Knights of the Shire of Kent from A.D. 1275 to A.D. 1831

( 198 ) KNIGHTS OE THE SHIRE EOR KENT EROM A.D. 12*75 TO A.D. 1831.* BY REV. J. CAVE-BROWNE, M.A., VICAE op DETLING, MAIDSTONE. THE Parliament of England was in Saxon times of the most simple form, as its name, the WITANA-GEHOT, " the assembly of the wise men," indicated. It consisted of the bishops and principal abbots, sitting with the thanes or barons and ealdermen, thus comprising the " Lords Spiritual and Temporal;" the former at first by prescriptive right as bishops, and after the Conquest as holding their baronies under the Crown ; the latter as under their military tenure, vassals of the Crown, to which stipulated " service " was due. To these the Conqueror added a third class, elected representatives from the several counties, known by the name of "Knights of the Shire." It was not till the days of the later Plantagenets that cities and boroughs were privileged to send representatives under the name of "burgesses." The earliest record now extant of the component members of such a Parliament is of that held in the third year of the reign of Edward I. (1275). With it commences the list of " Knights of the Shire " for Kent, as given in the following pages. The number of members to be sent from each county seems at first to have varied. In the fifth year of King John's reign a Parliament had been held at which four knights were to be summoned; in the 10th year of Henry I I I . also four, but in the 38th year of his reign only two, in the * The writer hopes that considering the wide range of country he had to traverse, and the variety of authorities he had to consult, the expert oritio who may examine these pages will be indulgent when detecting any (perhaps many) omissions and mistakes. KNIGHTS OP THE SHIRE POR KENT. 199 45th three, and in the 49th two; and such continued thenceforth to be the normal number. Parliaments did not then hold their sessions at regular intervals, still less were they continuous; generally only sitting for a few days at a time. They were summoned as the emergency of the country or the Crown might demand; their object and duty being to provide men and money for any war, or to raise a subsidy, or "Aid," or "Benevolence," as it was called, for some pressing necessity of the King. For instance, the occasion for the Parliament of fifth of Edward I. was to prepare for resisting the threatened invasion of the Welsh Marches by Llewellin, which would account for its purely military character: there attended at it no bishops or abbots, and only twenty-four of the most powerful and influential of the lay barons and knights. The following list is based on the Parliamentary Return issued in 1878, supplemented by the older volume of Palgrave's Writs, etc., to Parliament, printed by the Eecord Commission in 1830, and amplified by references to Philipott's Villare Ganticmum, Kilburne's Survey of Kent, Hasted's History of Kent, Furley's Weald of Kent, Le Planche's Corner of Kent, etc. In it the several titles as they appear in the official records have been retained, marking the periods in which they passed from one to the other, " Miles," "Chivaler," "Knight," "Baronet," to the modern "Sir," and from " .Armiger " into " Esquire." The term Miles, or Knight, did not necessarily indicate a recognition of martial prowess, for Henry III. had compelled all men with an income of £20 to take up their knighthood, as a means of raising money. The highest title of honour was that of " Eques Bannerettus," " Knight Banneret," conferred on the battle-field by the King himself as a reward for distinguished valour. I t is worthy of notice how frequently the " Knight of the Shire " was also " Sheriff;" to the one office elected by the County, to the other nominated by the Crown; shewing how often the Crown and the County concurred in their estimate of the character and worth of the men selected for either office. Indeed a glance down the list will shew how the 200 KNIGHTS OP THE SHIRE POR KENT. county strove to send the pride of its knighthood and its landed magnates, its strong men and its wise ones, to represent it in the Oouncil Chamber of the kingdom. In casting his eye over the names of the Manors from which these representatives of his county came, the old Kentish antiquary can hardly fail to be saddened by the reflection that so many of these old " mansions" have either disappeared or relapsed into labourers' tenements, or into ruins; the very name of which village tradition has corrupted in some disfigured form, even if it has preserved it at all; while the Shire Hall itself, that erst stood on Penenden Heath—the scene of so many an exciting contested election, with its horse-block fi'om which of old the successful candidate had mounted his charger to go forth " a dubbed knight"—is now a thing of the past; its old site knows it no more—no, not a vestige remains, scarcely a tradition of where it once stood. Our list begins with— 3 EDWAED I., 1275, held at "Westminster. FTJLCO PEYFOEEB, Miles,* of North Court, Easling, of Colbridge Castle, Boughton Malherbe (which he received licence from the King (43 Henry III.) to fortify, but of which not a vestige remains), and of Yokes Court, Frinsted. Marrying Margaret de Leaveland, widow of Sir Giles Badlesmere, he succeeded to the manor of Leaveland, which carried with it the lucrative office of " Custodian of the Fleet Prison," and also of the Palace at Westminster. He had been High Sheriff of the county in 1258 and 1259. He died in 1277. Arms: Argent, six fleurs-de-lis sable, 3, 2, and 1. HENEICUS DE APELFBEUD, Miles. (This manor is variously spelt, Apuldorefeild, 'drefeld, 'delfeld, 'trefeld, etc.) He soon left this small wooded retreat in Cowdham, now Cudham, and purchased estates in different parts of the county, but the family always retained the old name. He was Sheriff in 1298. Arms: Sable, a cross voided or. There seems to be no Eeturn of any Parliament forthcoming for the next fifteen years, until 18 EDWAED I., 1290, Westminster. HENEICTTS DE APPELDEEFEUD, Miles, again. * Created Knight Banneret by Edward I. for gallantry at the Siege of Carlaverook in 1300. KNIGHTS OE THE SHIRE EOR KENT. 201 EOBERTUS DE SEVATJNZ (for SEPTVANS), Miles,* of Milton near Canterbury, and also of Aldington in Thornham, to each of which manors the name of Septvans was attached; derived probably, not as some think from " Septem Vallibus " (seven valleys'), but from " Septem Vannis" (seven winnowing sieves), three of which appear as the cognizance of the family on the rich brass to his memory in the parish church at Chartham; the cross-legged effigy indicating that he had probably taken part in the Crusade under Prince Edward in 1271. He died in 1306. Arms: Azure, three fans or winnowing sieves or. 23 EDWAED I., 1295, Westminster. STEPHANUS CHIJCHE, Miles (or CHCTHE, CHUTE, or CHICHE), of Danegeon in Canterbury, where his father had been a liberal benefactor of the Ohurch of St. Mary Bredin. Arms: Azure, three lions rampant or. WALTEETJS DE EIPPLE, Miles, either of a manor near Sandwich or one in HoUingbourne. 25 EDWAED L, 1297, London. LUCAS DE LA GAEE, Miles (DE LA GATE, or GOUE). Philipott identifies the place with Gore Court in Tunstall—possibly the family afterwards known as " de Porta." EICAEDUS DE SCOLAND, Miles (or SHOLAND), in Newenham near Feversham. 26 EDWAED I., 1298, York. EICAEDUS DE SCOLAND, Miles, again. JOHANNES DE GOSHEHALLE, Miles (or GOSHALL), in Ash near Sandwich, where a monument of a knight in full armour with a skeleton represented underneath it commemorates a Sir John Goshall, of the reigns of Edward III. and Richard I I . ; probably the son of this Sir John. Arms : Azure, a lion rampant or, crowned gules, between ten crosses-crosslet of the second. 28 EDWAED I., 1300, London or Westminster. WAREESIUS DE VALOYNES, Miles (called by Kilburne WAEEEIS DE WALLOYNES), of Eepton in Ashford, and Tremworth in Crundall. He was Sheriff in 1303 and 1304. EICAEDUS DE SCOLAND, Miles, again. Such is the Eeturn in the Parliamentary Blue Book ; * Created Knight Banneret by Edward I. for gallantry at the Siege of Carlaverock in 1300. 202 KNIGHTS OF THE SHIRE EOR KENT. published 1878 ; but the Appendix, p. v, as also Palgrave in his Writs, etc., to Parliament of 1830, gives as colleagues to Warresius de Valoynes in this year, THOMAS DE INSULA, Miles, probably so called from having possessions in the Isle of Wight, from whom the Isley family of Sundridge descended. LUCAS DE POETA, Miles, supposed to be identical with LUCAS DE LA GATE, or GAEE. (See 25 Edward I.) 29 EDWAED I., 1300, Lincoln. WABBESIUS DE VALOYNES, Miles, again. (28 Edward I.) HENRICUS DE APPELDEEFELD, Miles, son of the Henricus de Appelfreud mentioned in 3 Edward I . 30 EDWAED I., 1302, London. WAERESIUS DE VALOYNES, Miles, again. EOBERTUS DE SETVANS, Miles, again. (See 18 Edward I.) 33 EDWABD I., 1305, Westminster. HENEICUS DE APPELDEEFEUD, Miles, again. EICARDUS DE EOKESLYE, Miles* of Bokesley, North Cray, and of Lullingstone. He was the son of Gregorius de Bokesley, Lord Mayor of London in 1275. This Sir Eichard was Seneschal of Poitou and Governor of Montreul in Picardy. His tomb is in Lullingstone Church. Arms given in the Carlaverock Boll: Mascatty, gules and ermine. 34 EDWAED I., 1306, Westminster. The same. 35 EDWAED I., 1307, Carlisle. BAETHOLOMEUS DE BADLESMEE, Miles,* commonly called the " Eich Lord of Ledes," Custodian of the Castle. On the accession of Edward II. made Governor of Bristol Castle, two years after he received the grant of Chilham Castle. In 1321 made Governor of Dover Castle and Warden of the Cinque Ports, and Custodian of Leeds Castle, hut, siding with the Barons, he tbe next year supported his Castellan Thomas Colepeper in resisting the entrance of Queen Isabella, was tried for high treason and other crimes, hanged and beheaded at Blean near Canterbury in 1324, * Created Knight Banneret by Edward I. for gallantry at the Siege of Carlaverock in 1300. KNIGHTS OE THE SHIRE EOR KENT. 203 and buried in the church of Grey Friars in that city. Among his appointed judges were three men who afterwards became Knights of the Shire, Henricus de Cobeham, Johannes de Ifeld, and Badulphus Sauvage (Eot. Plac, 18 Edward IL, p. 11, m 34). Arms : Argent, a fess between two bars gemels gules. FULCO DE PAYFEEE, son of Fulco of 3 Edward I. Died 1315. 1 Edward II., 1307, Northampton. HENEICUS DE COBEHAM, Sen., Miles* of Eundall, Shorne, son of Eeginaldus de Cobeham, who had been Sheriff under Henry III. from 1249 to 1256 ; was himself Sheriff in 1301, 1302, 1307, and 1315. On Edward II. coming to the throne he was actively engaged on the King's side against the Barons. Created Lord Cobham in 1313. He died in 1350, and was buried in Shorne Church, " with his portraiture armed in mail and crosslegged, with a Baron's robes cast over him." Arms : Gules, on a chevron or 3 lions rampant sable. FULCO PAYFOEEE, Miles, again. 3 EDWAED II., 1309, Westminster. WAEEESIUS DE VALOYNES, Miles, again. (See 28 Edward I.) WILLIELMUS DE CEEYE, Miles,* of Paul's Cray, son of Sir Simon de Crey, who was Warden of the Cinque Ports under Edward I. in 1275. Both father and son accompanied the Eing in his expedition into Scotland, and were knighted for their gallantry at Carlaverock. Arms : Gules, a cross engrailed or, over all a bend azure. 5 EDWAED IL, 1311, London. HENEICUS DE COBEHAM of Eundall, Miles, again. (See 1 Edward II.) THOMAS DE SANDWICO (SANDWIOHO, or SANTWICO), Miles, the representative of an influential family who had long before settled in this corner of Kent. Sir John, the grandfather of this Sir Thomas, having married Agnes de Crevecoeur, became Lord of the Manor of Folkestone, to which Sir Thomas succeeded. He was appointed leader of the Kentish levies on the death of Warresius de Valoignes, and took part in many State ceremonials. He was buried iu Wodnesbury Church, where his Arms appear in the window: Or, a chief indented azure. * Created Knight Banneret, by Edward I. for gallantry at the Siege of Carlaverook in 1300. 204 KNIGHTS OE THE SHIRE FOR KENT. 5 Edward II., same year. Parliament was prorogued after a few weeks, and summoned to meet again at Westminster in November, when, as the colleague of Sir Henry de Cobham, there appears, instead of Sir Thomas de Sandwich, STEPHANUS DE GRAVESHENDE of Nutstead, Miles,* who had accompanied Edward I. in his Scotch war. 6 Edward II., 1313, March. FULCO PEYFOEER, Miles, again. (See 35 Edward I.) THOMAS DE SANDWICO, Miles, again. 7 EDWAED IL, 1313, July. JOHANNES DE FELD, \ given by Hasted, but not in JOHANNES DE COBHAM, J Pari. Eeturns. Same year, September. WILLIELMUS DE CEAYE (or CEEYE or CEEX), Miles, again. (See 3 Edward II.) STEPHANUS DE COBHAM, Miles,* son of Henry, Lord Cobham (see 1 Edward II.). Summoned to Parliament as Baron Cobham of Buudall in 1326. (In Pari. Eeturn entered Ooleham.) 8 EDWAED IL, 1314. JOHANNES MALEMEYNS DE WALDWAEESHAEE, near Sandwich, Miles. Sheriff in 1316 and 1317. Warden of the Cinque Ports, and Deputy-Governor of Dover Castle, during Lord Cobham's absences (Darell's History, p. 47), and buried with him in. the chapel of the Castle. He was commonly known as Sir John Waldwareshare. WILLIELMUS DE BASYNGG (or BASINGS) of Kenardington, Miles,* was Sheriff in the following year, in which he died. Stow (Survey of London) says that " Basing Hall" owes both its name and foundation to this family. Arms : Azure, a cross crucilee voided or, a bend gules. From this date it may be understood that Parliaments were always held at Westminster unless otherwise mentioned. 8 EDWAED IL, 1315, January. HENEICUS DE COBBEHAM (sic), Sen., of Bundale, Miles. (See 1 Edward II.) * Created Knight Banneret by Edward I. for gallantry at the Siege of Carlaverock in 1300. KNIGHTS OE THE SHIRE EOR KENT. 205 JOHANNES MALEMEYNS DE HOO, Miles. The estate in the parish of Stoke now known as Maamans Hall. He was Sheriff in 1317, in which year he died. Arms: Azure, three sinister hands couped argent. 10 EDWAED IL, 1316, Lincoln. HENEICUS DE ELHAM, Miles. Arms: Argent, a sword in bend sable. EADULPHUS SAUVAGE of Bobbing-Milsted, Miles.* Sheriff in 1322 and 1323. His father had been among the Knights created at Carlaverock. Arms: Brmine, on a chief azure three lions rampant argent. 12 EDWAED IL, 1318, York. JOHANNES MALEMEYNS DE WALDWERSHARE, Miles, again. JOHANNES SAUVAGE of Bobbing Milsted, Miles,* brother of Radulphus. (See 10 Edward II.) 12 EDWAED IL, 1319, York. JOHANNES SAVAGE, Miles, again. WALTERUS DE SHORNE, Miles (Hasted calls him DE THOENTON), of Court, or Bekehurst, in Stanford. 14 EDWAED IL, 1320. ROBERTUS DE SHIRLONDE (or SHUELAND) in East Church, Sheppey, son of the Sir Eobert who was knighted by Edward I. at Carlaverock, created Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports, whose monument in Minster Church is the subject of many " wild legends and romances." WILLIELMUS DE DEN of Den Hill in Kingston, Miles, a member of a very ancient family holding extensive properties in Eomney Marsh. According to Philipott (Villare Cantianum) he bore for Arms: Sable, three leopards' heads couped and full faced. 15 EDWAED IL, 1321. THOMAS DE SANDWICO, Miles, again. (See 5 Edward II.) JOHANNES DE SAVAGE, Miles, agaiu. Same year, 1322, May, York. The same members again. * Created Knight Banneret by Edward.I. for gallantry at the Siege of Carlaverock in 1300. 206 KNIGHTS OE THE SHIRE EOR KENT. 16 EDWAED IL, November 1322, York. THOMAS DE SANDWICO, Miles, again. ROGEEUS DE HEGHAM (or HIGHAM) in Patricksbourn, Miles. 17 EDWAED IL, 1324. EOGERUS DE HEGHAM, Miles, again. WILLIELMUS DE GREY, Miles. 18 EDWAED IL, 1324, Salisbury. STEPHANUS DE COBBEHAM (sie). Miles,* of Eundall in Shorne, son of Sir Henry Cobham (see 5 Edward II.). Summoned to Parliament as Lord Cobham of Eundall in 1334, about which time he was Sheriff for three consecutive years. WILLIELMUS DE GREY, Miles, again. 19 EDWAED IL, 1325. WILLIELMUS DE DEEN (DEN), Miles. (See 13 Edward II.) WILLIELMUS DE GREY, Miles,, again. 20 EDWAED IL, 1327. JOHANNES DE SEGRAVE, Miles,* of Folkestone, to which lordship be succeeded by virtue of his marriage with Juliana, daughter of Sir Thomas Sandwich. In Folkestone Parish Church is an altar-tomb said to be his. Arms : Sable, three garbs argent. JOHANNES DE COBEHAM, Miles (Hasted gives Carleham), probably the son of Stephen, Lord Cobham of Eundall, who did not succeed to the barony. 1 EDWAED I IL, 1327, Lincoln. JOHANNES DE BOUENE of Bishopsbourne, Miles, son of Sir John De Bourne who had been Sheriff from 1292 to 1296. Was himself Sheriff in 1330 and 1331. Marrying Ellen the daughter of Sir Robert de Sharsted he came into that manor, and was probably buried in Dodington Church, where his Arms appear in a window : JSrmine, on a bend azure three lions passant-guardant or. NICHOLAOS DE MALEMAINS of Malmains at Alkham near Folkestone, Miles,* a member of the Waldwershare line. 2 EDWAED III., 1328, February, York. EOBEETUS DE STANEGEAVE (or EASTANGBAVE) of Edenbridge, Miles.* * Created Knight Banneret by Edward I. for gallantry at the Siege of Carlaverock in 1300. KNIGHTS OP THE SHIRE EOR KENT. 20 7 JOHANNES DE BOUENE, Miles, again. (See 1 Edward III.) Same year, April, Northampton. JOHANNES DE BOUENE, Miles, again. HENEICUS DE HELLES of St. Margaret Hells near Darent, Miles, vice Stangrave. 2 EDWAED IIL, 1328, York. JOHANNES DE BOUENE, Miles, again. JOHANNES DE MALEMEYNS de Waldwarshare, Miles, again. (See 12 Edward II.) 2 and 3 EDWAED IIL, October 1328, Salisbury. JOHANNES DE BOUENE, Miles, again. THOMAS DE BOUENE, Miles. (? of the same family.) 4 EDWAED IIL, 1330, Winchester. PHILIPPUS DE PYMPE of Pympe Court, Nettlestead, Miles. Arms: Gules, two bars argent, a chief vaire. HENEICUS DE HELLES, Miles, again. Same year, November 1330. JOHANNES DE COBHAM, Miles, again. JOHANNES DE IFELD, Miles, one of the Conservatores Pacis in this reign. 5 EDWAED III., 1331. JOHANNES DE IFELD, Miles, again. EADULPHUS DE SANCTO LAUBENCIO of St. Laurence, Thanet, from whence they took their name, and of Swalecliffe near Canterbury, Miles. Sheriff: in 1327 and 1332. 6 EDWAED IIL, 1332. JOHANNES DE IFELD, Miles, again. JOHANNES DE COBEHAM, Miles, again. 6 EDWAED 111., December 1332, York. HENEICUS DE HELLES, Miles, again. (See 2 Edward III.) OTTO DE GEANDISONO of Ferneborough, Chellesfield, Miles, created Lord Grandison. Was Conservator Pacis in 1332. He died in 1358, and was buried at Chelsfield. Arms: Paly argent and azure, on a bend three eagles or. 208 KNIGHTS OE THE SHIRE EOR KENT. 8 EDWAED III. THOMAS DE BAA of Ickham near Wingham, Miles, where the name of " Tho. Baa " might be seen iu stained glass in one of the windows a few years ago, though it has since disappeared. The South Transept, however, is still locally known as the "Bay Chapel," and contains a tomb said to be that of the old Knight. The Arms as they appeared in the window were : Or, a lion rampant sable, crowned argent. THOMAS LE HOEE, Miles, of Tenterden. 8 EDWAED IIL, 1334. BADULPHUS SAUVAGE, Miles,* son of Sir Eoger Savage of Bobbing Milsted. WILLIELMUS MOEAUNT of Moraunt's Court, Chevening, Miles. Sheriff in 1337 and 1338. 9 EDWAED IIL, 1335, York. JOHANNES DE COBEHAM, Miles, again. EOBEETUS DE STANGEAVE, Miles, again. (1 Edward IIL) 10 EDWAED I IL, 1336. The same again. Same year, September, Nottingham. PHILIPPUS DE PYMPE, Miles, again. (See 4 Edward III.) WILLIELMUS MORAUNT, Miles, again. 11 EDWAED III. , 1337, York, Westminster. JOHANNES DE COBHAM, Miles, again. THOMAS DE BROCKHELLE (or BEOCKHALL) of Saltwood, Miles, also of Calehill in Little Chart and in Charing. Conservator of the Peace and Warden of the Cinque Ports, and Sheriff in the years 1333, 1334, 1335. His Arms as they appear in Canterbury Cathedral were: Gules, a cross between twelve crosslets fitchee argent. By writs dated August 18 there had also been summoned to attend this Parliament from the county of Kent "Johannes de Cobham, Thomas de Aldham, and Willielmus de Orlaston." While Hasted gives the names of Ealph Savage and Stephen de Cobham. * Created Knight Banneret by Edward I. for gallantry at the Siege of Carlaverook in 1300. KNIGHTS OE THE SHIRE EOR KENT. 209. 11 EDWAED IIL, 1337, September. PHILIPPUS DE PYMPE, Miles, again. WILLIELMUS MOEAUNT, Miles, again. 12 EDWAED IIL, 1338. EADULPHUS SAUVAGE, Miles, again. (Seo 8 Edward III.) STEPHANUS DE ASSHWY of Broxham in Westerham, Miles, where he succeeded the Isleys (de Insula), and afterwards the Apuldreffeld family at Cudham. 12 EDWAED IIL, 1338, July, Northampton. EADULPHUS DE SAUVAGE, Miles, again. STEPHANUS DE COBBEHAM, Miles, vice ASSHWX. By writs issued in July the Sheriffs were directed to send four Merchants from each of their Bailiwicks. From Kent came "Willielmus Frensche de Cant, Nicholaus Hore de Cant, Willielmus Glovere de Godmersham, and Henricus Newman de Eofa." 12 and 13 EDWAED IIL, January 1339. THOMAS DE BEOCKHELLE, Miles, again. (11 Edward III.) HUMFEIDUS DE NOETHWODE of Northwood Chasteners in Milton (Sittingbourne), Miles.* He came of a knightly family, for his grandfather Sir Roger had been knighted by Richard I. at Acre. His father Sir John received like honour from Edward I. at Carlaverock, and was four times Sheriff in that reign. Of Sir Humphrey himself there seems no record. The church at Milton retains several cross-legged effigies of the old Knights Arms: Frmine, a cross engrailed gules. For another Parliament held in the same year Hasted gives the names of Johannes de Malemayns and Johannes Sauvage, which are not mentioned in the Parliamentary Eeturn. 13 EDWAED IIL, September.f EADULPHUS SAUVAGE, Miles, again. HENRICUS DE VALOIGNS, Miles. Doubtless a grandson * Created Knight Banneret by Edward I. for gallantry at the Siege of Carlaverock in 1300. t Hasted names Robertus de Sherlonde and Willielmus de Denne as again representing the County at another Parliament held this year, but not included in the Official List. VOL. XXI. P 210 KNIGHTS OE THE SHIRE EOR KENT. of Warresius de Valoynes so often mentioned as representing the County in reign of Edward I. 13 EDWAED I IL, 1340, January. WILLIELMUS DE ORLANDSTONE of Orlandstone in Eomney Marsh, Chivaler, had been Sheriff in 1328 and 1329. THOMAS DE BROCKHELLE of Saltwood, Chivaler, again. Arms : Or, two chevrons gules, on a canton of the second a lion passant argent. Same year, March. The same again. Same year, July. RADULPHUS SAUVAGE, Chivaler, again. PHILIPPUS DE PYMPE, Chivaler, again. 15 EDWAED IIL, 1341. WILLIELMUS DE OELANDSTONE, Chivaler, again. THOMAS DE BROCKHELLE, Chivaler, again. 17 EDWAED IIL, 1343. EOGEE DE HIGHAM. (Alone, according to Hasted.) 18 EDWAED IIL, 1344. OTTO DE GEANDISSONO, Chivaler, again. (6 Edward III.) EADULPHUS DE SANCTO LEODEGAEDIO (ST. LEGEE) of Ulcombe, Chivaler,* a representative of a distinguished family from the days of the Conqueror. An ancestor of the same name accompanied Eichard I. to Acre ; another was " Recognitor Magnae Assisae" under John; and this Eadulphus, with two brothers, was knighted by Edward I. for prowess before Carlaverock. Arms: Azure, fretty argent, a chief or. 20 EDWAED IIL, 1346. EADULPHUS DE SEYNTLEGEE, Chivaler, again. THOMAS DE GILLYNGHAM of that ilk, Chivaler. 21 EDWAED IIL, 1348. OTTO DE GEANDISSONO, Chivaler, again. EOBERTUS DE CHEYNE (or CHEYNEY), Chivaler, son of Alexander de Cheyney* of Patricksbourne. He married the * Created Knight Banneret by Edward I. for gallantry at the Siege of Carlaverock in 1300. KNIGHTS OE THE SHIRE EOR KENT. 21 1 daughter of Sir Eobert de Shurland, and thus inherited the Manor of Shurland in East Church in Isle of Sheppey. Arms : Ermine, on a bend sable three martlets or. 22 EDWAED IIL, 1348. The same. 25 EDWAED IIL, 1351. The same again. 25 EDWAED I IL, 1352, January. OTTO DE GEANDISSONO, Chivaler, again. AENALDUS SAUVAGE, Chivaler, son of Sir Ealf Sauvage of Bobbing Milsted. (See 10 Edward II.) 26 EDWAED III., 1352. OTTO DE GEANDISSONO, Chivaler, again. Only one Knight returned for this Parliament. 27 EDWAED IIL, 1353. THOMAS DE BROCKHELLE of Saltwood, again. In this also only one Knight to be sent. 28 EDWAED III., 1354. OTTO DE GEANDISSONO, Chivaler, again. JOHANNES FITZ BEENAED, Chivaler, of Kingsdown near Wrotham, whose grandfather Sir Eobert had been for nine consecutive years Sheriff in the reign of Henry II. Arms: Vaire, on a chief gules two mullets or. 28 EDWAED IIL, 1355. JOHANNES DE MEEEWOETHE, Chivaler, of Mereworth Castle and Crowberry in Hadlow. Sheriff in 1341 and 1342. JOHANNES FITZ BERNARD, Chivaler, again. 31 EDWAED III., 1357. JOHANNES DE MEEEWOETHE, Chivaler, again. EOBEETUS CHEYNEY, Chivaler, again. (21 Edward III.) 32 EDWAED IIL, 1358. OTTO DE GEANDISSONO, Chivaler, again. THOMAS DE APULDEEFELD, Chivaler, of Bedmancore in Lingstead, descended from the old Cudham family (see 3 Edward I.). Sheriff five times in this reign. p 2 212 KNIGHTS OF THE SHIRE EOR KENT. 34 EDWAED IIL, 1360. WILLIELMUS* DE APULDEEFELD, Chivaler, again. WILLIELMUS HALDOUNE (Hasted says "Haldenne") of Eolvenden, Chivaler. Buried in Eolvenden Church. Arms: Argent, a chief sable, over all a bend engrailed gules. 34 EDWAED IIL, 1361. THOMAS APULDEEFELD of Lingsted, Chivaler, son of William Apuldrefeld. (See 32 Edward IIL) THOMAS COLPEPIE of Pepenbury (Pembury), Chivaler. This is the first appearance among the Knights of the Shire of a name which was subsequently to be of frequent occurrence. It is doubted among antiquaries whether Bayhall in Pembury or Preston in Aylesford was the original home of a family which became so illustrious that at one time (according to Camden) it could boast of having no less than twelve members bearing the honour of Knighthood. Arms: Argent, a bend engrailed gules. 36 EDWAED IIL, 1362. EADULPHUS DE FEENYNGHAM of Fremingham or Farningham, Chivaler, whose father Sir John de Fremingham had been Sheriff in 1316, 1324, and 1325; Sir Ealph himself holding that office in 1358, and in 1360 being one of the three or four men " learned in the law assigned for the keeping of the Peace " in the County, the early form of "Justices of the Peace." Arms: Argent, a fesse between three Cornish choughs proper. THOMAS DE APULDEEFELD, again. (See 32 Edward III.) 37 EDWAED III., 1363. THOMAS APULDEEFELDE, Chivaler, again. JOHANNES BAEEY of The Mote, Sevington, Chivaler, was joined with Sir Ealf de Fremingham (as above) in the Commission of the Peace. Sheriff in 1372. Sevington Church, as also its neighbour Ohurch of Willesborough, contains many monuments of this knightly family, which Philipott describes as " testimonies which shew that the family were of eminent rank among the ancientest gentry of this Shire." Arms : Barry of six argent and gules. * The name " "William" is here adopted on the strength of the Official Beturn in the Parliamentary Blue Book, but Hasted in almost each case substitutes that of " Thomas " without giving his authority. In the list of the Sheriffs there is confirmatory evidence in favour of " 'William," which occurs seven times in the course of this reign, no mention of " Thomas " being made in that office. KNIGHTS 02 THE SHIRE E0& KENT. 2l3 38 EDWAED IIL, 1365. JOHANNES COLPEPIE of Bayhall, Pembury, Chivaler, Sheriff 1369, son of Sir Thomas. (34 Edward III.) WILLIELMUS APULDOEEFEILD (sic) of Linsted (Hasted says " Thomas "), Chivaler, probably the son of Sir Thomas. (See 32 Edward III.) 40 EDWAED IIL, 1366. EICAEDUS ATTE LESE of Lees Court, Sheldwich, Chivaler, a man of some mark in his day. Sheriff in 1367. Died in 1394, and was buried in the Lady Chapel of Sheldwich Church, where a handsome brass with a goodly canopy represents the worthy knight and his wife Dionisia (the lower portion of whose dress has been destroyed). Arms: Gules, a cross-crosslet ermine. EOGEEUS DIGGE (or DIGGS) of Diggs' Court in Barham near Canterbury, to which city the family were liberal benefactors. Kilburne describes them as being a family " of great esteem in the County." It was more distinguished in the person of Sir Dudley Digges, 250 years later, as Lord of Chilham Castle. Arms : Gules, on a cross argent five eagles displayed sable, armed of the field. 42 EDWAED IIL, 1368. THOMAS CAUM (or CAMM, CAWNE), probably of Ightham Moat, a member of a Staffordshire family, who, marrying a daughter of Sir Thomas Moraunt of Moraunt's Court, Chevening, settled in Kent. A monument of a Knight in full armour in Ightham Church is reputed to be his. On the breast-plate a lion rampant. THOMAS COLEPEPIE of Bayhall. (See 34 Edward III.) 43 EDWAED III., 1369. THOMAS APULDEEFELD, Chivaler, again. THOMAS COUEN (or COVENE), not identified. 45 EDWAED IIL, 1371. THOMAS APULDEEFELD, Miles, again. JOHANNES BAEEY, Miles, again. (See 87 Edward III.) Same year, June, Winchester. THOMAS APULDEEFELDE, Miles, again, alone. 46 EDWAED IIL, 1372. WILLIELMUS DE PYMPE of Pympe Court, Nettlested, son of Sir Philip de Pympe. (See 4 Edward III.) 214 KNIGHTS OE THE SHIRE EOR KENT. JACOBUS DE PEKHAM of Yaldham in Wrotham, Miles. Sheriff in 1379 and 1388. 47 EDWAED I IL, 1373. STEPHANUS DE VALOYGNS of Eepton in Ashford and Tremworth, descended from the old family of distinction in the reign of Edward I. (See 28 Edward I.) EICAEDUS CHAELES, Chivaler, of the Manor of Charles in Dartford, descended from Edward Charles, Admiral of the Fleet in the reign of Edward I. He afterwards owned the Manor of Addington near Larkfield. 50 EDWAED IIL, 1376. THOMAS FOGGE of Eepton in Ashford, Chivaler, who, by marrying one of the daughters of Warresius de Valoynes, had come into the Eepton portion of the property of that family. Arms : Argent, on a fesse between three annulets sable as many mullets pierced of the first. 51 EDWAED III. , 1377. EOBEETUS DE PASSHELE (probably PASSELEY or PASSELEW), Chivaler, of Thevegate, Smeeth, descended from Eobert de Passeley, who was Treasurer of England under Henry III. and son of Edmund (called in the Pipe Eoll " Gilbertus ") Passeley, who fought with Edward II. at Boroughbridge against the Barons 1322. AENALDUS DE SEYNTLEGEE, Chivaler, of Ulcomb, son of Eadulphus. (See 18 Edward I I I . ) 1 EIOHAED IL, 1377. JOHANNES DE FEENYNGHAM (FAENINGHAM), Chivaler, son of Eadulphus de Frenyngham (36 Edward IL). Sheriff in 1378 and 1393. JACOBUS DE PEKHAM of Peckham in Hadlow, and Yaldam in Wrotham, Chivaler, grandson of Sir John de Peckham, knighted by Richard I. at Acre. Conservator Pacis under Edward IIL, and Sheriff 1379 and 1388. Arms : Ermine, a chief quarterly gules and or. 2 RICHAED II., 1378, Gloucester. THOMAS FOGGE of Fogg's Court, Mongeham, Chivaler, and of Repton, Ashford, having married the daughter of Warresius de Valoigne (see 28 Edward I.). He was taken prisoner in the war with France, but ransomed. His monument, surmounted by a KNIGHTS OE THE SHIRE EOR KENT. 215 Knight in armour, is in Canterbury Cathedral. The inscription on his monument has tbe line " Regni Protector, Francos Britones superavit," etc. Arms: Argent, two bars sable, in chief three mullets of the last. JOHANNES DE BEOCKHELL of Saltwood, Chivaler, again. (See 11 Edward II.) 2 EICHAED IL, 1379, April. EOBERTUS PASSHELLE, Chivaler, again. (31 Edward III. ) RADULPHUS DE SEYNTLEGEE, Chivaler, again. (See 18 Edward I I I . ) 3 EICHAED IL, 1380. WILLIELMUS SEPTVANS of Milton near Canterbury, Chivaler, and of Aldington, Thornham, grandson of Sir Eobert Sevaunz (sic) (see 18 Edward I.). Sheriff in 1381, in which year he fell for a time into the hands of the Insurgents under Wat Tyler. NICHOLAUS ATTE-CEOUCHE of Ospringe, Chivaler. Philipott suggests that he was so called from living " near the Cross." He had been Sheriff in 1376. Kilburne describes him in his list of Sheriffs as being of Great Chart. His name appears as one of the Commissioners appointed to " resist the rebels " in 1381. 4 EICHAED IL, 1380. THOMAS FOGGE, Chivaler, again. WILLIELMUS GILDEFOEDE (or GTJLDEFOEDE) of Hempsted in Benenden, Chivaler. Sheriff in 1388. 5 EICHAED IL, 1381. THOMAS FOGGE, Chivaler, again. JOHANNES DE FEENYNGHAM, again. (See 1 Eichard II.) 5 EIOHAED IL, 1382, May. THOMAS COLPEPIE of Bayhall, again. (34 Edward III. ) THOMAS DE COBEHAM of Roundall, Chivaler, again. Sheriff in 1377 and 1394. 6 EIOHAED IL, 1382, October. JOHANNES COLPEPIE de Farleghe, Chivaler. Sheriff 1369. THOMAS BEOCKHELLE of Saltwood, Chivaler, again. Sheriff 1382 and 1383. 6 EIOHAED IL, 1383, February. THOMAS FOGGE, Chivaler, again. .. JACOBUS DE PEKHAM of Yaldham, Chivaler, again. 216 KNIGHTS OE THE SHIRE EOR KENT. 7 EICHAED II., 1383, October. THOMAS COLPEPIE of Bayhall, Chivaler, again. THOMAS FOGGE, Chivaler, again. 7 EICHAED IL, 1384, Salisbury. EOBEETUS COEBIE of Boughton Malherbe, Chivaler, to whom Edward I I I . in 1362 had given licence to fortify (kernellare (? krennellare) and turrettcm'e, to make cranies and loop holes in) his Manor House. He was Sheriff 1384. WILLIELMUS GULDEFOEDE, Chivaler, again. 8 EIOHAED IL, 1384, November. THOMAS FOGGE, Chivaler, again. THOMAS COBHAM, Chivaler, again. 9 EIOHAED IL, 1385. THOMAS BEOCKHULL of Saltwood, Chivaler, again. NICHOLAUS ADAM, Chivaler. Philipott describes him as of a family " that had large possessions in Essex, and temporarily settled in Harrietsham." Arms : Vert, a plain cross or. 10 EICHAED IL, 1386. WILLIELMUS BETENHAM of Betenham House, Cranbrook, and of Shurland, Pluckley. GALFEIDUS CHAUCEEES (Geoffrey Chaucer, the Father of English Poetry). In his pensioned retirement he had " custody of some lands in Kent," which, with Court favour, may have qualified him for representing the county in Parliament. 11 EICHAED IL, 1388. THOMAS FOGG, Chivaler, again. JACOBUS DE PEOHAM (PECKHAM), Chivaler, again. 12 EICHAED IL, same year, September, Cambridge. JACOBUS DE PEKHAM, Chivaler, again. WILLIELMUS BECCENHAME, Chivaler, again. 13 EIOHAED IL, 1390. AENALDUS SAVAGE of Bobbing, Chivaler, son of Eadulphus (see 8 Edward IIL). Constable of Queenborough Castle; Privy Councillor; chosen Speaker of the House of Commons in 1400 and again 1404. Sheriff in 1381 and 1385. JOHANNES COBHAM of Cobham, Chivaler, had been KNIGHTS OP THE SHIRE EOR KENT. 217 appointed Conservator Pacis six times in the reign of Edward III. Married Margaret, daughter of Hugh Courtney, Earl of Devon. Died in 1409, was buried in Cobham Church, where a handsome brass marks his tomb. 14 EIOHAED IL, 1390, November. The same again. 15 EIOHAED IL, 1391. AENALDUS SAVAGE, Chivaler, again. NICHOLAUS POTYN (or POTIN) of Queen's Court, Ospringe, which he held by lease of Sir Nicholas Loveigne (Kilburn says of Sheppey), Chivaler. Sheriff in 1397. 16 EICHAED IL, 1392, Winchester. WILLIELMUS BUECESTEE (Kilburne calls him Burceston) of Hunton, Chivaler. Philipott says he was descended from a Southampton family, and had settled in Kent. He was Sheriff in 1389. NICHOLAUS POTYN, Chivaler, again. 17 EICHAED IL, 1394. WILLIELMUS PECCHE of Lullingston, Chivaler, two of whose ancestors, Sir William and Sir Eobert, had been created Knights Banneret by Edward I. at the Siege of Carlaverock. His grandfather, Sir John, had been Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports and Constable of Dover Castle in the reign of Edward III. Lullingston Church is rich in marble effigies and brasses to the memory of this knightly family. Arms as given in the window of the Chapel: A lion rampant ermine, crowned or; with the Crest, the same within a wreath of peach-blossoms. JOHANNES DE COBHAM of Cobham, Chivaler, again. 18 EICHAED IL, 1395. NICHOLAUS HAUTE of Waddenhall near Elmston (as Kilburne describes him), but clearly a member of the " family of venerable antiquity," (as Philipott terms them,) of Hautsbourne, a manor in Bishopsbourne, Chivaler. Sheriff in 1394. THOMAS BKOOEHELL of Saltwood, Chivaler, again. 20 EICHAED IL, 1397. THOMAS BEOCKHELL, Chivaler, again. NICHOLAUS POTYN, Chivaler, again. 218 KNIGHTS OE THE SHIRE POR KENT. 21 EICHAED IL, 1398, Shrewsbury. WILLIELMUS PECCHE of LuUingston, Chivaler, again. JOHANNES COBEHAM of Cobham, Chivaler, again* 1 HENEY IV., 1399. JOHANNES DE FEENYNGHAM (FAENINGHAM), Chivaler, son of Radulphus de Frenyngham. (See 36 Edward III.) Had been Sheriff in 1379 and 1394, and Conservator of the Peace. Arms as before. THOMAS DE BROCKHILL of Saltwood, Chivaler, again. 2 HENEY IV., 1400 and 1401, York and Westminster. AENALDUS SAVAGE of Bobbingcourt, Sittingbourne, Chivaler, again. Chosen Speaker of the House of Commons this year. Governor of Queenborough Castle in 1393. Buried in Bobbing Church 1410. EOBEETUS CLIFFORD of Canterbury, Chivaler. Sheriff in 1399 and 1413. Brother of Eichard Clifford, Bishop of London 1401—1407. Hasted gives Thomas BrockhuU again as colleague with Sir Arnald Savage. 3 HENEY IV., 1402. AENALDUS SAVAGE, Chivaler, again. THOMAS BEOCEHELL (sic), Chivaler, again. 5 HENEY IV., 1405, Coventry and Westminster. BEGIN ALDUS BEAYBEOOKE of Eundall in Shorne, Chivaler. Married Joan the daughter of John, the last Lord Cobham of that line, and widow of the ill-fated Sir John Oldcastle. Buried in Cobham Church, where his tomb stands surmounted by a handsome brass, representing him in full armour, under a rich canopy, with an inscription giving A.D. 1405 as the date of his death. AENALDUS SAVAGE, Chivaler, again. 6 HENEY IV., 1404.f THOMAS DE CLYNTON, Chivaler, probably of the Court Lodge, Hunton, and a member of the Huntingdon family, to whom * Parliaments appear to have been summoned constantly during the reigns of Richard II., Henry IV., V., and VI., and Richard III., i.e. 25 in the 100 years, of which no returns are found. t Stow says this was known as the " Layman's Parliament," called also the " Laok-learning " or the " Lack-Latin Parliament," because the Sheriffs were KNIGHTS OP THE SHIRE POR KENT. 219 a memorial still remains in the chancel of Hunton Church. Arms : Argent, six cross-crosslets fitchee sable, on chief azure two mullets of the first pierced. HENEICUS* DE HOEN, Chivaler, of Home's Place, Kenardington, and of Apuldore. Sheriff 1406. 7 HENEY IV., 1405, Coventry, Gloucester, and Westminster. EICAEDUS CLYTHEEOWE (or CLIDEEOW) of Gouldstanton, Ash, and Betshanger, Chivaler. Admiral of the " narrow seas." Sheriff 1404 and 1405. Arms : Argent, on a chevron gules between three eagles displayed sable five annulets or. EOBEETUS CLYFFOED of Canterbury, Chivaler, again. (See 2 Henry IV.) 9 HENEY IV., 1407, Gloucester. EICAEDUS CLIDEEOW of Ash, Chivaler, again. JOHANNES DAEELL of Cale Hill, Little Chart, Chivaler. Sheriff in 1408, 1417, and 1422. He held the responsible office of Steward of the estates of the See under Archbishop Chichele. 11 HENEY IV., Bristol and Westminster. No returns for Kent in this Parliament. 13 HENEY IV., 1411. EEGINALDUS PYMPE of Pimpe's Court, East Farleigh, and Nettlested, Chivaler. Succeeded his father Sir Wilham as Sheriff in 1375, and himself held the Shrievalty in 1408. The last in the male line of what Philipott calls a "noble and ancient family," of whom Nettlested Church holds many memorials. Arms: Argent, four barrulets gules, on a chief sable a bar nebulee of the first. WILLIAM NOTEBENI (sic) (or NOTBEAME) of Ash next Sandwich, Chivaler. Sheriff in 1411 and 1419, and in the latter year was returned among those who were entitled " portare arma antiqua. "f " ordered to send no Knight or Burgess that had any knowledge of the law," possibly with a view to exclude the clerical element, for with them chiefly lay all the legal knowledge of that day, and the highest judicial appointments. It is interesting to mark the change whioh had come over the Court since the days of Henry II., when in 1189 the King, iu his desire to have the law " uprightly ministered, tried all orders of men in placing them in the roomes of justice, and, lastly, trusting to find among the olergie such as would not be corrupted with bribes, nor for respeot of fear or friendship decline from right judgement," selected two Bishops (Ely and Norwich) to be "Principal Justices of the Realm." But in Henry IV.'s reign the endeavour was made to reverse this state of things, and in all ranks to replace ecclesiastics by laymen in the law oourts. * Hasted says " Johannes." t Hasted gives " Willielmus Haute of Hautesbourne " as Pympe's colleague. 220 KNIGHTS OP THE SHIRE POR KENT. 1 HENEY V., 1413. JOHANNES DAEELL of Cale Hill, Chivaler, again. JOHANNES BOTELER of Gaveney, Chivaler, to which manor he succeeded, having married Joan, the only child of Sir Eichard Feversham of Graveney. Sheriff in 1398. He was buried in Graveney Church in 1436. 2 HENEY V., 1414, January, Leicester. THOMAS CLYNTON, Chivaler, again. JOHANNES DAEELL, Chivaler, again. 2 HENEY V., same year, November. AENALDUS SAVAGE, Miles, again. (See 13 Eichard II.) EOBEETUS* CLYFFOED of Bobbing, Chivaler, again. 3 HENEY V., 1416. No return for Kent this Parliament. 3 HENEY V., 1416, March. WILLIELMUS CHEYNE of Shurland in Sheppey, Chivaler. Called " Serjeant-at-Law " in 1410 ; appointed Justice of the King's Bench 1415; raised to be Chief Justice and knighted in 1424, and died in 1442. Arms: Azure, six lions rampant argent, a canton ermine and gules. JOHANNES WILCOTES, or WILCOCKS (Hasted spells it "Wilcox "), of whom nothing seems to be known. 5 HENEY V., 1417. JOHANNES DAEELLt of Cale Hill, Chivaler, again. EOGEEUS EYE,f of whom nothing is known unless it be a misprint for Bykeld of Estlingham in Frendsbury, near Eochester, who was Sheriff in 1425. (See below, 8 Henry V.) 7 HENEY V., 1419. WILLIELMUS HAUTEf of Hautsbourn in Bishopsbourne, Chivaler, son of Sir William Haute, who had married Elizabeth sister of Sir Eichard Widville. (See below, 11 Henry VI.) He was Sheriff 1421, 1422, and again in 1466. EDWAEDUS GILDEFOEDEf (or GULDEEOEDE) of Halden in Eolvenden. Sheriff in 1432 and 1439. He was the founder of the south Chapel in the Parish Church of Eolvenden. * Hasted says it was " Johannes." t Omitted by Hasted. KNIGHTS OF THE SHIRE POR KENT. 22 1 8 HENEY V., 1420. WILLIELMUS EICKHULL (OI-EICKHILL, formerly EYKELD) of Estlingham in Frendsbury, Chivaler, of whose family memorials remain in Northfleet Church. He was Sheriff in 1424. THOMAS TOWNE of Towne Place in Throwley, Chivaler. 9 HENEY V., 1421, May. No returns found for Kent. Same year, December. THOMAS ELYS (or ELLIS) of Burton (or Burston) in Kenington, and Stoneacre* in Otham, Chivaler. He was Sheriff in 1428. EOGEEUS HONINGTON. Of whom nothing is known. 1 HENEY VL, 1422. GALFEIDUSf LOUTHEE, Armiger, of whom the only record seems to be that he was Lord Warden of the Cinque Ports in the reign of Edward IV. EEGINALDUS PYMPE of Pympe Court, Armiger. Probably grandson of Sir Philip Pympe, who was frequently returned for the county in the reign of Edward III. He was Sheriff in 1410. 2 HENEY VL, 1423. JOHANNES ETCKHILL, Chivaler, son of Sir William Eickhill. (See 8 Henry V.) Sheriff in 1425." WILLIELMUS BUEYS (or BUSES), Armiger, of Bromley and Halsted, in which latter church was a brass to his memory, on which it was recorded that he died in 1454. He was Sheriff in 1433. 3 HENEY VI., 1425. JOHANNES DAEELL of Cale Hill, Chivaler, again. JOHANNES DEEYLONDE (or DEYLAND) of Cokesditch in Faversham, Armiger. Of whom nothing is known save that according to Philipott his was " a name of generous extraction" (? generosus). 4 HENEY VI., 1426, Leicester. GALFEIDUS LOUTHEE, Armiger, again. EDWAEDUS GILDEFOEDE of Halden in Eolvenden, again. * Stoneacre was supposed to have been the site of the Premonstratensian Monastery founded by Sir Ralph de Bene, but on the ground of unhealthiness removed by his daughter Ela de Saclcvil to her husband's new priory at Bayham. t Hasted calls him " Johannes." 222 KNIGHTS OP THE SHIRE POR KENT. This Parliament, according to Stow, was first held at St. Alban's, then at Northampton, and finally at Leicester, and was called " the Parliament of Battes," because men, being forbidden to bring swords or other weapons, brought bats and staves. 6 HENEY VL, 1427. JOHANNES DAEELL of Cale Hill, Chivaler, again. JOHANNES BAMBUEGH (or BEAMBUEY) of Paddlesworth, Armiger, of whom nothing more is known. 8 HENEY VL, 1429. JOHANNES DAEELL, Armiger, again. WILLIELMUS HAUTE of Hautsbourne, Chivaler, again. 9 HENEY VL, 1431. JOHANNES BAMBUEGH, Armiger, again. WILLIELMUS SCOTT of Scot's Hall, in Smeeth, and Brabourne, Chivaler. He was Sword-bearer to Henry V., and Sheriff in 1429. He died in 1433; a boldly engraved brass representing him in full armour still remains in Brabourne Church. 10 HENEY VL, 1432. GALFEIDUS LOUTHEE,* Armiger, again. WILLIELMUS HAUTE* of Hautsbourne, Chivaler, again. 11 HENEY VL, 1433. EICAEDUS WYDEVYLE* (WIDVILLE or WOODVILLE) of the Mote, Maidstone, Chivaler. Either the grandfather or the father of Elizabeth Woodville, the wife of Edward IV. Sheriff in 1434. He was buried in All Saints' Church, Maidstone, where a flat slab in the chancel, once raised on an altar-tomb, is by tradition assigned to him. Arms: Argent, a fess and canton gules. JOHANNES PYEYE* (or PEEYE) , under which form Fuller in his Worthies includes him as having been Sheriff for the county in 12 Henry VL, though neither Philipott nor Kilburne give him a place in their lists. 14 HENEY VL, 1435. REGINALDUS PEKHAM of Boughton Monchelsea, Armiger, the son of Sir James Peckham of Yaldham in Wrotham, who had * Omitted by Hasted. KNIGHTS OP THE SHIRE POR KENT. 22 3 been Sheriff in 1379 and 1388. Arms: Ermine, a chief quarterly gules and or. EDMUNDUS GYLDEFOEDE (? Edwardus), again. (See 7 Henry V.) 15 HENEY VL, 1437, Cambridge and Westminster. WILLIELMUS MANSTON* of Manston in St. Laurence, in the Isle of Thanet, Armiger. Sheriff in 1436. The north chancel of the church was built by a Manston, and many members of the family lie buried in it. JOHANNES DIGGES* of Diggs' Court, Barham, Armiger. Sheriff in 1465. Grandson of Sir John Diggs, who had been Sheriff in 1401. 20 HENEY VL, 1442. JACOBUS FENYS (also FENIS, FYNES, and ultimately FIENNES) of Seale and Kemsing, Armiger. Sheriff in 1436. Created Baron Saye and Sele, and made Lord High Treasurer in 1447. Murdered by the Kentish rebels under Jack Cade in 1450. Harris describes him as having been " a great soldier." Arms: Azure, three lions rampant or. WILLIELMUS ISLE (or ISLEY) of Sundridge, Armiger. Justice of the Peace. Sheriff in 1475. He died in 1484, according to the inscription on his tomb in Sundridge Church. 23 HENEY VI., 1445. No returns for Kent. 25 HENEY VL, 1447, Cambridge and Bury St. Edmund's. JACOBUS FENYS, Chivaler, again. WILLIELMUS CEOWMEE of Tunstall, Armiger, son of Sir William Crowmer, who had been Lord Mayor in 1407. Sheriff in 1445, and shared the fate of his father-in-law, Lord Saye and Sele, in Jack Cade's Eebellion. 27 HENEY VL, 1449. JOHANNES CHEYNE of Shurland in Sheppey, and of Patricksbourne, Chivaler. Was Sheriff in 1455. WILLIELMUS CEOWMEE of Tunstall, Armiger, again. 28 HENET VL, 1449. I n the Parliamentary Eecord no return for Kent is given, * Omitted by Hasted. 224 KNIGHTS OP THE SHIRE POR KENT. but Hasted, without giving any authority, says that WILLIELMUS ISLE (Isley), again, and JOHANNES WAVEBSHAD (of whom nothing seems to be known), were elected. 29 HENEY VL, 1450. WILLIELMUS* PECHE of Lullingston, Miles, son of Sir William Peche. (See 17 Eichard II.) WILLIELMUS HAUTE of Hautesbourn, Armiger, son of Sir William Haute. (See 7 Henry V.) 31 HENEY VL, 1453, Beading. WILLIELMUS HEXTALL of Hextall Court, East Peckham, Armiger, originally of a Staffordshire family. He was one of the few gentry who sided with Jack Cade in bis Eebellion, but was pardoned. JOHANNES THOENBUEY of Feversham, Armiger. The only record of him seems to be that he was Sheriff in 1446. 33 HENEY VL, 1455. The return for Kent illegible. 38 HENEY VL, 1459. No returns given for Kent. 39 HENEY VI., 1460. THOMAS KIEIELL (or KEEIEL, originally CEIOL), descended from Sir Simon de Criol, who was knighted by Edward I. at Carlaverock. This THOMAS, according to Planche (Comer of Kent), was made a Knight of the Garter by Henry VL, but never installed. Being taken prisoner in the Battle of St. Alban's he was beheaded by Edward IV. Arms: Or, two chevrons and a canton (? quarter) gules. EOBEETUS HOENE of Kinardington and Home's Place, Apuldore, Armiger. Sheriff in 1452. For the first two Parliaments of Edward IV., 1461 and 1463, no returns seem to be forthcoming. 7 EDWAED IV., 1467. JOHANNES SCOTT of Scot's Hall and Braborne, Miles, in high favour with the King. Made Privy Councillor, Marshal of Calais. Sent as Ambassador to the Dukes of Burgundy and Brit- * Hasted calls him " Laurence." KNIGHTS OP THE SHIRE POR KENT. 225 tany. Buried in Braborne Church, where the inscription describes him as " Magnificus et insignis Miles." He died in 1485. JACOBUS PECKHAM of Yaldham in Wrotham, Armiger. Sheriff in 1472. Buried in Wrotham Church. Of the Parliaments held in the ninth and t enth of Edward IV., 1469 and 1470, no returns appear to be forthcoming. 12 EDWARD IV., 1472. HENEICUS FEEBEES of East Peckham, Miles, originally of Tamworth in Warwickshire. By marrying Maud, the daughter of William Hextall of Hextall Place, he obtained the East Peckham estates, where he held his Shrievalty in 1469 and 1487. JOHANNES ISLE (ISLEY) of Sundridge, Armiger, heir of Sir William Isley. (See 20 Henry VI.) Was Sheriff in 1474. 17 EDWAED IV., 1478. JOHANNES FOGGE of Eepton in Ashford, Miles, Comptroller of the Household to Edward IV. Was Sheriff in 1473 and again in 1480. He died in 1490 at Ashford, where a brass, now imperfect, marks his burial-place. JOHANNES BEUMSTON (or BEUNTON) of Preston, near Feversham, Armiger. Was Sheriff in 1470. Here follows "hiatus valde deflendus" from 1478 (17 Edward IV.) to 1529 (14 Henry VIIL), for which period no returns are forthcoming, although the Close Eolls mention eleven Parliaments as having been summoned during the interval. Then come a succession of notables during the troublous times of the Tudors, beginning with two halfbrothers, the sons of Sir Eichard Guldeforde, who had died in Jerusalem in 1500, when his estates were divided between his two sons, Edward and Henry. 21 HENEY VIIL, 1529. EDWAEDUS GULDEFOEDE of Halden in Eolvenden, Miles. Knighted in 1513. Held the office of Marshal of Calais, Constable of Dover Castle, Warden of the Cinque Ports, Master of Ordnance, and Admiral of the Narrow Seas. Arms: Or, a saltire between four martlets sable. HENEICUS GULDEFOEDE of Hempsted in Benenden, Miles (the son by a second wife). Master of King's Horse 1520, Knight of the Garter in 1526. Of whom Strype says he was " a VOL. xxi. Q 226 KNIGHTS OP THE SHIRE POR KENT. learned man in an age when England was noted abroad for learned men." Arms: As the previous coat, and on a canton argent a pomegranate proper, seeded gules. Por the two succeeding Parliaments no returns have •been found. 33 HENEY VIIL, 1542. Por this Parliament the return is mutilated, and the only name given is that of THOMAS MOYLE* of Biddenden, Miles. He must have been a man of some recognized power, for it appears that on entering the House he was elected Speaker, and continued to fill that office to the end of Henry's reign. Under Edward VI. he seems to have disappeared from public life, but (according to Strype) he was active under Mary in " hunting down heretics," as the Eef ormers were called, and bringing them to trial. For Arms he bore the not inappropriate charges, Gules, a mule within a bordure argent. 37 HENEY VIIL, 1545. THOMAS CHENEY* of Shurland, East Church, Isle of Sheppey, Miles. He would seem to have been a perfect political " Vicar of Bray," acting during those changeful times on the principle described by the old Eoman poet, " Tempora mutantur nos et mutamur in illis;" for beginning life under Wolsey's favour he was made one of the six gentlemen of the King's Privy Chamber in 1520 ; then a Privy Councillor; in 1539 Treasurer of the Household and Knight of the Garter; and the following year Warden of the Cinque Ports. Under Edward VI. he was also Privy Councillor and Lord-Lieutenant for Kent ; then, although he supported the claims of Lady Jane Grey, he took part in Mary's Coronation ; and when Elizabeth came to the throne, he was again made Privy Councillor and Treasurer of the Household. He was buried in East Church in 1558. Arms: Ermine, on a bend sable three martlets or.f GEOEGIUS HAEPEE* of Sutton Valence, Armiger. He took part in the Siege of Boulogne in 1544. Was knighted on the Coronation of Edward VL, and Sheriff in 1548, but being involved in the Wyatt Eebellion in 1554, he was apprehended and sent to the Tower, * Omitted by Hasted. f He also owned Chilham Castle, but after adding 1o it he pulled down a great part of the Castle, and removed the materials to his favourite residence at Shurland. KNIGHTS OP THE SHIRE POR KENT. 227 though eventually pardoned. Died in 1560, and was buried in Sutton Valence Church. In a window in the old Manor House were the Harper Arms: Argent, a lion rampant sable within a bordure engrailed of the second. 1 EDWAED VL, 1547. No returns found of this Parliament for Kent. 7 EDWAED VI. THOMAS CHEYNE of Shurland, Miles, again, now described as " Honorabilis Ordinis Garterii." HENEICUS SYDNEY of Penshurst, Miles, the son of Sir William Sydney, who commanded the right wing of the English Army at the Battle of Flodden Field, and was created a Knight Banneret. Sir Henry had been brought up with Edward VL, and on his Coronation was knighted, and made Gentleman of the Privy Chamber; afterwards Knight of the Garter by Elizabeth, and Privy Councillor. Philipott says that with Cecil he became one of Elizabeth's " greatest friends." He was four times Lord Justice and thrice Deputy for Ireland, and also President of the Welsh Marches. He died in 1586, and his body was by the Queen's order buried with " great solemnity " at Penshurst, while his heart was interred at Ludlow, which had been the seat of his Welsh government. Arms : Or, a pheon azure. 1 MAEY, 1553. THOMAS CHAYNE (sic) of Shurland, K.G., again. EOBEETUS SOUTHWELL of Mereworth, Miles. Appointed Master of the Eolls in 1541, but surrendered the office in 1550, and passed under a cloud in Edward's reign. On Mary's accession appointed Sheriff, in which office he distinguished himself in the suppression of the Wyatt rising in Kent. He died in 1559. Arms : Argent, three cinquefoils gules. 1 MAEY, 1554, Oxford and Westminster. THOMAS CHENEY, Chivaler, K.G., again. JOHANNES BAKER of Sissenhurst, Chivaler. He was appointed Chancellor of the Board of Augmentations in 1535; Attorney-General in 1536; Privy Councillor and Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1540. Supported Bishop Gardner against Archbishop Cranmer. Again, under Mary, Attorney-General, and Chancellor of the Exchequer. Took an active part against the Reformers, Q 2 228 KNIGHTS OP THE SHIRE POR KENT. his zeal in persecuting them earning for him the soubriquet of "Bloody Baker." He died in 1558, and was buried in Cranbrook Church, where a "fair monument of white marble records his (?) virtues." Arms: Azure, three swans' heads erased argent, beaked gules. 1 PHILIP and MAEY, 1554. THOMAS CHENEY, Chivaler, again. JOHANNES BAKEE, Chivaler, again. 2 and 3 PHILIP and MAEY, 1555. JOHANNES BAKEE, Chivaler, again. EOBERTUS SOUTHWELL, Chivaler, again. 4 and 5 PHILIP and MAEY, 1558. THOMAS CHEYNYE (sie), Chivaler, again. JOHANNES BAKEE, Chivaler, again. 1 ELIZABETH, 1559. SIE THOMAS KEMPE of OUantigh in Wye, a kinsman of Cardinal Archbishop John Kempe. His father had been created Knight of the Bath on the marriage of Prince Arthur in 1501, and was Sheriff in 1493, 1506, and 1513. He was himself knighted on the Coronation of Edward VL, and Sheriff in 1556 and 1564. Arms : Gules, three garbs within a bordure engrailed or. SIE EICHAED SACKVILLE of " Knoll in Sevenokes." Chancellor of the Board of Augmentations, and Privy Councillor under both Mary and Elizabeth. He died in 1575. Arms : Quarterly or and gules, a bend vair. 5 ELIZABETH, 1563. SIE HENEY SIDNEY of Penshurst, again. HENEY CHEYNE of Shurland, Esq., son of Sir Thomas Cheyne. (See 6 Edward VI.) 14 ELIZABETH, 1572. SIE HENEY SIDNEY* of Penshurst, again, now described as President of Her Majesty's Council. SIE THOMAS SCOTT* of Scot's Hall, Smeeth, a distinguished member of a distinguished family; a man of great local repute and influence. Sheriff in 1576. Styled by his contemporaries the * Omitted by Hasted. KNIGHTS OP THE SHIRE POR KENT. 22 9 " Father of Eomney Marsh, and the Founder of Dover Haven," from having taken a leading part in these two projects. (See also below, 28 Elizabeth.) 27 ELIZABETH, 1584. SIE PHILIP SIDNEY of Penshurst, the son of Sir Henry (see 7 Edward VL), the poetic and heroic favourite of Elizabeth, the author of Arcadia; and appointed Governor of Flushing. He fell at the Battle of Zutphen in 1586. EDWAED WOTTON of Boughton Malherbe, Esq. Knighted by Elizabeth, and made Comptroller of her Household, and Ambassador to Foreign Courts. Made Privy Councillor by King James, and created Lord Wotton of Marley in 1603, and Lord- Lieutenant of the County. Died the following year. Arms: Argent, a saltire engrailed sable. 28 ELIZABETH, 1586. SIE HENEY COBHAM (alias BROOKE) of Cobham, succeeded to the title on the death of his father, William, Lord Cobham, in 1597. Was created Knight of the Garter by Elizabeth; Warden of the Cinque Ports, and Constable of Dover Castle; and Lord- Lieutenant for Kent. Attainted in 1604 and his honours forfeited. He died in 1619. SIB THOMAS SCOTT of Scot's Hall, again. He was appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Kentish Force (some 4000 men), whom he had assembled on Northbourne Downs in 1588 to repel the threatened approach of the Spanish Armada. In this rally of patriotism Kent, the most exposed corner of the kingdom, occupies a most prominent position. In response to Lord Burleigh's appeal it had avowed its readiness to supply above 12,000 men, while the Cinque Ports promised 1000 more. And besides this help in men, it gave in money no less than £5000 (no trifling sum in those days), the list being headed by Sir John Toufton (sic) of Hotfeild for £100, while of the other gentry, close on 100 in number, with Sir Thomas Scott among them, very few gave less than £50 each.* It is said that the Queen, when urged by some of his friends to ennoble bim, petulantly declined, saying that he had already more power in Kent than herself. A handsome tomb once marked his burial-place in Brabourne Church, but it was demolished by the Parliamentarian soldiers in 1648. Arms: Argent, three Catherine-wheels sable within a bordure engrailed gules. * Noble's Spanish Armada. 230 KNIGHTS OP THE SHIRE POR KENT. 30 ELIZABETH, 1588. HENEY BEOOKE of Cobham, Esq., younger son of George, Lord Cobham. SIE HENEY COBHAM of Cobham, again. 35 ELIZABETH, 1593. SIB EDWAED HOBIE (or HOBY) of Minster, Isle of Sheppey, Custos Eotulorum of the County, and Governor of Queenborough Castle. Arms: Argent, a fess sable between three hawks proper, belled and jessed or. SIE MOYLE FINCH of Eastwell, Knight and Baronet. Sheriff in 1597. He was Member for Weymouth in 1572 and for Winchelsea in 1601. Arms: Azure, a chevron between three garbs or. His widow, Elizabeth, the daughter of Sir Thomas Heneage of Copperd Hall in Essex, was, in testimony of her husband's merits, created by James I. Viscountess of Maidstone in 1623, and by Charles I. Countess of Winchelsea in 1628. 39 ELIZABETH, 1597. SIB EOBEET SIDNEY of Court Lodge, Lamberhurst, a younger brother of Sir Philip, (See 27 Elizabeth.) Fought as quite a youth under Eobert Dudley, the Earl of Leicester, in the Netherlands, and was knighted in 1586. Two years after he was made Governor of Flushing, and on the Accession of James was created Baron Sydney of Penshurst, in 1616 Viscount L'Isle and made Knight of the Garter, and in 1618 Earl of Leicester. He died in 1626, and was buried at Penshurst. Arms : Or, a pheon azure. SIE WILLIAM BEOOKE of Cobham, Knight, son of Sir George Brooke, brother of Sir Henry, the last Lord Cobham, who had been attainted in 1604, and forfeited title and honours. This Sir WiUiam, as his heir, had the estates, but not the title, restored to him in 1610. 43 ELIZABETH, 1601. SIE HENEY NEVILL, Knight, of the Abergavenny line, was Gentleman of the Bedchamber to Edward VI. FEANCIS FANE (or VANE), Esq., of Mereworth Castle, and Badsell in Tudeley, the son of Sir Thomas Fane, whose wife Mary Nevill had the Barony of Despencer confirmed to her in 1604 ; to which title her son Francis Fane succeeded in 1626, having previously (in 1624) been created Baron Burghersh and Earl of West - KNIGHTS OP THE SHIRE POR KENT. 23 1 moreland, and also Knight of the Bath on King James's Coronation in 1603. He died in 1628. Arms: Azure, three dexter gauntlets, backs affrontee, or. 1 JAMES I., 1604. SIE JOHN SCOTT of Scot's Hall, known as Sir John S. of Nettlested, Knight, son of Sir Thomas Scott. (See 14 Elizabeth.) Sheriff in 1601. He died in 1616, and was buried in Brabourne Church. SIE JOHN LEVESON (or LEWSON) of Whome Place, Cuxton, which his father, who had married a daughter of Sir John Gresham of Titsey, made his home, turning his back on his ancestral Staffordshire. Sir John was buried in 1615. Arms : Azure, three hollyleaves or. On the front of the old Manor House still remains a shield with helmet and mantlings bearing nine quarterings of the Leveson arms, while on either side is a lozenge recording his double alliance with the Manwood and Mildmay families. 12 JAMES I., 1614. SIE PETEE MANWOOD* of St. Stephen's, near Canterbury, Knight, whose father, Sir Eoger, had been Chief Baron of the Exchequer in 1579. Sir Peter was Sheriff in the last year of Elizabeth's reign and the first of James, in which year he was created Knight of the Bath on the King's Coronation. Arms : Paly of six sable and or, on a chief of the second a demi-lion rampant of the first. SIE THOMAS WALSINGHAM* of Scadbery in Chiselhurst, Knight, a cousin of Sir Francis, who had been the famous Secretary of State to Queen Elizabeth. Sir Thomas was buried in the Church of Chiselhurst. 18 JAMES I., 1621. SIE ROBERT SYDNEY of Penshurst, Knight, grandson of Sir Henry Sydney (see 39 Elizabeth), son of Robert Sydney, Earl of Leicester. Created Knight of the Garter as Lord L'Isle by James I. Succeeded his father in the Earldom in 1626. Died in 1677, and was buried at Penshurst. SIE GEORGE FANE of Burston in Hunton, Knight, son of Sir Francis Fane. (See 43 Elizabeth.) Was Sheriff in 1623. * This return (not in the Journals) is obtained from a document among the Duke of Manchester's Papers, No. 143. Willis, in Notitia Pari., hesitatingly gives as Members for Kent in this Session the names of Sir Robert Sydney and Sir Robert Soott. 232 KNIGHTS OF THE SHIRE POR KENT. 21 JAMES I., 1624. SIB NICHOLAS TUFTON of Hothfield, Knight and Baronet. Created Baron Tufton in 1626, and Earl of Thanet in 1628. Died 1632. The original Arms of the Tufton family were: Argent, on a pale sable an eagle displayed of the first. But Sir Nicholas on becoming Earl of Thanet altered it to Sable, an eagle displayed ermine within a bordure argent. SIE EDWYN SANDYS of Northbourne, Knight, of a Worcestershire family, whose father, the son of the eminent Archbishop of York, was the personal friend of Lambarde, the Kentish historian, and marrying a Colepeper, settled at Northbourne. Sir Edwyn was Sheriff in 1616. It was his son who is honourably mentioned by Clarendon as the distinguished Eoyalist officer who, fighting under Prince Eupert, was mortally wounded in the Battle of Worcester in 1642. Arms: Or, a fesse indented between three crosses-crosslet fitchee gules. 1 CHAELES I., 1625. MILDMAY FANE (Lord BUBGHEBST) succeeded his father (see Sir Francis Fane, 43 Elizabeth) as Earl of Westmoreland in 1628, having been made Knight of the Bath on the King's Coronation in 1625. SIE ALBEET MOETON (or MOEETON) of Selling, Knight, Principal Secretary of State in 1625. Died in 1628. Same year, February, 1626. SIE EDWAED HALES of Tunstall, Knight. Sheriff in 1609. Created Baronet in 1611. Died in 1654, in his 78th year. A figure, in full armour, reclining on an altar-tomb in Tunstall Church marks his burial-place. Arms: Gules, three broad arrows or, feathered and headed argent. EDWAED SCOTT of Scot's Hall in Smeeth, Esq., son of Sir Thomas Scott. (See 14 Elizabeth.) Sheriff in 1621. Created Knight of the Bath on the Coronation of Charles I. A moderate Eoyalist, but disapproving of some of the King's acts. He died in 1642. By his will he bequeathed sums of money to the poor of twelve parishes with which he was connected. 3 CHAELES I., 1628. SIE THOMAS FINCH of Eastwell, Knight, succeeded to the Baronetcy on the death of his father, Sir Moyle Finch, and to the Earldom of Winchelsea on that of his mother in 1633. (See 35 Elizabeth.) KNIGHTS OP THE SHIRE POR KENT. 233 SIE DUDLEY DIGGES of Digges Court, Barham, and Chilham Castle. Knighted in 1607. He was of the King's Privy Chamber. In 1611 he took an active part in the impeachment of the Duke of Buckingham, and also in " the Petition of Eights," and suffered several short imprisonments for " unfitting words " in the Council Chamber; but in 1631 became Master in Chancery, and in 1636 succeeded Sir Humphrey May as Master of the Eolls, having had the reversion of it since 1630. He built the present mansion at Chilham, died there in 1638, and was buried in Chilham Church. Arms: Gules, on a cross argent five eagles displayed sable. 16 CHAELES I., 1640, April. SIE EOGEE TWYSDEN (or TWISDEN) of Roydon Hall, East Peckham, Knight and Baronet, the son of the learned Sir Eoger, editor of the Decern Scriptores. He was an ardent Eoyalist, and suffered for his devotion to the King by being seized by the Parliamentarians and imprisoned in Lambeth Palace for above two years. Arms : Gyrony of four argent and gules, a saltire between four crosslets all counterchanged. NOETON KNATCHBULL of Mersham Hatch, Esq. Created a Baronet in 1641. Philipott says he was deserving of special honour " for his favour and love to learning and antiquity in times when they were both fallen under such cheapness and contempt." He died in 1684. A handsome marble monument in Mersham Church marks his burial-place. Arms: Azure, three cross-crosslets fitchee between two bendlets or. 16 CHAELES I., 1640, November. SIE EDWAED DEEING of Surrenden, Pluckley, Knight and Baronet. A distinguished antiquary. He earned no little notoriety, if of a somewhat doubtful character, in the following year. Though he had been knighted by King James in 1618, and created a Baronet by Charles in 1627, and with no real sympathy with the Parliamentary party, yet being, as Clarendon says, " a man of levity and vanity, easily flattered by being commended," he was persuaded to bring in a Bill " For the utter eradication of Bishops, Deans, etc.," and to give it more dramatic effect addressed the House from the gallery, in the words in which Ovid describes Jove as denouncing the Titans, " Cuncta prius tentata, sed immedicabile vulnus, Ense reoidendum est, ne pars sincera trahatur;" which Dryden thus turns into English : 234 KNIGHTS OP THE SHIRE POR KENT. " I try'd whatever in the godhead lay : But gangrened members must be lop't away, Before the nobler parts are tainted to decay." Soon, however, were his real sentiments detected, as disclosed in a book he published in vindication of his action; and early in the next year the work was denounced as containing language " against the honour and privilege of this House, and scandalous to this House," and condemned to be burned by the common hangman, and the author himself pronounced to be " disabled to sit as a Member of this House," and by a majority of 85 to 61 sent to the Tower.* On being liberated at the end of a week he joined the King at Nottingham with a troop of horse, but signing the Covenant he retired to Surrenden, where he died in 1644 in poverty, having spent a vast sum of money in his "historic library." He was buried in Pluckley Church. Arms : Or, a saltire sable. SIE JOHN CULPEPEE (or COLEPEPEE) of Bedgebury in Goudhurst, Knight. Created Baron Colepeper of Thoresway (co. Lincoln) in 1644; Privy Councillor and Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1641. Clarendon pronounces him to have been " a good speaker, a man of universal understanding, a quick comprehension, and a wonderful memory." He, too, with his colleague Dering, had his services in the House " dispensed with." Arms : Argent, a bend engrailed gules. Thus was Kent deprived of the two members of her choice, and in their places were intruded by the Parliamentarians two men of little note in the county. AUGUSTINE SKINNEE of Totteshall in East Farleigh, Esq., of a Lincolnshire family, and lately settled here; and JOHN BOYS, Esq., of Fredville in Nonington, aud Hawkhurst, in which latter church are many tombs of the Boys family. Hasted omits all Parliaments from 16 Charles I. to the Eestoration of Charles II. Willis, in his Notitia Parliamentaria, gives the following as the names of men nominated by Oliver Cromwell and the Council in 1653 to represent Kent, in which " Assembly," commonly known as the " Little Parliament," no burgesses or representatives of cities or towns (with the single exception of London) were admitted. * Por these details the writer desires to acknowledge his great obligation to Lionel Helbert, Esq., of the House of Commons Library. KNIGHTS OP THE SHIRE POR KENT. 235 VISCOUNT L'ISLE (PHILIP SYDNEY), eldest son of Sir Eobert Sydney, Earl of Leicester (see 18 James I.), who was appointed Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, hut recalled after six months. He was appointed one of the Commissioners for the trial of the King, but, like Fairfax, he absented himself. He succeeded his father in the Earldom in 1677, and died in 1698. THOMAS BLOUNT, -j These three were apparently insig- WILLIAM KENRICK, >nificant persons, as their names WILLIAM CULLEN, J seem to have no place in history. ANTHONY (? ANDEEW) BEOUGHTON. If the latter, he was originally a lawyer in Maidstone, where by his fellow-townsmen he was twice (in 1648 and in 1659) chosen Mayor. Being " a zealous Presbyterian " he soon rose in favour with the Parliamentarian party, who made him Clerk of the High Court for the King's trial, in which capacity he read both the impeachment and the sentence on the King. At the Eestoration he was only able to escape the fate of his fellow-regicides by flying to Switzerland, where he died in 1687, aged 84. This Parliament, though of his own creating and selection in September 1654, failed to meet the wishes and expectations of Cromwell, so he summarily dismissed them two months after, and being now appointed Protector, convened another under the express condition and order that "no person who had ever been against the Parliament during the time of the Civil War should be capable of being chosen " to sit in i t ; and as arbitrarily fixed the number and probably the men of whom it should be composed. These, according to Brown Willis's list, eleven in number, were not chosen, as had hitherto been the case, from old knightly families of the county, all of whom, with very few exceptions, were Royalists, but from among the substantial gentry of Kent; a- Vane and an Oxenden probably thrown in for appearance sake. It is therefore almost a matter of conjecture from what places and families the men thus selected came. They were : WILLIAM JAMES, Esq., probably of Ightham, whose ancestor being of German descent, and bearing the name of Jacob van Hastretcht, had dropped the sirname, and Anglicised the Christian one into " James," when he became the purchaser of Ightham Moat. This William James was a Justice of the Peace. (Philipott, p. 304.) 236 KNIGHTS OP THE SHIRE POR KENT. JOHN DIXWELL of Terlingham in Folkestone, Esq., seems (ibid., p. 61) to have held the rank of Colonel in the Parliamentarian Army. JOHN BOYS, Esq. (See above.) SIE HENEY VANE, Sen., probably representing the younger branch of the family of the Earls of Westmoreland. His son, also Sir Henry, is mentioned in Colonel Hutchinson's Life as having given him valuable counsel and help. EALPH WELDON of Swanscombe, also called by Philipott a Colonel. LAMBAED GODFEEY, Esq., probably a member of the influential family of that name in Lydd. EICHAED BEALE, Esq., no doubt belonging to the Beales of Maidstone, many of whom held high municipal office there. HENEY OXENDEN, Esq. Was he not the eldest son of Sir James Oxenden of Dene near Wingham, who was afterwards knighted by Charles II. on his Eestoration, and created a Baronet by him in 1678 ? AUGUSTINE SKINNEB, Esq., already mentioned as having been intruded into the Parliament of 16 Charles I. on the removal of Sir Edward Deering. DANIEL SHATTEETON, Esq., of whom nothing can be traced; and JOHN SEYLIAED, Jun., Esq., of Delaware in Edenbridge. Of the next Parliament summoned to meet in September 1656, and dissolved in the following Pebruary, no return appears of members for Kent. In January 1659 another was summoned by Richard Cromwell, when WILLIAM JAMES, Esq., who had sat in the earlier one of 1654, was again returned, and with him SIE THOMAS STYLE of Wateringberry, Knight and Baronet. But in the following May the Army, with Lord Fleetwood at their head, on their own authority and responsibility convened a Parliament to meet on April 25, 1660, and resolved to call back the King and restore the Constitution in Church and State. During the " Interregnum " great were the changes both in the personnel and the constitution through whioh Parliament passed. In 1653 a body of men, in no sense repreKNIGHTS OP THE SHIRE POR KENT. 237 sentatives, inasmuch as they were not the choice of the people, but selected and nominated by Cromwell himself, met at Westminster under the name of a Parliament. " Amongst them (says Clarendon) were some few of the quality and degree of gentlemen, and who had estates, and such a proportion of credit and reputation as could consist with the guilt they had contracted. But much the greater part of them consisted of inferior persons, of no quality or name," etc., etc. Such seems to be a true description (as illustrated by those who were taken for Kent) of the component parts of this gathering, summoned by Cromwell as " Captain General and Commander in Chief " of the Forces. They met in July and were dissolved in December 1653. In the following September another " selected " body took their place, but only till the following January, when they too were as summarily dissolved. The reaction that was now taking place throughout England may be seen in the terms in which the summons for convening a fresh Parliament in 1659 was issued. It ignores all those held since the one last summoned by royal authority in 1640, known as the " Long Parliament." So entirely were all transactions after the death of Charles I. ignored that the year of the Eestoration was at once regarded and proclaimed as being the 12th of Charles II. To that Parliament, which Brown Willis in his Notitia calls the 11 Charles IL, there were returned, as stated above, WILLIAM JAMES of Ightham, Esq., who had been one of the " selected " of Cromwell. Distinguished, according to Philipott, for his " affection to learning and antiquity," and a Justice of the Peace for the county. SIE THOMAS STYLE of Wateringbury Place, Bart. Arms : Sable, a fesse or fretty of the field between three fleurs-de-lis and within a bordure of the second. 12 CHAELES II., 1660. SIE JOHN TUFTON of the Mote, Maidstone, Bart., son of Sir Humphry Tufton, younger brother of Sir Nicholas, who had been created Earl of Thanet in 1628. Arms: Sable, within a bordure argent an eagle displayed ermine. 238 KNIGHTS OP THE SHIRE POR KENT. SIE EDWAED DEEING of Surrenden, Knight and Baronet, again. (See 16 Charles I.) 13 CHAELES IL, 1661. SIE THOMAS PEYTON of Knowlton, Bart. Appointed a Prize Commissioner on the Eestoration, with a grant of £2000 a year.* Died in 1683. Arms : Sable, cross engrailed or, in second quarter a mullet argent. SIE JOHN TUFTON of the Mote, Bart., again, 31 CHAELES IL, 1679. SIE VEEE FANE, second son of Mildmay Vane, whose mother, the widow of Sir Thomas Fane or Vane, had been created Baroness Despencer and Countess of Westmoreland. Sir Vere was made Knight of the Bath on the Coronation of Charles IL, and succeeded to the Earldom on the death of his elder brother Charles in 1691. He died in 1693. SIE EDWAED DEEING, Bart., again. 33 CHAELES IL, 1681, Oxford. The same members again. 1 JAMES IL, 1685. SIE WILLIAM TWYSDEN of Eoydon Hall, East Peckham, son of Sir Eoger the staunch Eoyalist, who was imprisoned by the Parliamentarians for two years in Lambeth Palace. He died 1697. SIE JOHN KNATCHBULL of Mersham Hatch, Baronet, who the year before had succeeded his father Sir Norton. (See 15 Charles I.) Arms: Per saltire argent and gules, a saltire between four cross-crosslets all interchanged, a crescent for difference. Convention, 1688. SIE VEEE FANE, K.C.B., again. SIE JOHN KNATCHBULL, Bart., again. 2 WILLIAM and MAEY, 1690. SIE JOHN KNATCHBULL, Bart., again. He died in 1696. SIE VEEE FANE, K.C.B., again. On Sir Vere Fane's succeeding to the Earldom of Westmoreland on the death of his halfbrother Charles in 1691, the vacancy was filled by * This was known as the " Pensionary Parliament," from the many pensions granted to the Royalists, who largely composed it. KNIGHTS OP THE SHIRE POR KENT. 239 SIE THOMAS EOBEETS, of Glassenbury in Cranbrook, Baronet, who died in 1706. Arms: Sable, on a chevron argent cotised or three mullets of six points pierced of the field. 7 WILLIAM IIL, 1695. HON. PHILIP SYDNEY of Penshurst, son of Eobert, fourth Earl of Leicester (see 39 Elizabeth and 6 Edward VI.), to which title he succeeded in 1702, and died 1705. SIE THOMAS EOBEETS, Bart., again. 10 WILLIAM IIL, 1698. SIE JAMES OXENDEN of Dene Court, Wingham, who had been knighted by Charles I I . in 1671, succeeded his father in the baronetcy, and died in 1708. Arms: Argent, a chevron gules between three oxen sable. SIE STEPHEN LENNAED of West Wickham, Bart., who died in 1709. Arms: Or, on a fess gules three fleurs-de-lis of the field. 12 WILLIAM IIL, 1701. SIE THOMAS HALES of Danegeon and Hales Place, Canterbury, Baronet. Arms : Gules, three arrows or, feathered and barbed argent. THOMAS MEEEDITH, Esq., a son of Sir William Meredith of Leeds Abbey, Baronet. Arms : Azure, a lion rampant or. 13 WILLIAM III. SIE THOMAS HALES, Bart., agair WILLIAM CAMPION, Esq., Counsellor-at-Law, son of Sir William Campion of Combwell, Goudhurst, who (according to Philipott, p. 172) had fallen a victim to Puritan frenzy after the surrender of Colchester Castle in 1648. Arms: Argent, on a chief gules an eagle displayed or. 1 ANNE, 1702. SIE THOMAS HALES, Bart., again. SIE FEANCIS LEIGH of East Wickham, Knight, the son of Sir Oliff Leigh, who, according to Philipott, " greatly enhanced the magnificence of the ancient fabric." Arms : Or, on a chevron sable three lions rampant argent, in the dexter corner an annulet of the second. 240 KNIGHTS OF THE SHIRE POR KENT. 4 ANNE, 1705. WILLIAM, VISCOUNT VILLIEES, eldest son of Edward, first Earl of Jersey. Succeeded his father in 1711. SIE CHOLMLEY DEEING, Baronet, succeeded his father Sir Edward in 1704. (See 31 Charles II.) 7 ANNE, 1708* SIE THOMAS PALMEE, Baronet, grandson of Sir Thomas, who had suffered severely for his loyalty to Charles I. He married a sister of the first Lord Eomney. Died in 1723. Arms : Or, two bars gules, each charged with three trefoils argent, in chief a greyhound courant sable. SIE STEPHEN LENNAED of West Wickham, Bart., who died the next year, when DAVID POLHILL of Ohipsted, Chevening, Esq., was elected. 9 ANNE, 1710. SIE CHOLMLEY DEEING, Bart., again, but the following year he was killed in a duel with Mr. Thornhill, SIE WILLIAM HAEDEES being elected in his place. Arms: Gules, a lion rampant ermine oppressed with a chevron or. PEECIVAL HAET of Lullingstone, Esq., on whose tomb in the church it is recorded that he was " the munificent repairer and beautifier" of it. Sheriff 1707. He died in 1720. Arms: Per chevron azure and gules, three hearts trippant or. 12 ANNE, 1713. SIB EDWAED KNATCHBULL of Mersham Hatch, Bart., son of Sir Thomas, grandson of Sir John. (See 1 James II.) PEECIVAL HAET, Esq., again. 1 GEOEGE I., 1715. WILLIAM DELAUNE of Sharsted Court, Doddington, Esq. HON. MILDMAY FANE, younger son of Vere Fane (see 12 Charles II.), Earl of Westmoreland. He died the same year, when his brother, HON. JOHN FANE, was elected in his place, and he was created Baron Catherlough in Ireland in 1733 ; and in 1736 succeeded his brother Vere in the Earldom of Westmoreland. * Including Scotland, and henceforth called "the Parliament of Great Britain." KNIGHTS OP THE SHIRE POR KENT. 24 1 8 GEOEGE I., 1722. SIB EDWAED KNATCHBULL of Mersham Hatch, Bart., again. SIB THOMAS TWYSDEN of Eoydon HaU, Bart., son of Sir William Twysden. (See 1 James II.) 1 GEOEGE IL, 1727. SIE EOGEE MEEEDITH of Leeds Abbey, Baronet, grandson of Sir Wilham Meredith of Stainsley, Denby. He died in 1738, and was buried in Leeds Church, where a handsome monument records his virtues. SIB EOBEET FUBNESE of Waldershare, Baronet, son of Sir Henry Furnese, who had been Alderman of the City of London. Was created Baronet in 1707 by Queen Anne. Sir Eobert died in 1733 (Arms : Argent, a talbot sejant sable, in chief three crescents gules), when SIB EDWAED DEEING, Bart., son of Sir Cholmley Dering, was elected. 8 GEOEGE IL, 1734. WILLIAM (VISCOUNT) FANE, son of the Earl of Westmoreland, who predeceased his father, dying a few days after his election, when in his place was chosen SIB CHEISTOPHEE POWELL of Wierton, Boughton Monchelsea, Bart., who died in 1742. SIE EDWAED DEEING of Surrenden Dering, Bart., again. 15 GEOEGE IL, 1741. SIE EDWARD DEEING, Bart., again. SIE EOGEE TWYSDEN of Bradboum, Bart. 21 GEOEGE IL, 1747. SIE EDWAED DEEING, Bart., again. SIB EOGER TWYSDEN, Bart., again. 27 GEOEGE IL, 1754. HON. EOBEET FAIEFAX of Leeds Castle, brother to Lord Fairfax of Cameron in Scotland, and afterwards Lord Fairfax. Arms: Argent, three bars gemelles gules, surmounted by a lion rampant sable. HON. LEWIS MONSON WATSON, brother of Lord Monson, called to the Upper House as Lord Sondes of Lees Court in 1760, when SIE WYNDHAM KNATCHBULL WYNDHAM, son of VOL. XXI. E 242 KNIGHTS OP THE SHIRE POR KENT. Sir Edward (see 8 George I.), was elected. Arms: Azure, a lion rampant or. 1 GEOEGE IIL, 1761. HON. EOBEET FAIRFAX of Leeds Castle, again. SIB WYNDHAM KNATCHBULL WYNDHAM of Mersham Hatch, again; on whose death, in 1763, SIE BEOOK BEIDGES of Goodnestone was elected. Arms : Azure, three water-bougets or within a bordure ermine. 8 GEOEGE III., 1768. SIB BEOOK BEIDGES, Bart., again. JOHN FEEDEEICK SACKVILLE, Esq., who succeeded his uncle the Duke of Dorset in 1769 (Arms: Argent, three bars gemelles gules, on a bend or a lion passant of the second), when SIE CHAELES FAENABY of Kippington was elected. 15 GEOEGE I IL, 1774. HON. CHAELES MAESHAM, eldest son of Baron Eomney of the Mote, Maidstone. THOMAS KNIGHT of Godmersham, Esq. His father, also Thomas Knight, Esq., still living at an advanced age, originally hore the name of Brodnax, which he changed for May in 1727, and afterwards for Khright in 1738. Had been Member for Canterbury in 1734. He died in 1781, being 80 years of age. His son Thomas died in 1794. 21 GEOEGE I IL, 1780. HON. CHAELES MAESHAM, again. FILMEE HONYWOOD of Evington and of Hull Place, Otterden, Esq. Arms: Argent, a chevron between three parrots' heads erased azure. 24 GEOEGE IIL, 1784. HON. CHAELES MAESHAM, again. FILMEE HONEYWOOD, Esq., again. 30 GEOEGE I IL, 1790. SIE EDWAED KNATCHBULL, Bart., of Mersham Hatch, who had succeeded his uncle Sir Wyndham (see 27 George II.) in 1763. FILMEE HONYWOOD of Evington, Esq., again. 41 GEOEGE I IL, 1801. SIE EDWAED KNATCHBULL of Mersham Hatch, Bart., again. SIB WILLIAM GEAEY of Oxenhoath, West Peckham, Bart. KNIGHTS OP THE SHIRE POR KENT. 24 3 42 GEOEGE IIL, 1802. FILMEE HONYWOOD of Linstead, Esq., again. SIE WILLIAM GEAEY, Bart., again. 47 GEOEGE III., 1806. SIE EDWAED KNATCHBULL, Bart., again. WILLIAM HONYWOOD of Sibton, Esq. 48 GEOEGE IIL, 1807. SIE EDWAED KNATCHBULL, Bart., again. WILLIAM HONYWOOD of Sibton, Esq., again. 53 GEOEGE IIL, 1812. SIB EDWAED KNATCHBULL, Bart., again. SIB WILLIAM GEAEY, Bart., again. 58 GEOEGE III., 1818. SIB EDWAED KNATCHBULL, Bart., again. WILLIAM PHILIP HONYWOOD, Esq. 1 GEOEGE IV., 1820. SIE EDWAED KNATCHBULL, Bart., again. WILLIAM PHILIP HONYWOOD, Esq., again. 7 GEOEGE IV., 1826. The same members again. 1 WILLIAM IV., 1830. SIE EDWAED KNATCHBULL, Bart., again. THOMAS LAW HODGES of Hemsted, Esq. 1 WILLIAM IV., 1831. THOMAS LAW HODGES, Esq., again. THOMAS ELDEE of Boughton Monchelsea, Esq. On the passing of the "Reform Bill" in 1832, the county of Kent was broken up into two divisions, EASTEEN and WESTERN, each returning two members; and in 1868 a third division, called MID-KENT, was formed, each returning a single member. E 2