209 Elmer, Jo . 275 Elson , Nic . 226 Elvyn, Jo. 228, 333 Eppes, Wi. 164 Erle, Jo. 80 Essex, Th. 128 Essex , Wi . 100 Everenden , Ja. 180, 322 Everenden , Jo . 179 Everenden , Ro., of the Wood 179 Everenden , Ro., of Grauchill 180 Everyng, Wi. 47 Evet, Jo. 116, 320

Feryor, Pet. 39 Ffagge , Ro. 289 Fiarwood , Ri . 228 Ffen, Jo. 167 Ffen , Wal . 156 Fferne, Geo. 16, 343 Ffetherbie, Mi. 210 Ffetherstone, Ri. 213 Ffidge, Jo. 218 Ffigge, Jo. 324 Ffissher , Th. 197

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Fforstall , Dav. 38 Ffoule, Ri . 96, 339 Ffouler, Jo . 331 Ffouler, Th. 285 Ffourd, Wi., sen. 62, 343 Ffowle, Wi. 179 Ffoyche, He. 32 Ffrancklyn , Mi. 340 Ffrannces , Th. 225 Ffrannekeleyn, St. 201 Ffrench, Jo. 116 Ffrencham, Ri. 130 Ffrogge , Jo . 163 Ffrowd, Th. 146 Ffynche, Nic . 279 Flynete, Th. 51 Ffynshe, Cl. 28 Flynyx , Ri . 51 Ffyttell, Ri. 61 Flete, Jo . 128 Foche , Ro . 134 Fogle , Ri . 322

Foxley, Th. 52 Franckishe, Jo. 318 Frarie, Wi. 163 Freend , Ri . 281 Frenche ,

286

Fryer, Jo. 286 Fulsnape , Wi . 95, 339 Furmynger, Th. 267 Fynner, Wi. 331 Fyrmynger, Jo. 92 Gardener, And . 83 Gardener , Chr. 50, 342 Garford, Jo. 190 Garforde , Jo. 190 Garner , Jo. 226 Gate, Wi. 318 Gates, Ro . 231 Gates, St. 163 Gates, Wi. 57 Gaunt , Th. 36 Gawen , Ro . 187 Gay, Ed . 328 Gayte, Jo. 272 Gemet, Wi . 206, 324 Gennynge, Jo. 171 George, Rog. 125 Gerrar, Fr. 271 Gervice , Wi. 133 Gervis , Jo. 133 Gervise, Jo. 99 Ggardener , Jo. 324 Gibb , Jo. 290 Gibbard , Jo. 29 Gibbes, Jo. 165, 317 Gibbes, Wi. 111 Gibbon , Ger. 179 Gibbon , St. 129 Gibbon, Th. 180 Gibbons, Th. 121

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Gray, Th. 64 Graye , Eliseus 242

Greder, Wi. 98, 348 Grenestrete , Th. 231 Grenestrete , Wi. 228 Grenstret , Ro . 333 Greyne , Wi. 274 Grigbee, Al. 197 Grydyron, Wi. Greder 348 Gybban , Jo. 130 Gybbon , 16 Gybson, Wi. 319

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Hall, Geo. 347 Hall, Jo. 94 Hall , Ro . 320

Hall, Wi . 316 Halle, Th. 59

Hammond, Ri . 321 Hamond, Edm. 321 Hamond, Jo. 58 Hardeglas , Jo. 187 Harlackenden, St. 135 Harman, Pet. 235 Harnes , And . 35 Harnet, Ro . 41 Harplytt , Th. 350 Harrinden, Jo. 125 Harrington , Th. 332 Harris, Edw . 100 Harris, Jo. 190 Harris, St. 322 Harris, Th. 273, 330 Harrison, Th. 245 Harrison, Wi. 279 Harrold, Ri . 184 Harrys, Jo. 320 Harsfeld, And . 61 Hart, Wi . 280 Harte, He. 168, 321 Harte, Jo . 157 Hartinge, Wi. 271, 328 Hartredge, Jo. 182 Harwoode , Th. 165 Haryson , Wi . 83 Hatche, St. 259 Hatfelde, And . 343 Haue wye [Havejoye] , Jo . 288, 332 Haukins, Th. 284 Haule , Ro . 175 Haulle, Moses 286

Havejoye [Hauewye], Jo . 332 Hawes , Ro . 93 Hawk, Nic . 261

Hawk, Ri. 108 Hawker, Jo. 111

Hayn, Pet. 329 Haynes , Edw. 275 Haywarde, Jo. 166, 318 Heire, Ro . 241 Heldishe , Jo. 166 Helkyn , Jo. 252 Helman, Chr. 282 Hendeley , Th., Esq. 209 Hendley , Wal. 182

Heniman, Th. 237 Henman, Th. 226 Henman, Th . 329 Hennekar, Aug. 228 Henneker, Th. 27 Henneker, Wal. 215 Henneker, Wi. 75 Hennyger, Ra . 328 Hever, La . 157 Hewet, Jo . 88 , 345 Y

Hewson , Gre. 339 Heyworde , Th . 271 Hickes , Ant . 92 Hilles, Art. 256 Hilles, Jo . 245 Hilles, Th. 285 Hilles, Wi . 278 Hinckley, Jo . 225, 325 Hodge, Th. 252 Hoggies, Wi. 134 Hoker, Wal. 113 Holieste , Th. 133 Holland, Ri. 128 Holman, Art. 328 Holman, Jo. 151 Holmes , Th. 146 Holmes . Th. 320 Holte, Edw . 341 Holte, Jo. 335 Holton , Gre . 162 Homersham , Jo. 126 Honnye, Edw. 166 Hooker, St. 172 Hope , Jo. 132 Hopper , Th. 215 Horden, Edw. 186

Horne, Aug. 42 Horne, Th . 33 Horne, Th . 35 Hott , Th. , sen. 242

Hovenden , Wi. 182 Howlet, Jo. 223 Hubbarde, Jo. 130 Hubberd , Jo. 166 Huckinge, Th. 270 Hudson , Geo. 171 Hudson , Ph. 199 Hugham, Th. 70, 348 Hull , Ri. 283 Hunte, Hu . 264 Hurbren, Ro . 157 Hurchyn, Jo. 170 Hurst , Wi. 20 Hurton , Wi. 148 Hutchinson, Nic . 254

Iackson, Rog. 250 Iddenden , Jo. 128 Iddenden , Si. 115

Ideley, Jo. 75 Iden , Jo. 199 Jackling, Wi. 35

Jackson , Ri. 215 Jacobe, Wi. 340 Jenken , Wi. 57 Jenkynson, Jo. 336 Jennynges , Wal 123 Jhones, Ro. , jun .: John, Griffin ap 69 Johnson , Jo. 75 Johnson , Jo. 88

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376 Joise, Ri. 221 Joise, Ro. 221 Joll, Th . 55 Jornell, Wi. 162 Jull, Ri. 50

Jull, Ro . 61 Julle, Jo. 343

Jurdaie, Jo . 112

Kedgie , Wi. 151 Kember, Jo. 98, 348 Kemesley , Wi. 224 Kempe , Jo . 113 Kempe , Wi. 84 Kencham, Jo. 130 Kennet, Geo. 340 Kennet, Nic . 165 Kennet, Wi. 340 Kennett, Ro. 103 Kennett, Ro . 282, 332 Kers, Th. 340 Kete, Jo. 180 Keysar, Wi. 201 Killigrewe , Wi. 95 Kingesland, Rog. 108

Kingesmilne, Wi. 25 Kingslande, Ri. , bosholder 288 Knell , Jo. 165 Knell , Pet. 319 Knetchebull, Wi . 103 Knighte, Ja. 220 Knighte, Ri . 242 Knoller, Jo. 90 Knoller , Ra . 90 Knowler , Ri. 91 Knyght , Th. 58 Kytte , Edm. 318 Laborne, Ro. 286 Ladd, Jo. 55, 341 Ladd, Nic . 55 Ladd, Nic . 60, 342 Lak , Th. 255 Lake, Ja. 125, 320 Lambarte, Jo. 57 Lambe, Jo . 212 Lambert, Jo . 115 Lambyn, Th . 133 Langdon, Wi. 20 Lasheford , Chr. 57 Lawe, Jo. 234 Lawrannce, He. 247, 328 Lecknor, Ri . 111 Ledes, Ja. 128 Leese, He. 228 Legdon , Th. 88 Lewcas , Ro. 130 Lewkine, Th . 35 Lilburn , Jo. 341 Lincolne, Jo. 88, 345 London , Pet. 97 Lott, Eustace 158

INDEX Love , Jo., mercer 187 Lowe, Jo. 254 Lowes , Ro. 144

Lucas , Wi. 68 Luccas , Edw . 206 Lukine , St. 67 Lukyne, Jo. 340 Lutwick, Cl. 215 Lyford , Jo. 248 Lylly, Jo. 337 Lympster, Ro. 116, 320 Lyon , Jo. 59 Lytleforde, Wal . 279

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Val . 287 Mannie, Ja. 341 Mannyss , Ri . 321 Mantill , Pet . 23

Mapisden, Ri . 130 Mappinden , Geo. 130 Marchall, Wi. 110, 323 Marchall, Wi. 290 Marche, Jo . 58 Marketman, Jo. 119 Marketman, Ri. 325 Marrishe, Geo. 278 Marshall, And . 148 Marshall, Wi. 171 Mascall, Al. 172 Mascall , Wi . 190 Marten, And . 105 Marten, Th. 62 Marten, Wal . 187 Martyn, Th . 338.

Mason, Jo. 223 Mason , St. 217 Master, Pa . 325 Master, Ro. 265 Master, Th . 271 Matthewe, Geo. 52 Matthewe, Wi. 74 Maunger, He. 343 Maxted, He. 286 May, Wi. 325 Mayhewe , Th. 190 Mayney, Wal. , gent. 184 Mendam , Jo. 247 Mercer, Th. 178* Merchannte, Gal. 247 Mersh , Ri. 38 Mershall, And . 148 Mershall, Wi. 321 Merywether, Edw . 45 Mesdey, Jo . 73 Metcalf, Th . 268 Mette , Ro . 71 Michaell, Nic . 286 Michell, Hu . 116, 320 Michell, Wi. 105 Milner , He. 23 Milner , Jo. 23 Milwaye Cl. 250, 331

INDEX Minnes , Th. 29 Moise , Jo. 283 , 334 Mones, Ri . 82 More , Ri. 206, 324 Morlen, Jo . 179 Morres , Wi . 341 Morrice, He. 21 Morrice, Jo. 74 Morrell, Ro . 165 Morton, Wi., gent. 219 Mosrede , Jo. 84 Moswell, Th. 206 Mote , St. 72 Motte, Jo. 335 Motys , Ro . 333 Mount, Jo. 343 Mude , Ri. 349 Mullet , Jo. 62 Mustarde , Th . 290 Mycchell, Jo. 319 Myles , Rog. 280 Mylhall , Jo . 320 Mylles, Jo. 108 Mylles, Jo. 128 Mylles, Jo. 242 Mylles, Ma. 175 Mylles, Th. 199 Mylles, Wi. 128 Mylner, Th. 340 Mylton, Edw. 341 Neame, Jo . 47 Neble, Ro. 152 Nede, Wi. 330 Nele , Wi. 331 Nepsam, Th. 186 Nethersole , Jo. 97 Nethersole , Ri. 116, 320 Nethersole , Ro. 135 Nethersole , Th. 271 Nethersole , Vi. 348 Nethersole , Wi. 56 Netter, St. 179 Newland, Ja. 330 Newstret, Th. 116, 320 Neyler , Th. 336 Norden , Jo. 265 Norden, Jo. 266, 330 Norden , Jo. , Esq. 270, 328 Norley , Jo. 148 Norman, St. 284 Norrington, He. 138 Norrington, Ri. 278 Norton, Edw. 135 Norton, Jo. 59 Norton, Th., Esq. 271 Norton, Th. 290 Norwood, Hu . 87 Norwood, Th., sen. 345 Norwood, Wi. 88 Note, Ro . 59 Nunwycke, Jo. 271

Odley , Vi. 79 Okingfolde, Jo. 96 Olbarde , St. 285 Omer , La . 70 Ordynner, Ra . 337 Osborn, Th. 184 Ovenden, Geo. 197 Ovington, Mr. 335 Owen , Geo. 347 Owen, Ja. 69 Packham , Ro. 230 Packnam , Jo. 226 Padian , Si. 162 Padnoll , Wi . 116, 320 Padyam , Jo. 130 Page, Humphrey 17 Page, Th. 40 Palm, Th. 338 Palmer, Th. 59 Pamor, Wi. 159 Paramor, Al. 89 Paramor, Jo. 345 Parker, Ja. 234 Parker, Jo. 96 Parker, Jo. 341 Parker, Jo . 349 Parker, Ro . 79 Parnell, Row . 146 Parres , Jo. 29 Parrett, He. 349 Parris , Th . 269 Partridge, Wi. 35 Partry , Wi. 35 Pashlie , Th. 275 Patryn, Ri . 275 Patte , Jo. 26 Pattenden , La. 179 Patterson , Jo . 343.

Pattinden, Jo. 187 Payne , Wi. 286 Pecocke, Wi. 280 Pedinden , Jo. 219 Peers, He. 41 Peerse, Ri. 210 Peerse, Wi. 99 Pekham , Wi . 329 Pell, Jo. 125 Pell, Ro . 125 Pelland , Ro. 151 , 318 Penbroke , Hu . 320 Penie, Humphrey 337 Penny , Wi. 72 Pensock , Jo. 337 Pepper , Giles 54, 34!

Pepper, Wi. 240 Perrot, Jo. 344 Perry, Wi . 205, 325 Peryman , Th . 272 Pet , Vi. 345 Peter , Jo. 202 Pette , Rog. 317

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Pettinden , Ro . 254 Pettit , He. 88* Philipp, Jo . 149 Philippes , Edw. 133 Phillipp , Jo . 144 Phillipp, Pet. 144 Phillipp , St. 143 Phillipp , Th. 148 Philpotte, Ri. 36 Philpotte, Wi. 113, 322 Pickenden , Jo. 184 Pilcher, He. 242 Pilcher, Jo . 62 Pilcherde , Jo. 348 Pilgreme, Al. 273

Pimbe , Jo . 286 Pinde , Edw . 205 Pinde , Geo. 215 Pinde , Jo. 212 Piper, Th. 150 Piper , Wi . 146 Pittock, Th. 40 Pixe , Jo . 118 Pixelie, Jo. 213 Plotte, Ro . 242 Poishe, He. 58 Polhell, Wi. 219 Polhell, Wi., of the Forstall 219 Ponet , Ro. 237 Ponnet Ri . 170 Ponnette , Ro. 329 Poope, Ri. 35 Porrege , Jo. 266 Porte, Jo. 95, 344 Poste, Jo. 128 Poste, Wi. 119 Pott, And. 151, 318 Potter, Chr . 283 Potter, Th., constable 283 Pount, Jo. 151 Poyshe, Ro . 33 Pratte , Ed . 336 Pratte, He . 205, 325 Preston , Ro. 128 Pullyn, Jo. 252 Pye, Th . 232

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Quested, He . 116

Quilter, Wi. 73 Qussington , Th. 56 Qwoif, Th. 339 Qwoyf, Nic . 338 Rache , Th . 164 Raffe, Th. 335 Ramisden , Geo. 128 Rayner, He. 237 Rayner, Si . 232 Rayner , Th. 226 Rayner, Th. 283 Raynold, Rog. 190 Raynold, Th . 113

Raynolde , Jo. 223 Raynoldes , Edw. 151 Read, Wi., mayor of Folkestone 57 Reade, Edw. 87 Reader, Jo. 206 , 324 Reader , Jo. 245 , 329 Reader , Nic . 240 Rede, Jo. 184 Rede, Th. 163 Redwood , Th. 71 Reicate , Gre . 166 Reines, Ph . 275 Remyngton, Jo . 335 Respice, Jo. 144 Reynold , Jo. 212 Reynold , Ri . 151 Reynolde , Wi. 92 Reynolds , Wi. 166 Rickard, Wi. 250 Rigden , Wi. 286 Rigedon , Wi. 342 Robas, Wi . 59 Robertes , Edm. 178 Robins , Edm. 202 Robson , Jo. 321 Robynson , Geo. 85 Rocke , Sim . 318 Rode , Edw. 187 Rode, Jasper 187 Rode, Ri . 187 Rodes, Jo. 210 Roger , Th. 94 Rogers, Jo . 329 Rolphe , Jo. 343 Roose, Ro . 90 Roose, Th. 90 Roper , Wi. 128 Rose, Th . 345 Rowe, Jo. 263 Ruffyn , Jo. 330 Rugley, Ri. 78 Rumney, Jo. 184, 324 Rycharde , Th. 274 Ryckarde , Th. 272 Rycrofte, Edm. 334 Rymer, Th. 334 Sable, Th. 187 Sacre, Wi. 339 Sadler , Jo. 215 Sampson, Jo. 254 Sampson, Ph. 245 Sampson , Ro. 275 Sander, He . 60 Sandwell , Gal. 86, 345 Sanntes, Th . 44 Sare, Nic . 345 Sarles, Th. 108 Saunder , Jo. 125 Saunder , Wi. 339 Savey, Th. 139 Sawre , Wi . 220

INDEX Sayer, St. 34 Scere, Wi. 232 Scott, St. 135 Scotte, He. 135 Scrymsby , Jo. 170 Seade , Wi . 247 Segar, Jo. 275, 330 Selherst , Chr. 95, 344 Sempe, Aug. 163 Sethe, Geo . 212 Shadwell, Jo. 322 Sharneden , Ro. 220 Sharpe, Jo. 125, 320 Sharpe , Jo . 179 Sharpe, Jo. 221 Sharpe , Th. 108 Sharpe, Wi. , sen. 108 Sharpe, Wi . 112 Sharpie , Jo . 182 Sharpie , St. 182 Shasted, Ro . 225 Shawe , Jo. 334 Sheipie , He . 35 Sherlock, Ja. 322 Shitterden , Wal . 30 Shorte , Pet. 133 Showell, Th . 250 Showsmith, Edw . 250 Shroubsold , Jo. 283 Simon , Ri . 55 Sisseley, Th . 178 Sixweke , Th. 172 Sket , Chr. 28 Slaughter , Edw. 350 Sloden, Ro. 59 Smelte, Jo. , jun. 94 Smith, Reg . 284 Smithe , Jo. 159, 317 Smithe , Jo. 219 Smithe , Th. , miller 187 Smodinge , Ja. 225 , 327 Smyth, Th. 66 Smyth, Wi. 339 Smythe , Ro. 85 Snode, Cl. 278 Snode, Jo. 290 Snode, Ro. 283 Solmes, Th . 50 Soly, St. , sen. 72 Somes, Th. 342 Sone, Jo. , sen. 176 Sougate, Edw. 289 Southouson , Chr. 285, 332 Spachehurst , Ant . 256 Spachehurst , Sim. 256, 313 Spaigne, Jo. 347 Sparrowe , Jo. 263 Sparrowe , Th. 236 Specheley, Th . 74 Speyce, Jo. 336 Spice, Jo. 226, 324 Spice Ro . 172

Spice, Wi. 324 Spicer , Chr. 59 Spicer, Dav. 59 Spillet, Jo., bosholder 205, 327 Spracklen , Jo. 87 Sqwier, Jo. 84, 316 Stace, Ro. 179 Stanforde , Th. 345 Starke , Jo. 65 Steble, Jo. 235 Stede, Jo. 225 Stede, Jo. 226 Stede, Ro. 139 Stede, Wi. 225 Stertout, Ri. 195 Steuen, Wi . 288 Stevens, Al. 187 Stevens, Jo. 187 Stile , Jo. 206 , 324 Still , Jo . 148 Stinte, Ri. 126 Stock, Wi. 260 Stockwell, Nic . 340 Stode, Ri. 160 Stoke, Ri. 319 Stonard, Jo. 252 Stonas , Ri. 219 Stone, Jo. 187 Stone, St. 19 Stonehouse, Chr. 171 Stonehowse , Jo. 223 Stoner , Jo. 247 Stonnerd , Wi. 324 Stopeney, Th. 318 Stottesford , Ja . 182 Stronge , Ri . 67, 347 Stupner , La. 162 Style , Jo. 324 Sudger , Wal. 209 Supple , Wi. 286 Sutton, Pet. 237 Sutton, Pet. 277 Swalman , Wi. 274 , 330 Swane, Ri. 326 Swanner , Ri. 210 Swanton , Jo . 340 Swifte, St. 286 Swynford, Ri . 346* Swynnerton, Jo . 195 Swynnerton, Ro. 190 Symme , Ri . 128 Symon , Jo. , 332 Symon , Mi. 270 Symonds, Wi. 324 Sympson , Rog. 158 Tadlawe , Th. 162 Tailor, Gre . 115 Tailor , Gre. 121 , 320 Tailor , He. 225 Tailor , Ri ., sen. 182 Tailor , Th. 126

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380 Tailor, Wi . 182 Tassell, Th. 335 Taylor, Jo. 46 Taylor, Jo. 317* Taylor, Wi. 317 Taylor, Wi. 349 Teboll, Jo. 190 Tenaker, Jo. 284 Terrie, Ri. 288 Tery, Ri. 321 Tesdale, Nic . 218 Thatcher, Th . 240 Thompson , Ja. 221 Thompson, Th. 221 Thompson , Wi. 106 Thoraton, Ri. 338 Throwlie, Pet. 152 Ticknore, Ro. 287 Tilden, Ja. 221 Tilden , Th. 210 Tilden, Wi. 215 Tilsey, Ro . 158 Tirrenden, Reg. 254, 328 Tirrey, Th. 190 Tobie , Ja. 235 Tofte, Ja. 261 Tomlyn, Wal . 253 Tonge , Jo. 269, 329 Tonge, Wi . 255 Topley , Ri. 321 Toppley , Wi. 175 Tose, Edw. 50 Tristram , Ri . 266 , 330 Tritton , Jo. 288 Trontes , Jo. 280 Tryntam, Ro. 146 Tuck, Jo. 57 Tucker, Ri . 73 Turner, Wi. 247 Turnor, Jo. 183 Turnor, Th. 86 Turnor , Wi. 121 Twesnoth, La . 320 Tyrrey, Ro . 168 Tyrrey, Th. 288 Vale , Th. 138 Vewe , Wi. 82 Vffington , Jo. 70 Virgen, Th . 135 Vnderdowne, Hu. 347 Vpton , Ro . 288 Vsborn , Hamon 338 Vsborn, Th. 324 Vsmer , St. 202 Vylet, Wi. 88 Vynney, Chr . 324 Wade , Edm. 138 Wade , Jo. 223 Wade , Wi. 322 Waites, Jo. 133

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Wall, Rog. 51

Waller, Jo. 285 Waller , Ri. 285 , 332 Waller, Th. 36 Waller, Wi. 231 Wallys, Pet. 162 Wanstall, Jo . 348 Warcopp , Wi . 165, 317 Warde, Ro . 163 Warner, Jo . 271 Warren, Th. 54 Waterman, Th. 187 Waters, 226 Waters, Chr. 226 Wattes , He. 223 Wattes, Jo. 116

Wattes , Ri. 175 Wattes , Ri. 176, 322 Wattes , Wi. 176 Wattes , Wi . 179 Webbe , Wi. 68 Week, Jo. 231 Weldish, Jo. 277 Weller , Jo. 157 Welles , Jo. , sen. 190 Welles , Ri. 179 Welles, Ri . 348 Welles , Th. 176, 322 Wessynden , Ro. 86, 345 West , Jo., bosholder 270 Wetherenden , Ro. 121 Whatman, Jo. 162 Whatman, Th. 146 Whit, Ri. 41 Whit, Wi. 113, 322 White, Jo. 70 White woode, Ri. 129 White woode, Wi. 158 Whitfield , Jo. 133, 320 Whitfield , Th. 32 Whitinge, Ro . 220 Whitlock , Arnold 232 Wich , Wi. 321 Wickes, Jo. 209 Wigge, Ri. 340 Wilborne, Jo. 166 Wilkinson , Geo. 323 Willard , Th. 180 Willes, Th. 159 Williams , Jo. 199 Wilstone, Wi. 102 Winge, Wi. 328 Wingefelde, Wi . 250 Wise, Ro . 99 Witte , Jos . 116 Wolfe, Ja. 337 Wolgate, Jo. 223 Wollett , Ri. 55, 340 Wolton, Jo. 125 Wood , Jo. 201 Woodd , Ro . 324 Woodde , Th. 346

INDEX Wooddyer, Ri. 226 Woode , Jo. 271 Woode , Ro . 271, 328 Woodgate , Pet. 178 Woodward, Wi. 116, 320 Wotton, Jo. 248 Wraight , Nic . 55 Wrighte, Th. 342 Wyborn, Ra . 186 Wydope , Jo. 336 Wyllard , Jo. 179 Wyllard , Ro . 179

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Wylson, Jo. 324 Wynston, Wi . 317 Wyuell, Jo. 167 Yong, Jo. 316 Yonge , Bar. 190, 327 Yonge , Dav . 106, 347 Yonge , Jo. 93 Yonge , Th. 340 Young, Geo. 20 Younge , Ri, 283

MISCELLANEOUS PERSONS Aberye , Eliz . 351 Aberye , Ro. 351 Abot, Wi. 351 Adams , He. 104 Allyn , of Herne 138 Almanson, Wm. 65 Arden, Th . 20 Arnold, Jo . 145 Auchar, Mr. 231 Austen , Wi. 122 Awger, Mrs. 39 a Wood, Wi., yeoman 352

Bailie, Jo ., of Rye 134

Baker , Agnes 327 Baker, Th. 351 Baker, Wi. 100 Balden , Ri. , yeoman 351 Barham, Dav. 216 Barlyng, Wi. 352 Barrie, Th. , gent. 139 Bartilmewe, Joan 145 Bate, Jo. 177 Bauberie , Anne 116 Bayly, Jo. 351 Beale , Th. 183 Bennet , Agnes 327 Bennet , Jo. 216 Berrye , Jo. 351 Biam , He. 350 Blachenden , Mrs. , of Walmer 36, 37 Boll, Jo. 143 Bolton, Th. 96 Bowle, Jo. 67 Bowreman, Alice 109 Bowthing 48 Brente , Mr. 121, 265 Brewes , Wi. 52 Bridger, Ro . 213 Browne, Sir Pat . 66 Browning, Geo. 263 Buns , Jo. 142 Bunse, Ri. 142 Byrry, Judith 327

Carpinter, Jo. 240 Carpynter, Th. 352

Castlyne , Geo. 134 Catlock 333 Chapman , Ja. 96 Charles, Jo., schoolmaster 83 Cheyney , Sir Thos ., Kt. 98 Clement , Jo. 53 Cloke , Ja. 263 Cobham , Lord 214 Colman, Wi . 352 Colsole, Jo. 350 Cowdale , centenarian 216 Craford, Mr. 48 Creffeld's wife, midwife 216 Cregges, Th. 262 Cregges's wife 262 Culpeper, Mrs. 80 Cumberford , Mr. 48

D , Da. 78 Damsell, Sir Wm. , Kt. 107, 110 Darbie, Wi . 350 Dartnall 136 104 Daunster, Den, Dav. 77 121 Deringe, Mr. Dierband, Ro. 351 Digges, Mr. 63 Diggons , Joan 351

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Elet, Chr. 53 Elgar, Ri . 263

Elsmere , Ri. 217 Elwer, Sister Eliz. 136 Eustacis' widow 74 Exton, Th. 183

Ffarmer, Wi . 351 Ffissher, Kath. 123 Ffordman, Wi . 351 Ffordmyll , Ro . 70

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Ffowle, St. 94 Ffrankis, Jo. 351 Ffrannckeleyn 204 Ffranncklen, Th. 201 Ffranneys, Joan, prioress 136 Finch, Ra . 321 Finche , Mr. 177

Foule 177 Fowle, Wi. 131 Foxton , Agnes 351 Foxton, Ja. 351 Frampton, Wal. 53 Freeman

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Freman's widow 137

Frenche , Mr. 137

Garrat, Rog., schoolmaster 129

Gates, Ri. 350 Gibson 350 Gibson, Jo. 345 Gilbert 349 Gillowe, Jo. 36 Godderde, Th. 351 Godfrey , Alice 352 Godfrey , Pet. 351 Godfrey , Ri. 352 Goodhewe, Wi. 335 Gostree, Jo. 53 Guldeford family , of Hempsted in Benenden 181-2n

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of Canterbury 332 Hales , Sir Chr. 136 Hamond 38 Harfild , Helen 352 Harfild , Wi. 352 Harper, Mr. , commissioner 203, 209 , 211, 212 , 326 Harris, Joan 194 Harris, Th. 194 Harte, Jo. , parish clerk 259 Harte, Jo. 351 * Hasylhurst, Ra. 20 Helson's wife, midwife 216 Hennekar's wife, midwife 216 Hitchcocke, Anne 352 Hitchcocke, Ro . 352 Hobson , Hu . 63 Holliday , Ro . 351 Holy Maid of Kent 353n Homersham, Jo. 352 Honnye, Pet. 110 Honnywell, Mr. 26 Horne, Mr. 352 Howlet, Eliz . 104 Hunte, Th . 351

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Isaac , Mr. 99 Jasopp , the butcher 136 Joice, Jo. 195

Kees, Th. 351 Kelisham, Chr. 352 Kennett, Jo. 127 Kinge, Mr. 129 Knell , Wi., yeoman of Brookland (executed for Pope's Supremacy 1539) 165n Knighte , Jo. 245 Knyghte, Th . 351 Kyrsforde, Edw., of Hoo, Sussex 132 Lake , Ro . 188

Lake, Th . 188 Lake, Wi. 188 Lathbury , Wm. , of London 28 Lawles , Mr. 130 Lewes's wife, of Canterbury 77 Living, Ja . 183 London, Pet. 97 Longe , And . 78 Lovelace , Mr. 345

Lowes , He . 145 Luck , Jo . 201 Lyford , Jo. 328, 351 Lyllie , Ric . 216

Lynsey, Jo. 53 Malam, He. 350 Man , Th . 351 Mantell , Jo. 243 Mapisden , Th. 217 Mascall, Th. 201 Mathewe, Rog., schoolmaster 126 Mercer , Godliva 352 Merden , Jo. 194

Mersh , Wi. 38 Mershe, Leon. 38 Merywether, Edw. , smith 41 Mockett, Mr. 112 Motie 353 Motie , Ro . 232 Moyle, Sir Th., Kt. 111 Myndge , Al. 51 Neyvyson , Chr. 76, 81 Norden, Mr. 248, 328 Norleyn, Margt . 352 Not, Edm. 23 Not , Edm. , sen. 24 Not, Pet. 24 Palmer , Sir He., Kt. 67 Palmer , Mr. 46, 75 Pantrie, Wi . 104 Parckehurst, Mr. 228 Peeres, Jo. 67 Pemton 36 Peper, Nic . 352 Peper, Wi. 351, 352 Petit Ciriac, Mr. 70 Pettit, Jo. 74 Philpotte, Ja. 183

INDEX Pratte , Th. 109 Prett, Ro . 226 Pullen, the painter 63 Pyne , Wi. 132 Pynes 353 Rabettes , Jeroppa 194 Rabettes , Nic . 194 Ray, Chr. 351 Raynarde , Geo. 351 Raynes, Ph. 276 Raynold, Rog., bosholder 190-2 Rede, Wi. 327 Respis 41 Richardes , Th. 350 Roberdes, Ri. (or Robins ) 48 Robertes , Mr. 152 Rooke , widow of 103 Rouse , Geo. 200 , 327 Rouse, Wi. 351 Ryder 138 Ryndgeley , Sir Edw. , Kt. 28 Roper , Chr. , Esq . 197, 198, 214, 232 Ruffyn , Jo . 276 Salmon , Wi . 350 Sampson, Ph. 245 Sanders of Woodnesborough 36 Segar, Ro . 276 Sherwoode , Jo. 151 Shou well, Wi. 335 Silver, summoner 292

Skambler's wife 189

Sloyte , Sir Geoff . 37 Smede, Th. , wife of 194 Smith, Geo. 335 Smith, Jo. 335 Smithe , Nic ., tailor 216 Smithe , Th. 194 Spillman, Mr. 39 Stace, summoner 291 and n

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Stapen, Ro. 138 Stonas, Chr. 351 Stonehouse , Alice 351 Stonehouse, Ma. 351 Stonehurst , Mr. 221 Swifte, Jo. 351 Sydley, Mr. 37 Tanner , Alice 127 Taunton, Joyce, a scold 217 Th., her husband 217 33 Tilly, summoner 352 Turner, Jo., scrivener 216

Turner's wife, of Sutton Valence 327 Twaites, Mr. 353 Twisden , Jo. 177

Tydliey 132 Typsall, of London 136 Vden , Th. 53 Vueley , Cl . 131

Walter, Jo. 194 Walter, Wal. 194 Walton, Edw. 137 Warde , Wi . 132 Waterman, 123 Wattes , Reg . 147 Webb 333 Wetherden, Jo . 123 Whatman, Th., victualler 147 Wildie , Ro . 276 Wilkins , Mr. 328 Wodcocke , Edw . 352 Wodcocke, Jo. 352 Wood, Joan 221, 222, 327 Wotton, Mr. , commissioner 209 Yonge, Bar., bosholder 190, 192 Younge 136 Younge , Flor . 136

SELECT SUBJECTS Acta 233 Ale house ( vicar lodging at) 73 Altar stone (in aisle) 204 ; ( in chimney) 203 ; (in highway) 125 ; ( on tomb) 206 Asperges 293, 329

Bailiff 53 , 320

Beads 18, 25, 53, 68, 99 Bellrope land 78 Bible in English ( recalled ) 132, 146, 196, 199, 206, 218 , 235, 243, 246, 248, 326 and n, 329 Billa 294-349 , 317n , 322n , 324n, 334n Bosholder 120, 127, 177, 183, 189, 191 , 193, 194, 200 , 206, 249 (see also index of names) Brotherhood (of St. Sepulchre) 247 ; (of the Trinity) 143

Butchers 109, 217 Censers (pair of required) 276 Centenarian 216 Cess 53 , 149 , 319 Chalice (not of silver) 234, 245 ; (to be consecrated ) 66 Chapels (pulled down) 70, 247 Chest 254 Childbirth (communion refused by one in ) 100 Choir singers 26, 92, 185, 201 , 206, 207, 215 Church cows 42 Church sheep 38 Churchwardens (at sea on Queen's business) 334

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Commissioners of Edward VI (for church goods ) 114, 144, 207 Commissioners of Queen Mary (for heresy) 28, 30, 53, 77, 120, 123, 186* , 208 and n Common Prayer Book 235 Compulsory marriage 104 Compurgation 110, 145, 194, 222 Confirmation 103, 323 and n Constable 186, 189 Cope (given by Abp. Cranmer) 45 Corn for church light 37 Corpus Christi light 58 Creeping to the cross 179 , 185, 321 Curate's salary 49 Curfew land 36 Decree 330 Delegation by archdeacon 194* Dispensation (letters of) 69 Drunkenness 217 Evensong 333

Excommunication 117, 123, 324 ?, 331

Exemption from archidiaconal visitation 261n Falling sickness 305 Forfeiture 188 French priests 32, 35 and n, 308, 321

Nihil actum 30, 330 No summons to visitation 297, 300 , 334

Oaths 295-312, 317 Obit 77, 177 Official of archdeacon 353 Oil and tow 150 Old book 109n , 328, 331 Organist 325 Organs 131 , 135, 137, 226

Painted cloth (in place of rood) 273 Paraphrase of Erasmus (recalled) 132, 146, 196, 199, 206, 218 , 235, 243, 246, 247, 248, 326 and n , 329, 353 Parchment 247

Payments to archdeacon's court P 294 , 295 and n 304 Peculiars 281n

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Penances described 118 , 207, 244, 245, 323 Plurality 42, 210 Poor relief 319 Pricket 226 Probate of wills 291-3, 351-2 Processionals 207 Processions on Wednesdays and Fridays 99, 183, 186, 189 Processions on Rogation days 202, 326

Procurations 313-4

Quare non puniri debet 70, 138, 145

Hanging pyx 263 Here cloth 229, 230, 251 Hermitage 247 Herse (made into cradle by vicar) 22 Highways 104 Holy bread 245 ; (bowl) 63 and n land 96 Home stall 332 Hymnals 271, 272 Incantation ( alleged) 109-10 , 123, 216 Induction of vicar 37, 50* Induction of archdeacon 282n Inventory 86, 229, 233 , 239, 243 , 274 Jurats 30 King's arms 199 Lamp and cloth for desk 18 Last sacraments ( not administered) 195 Last book of visitation 343 Lent confessions 179, 180, 183 Letters of absence 302 Letters of ordination 316 and n Manual 19

Mass book 271 Mayor 30, 50, 52 , 53, 57, 137

Recognizance 322 Recusancy in Kent 55n, 146n, 168n, 180-2n, 236-7n, 257n , 284n ReligiousDisaffection or NegligenceAdisham, 81 ( Chr. Neyvynson) Aldington , 262 (Dionisia Cregges, ux :?)

Ashford, 118 (Margt . Geoffrie; Joan Masterson; Ri . Morcote; Anne Sewell) Barham, 77-8 (Jo. Broke, gent. and son ; Jekis and wife ; Rog. a Nower) Bearsted , 222 (Jude Herne ; Joan Wood ) ; see also 327 Bethersden , 123 (Swanne ) Biddenden , 129 ( Ri .

-; Rog. Garrat ; Jo . Halfnoth; Hu. Wood) Bilsington, 317 ( Fisher and wife) Boughton Monchelsea , 200 (Jo. Master; wife of Geo. Rouse ) Boxley, 218 (Jo . Bause ; wife of Jo. Johnson) Canterbury, St. George 335 (Geo. Smith ; Jo . Smith; Wi. Shouwell) Cranbrook, 183 ( Th. Beale; Th .

Exton ; Ja. Livinge ; Ja . Philpotte) Dover, St. Mary 53 (Jo. Lynsey ?)

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St. Peter 51 (Al. Myndge ?)

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INDEX

Tenterden , 135 ( Benette's wife ; Goudhurst, 189-90 , 323, 327 (CogHamme's wife) gar's wife ; Ri . Dallington and Ulcombe , 207-9 (Joan Adams; wife ; wife of Art Lye ; He. Muddle ; wife of Wi . Walter; wife of Jo .

Joan Barlinge, Pet. Ffowle; Isobel Gates ; Margt. Johnson; wife of Smithe, miller) Geo. Kingesnothe see also LenHeadcorn, 127, 323 (Agnes Fiscock; ham ; Eleanor Moswell; Eliz. Poste) Jo. Tonge; Th. Tonge; Shepherde ?)

Valence , Sutton, 327 ( Turner's wife) Kennardington, 145 (Thurstan Westwell, 116 (Alice Crosbie of Wood) Kennington, 116 ( Alice Crosbie ) Kennington ; Hu. Hatche) Kingsnorth, 103, 323 (Mi. ÁisWillesborough, 138 (Wi. Hall ; Ri .

Mone ; Th. Sprotte) herst ?)

Woodchurch, 100 ( wife of Jo . WyLenham, 327 (Geo. Kingsnothe and therlie) wife see also Ulcombe) Maidstone , 216-7 (Joan Drowley ; Wye, 109 (St. Giles see also Westwell) Nic . Smithe, tailor ?)

Marden , 191-4 (Wi . Affelde and Residence ( vicar called to) 328 Dorothy his wife ; Agnes Bassock ; Respite 70, 348 Joan Cleve; Val . Dowtie , Ri. Restitution ( by striking candles ) 110 Everynden and wife ; Jo . Ffowle; Robbery of churches 233, 245, 257, Margt . wife of Ja. Garford ; Ja . 275 Ham and wife ; Jo . Ham , jun .; Roman use forbidden 260 Jo. Ham, sen.; Ri. Hider ; Jo . Rural deans 299 , 304, 307, 309, 327, Knoll; wife of Wi . Maschall; 342 Eleanor Mayhowe; Cath. Nicolas; Sarum use 64 Wi. Randolf ; Th . Smithe) Mersham, 105 (Margt . Grigbee ) Schoolmaster 216, 335 Newington near Sittingbourne 249 Scold 217 -50 (Ant. Allen ; Th . Blackborn ; Scottish priest 8, 260 Howe, late vicar , and wife ' ) Scripture (to be erased above rood) Orlestone , 323 (Margt . Smythe) 53, 127, 225 Pluckley, 120 (Jo. Anowre ; wife Seams of wheat 247 of Jo. Hart ; He. Harte ; one Sextry land 74 Hatche ; Nic . Hugge) Shops (open on Sundays ) 109, 147, Sandhurst , 177 (young Willard) 217 Sandwich, St. Mary 28 ( one Wil- Sidesmen 63, 189, 229, 243, 249, 251, 253, 319 and n lard) Smarden , 126 ( Ri. Busse ; Ja .

Singing bread 169 Lake's wife) Summoner of the archdeacon 35n, Stallisfield, 229 (Nic . and Juliana 291-3, 297n , 352 Kinge) Staplehurst, 186, 327 ( wife of Bath- Tabernacle 17 erst ; widow Buckland ; Th . ClifTaking possession of church 278n ford ; Ffaunte's wife ; Pet . Fowle, servant; Ro . Garland; Pet. Marden; Vestments to be mended 321 Mat . Medherst; Th. Rede and wife ; Th. Robertes ; Th. Scranton and Vicarage to be vacated 51 Vicar's warden 318 and n wife; Geo. Tailor ) Stockbury, 243-5 ( He. Baker and wife ; Jo. Beckett and son ; Alice Wedde 202 Kemesley; Jo. Knighte ? ; Jo. Woodsetters 183 Work on Lady Day 331 Mantell) Sutton, East , 209, 307 ( Margery Delman or Dolman) Zodiac (signs of) 173

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FORTY -SIXTH

REPORTS OF THE

Catholic Record Society FRAGMENTEL COLLIGITS

PEREANT

FOUNDED

0.1904

FOR THE YEARS

JUNE Together

1,

1948 ,

to MAY 31 , 1950

with the Roll of Members , the Obituary, the Constitutions, &c.

Constitutions 1. Name . The name of the Society is " THE CATHOLIC RECORD

SOCIETY .

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2. Objects . The objects are the transcribing, printing, indexing, and distributing to its members the Catholic Registers of Baptisms, Marriages and Deaths , and other old Records of the Faith, chiefly personal and genealogical , since the Reformation in England and Wales .

3. Management . The affairs of the Society are managed by a Council consisting of twelve members , three trustees and five honorary officers , viz . The Recorder , Bursar, Legal Adviser, Librarian , and Secretary four forming a quorum. It has power to appoint a Presidentand Vice-Presidents , its Chairman and Officers , and to fill vacancies on its own body, and has power to refuse or take away membership . Onethird of the twelve members and all the honorary officers retire each year, but are eligible for re-election . Nominations of new Members of the Council must be sent to the Secretaryfourteen days before the Annual Meeting. The representation and management are reserved to Catholic Members .

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4. Subscription . The subscription is one guinea per annum, commencing June 1st, which entitles members to any publications issued during the year.

No volume will be issued to any member whose subscription is unpaid , and the names of any members whose subscription shall be two years in arrear will thereupon be removed from the Society, and not be readmitted until all arrears are paid. A member wishing to retire from the Society must intimate his intention to the Bursar or the Secretary before the 1st day of June , or be held liable for his subscription for the ensuing year.

Personal Life Membership may be obtained on payment of twenty guineas in advance . Members who have paid subscriptionsfor ten consecutive years and who are not in arrear may obtain the same privilege on payment of ten guineas . All life subscriptions are to be capitalized.

5. Back Numbers . Members may, on prepayment, obtain back numbers ( in stock ) on such terms as the Council may direct. if

6. Meetings . An Annual Meeting is held in the month of June or July, of which at least seven days ' notice is sent to all the members . , with a statement At this meeting a report of the, work of the Society of the income and expenditure is presented . This is issued together with the list of members and the Constitutions of the Society.

An Extraordinary General Meeting may be called at any time by the Council. At least seven days ' notice , stating the object of the meeting, shall be given.

7. Audit . The Bursar's accounts are audited by a member of the Society or professional accountant appointed by the Council, at the close of the financial year , which expires on May 31 .

N.B. The Bursar deals with Membership and Subscriptions.

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The Catholic Record Society FOUNDED JUNE 10th, 1904

PATRONS HIS EMINENCE THE CARDINAL ARCHBISHOP OF WESTMINSTER HIS GRACE THE ARCHBISHOP OF BIRMINGHAM HIS GRACE THE ARCHBISHOP OF LIVERPOOL HIS GRACE THE ARCHBISHOP OF CARDIFF PRESIDENT THE RIGHT REVEREND JOHN HENRY KING, D.D., Ph.D., LORD BISHOP OF PORTSMOUTH

VICE-PRESIDENTS MOST REV. DAVID MATHEW, M.A. , Litt.D. , F.S.A. , F.R.Hist.S. BRIGADIER THOMAS BYRNAND TRAPPES -LOMAX, C.B.E.

COUNCIL (Elected) FR. GODFREY ANSTRUTHER, O.P., B. ès Sc . Hist.

A. C. F. BEALES, M.A. FR. ALPHONSUS BONNAR, O.F.M. , D.D. DOM HUGH BOWLER, O.S.B. FR . BASIL FITZGIBBON, S.J. FR. LEO HICKS , S.J. DOM ADRIAN MOREY, O.S.B. , Ph.D. , M.A. W. A. PANTIN , M.A. , F.S.A.

E. E. REYNOLDS, J.P. CANON R. E. SCANTLEBURY REV . GORDON WHEELER , M.A. TRUSTEES

CAPTAIN WILLIAM DE GEIJER REV . GORDON ALBION , D.Sc.Hist . , B.A. , F.R.Hist.S. F. W. CHAMBERS, K.S.G. , M.A.

Honorary Officers (On Council ex officio) Hon. Bursar and Secretary REV . DR . GORDON ALBION ,

S. Edward's ,

Sutton Park, Guildford

Hon . Recorder

M. R. TRAPPES-LOMAX ,

ROUGE DRAGON PURSUIVANT Hon. Legal Adviser BELLORD

GEORGE

Hon. Librarian ANTONY FRANCIS ALLISON , B.A. MESSRS . COUTTS

Bankers & Co. , 440, STRAND, W.C.2

THE FORTY-FIFTH AND FORTY-SIXTH ANNUAL REPORTS The Council has pleasure in presenting to the members of the Catholic Record Society the following Annual Reports .

For reasons of economy, separate copies of our Annual Reports will no longer be issued to members. They will continue to appear bound into our volumes.

Since our last Report , dated March 1948 , the Council begs

to announce the election of Brigadier T. B. Trappes - Lomax, C.B.E. , to the Vice- Presidency left vacant by the death of Dom E. Hilary Willson, O.S.B.; and of the Reverend Gordon Albion, D.Sc. Hist., B.A., F.R.Hist . Soc. , as Hon . Secretary, in place of

the late R. Cecil Wilton , and to continue as Hon . Bursar ; and of Mr. Antony Francis Allison, B.A. , of the British Museum, as Hon . Librarian with special charge of the Gillow Library (owned by the Catholic Record Society, and now housed by courtesy of The Tablet at Tablet House, 128, Sloane Street, London , S.W.1).

Members wishingto consult it should apply to the Hon. Secretary, C.R.S. Also since our last Report , the Society has issued Volume 41

(The Letters of Thomas Fitzherbert, 1608-1610 , edited by Fr. Leo Hicks , S.J.) and Volumes 42, 43 and 44 ( Hampshire Registers , edited by Canon R. E. Scantlebury).

Forthcoming volumes already in print and in process of binding include further Hampshire Registers , edited by Canon R. E. Scantlebury, and Nicholas Harpsfield's Visitation Returns for 1556-8, edited by the Reverend L. E. Whatmore , M.A. , to appear in two volumes.

The Jesuit Father John Warner's PersecutionisCatholicorum Anglicana, et Coniurationis Presbiteriana Hystoria, an account of the Popish Plot edited by T. A. Birrell , now of Nijmegen University, is ready for the printer, but publication has been delayed by the decision of the Council to issue with it an English translation now being made by Fr. Bligh , S.J., of Beaumont

College.

Mr. E. E. Reynolds , who is editing extracts from the Diary transcribed the whole forty-nine note - books (4,024 pages) of the journal .

of William Mawhood, has

On 13th December, 1949 , the Annual General Meeting was held at the Newman Association , 31, Portman Square, London, W.1, when Fr. Basil Fitzgibbon, S.J., lectured on Some Aspects of Popish Plot Research.'

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On 21st November , 1950 , Brigadier T. B. Trappes-Lomax, C.B.E. , Vice- President, C.R.S., lectured to the Annual General Meeting on The Survival of Catholicism in England and Wales, 1559-1791, and a Plan for its Recording . " Previous to the lecture the Hon. Secretary- Bursar reported that the rise in costs of printing and binding meant that the Society , with its present membership , was losing on every volume issued and must increase its income or cease production. The Meeting empowered the Council to explore and carry through every practical means of augmenting the Society's resources, including recognition as a charity on public appeal for donations and in the last resort the raising of the annual subscription .

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THE BURSAR'S STATEMENT. The Hon . Bursar begs to report the accession of the following new members Rev. J. W. Moloney ; St. Benet's Hall, Oxford; Miss N. McNeill O'Farrell ; Mr. C. W. F. Skrimshire ; Southwell House, S.J.; Edinburgh University Library; W. J. C. Berrington; Miss D. L. Smith ; The Rt. Rev. Bishop Beck ; Lt.- Col. A. E. H. Villiers ; Rev. V. Guazzeli ; The English College, Lisbon ; Mr. F. D. Allison; Miss E. M. Bickerdike ; Mr. Henry Swarbrick; Mr. David Rogers; Mr. Brian Magee ; V. Rev. Gordon Gray; Miss S. M. C. Duncan ; Rev. J. W. Levy ; Norwich PublicLibrary; Louvain University Library; Mr. J. E. Brogden ; Mr. Herbert Ward ; the University Library, Nijmegen ; Mr. G. E. Crosby; Lady Margaret House, Cambridge ; Sainte Union Convent, Southampton ; Mr. J. M. Pound ; Rev. M. O'Riordan; Mr. Edward Radcliffe ; Sir Gyles Isham , Bt .; Mr. J. L. Young ; Mr. H. Nelson ; Mr. R. G. Cummings ; Rev. G. D. Sweeney; Miss Anne Seé ; The Countess of Iddesleigh ; Rev. R. J. N. Gay; Rev. B. N. Foley ; Rev. B. C. Fisher; Mr. Edward Thompson ; Hull Catholic Local History Society ; Dr. Ann Forster ; Mr. C. N. Francis ; Miss Dorothy Browne ; Rev. Edwin Broderick and Rev. John Harrington.

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The following have become Life Members Col. R. G. Dawson ; Dom Hugh Bowler; The Most Rev. the Archbishop_of Birmingham; Dr. Mary Cardwell ; Mr. R. J. A. Arundell ; The Rt. Rev. Bishop Beck ; Mr. Henry Swarbrick and Rev. R. J. N. Gay.

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The Bursar regrets to announce the resignation of seventeen members and also the following deaths Dom Hilary Willson (Vice - President , C.R.S.) ; Bishop Lee of Clifton ; Miss Alice Eccles; Bishop Moriarty of Shrewsbury ; Mr. Percival Deeley; Canon John McQuirk; Nicholas Blundell; W. Abbey Smith ; Bishop Poskitt and The Most Rev. Archbishop Amigo.

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The Membership Roll now stands at 410, an increase of 40.

March, 1949

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THE CATHOLIC

BALANCE as at

Dr. 1949

May 31 To 33 Life Subscriptions 12 Life Subscriptions 13

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@ £ 10 10s.

£ s. d.

346 10

252

£21

0

£ s. d.

0 0

Legacy from James Britten , K.C.S.G. 200 18 20 33 Henry Ince Anderton Mrs. Leach for J. H. "" Woollan 50 0 0 Henry Singleton 13 455 3 Threlfall L. C. C. Lindsay Newdigate Legacy 1000

598 10

0

10000

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400

18000

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Subscriptions received in advance 1,762 General Fund Brought forward Add Surplus for year 212 1948/9

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1,08616 32 11

0

5 6

35

1,974

8 11

£3,691 11 5

AND EXPENDITURE INCOMERECEIPTS.

1948 June 1

To Subscriptions received during yearFor year 1943/4, 6 @ £ 1 1s. . " 1944/5,, 8 @@£ 1 11s1s 1945/6 27 £ .

33 1946/7, 163 @ £ 1 1s. " ‫ ود‬1947/8, 186 @ £ 1 1s .

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33

£ s. d.

600

6 8

8

28

7 0

171

30

1 @ 17s.

1949/50, 345 @ £1 1s.

19630 36250

Incomefrom Investments Interest on deposit at Post Office Savings Bank

49 15 4

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26

s. d.

£

772 12

0

5 10

121 10 30 00 76

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Sale of back volumes Proceeds of volumes from Gillow Library Donation

14 17

62

£935 13 3

I have examined the above Balance Sheet and Income and properly kept by the Society. have obtained all the information and explanations necessary and Expenditure Account give a true and fair view of the state of

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PATRICK TOOLE, Hon. Auditor.

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RECORD SOCIETY.

SHEET

Cr.

31st May , 1949 1949

May 31

By Investments

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£

s.

a.

2

3 2,667 2 5

The market value of the above Securities at 31st May was £2,664/ 12/5 Deposits at Post Office Savings Bank Trustee Savings Bank "

526 5 10 300 0 0 826

Cash at Bank

5 10

1983 2

£3,691 11

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, TO 31ST MAY , 1949 ACCOUNT 1949 PAYMENTS.

May

31

By Cost of binding Volume 41 ( 1948 )

Cost of printing Volume 42 (1949) Cost of Annual Reports ( 1948/9)

£ s. d.

£ s. d.

76 17

405 44 160 18 17

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63 13

33

Purchase of volumes for Catholic Record Society Honorarium to Hon. Secretary and Bursar 21 15 6 Gillow Library Cost of shelving 33 carriage 5 15 0 ‫ود‬

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Stationery, Transcriptions, Advertising

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100 52 100 27 10 15

6 00605

9 10

100

7 13 33 2 212 3

£935 13 3

Expenditure Account, which are in agreement with the books of Account

for the audit, and in my opinion the Balance Sheet and the Income affairs at 31st May 1949 , and of its surplus for the year ended on that GORDON ALBION, Hon. Secretary and Bursar.

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THE CATHOLIC

Dr.

BALANCE as at

1950

May 31

£ s. d.

To 33 Life Subscriptions @ £ 10 10s .

12 Life Subscriptions @ £21

346 10

Legacy from James Britten K.C.S.G. Henry Ince Anderton " Mrs. Leach for J. H. 33 " Woollan Henry Singleton

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Threlfall L. C. C. Lindsay Newdigate Legacy

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1950

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Less Deficit for year

1949/50

0

2520 0

£ s. d.

598 10

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2

10000

5000 455

300

3

180 100

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31 10

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1,833 12

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£3,549 14

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140 16

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INCOME AND EXPENDITURE RECEIPTS.

May 31 To Subscriptions received during yearFor year 1944/5 1 @ £1 ls.

1945/6 3 @ 1 1s.

33 [ " 1946/7 4 @ ££1 1s.

1947/8 4 @ £1 1s.

33 1948/9 6 @ £ 1 ls. " " 1949/50 331 @ £1 1s . "

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40 40

660

347 11

Income from Investments " Sale of back volumes Interest on Post Office Savings Bank Deposit 23 Trustee Savings Bank Deposit Less 33Deficit for year

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366 9 0 49 15 4 152 15 0 21 16 10 7 5 11 140 16 5

£738 18

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I have examined the above Balance Sheet and Income and properly kept by the Society. have obtained all the information and explanations necessary and Expenditure Account give a true and fair view respectively of the

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ALBION, Hon . Bursar and Secretary.

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RECORD SOCIETY

SHEET 31st May, 1950 1950

May 31 £ s. d.

By Investments- £2,227 17 1 3 % War Loan @cost . 2,246 15 2 £500 21% Consolidated 420 7 3 Stock @cost

£ s. d.

2,667

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Note : The value of the above investments as at 31st May was as under£2,227 17 1 3 % War Stock £2,050 0 0 £500 3% Consolidated Stock 352100 2,402 100

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Cash at Bank

Trustees Savings Bank

875 5 8 7

5 11

882 11

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£3,549 14 0

ACCOUNT , TO 31ST MAY, 1950 1950

May 31

EXPENDITURE

By Cost of printing Volume No. 45 33

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Cost of binding Volumes 43 and 44 Cost of binding Volume No. 42 Honorarium to Hon. Bursar Rent paid to Central Library Insurance Printing , Stationery, etc.

Postages

Advertising

Sundries

d.

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s.

360 185 85

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52 100 10

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600 816 17 6 7

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5 19 17 15

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£738 18

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ExpenditureAccount, which are in agreement with the Books of Account for the audit, and in my opinion the Balance Sheet and the Income state of its affairs at the 31st May 1950 .

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Life Members . Peter and Paul Atherton Street Wallasey ,

, Rev. E. M. , SS , , Cheshire. and Martina's PresbyL Adamson,, Rev. Philip, C.F. , SS . Catherine tery Birkenhead Road , Hoylake, Wirral , Cheshire.

Albemarle , The Countess of, Beacon Hill, Martlesham , Woodbridge, Suffolk .

Albion , Rev. Gordon , D.Sc. Hist . , B.A., F.R.Hist.S., S. Edward's,

Sutton Park, Guildford .

Allison, Antony Francis , B.A., 21 , Dalmore Avenue, Claygate , Surrey.

Allison, F. D., The Arundel Press, Sussex Road, Bognor Regis .

Amriding , John, 20, Nevett Street, Preston , Lancs .

Apamea , Most Rev. David Mathew, M.A. , Litt.D. , F.S.A. , F.R.Hist.S., Archbishop of, Delegate Apostolic to Africa for the Missions , P.O. Box 468, Mombasa , British East Africa.

Armstrong, C. A. John , M.A., F.R.Hist.S., Hertford College, Oxford.

John Arthur, Hook Manor, Donhead St. L Arundell, Reginald Andrew, nr . Shaftesbury, Dorset.

Ashburnham, The Lady Catherine , Ashburnham Place, Battle, Sussex.

Attwater , Donald, Llanarth Hall, Raglan , Monmouth.

Baines, Mrs. C. C., Yew Tree House, Bladbean , Elham, Canterbury.

Baker, Thomas , 85, Charlotte Street, W.1.

L Bamber, Rev. Joseph Edward, Dodding Green, Skelsmergh ,

Kendal, Westmorland.

Baron, Rev. J. W., S.J. , Corpus Christi, Christchurch Road, Boscombe, Hants.

Barrett , Rev. Thomas James, c/o St. Margaret's Convent, Bethell Avenue , E 16 .

Beales, Arthur Charles Frederick, M.A. , 8, Carlton Drive (Flat 1), S.W.15 .

Bellord, George, Inverloddon, Wargrave, Berks.

Berington , William James Charles , Wintercott , Little Malvern, Worcs .

Bickerdike, Miss E. Mabel , A.R.R.C., 16, Hawthorn Road ,

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Wallington , Surrey.

L Birmingham, Most Rev. The Archbishop of, Archbishop's House, 6, Norfolk Road, Edgbaston , Birmingham, 15.

Birrell, T. A., 22, Little Silure , Worlebury Park, Weston-superMare , Som .

L Bowler, Dom Hugh, O.S.B. , B.A., Douai Abbey, Woolhampton, Berks .

Boyan, Mrs. P. A. , 6, Crick Road (Flat 6) , Oxford.

Bradley, Rev. James, St. Marie's Presbytery, Norfolk Street,

Sheffield .

Brentwood , Right Rev. The Bishop of, Bishop's House , Brentwood , Essex.

Broderick, Rev. Edwin , 460, Madison Avenue , New York City, 22, U.S.A. 10

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Brogden , J. E. , 6, Meriden Street, Coventry.

Browne , Miss Dorothy, 4 , Avenue Road, Herne Bay, Kent.

Burns , Thomas F. , 1, Victoria Square, S.W.1.

Calder, Sir James Charles, Ledlanet, Milnathort , Kinross-shire .

Cardiff, Most Rev. The Archbishop of, Archbishop's House, 24, Newport Road, Cardiff.

L Cardwell, D1 . Mary, Avenham View, Bairstow Street , Preston , Lancs .

Cartmell, Rev. Joseph, D.D., Ph.D., M.A., St. Mary's Presbytery, Market Street, Chorley , Lancs.

Chadwick, Very Rev. Provost Alfred , St. Mary's , Whittingham, Northumberland.

Chambers, F. W. , K.C.S.G. , M.A., 20, Holmes Road , Twickenham , Middlesex .

L Christall, Very Rev. Canon Robert, 24, Heathcote Road , Epsom ,

Surrey .

Ciceri , Leo J. , 1, St. Mark's Crescent, Newport, Mon. Clarke , Rev. Henry E., The Presbytery, Petersfield , Hants.

Cleary , J. Martin , B.A., 12, Mafeking Road , Penylan, Cardiff.

Clifford of Chudleigh , The Lord, Lawell House, Chudleigh , Devon .

Clifton, Right Rev. The Bishop of, St. Ambrose , Leigh Woods,

Bristol.

Constable -Maxwell, David , Bosworth Hall, Rugby.

Crosby , Gerald Esmond , 38 , Park Lane , Harrow , Middlesex .

Cuming , Miss Agnes, 23 , Wellesley Avenue , Hull, Yorks.

Cummings , Robert Gerard , 224 , Hallgate, Cottingham , Yorks.

Daniell, Very Rev. Canon Edward M., Sacred Heart Convent , 212, Hammersmith Road, W.6. , T.D. , La Hague Manor, L Dawson , Col. , Rupert,, C.B. , D.L. , J.P. St. Peter Jersey Channel Isles . (Volumes to Rev. Fr. Rector, S.J., Stonyhurst College, Whalley, viu Blackburn, Lancs .)

Dearlove , G. J. Stanley, 4, Linden Avenue , Cardiff. de Chambrun, La Comtesse Clara Longworth, 58, Rue de Vaugirard, Paris , 6, France . de Geijer, Capt. William , White's Club , St. James's Street, S.W.1 .

(Volumes to University Chaplain, Fisher House, Cambridge.) de Hoghton, Sir Cuthbert, Bart . , Hoghton Tower, Hoghton, Preston , Lancs . de Parrel, Christian, 38 rue des Martyrs de la Libèration, Toulouse (Haute- Garonne) , France . de Trafford, Capt. Sir Humphrey Edmund, Bart . , M.C. , Newsells

Park, Barkway, Royston, Herts.

Dillon , Major the Viscount, 12, Victoria Road . W.8 Dixey, John H. , K.H.S., F.R.G.S. , 31 , Welbeck Street, W.1.

Dormer, Sir Cecil , K.C.M.G., M.V.O., " Rock Hill House, Chipping Norton, Oxon.

Dormer, Captain The Lord, Grove Park, Warwick.

Duchemin , Right Rev. Mgr. Charles, Collegio Beda, 67, Via San Nicolo da Tolentino, Rome , 5 .

Duncan, Miss Stella Mary Constance , 11 , Alexandra Drive, Liverpool, 17.

Dunkeld, Right Rev. The Bishop of, 29 , Roseangle, Dundee.

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Eastwood , Charles J., M.A., 42, Lune Street, Preston , Lancs .

Edmondstoune - Cranstoun , C. J. , J.P. , Corehouse, Lanark, Scotland .

Edwards , Victor Charles Alex, 1 , Westgate Terrace , S.W.10 .

Elliott, Bernard, B.A., 14, Grosvenor Crescent, Leicester .

Mgr. Aubrey Valentine D., The Old Palace, L Elwes , Very Rev. St. Aldates , Oxford.

Eyre, Stanislas Thomas , J.P. , 16, Royal Crescent, Bath, Somerset.

(Volumes to Carlton Club , Pall Mall, S.W.1.)

Eyre-Huddleston, Commander Reginald Francis , R.N. ( retd.), K.S.G., Sawston Hall, Cambridge .

Eyston, Mrs. E. , New House, Kingston Bagpuize , Abingdon, Berks.

Fisher , Rev.

B. C. , Cardinal Vaughan School, Addison Road, W. 14 .

Fitzalan, Lt.-Col . the Hon. Miles , Carlton Towers , nr. Goole , Yorks.

Fitzherbert, Major Cuthbert, Old Rectory, Albury, Surrey.

Fitzherbert -Brockholes , Major John, M.C. , Lofthouse, Claughtonon- Brock, Garstang , Lancs .

Fletcher, C. B. Kyrle , F.R.S.A., 79 , High Street, Newport, Mon. Foley , Rev. B. C. , 5, Park End Road , Romford, Essex.

Fooks , Rev. E. Graham , B.A. , " Boringwheel , " Horney Common, Uckfield, Sussex.

Fooks , Rev. Thomas , B.A., " Boringwheel," Horney Common , Uckfield, Sussex.

Ford, Very Rev. Canon George, D.D., Ph.D., 30, Langstone Road, Beaconsfield , Plymouth, Devon .

Forster , Dr. Ann, Burradon, Thropton, Morpeth, Northumberland.

Francis , C. N. , 1, The Square , Petersfield , Hants.

French, The Viscount J. R. C. L., Stow Bedon Hall, Norwich.

Gainsborough , The Earl of, Exton Park, Oakham , Rutland.

Gaisford -St. Lawrence , Thomas J. , M.C. , F.S.A. , M.A., Howth Castle, co. Dublin .

R. J. N. , 5 , Park End Road , Romford, Essex.

L Gay, Rev. Gibson , W. H. P. , J.P. , 8, Marchwood Crescent, Eaton Rise,

Ealing, W.5.

Gilbey, Rev. Alfred N., Fisher House , Guildhall Street, Cambridge .

Gilbey, William Gordon , Harrowden Hall, Wellingborough, Northants.

Girouard, Richard D., 6, Draycott Place , S.W.3 .

Goulder , Rev. S. L., M.A., 19, Church Avenue , Southall, Middlesex .

Gray, Rev. Gordon , M.A., St. Mary's College, Blairs, Aberdeen .

Grover, Mrs. , 6, St. Catherine's View, Ventnor, I.O.W. Guazzelli, Rev. Victor, English College, Lisbon, Portugal.

L Gutowski, Stanislaus Anthony, 41a, Radnor Street, Hulme, Manchester , 15.

Hannon, Sir Patrick , M.P. , F.R.G.S. , F.S.S. , F.R.Econ.S. , 22, Northumberland Avenue , W.C.2 .

L Henson, Right, Rev. Mgr. Canon Edwin, Collegio de Ingleses, Valladolid Spain.

Hexham and Newcastle , Right Rev. The Bishop of, Bishop's House, West Road , Newcastle-on -Tyne, 5.

Hicks, Rev. Leo, S.J., 114, Mount Street, W.1.

Hinds, A. E., " Woodhall," Sunningdale , Berks.

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Hodgkinson, H. R. , F.S.A. , K.S.G. , " Chadstowe ," Corbett Avenue , Droitwich.

Hood, Sir Harold Joseph, Bart ., 225 , Cromwell Mansions , Cromwell Road, S.W.5 .

L Hope , Capt. Geoffrey A. E., Yorkshire Club, York .

Hope , Lt. Col. the Hon . Henry John , Guards' Club , 16 , Charles Street, Berkeley Square , W.1.

Hopkirk , Mrs. Mary, Danbury Rectory, Chelmsford , Essex.

L Hornyold- Strickland, Henry, J.P. , F.S.A. , Sizergh Castle, Kendal,

Westmorland.

Hull, Hubert, Royal Courts of Justice , W.C.2.

Hutton , Edward, 114, Clifton Hill, St. John's Wood , N.W.8.

Iddesleigh , The Countess of, Parfitts House, Eversley Cross , Hants.

Isham , Sir Gyles, Bart. , Lamport Hall , Northampton.

Jeffcock , William Philip , F.R.S.S. , Ladymead, Sidmouth, Devon .

Johnson , Basil Henry, 3 , Artillery Mansions , 75, Victoria Street, S.W.1 .

Johnson , Rev. Humphrey John T. , 3, St. Peter's Terrace , Cambridge .

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L Kean, Very Rev. Charles George, C.J. , St. George's College, Weybridge, Surrey.

L Kenyon, Major Joseph Robert, M.C. , Gillingham Hall , Beccles, Suffolk.

Kerr, Mrs. Philip, Stoner Hill , Petersfield , Hants.

Kirk, Rev. William, Catholic Church , West Cowes, I.O.W.

Lacy, Sir Pierce , Bart. , K.C.S.G. , J.P. , Ampton Hall, Bury St. Edmunds , Suffolk.

Lamb, Joseph Cuthbert, B.A. , Hayton House, How Mill, Carlisle .

Lancaster , Right Rev. the Bishop of, Bishop's House, Cannon Hill, Lancaster .

Leadbitter, Major Nicholas G., Bury Court, Bury Road , Branksome Park, Bournemouth, Hants.

Leeds, The Right Rev. the Bishop of, Bishop's House, Weetwood Lane , Leeds, 6.

Leeming , Gerard de Pfyffer, Skirsgill Park, Penrith, Cumberland .

Lindsay, Hon. and Rev. Edward R., The Catholic Presbytery Stone, Staffs .

Liverpool, Most Rev. the Archbishop of, Archbishop's House, Woolton, Liverpool, S. Lothian , The Marquess of, Melbourne Hall , Derby.

Lynch, Rev. T. J. E. , 48, Bugle Street, Southampton, Hants.

McCabe, Aubrey J. , 15 , Lansdowne Road , Croydon , Surrey.

McInnes , Miss Eilidh , 126, Whitton Road , Hounslow , Middlesex .

MacMillan, Rt . Rev. Mgr. John, D.D. , Ph.D., Ven . Collegio Inglese , Via Monserrato 45, Rome , Italy. , Ilford, Essex .

L Macnamara , J. G. , 33, Valentines Road McNulty, Rev. Joseph, B.A. , F.R.H.S., 27 , Seabank Road , South-

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Magee, Brian, B Com . , A.C.A., 39, Park Avenue South, Crouch End, N.8 .

Mahoney, Very Rev. Canon Edward J., D.D., North Lodge , Poles, Ware , Herts.

Maxwell-Scott, Major-General Sir Walter, Bart . , C.B. , D.S.O. , " Abbotsford, Melrose. Roxburghshire.

Maycock, Martin George, B.Sc. ( Eng . ) , 9, Boundary Road , St. John's Wood , N.W.8.

Menevia , Right Rev. the Bishop of, Bishop's House, Wrexham .

L Middlesbrough , Right Rev. the Bishop of, Bishop's House, Middlesbrough, Yorks.

Moloney , Rev. John W., Assisi , Hammer Lane, Grayshott,

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Moorat, Samuel A. , 25, Pembroke Gardens, Kensington, W.8.

Nelson H., Lealholm Lodge, Lealholm , Yorks.

Newton, W. Douglas , 20, Aubrey House, MaidaAvenue, W.2.

Norfolk , The Duke of, E.M., K.G. , Arundel Castle, Arundel, Sussex.

Northampton, Right Rev. the Bishop of, Bishop's House, Northampton .

O'Brien , Major Richard Alfred , 17, Albert Hall Mansions , S.W.7.

O'Connor , Rev. Arthur J., M.C. , H.C.F., St. Joseph's Presbytery, Mary Street, Audley, Blackburn, Lancs .

O'Farrell , Miss Nellie McNeill, 7, Upper Park Road, Hampstead, N.W.3.

L O'Mahony, Eoin, K.M., " Dun Locha , Dubhglas , Corcaigh , Eire.

O'Riordan, Rev. M., Presbytery, Atherley Road, Shanklin, I.o.W.

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Parisotti , Rev. Albert , O.B.E., S.C.F. , The Thomas More School , Frensham , Surrey.

Petry, Rev. Denis J., 96, Dock Road, Tilbury, Essex.

Philips, Rev. Francis , St. Joseph's , London Road, Newbury, Berks.

Plymouth, Right Rev. the Bishop of, Vescourt , Hartley, Plymouth.

Poland , John Michael , Downlands , Liphook, Hants.

Portsmouth, Right Rev. the Bishop of, 29, Jewry Street , Winchester .

Preedy , Rev. J., 91 , Harvest Road , Englefield Green, Surrey.

Radcliffe , Cyril, Norchard Grange, Crossway Green, Stourporton - Severn, Worcs .

Radcliffe Edward Rudding Park Harrogate , Yorks.

Radcliffe, Roger C. J., Draycott Hall , Richmond, Yorks.

Rea, Rev. Daniel, 96, Pyle Street, Newport, I.O.W. Reynolds , Ernest Edwin, J.P. , " Rosebank ," Salperton, near Cheltenham , Glos.

Reynolds , Major James R., Leighton Hall , Carnforth, Lancs .

Reynolds , Lt.-Col. Sir John, Bart . , M.B.E. , J.P. , 12, Mellors Buildings, 30, Exchange Street East, Liverpool, 2.

Riddell, John Cuthbert Widdrington , Swinburne Castle, Barrasford, Hexham , Northumberland.

Robertson , John Baptist, Peacocks Farm , Bracknell, Berks .

Robo, Rev. Etienne, Catholic Presbytery, Farnham , Surrey .

Roch, Hon. Mrs. Walter, Ty'r Nant, Llanarth, Raglan , Mon. Rogers, David McGregor , New College, Oxford.

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Rowe, Major Francis George Crawford, 6, Perham Road, West Kensington , W 14.

Russell , George Harrison, M.A., Pembroke College, Cambridge .

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Salford , Right Rev. the Bishop of, Wardley Hall , Worsley, Manchester.

Sandwell, Rev. Alfred , St. Joseph's , Queens Avenue, Aldershot.

Robert Elliott, St. Joseph's PresL Scantlebury , Very Rev. Canon bytery, 134, West Street , Havant, Hants.

Scrope , Ralph H. , F.L.A.S., " The Friarage ," Yarm, co . York .

Scrope, Richard L. , Danby- upon-Yore, Middleham, co . York.

Seé, Miss Anne, The Old Schoolhouse, Great Haseley, Oxon.

Shrewsbury , Right Rev. the Bishop of, The Council House, Shrewsbury , Salop.

Skrimshire, O. W. F. , 25, Northam Road , Six Dials, Southampton,

Hants.

Smith, Miss Dulcie L. , Gifford's Hall , Wickhambrook, Newmarket, Suffolk, Smith, Rev. William Vincent, All Saints, Lanchester , Durham .

Southern , Alfred C. , Ph.D., B.A., 18, Eastcliff Road , Tunbridge Wells , Kent.

Southwark, Right Rev. the Bishop of, Bishop's House, St. George's Road , S.E.1.

Stafford, The Lord , Swynnerton Park, Stone, Staffs .

Stanford, Very Rev. Canon F. E., St. Colman's Presbytery , Cosham, Hants.

L Stearns , Foster, K.M., L.H.D. , F.S.A. , 21, Spring Street , Exeter, New Hampshire, U.S.A. Stewart, Walter Arnold, c/o Messrs. Sands & Co. , 15, King Street, Covent Garden , W.C.2 .

Stibbs , Rev. Wilfrid, 22 , Tavistock Place, W.C.1 .

Stourton, The Hon. Charles Edward, Allerton Park, nr . Knaresborough , Yorks. ," 37, Heaton Grove , Bradford .

L Swarbrick, Henry, " Braeside Sweeney, Rev. G. Daniel , B.A., St. Hugh's College, Tollerton Hall, Notts .

Sweeney, M. V., 26, Dobcroft Avenue, Sheffield, 7.

Sweeney, Rev. Morgan V., M.A., M.Ed. , 21 , Wilmer Drive, Heaton, Bradford, Yorks.

Tacchi- Venturi, Rev. Pietro, S.J. , Piazza del Gesù 45, Rome 117 , Italy .

Tempest , Stephen , Broughton Hall, Skipton, Yorks.

Thompson , Edward, 78, Western Road , Romford, Essex.

Rev. George Andrew Beck , A.A., SS. L Tigia, Bishop of, Right Peter and Paul , High Road , Ilford, Essex .

Towneley-Worsthorne, S. P. , Dyneley, nr. Burnley, Lancs.

Trappes - Lomax, Michael Roger , Rouge Dragon Pursuivant, College of Arms, Queen Victoria Street, E.C.4. , Brig . Thomas Byrnand, C.B.E., Great Hockham L Trappes - Lomax Hall , Norwich.

Twomey , Mrs. Evelyn, 42, Hull Road, Cottingham , E. Yorks.

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Undreiner, Rev. George J., Ph.D., Pontifical College Josephinum , Worthington, Ohio, U.S.A. Vaughan, Capt. (S.) Herbert R. H. , O.B.E., R.N. , Nantymwyn, Rhandirmwyn, Llandovery , Carmarthenshire .

Villiers , Lt.-Col . A. E. H. , 11 , Hyde Park Square, W.2.

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Waring, Rev. Cuthbert L., M.A., 16, Maryland Street, Liverpool.

Webb, Dr. K. R., Connaught Hall, Swaythling, Southampton.

Weld, Francis Joseph , 32, Weld Road , Birkdale, Southport, Lancs .

Weld, Lt.-Col. Joseph W., O.B.E., J.P. , LulworthCastle, Wareham , Dorset.

Westminster, His Eminence The Cardinal Archbishop of, Archbishop's House , Westminster, S.W.1.

Whatmore, Rev. Leonard Elliott, M.A., St. Mary's, Cresswell Park, Blackheath , S.E.3 .

Wheeler , George A., 64, Great Russell Street, W.C.1 .

Wheeler , Rev. Gordon , Cathedral Clergy House , Francis Street, S.W.1 .

White, Thomas , 17, Brynhyfryd Road, Stow Hill , Newport, Mon. L Whitfield , Rev. Joseph L., M.A., D.S.O. , Catholic Rectory, Southend - on-Sea, Essex.

Whitlock , Mrs. Hester , Crosby Hall, Blundellsands , Liverpool.

Williamson, Cuthbert A., Downlands," Fort Road, Guildford, Surrey .

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Woodruff, John Douglas , 199, Park West, W.2.

Woods , Raymond E. M., 47 , Weighton Road , Harrow Weald, Middlesex .

Young , J. L. , The Grove, Banham , Norwich.

Young, William E. V., Manor Bungalow, Avebury, nr. Marlborough , Wilts.

PUBLIC LIBRARIES AND INSTITUTIONS .

(a) BRITISH ISLES. The Librarian , The University Library.

Aberystwith The Librarian , The National Library of Wales.

Barrow-in -Furness The Librarian , The Public Library, Ramsden Square .

Birmingham The City Librarian, The Public Library (Reference Dept.).

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Bolton . The Librarian , The Public Library, Victoria Square.

Bristol . The Librarian , The Central Library .

The Librarian , The University , Bristol , 8.

Cambridge Librarian , Peterhouse College. . The The Librarian , The University Library.

Cardiff The Librarian , The Public Library, Trinity Street.

Derby The Librarian , The Public Library.

Dublin The Librarian , The National Library, Kildare Street.

The Librarian , The Trinity College Library.

Durham The Librarian , The University Library, Palace Green .

Edinburgh The Chief Librarian , The Public Library, George IV Street.

The Librarian , The Signet Library.

Edinburgh University Library, c/o James Thin, 54/6 , South Bridge, Edinburgh .

Glasgow The Librarian , The Corporation Public Library (The Mitchell Library) .

The Librarian , The University Library.

Gosport Miss M. I. Dingle (Acting Librarian), Central Public Library, Walpole Road.

Hull The Librarian , The Public Library, Albion Street.

The Secretary, The Catholic Local History Society, 54, Morpeth Street, Kingston -upon-Hull .

Lancaster The Librarian , The Public Library, Market Square.

Leeds The City Librarian , The Public Library, Municipal Buildings.

Liverpool . The Chief Librarian, The Public Library, William Brown Street, The Librarian , The University Library.

London The Secretary, The Society of Antiquaries , Burlington House , Piccadilly , W.1.

The British Museum Library, The Principal Keeper, Dept. of Printed Books, British Museum , W.C.1.

The Librarian , The Catholic Central Library, 33, Wilfred Street, Westminster, S.W.1 .

The Librarian, College of Arms, Queen Victoria Street, E.C.4.

The Librarian , Fulham Public Libraries, 598, Fulham Road , S.W.6.

The Secretary, The Society of Genealogists , Chaucer House , Malet Place , W.C.1.

The Librarian, The Guildhall Library, King Street, E.C.2 .

The Librarian , The Public Library, Hendon, Middlesex.

The Chief Librarian , The Institute of Historical Research , University of London, W.C.1 ..

The Librarian, Kensington Central Library, Kensington High Street, W.8.

The Secretary and Librarian , The London Library, St. James's Square , S.W.1.

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The Librarian , The Royal Historical Society, 96, Cheyne Walk, Chelsea, S.W.3 .

The Librarian , London University , South Kensington, S.W.7.

The Librarian , Westminster Public Library, Accessions Dept., St. Martin's Street, W.C.2.

The Librarian , Wimbledon Public Library, Wimbledon High Road, S.W.19.

Manchester The Librarian , The Victoria University .

The Chief Librarian , The Public Library, St. Peter's Square .

The Librarian , The John Rylands Library, Deansgate .

Middlesbrough The Librarian , The Public Library, Victoria Square.

Newcastle-on -Tyne The Librarian , The Public Library, New Bridge Street.

Norwich The Librarian , The Public Library.

Oxford The Librarian , The Bodleian Library.

Portsmouth The Borough Librarian , The Central Public Library, Town Hall Square , Park Road .

Preston The Librarian , Free Public Library.

The Librarian, Lancashire County Library, County Offices.

Reading The Chief Librarian, The Public Library, Blagrave Street.

St. Andrews. The Librarian, The University Library.

Sheffield. The Librarian , The Public Library, Surrey Street.

The Librarian , The University Library.

Southampton The Librarian, The Central Public Library, London Road.

Stockport The Librarian , The Public Library, Wellington Road South.

Wallasey The Chief Librarian , The Earleston Central Library.

Wigan The Chief Librarian , Free Public Library, Rodney Street.

York The Librarian , The Public Library, Museum Street.

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New South Wales Public Library, c/o Messrs. Truslove & Hanson, 153, Oxford Street, W.1.

The Public Library of Victoria, c/o Messrs . Truslove & Hanson, 153, Oxford Street, W.1 .

BELGIUM UniversityLibrary, Louvain .

CANADA Library of Parliament, Ottawa, c o Messrs. Edward G. Allen & Son , Ltd., 12-14, Grape Street, Shaftesbury Avenue, W.C.2.

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Nationale, Paris, c/o Messrs. Dawson & Sons, Cannon . Bibliothèque House, Macklin Street, W.C.2.

FRANCE

Bibliothèque Nationale et Universitaire , Strasbourg, 6, Place de la République, Strasbourg, Bas Rhin , France.

GERMANY The Librarian , Bavarian State Library, Ludwigstrasse 23, Munich.

The Librarian , Göttingen University Library, Zugangs -Abteilung , Göttingen, Hanover.

Prussian State Library, c/o Messrs . Asher & Co., Behrenstrasse 55-57, Berlin , W.8.

(H) ITALY Right Rev. Mgr . Giovanni Mercati, Prefect, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Città del Vaticano .

NETHERLANDS. Bibliotheek der R. K. Universiteit , Nijmegen.

UNITED STATES The Director , New York State Library, Albany , N.Y. The Peabody Institute, Baltimore , c/o Messrs. Edward G. Allen & Son, Ltd. , 12-14, Grape Street, Shaftesbury Avenue, W.C.2.

The California University Library, c/o Messrs . B. F. Stevens & Brown, 28-30 Little Russell Street, W.C.I. The Director , Boston Public Library, Boston, c/o Messrs.

Bernard Quaritch , Ltd. , 11 , Grafton Street, New Bond Street, W.1.

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The Librarian , New England Historic Genealogical Society 9, Ashburton Place, Boston, Mass.

The Librarian , Harvard University Library, c/o Messrs.

Edward G. Allen & Son, Ltd., 12-14, Grape Street, Shaftesbury Avenue, W.C.2.

The Librarian , Newberry Library, Chicago , c/o Messrs.

B. F. Stevens & Brown, 28-30, Little Russell Street, W.C.1 .

The Director , University of Chicago Libraries, Order Division , Harper W 21 , Chicago , Illinois .

The Librarian , The Cleveland Public Library, Ohio, c/o Messrs. Henry Sotheran , 2, 3, 4 and 5, Sackville Street, Piccadilly, W.1.

The Librarian , University of Wisconsin, The General Library, c /o Messrs. Henry Sotheran , 2, 3, 4 and 5, Sackville Street, Piccadilly , W.1.

The Librarian , Michigan University , c/o Messrs. Henry Sotheran, 2, 3, 4 and 5, Sackville Street, Piccadilly, W.1 .

The Librarian , Minnesota University Library, Minneapolis, Minn .

The Librarian , New York Historical Society, 170, Central Park West, New York City, N.Y. The Librarian, New York Public Library, c/o Messrs. B. F. Stevens & Brown , 28-30, Little RussellStreet, W.C.1 .

The Librarian , University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame,

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The Librarian, Pennsylvania Historical Society, Philadelphia, Pa. The Librarian, Pennsylvania University Library, Philadelphia, Pa .

The Librarian, Princeton Theological Seminary Library,

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The Librarian , Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery, San Marino, Cal. The Librarian , The Library of Congress , Washington, c o Messrs. Edward G. Allen & Son, Ltd., 12-14, Grape Street, Shaftesbury Avenue, W.C.2.

The Librarian , The Genealogical Society of Utah , Salt Lake City, Utah.

The Librarian , The Yale University Library, c o Messrs.

Edward G. Allen & Son, Ltd. , 12-14, Grape Street, Shaftesbury Avenue, W.C.2.

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(a) BRITISH ISLES. Birmingham Right Rev. the Rector, St. Mary's College, Oscott.

Cambridge. The Librarian , St. Edmund's House Library, Mount Pleasant.

Cardross . Rev. Librarian , St. Peter's College, Kilmahew , Cardross , Dumbartonshire.

Maynooth The Librarian , St. Patrick's College, Maynooth, co . Kildare , Eire.

Strawberry Hill, Twickenham. Very Rev. the Principal , St. Mary's College .

Upholland, near Wigan, Lancs. Very Rev. the President, St. Joseph's College .

Ushaw, co. Durham. Rev. the Librarian , St. Cuthbert's College .

Ware, Herts Rev. the Librarian , St. Edmund's College .

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Italy. Right Rev. the Rector, Collegio Beda , 67 Via San Nicolo da Tolentino Rome 5.

Right Rev. the Rector, Ven. Collegio Inglese , Rome.

Portugal . Right Rev. the Rector, English College , Lisbon.

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United States. Rev. F. D. Cohalan, Cathedral College , 555, West End Avenue, New York, N.Y. The Librarian , Union Theological Seminary, Broadway at 120th Street, New York , N.Y. Librarian , St. Joseph's Seminary, Dunwoodie, Yonkers, N.Y.

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(a) BRITISH ISLES. Augustinians (C.R.L.)

Rev. the Prior , C.R.L. , St. Mary's Priory, Cornwall .-VeryBodmin ,

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Very Rev. the Prior, C.R.L. , St. Peter-in- Chains Priory , 12, Womersley Road , Hornsey, N.8.

Augustinian Nuns. Rev. Mother Prioress , C.R.L., Priory of Our Lady of Good Counsel , Hayward's Heath , Sussex .

Benedictines (O.S.B.) Right Rev. the Abbot , O.S.B. , Ampleforth Abbey, York .

Right Rev. the Abbot , O.S.B. , Belmont Abbey, Hereford.

Right Rev. the Abbot , O.S.B. , Buckfast Abbey, Buckfastleigh, Devon.

Right Rev. the Abbot , O.S.B. , Douai Abbey, Woolhampton, near Reading, Berks.

Rev. the Librarian , O.S.B. , Downside Abbey, Stratton-on -the -Fosse, near Bath , Somerset .

Right Rev. the Abbot , O.S.B. , Fort Augustus Abbey, Inverness.

Right Rev. the Abbot , O.S.B. , Prinknash Abbey,

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Right Rev. the Abbot , O.S.B. , Quarr Abbey, Ryde, Isle of Wight.

The Librarian, O.S.B. , Worth Priory , near Crawley, Sussex.

The Master, O.S.B., St. Benet's Hall, Oxford .

Benedictine Nuns. The Lady Abbess , O.S.B. , St. Mary's Abbey, East Bergholt , near Colchester , Essex .

The Lady Abbess , O.S.B. , St. Mary's Abbey, Little Haywood, Colwich, near Stafford.

The Lady Abbess , O.S.B. , St. Mary's Abbey, Oulton, Stone , Staffs.

The Lady Abbess , O.S.B. , St. Mary's Abbey, Stanbrook, Worcester.

The Lady Abbess , O.S.B. , St. Scholastica'sAbbey, Teignmouth , Devon.

Bridgettine Nuns (O.SS.S. ) Syon Abbey, South Brent , Devon.

(F) Carmelite Nuns (O.C.D.) The Prioress , Lanherne Convent, St. Mawgan, Newquay, Cornwall.

Carthusians (O Carth. ) Very Rev. the Prior, O Carth ., Charterhouse of St. Hugh, Parkminster , Partridge Green , Horsham, Sussex.

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Dominicans (O.P )

Rev. the Prior , O.P. , St. Thomas's Priory, Hawkes. .- Veryyard , Rugeley, Staffs.

Very Rev. the Prior , O.P. , St. Albert the Great's Priory , 24, George Square , Edinburgh .

Very Rev. the Prior , O.P. , St. Dominic's Priory, Southampton Road, N.W.5 .

Very Rev. Fr. Provincial , O, P., St. Dominic's Priory , Southampton Road, N.W.5 .

Very Rev. the Prior , O.P. , Blackfriars , Priory of the Holy Ghost, 64 , St. Giles ' Street, Oxford.

Very Rev. the Prior, O.P. , St. Dominic's Priory , Red Barns, Newcastle-on -Tyne.

Franciscans ( O.F.M.) Rev. the Superior, O.F.M., St. Bonaventure's, Cambridge.

Very Rev. the Provincial , O.F.M., The Friary , St. Anthony's Road, Forest Gate , E.7.

Rev. Fr. Guardian, O.F.M., Franciscan House of Studies , East Bergholt, Suffolk.

Rev. Fr. Guardian, O.F.M., The Friary, Woodford

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Librarian , Greyfriars Grosseteste House, . The Iffley Road Oxford

Holy Ghost Fathers.

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The Librarian , St. Joseph's College , Upton Hall, Newark, Notts .

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Very Rev. the Rector, S.J. , Heythrop College, Chipping Norton , Oxon .

Very Rev. the Rector, S.J. , Holy Name, Manchester, 13.

Very Rev. the Rector , S.J. , St. Francis Xavier's , Salisbury Street, Liverpool .

Very Rev. the Rector, S.J. , Manresa House , Roehampton, S.W.15 .

Rev. the Editor, S.J., " The Month , " 31 , Farm Street, Berkeley Square , W.1.

Very Rev. the Rector, S.J. , Mount St. Mary's College, Spinkhill, near Sheffield .

Very Rev. the Master, S.J. , Campion Hall , Oxford.

Very Rev. the Rector, S.J. , Campion House , Osterley, Middlesex .

Very Rev.the Rector, S. J., St. Beuno's College, St.Asaph, Flint.

Very Rev. the Rector, S.J. , St. Ignatius's, Meadow Street, Preston , Lancs.

Rev. the Rector, S. J., St Mary's, Lowe House , St. Helens , Lancs.

Very Rev. the Rector, S.J. , St. Wilfrid's, 1 , Winckley Square, Preston, Lancs.

Very Rev. the Rector, S.J. , Stonyhurst College, Blackburn , Lancs .

Very Rev. the Rector, S.J., Wimbledon College, S.W.19.

Very Rev. the Rector, S.J. , Southwell House , 39, Fitzjohns Avenue, N.W.3.

Marist Fathers. Rev. Bursar, The Monastery, St. Mary's Hill , Paignton, Devon.

Notre Dame Nuns. Rev. Sister Provincial , Convent of Notre Dame, Ashdown Park, Forest Row, Sussex.

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Oblates of St. Charles ( O.S.C.)

Rev. the Superior St. Mary .-VeryBayswater Westmorland Road, of the , W.2 , O.S.C.,

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Oratorians. Very Rev. the Superior, Cong . Orat ., The Oratory , Brompton Road , South Kensington, S.W.7.

Rev. Librarian , The Oratory , Hagley Road, Birmingham , 16.

Passionists (C.P ) Very Rev. the Rector, C.P. , St. Anne's Retreat, Monastery Lane, Sutton , St. Helens , Lancs.

Redemptorists (C.SS.R.) Very Rev. the Rector, C.SS.R. , St. Mary's , Clapham Park Road, S.W.4.

Religious of St. Andrew The Librarian, Holmwood, Garlands Road, Leatherhead, Surrey.

Sainte Union. Rev. Mother, Convent High School, The Avenue, Southampton.

Sepulchrine Nuns ( C.R.S.S .) Rev. Mother Prioress , C.R.S.S. , New Hall, Chelmsford, Essex .

Servites (O.S.M.) Very Rev. the Provincial , O.S.M. , St. Mary's Priory, 264 , Fulham Road, South Kensington, S.W.10.

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Rev. Mother Prioress , C.R.L. , Le Couvent Anglais, Bruges .

Very Rev. the Rector, S.J. , Société des Bollandistes, 24.

Boulevard St. Michel, Bruxelles.

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The Archives Library, Dominican House of Studies.

487, Michigan Avenue, N.E. , Washington, D.C. Rev. the Librarian , S.J. , St. Louis University Library, St. Louis, Mo. Rev. William J. Young, S.J. , Librarian , Milford Novitiate, Milford , Ohio.

Rev. Librarian , S.J. , Georgetown University , Washington, D.C. Rev. C. Carroll, S.J. , Gonzaga University Library, Spokane, Washington, D.C. The Rev. Librarian , S. J. , College of the Holy Cross, Worcester,

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TEN YEARS OBITUARY.

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Berkeley , Robert Valentine, J.P. , F.S.A. L Callaway, Rev. Thomas Cotter, Rt . Rev. William Timothy , 3rd Bishop of Portsmouth L Freeland , , Rt. Rev. Mgr. Provost John Gainsford William La Mothe-Houdancourt, Elisabeth Jeanne Thérèse Marie Duchesse de O'Toole , Rev. Patrick Riddell, Edward Charles, J.P. Roskell , Robert Nicholas Turnbull , Francis Harold, K.C.S.G. , O.B.E., J.P. 1941

Bedingfeld , Sir Henry Edward Paston , Bart . , J.P. Dearlove , Group-Captain Cuthbert J. S. , R.A.F. (on active service ) Geijer, Captain Eric Neville, M.C. , B.A. , F.S.A. , Rouge Dragon Pursuivant of Arms (on active service) Kerr, Pilot Officer Philip Walter , M.V.O., Rouge Croix Pursuivant of Arms, K.M. , F.S.A. (on active service ) Lindsay, Leonard Cecil Colin

F Smith, John Peter, J.P.

Stafford, Admiral Edward Stafford Joseph, K.C.B., 13th Lord Sumner , Francis George, J.P. Turville -Petre , Colonel Oswald Henry, B.A. , D.L. , T.D., J.P. , K.M. 1942

Burton , Rev. Harold , Dom R. Bede, O.S.B. , M.A., F.S.A. FH Camm Chichester - Constable , Col. Raleigh , J.P. F Engelbach , George Frederick Fogarty, Philip Christopher, I.C.S. (on active service) H Newdigate , Rev. Charles A. , S.J. O'Farrell, Very Rev. Canon Francis , O.B.E., C.F. Weale , J. Cyril M. F Williamson, George Charles, Litt.D. , J.P. 1943

Calderbank, Rev. Thomas Charlton, George Victor Bellasis Hinsley, His Eminence Arthur Cardinal, D.D. , B.A. , 5th Archbishop of Westminster , C. George Neal Keogh F McNulty , Rt . Rev. John , F.M.A., 6th Bishop of Nottingham Mulgrew , Francis M. O'Connell, Rev. Sir John R. , K.C.S.G. , LL.D. Riddell- Blount , Major Edward Francis, J.P. Skeet, Major Francis J. A. , J.P., F.S.A. 23

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Fletcher, Very Rev. John Rory Lupton , Very Rev. Canon Edward Newdigate , Bernard H. F Sutcliffe, Very Rev. Canon William Ormond, M.A. Toke , Leslie 1945

Calloway, Very Rev. Canon Joseph Doran, Very Rev. Canon John Evetts , Miss Margaret C. Bickersteth H Gillow, Mrs. Joseph Moorat, Samuel Francis Ferrers Norfolk, The Dowager Duchess of O'Driscoll, Very Rev. Benet, O.P. Robertson , Charles, K.S.G. L Sumner, Rev. Francis J. 1946

Barrett , Rt . Rev. John, 5th Bishop of Plymouth Hannon, Rt . Rev. Daniel Joseph, 4th Bishop of Menevia F Hansom , Allan Joseph Roskell Hyde, Rev. Bernard Williams, Most Rev. Thomas Leighton, 4th Archbishop of Birmingham 1947

FitzAlan , Col. the Rt . Hon. the Viscount, K.G. , G.C.V.O. , D.S.O. Brown, Rev. Robert, S.J. 1948

Lee, Right Rev. William , M.B.E., 6th Bishop of Clifton Willson, Dom . Hilary, O.S.B. Wilton, Richard Cecil, B.A. 1949

Amigo, Most Rev. Archbishop Peter, 6th Bishop of Southwark Blundell, Nicholas Deeley, Perceval Eccles, Miss Alice McQuirk, Very Rev. Canon John Moriarty , Right Rev. Ambrose, 6th Bishop of Shrewsbury 1950

Poskitt, Right Rev. Henry John, D.D., M.A., 5th Bishop of Leeds Smith, W. Abbey

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