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Mr. RIGDEN |
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Abt 1523 |
| Gender |
Male |
| Person ID |
I14157 |
Young Kent Ancestors |
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- The manor of Nether, alias Lower Hardres, one part of which came to be stiled Diggs-court. Another part of the manor, anno 20 king Edward III. held by John de Cobham, was afterwards called The Manor of North Court, alias Lower Hardres, for which he had obtained a charter of free-warren in the 17th year of that reign, and it continued in his descendants, Lords Cobham, till by the female heirs it passed successively till it came by marriage to Sir T. Brooke, of Somersetshire, whose descendant John Brooke, of St. James's Dover (being a younger branch of that family ) died possessed of it anno 21 Henry VIIII. and his son John Brooke, of Denton, sold it, anno 3 Edward VI. to Thomas Spylman, Esq. of Canterbury, whose son Anthony, gent, of Petham,m anno 3 Elizabeth passed it away to Thomas and Humphry Hales, Esqs..
The remaining part of this manor, which was held anno 20 Edward III. by John de Swansham, being only the fourth part of it, to which no part of the manorial rights seem to have been allotted, came afterwards into the family of Diggs, likewise from which it passed before the end of king Henry VIIIs [1546/7] reign into the name of Rigden, in whose descendants it continued down to William Rigden, in whose time it had acquired the name of Youngs Farm and he, in 1697 [150 year ownership of this part of the manor] , alienated it to Edm. Calamy, clerk, whose grandson Edm. Calamy, in 1717, sold it to Thomas Willys, which it passed in the same manner, and in the like interests and shares as the manor of Dargate, in Hernehill.
The Rigdens bear an ancient Kentish. surname. Robert Rigden owned the manor of Morton, Canterbury, for a short time in the reign of Henry VI. [1422/3-1460/1]; and during the 16th and 17th centuries the Rigdens owned part of the manor of North Court or Lower Hardres (H.).
[ http://www.forgottenbooks.com/readbook_text/Homes_of_Family_Names_in_Great_Britain_1000537561/301. It is a snapshot of the page as it appeared on 14 Feb 2016 17:45:29 GMT.]
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Ecclesiastical cause papers
Ref No CCA-DCb-J/J/35/5
Alt Ref No CCA-DCb-J/J/35/5
Description Pl: Wm RIGDEN Lower Hardres exor of Joan R rel exix; Def.: Rob WIVILL New Romney adminor; Documents: Alleg; Case: Test Hy RIGDEN sen New Romney
Date 7 Apr 1625
Pl: Joan RIGDEN rel exix; Def.: Ann R als COLEMAN wid dau; Mary, Joan & Eliz R childn of Hy R son decd; Documents: Alleg & sent; Case: Test Thos RIGDEN Lyminge
Title: Ecclesiastical cause papers
Reference: DCb/J/J/35/5
Description:
Plaintiff: Wm RIGDEN Lower Hardres exor of Joan R rel exix; Defendant: Rob WIVILL New Romney adminor; Documents: Alleg; Case: Test Hy RIGDEN sen New Romney
Date: 7 Apr 1625
Held by: Canterbury Cathedral Archives, not available at The National Archives
Language: English
Title: East Kent Order Book, Epiphany 1661/2
Reference: Q/SO/E1/f.61
Description:
William Rigden
The like order to appoint William Ridgen [sic] of Lower Hardres, constable of the lower half hundred of Bridge and Petham instead of John Phillpott.
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THE MANOR OF MORTON, alias DODINGDALE, lies in the same parish of St. Mary Bredin, about two miles south-eastward from the walls of Canterbury. It was originally called Dodingdale, from a family who were possessors of it, one of which name, Hamo, the son of Guido de Dodingdale, as appears by the records of St. Augustine's monastery, gave the tithes of his manor of Dodingdale to that abbot and convent; (fn. 8) but it seems it was but for a certain term of years, for in king Henry II.'s reign, according to the same records, Richard de Marci, who was then the possessor of this manor, granted the tithes of his lands of Dodingdale, to the hospital of St. Laurence, near Canterbury, in perpetual alms, to the intent, that the brothers and sisters of it should have these tithes in particular, to buy linen cloth on the feast of St. John Baptist; trusting that they would remember him and his in their prayers.
¶When the family of Dodingdale was become extinct here, this manor came into the possession of another family of the name of Morton. By a deed without date, Elias de Morton, who implanted his name on it, by which it has ever since been called, demised the see simple of it to Hugh Fitzvinon, a family which had large possessions at Sellinge, near Monk's-Horton; and his daughter Eugenia Fitzvinon passed it away by deed in the 20th year of king Henry III. to Nicholas de Twitham, and he immediately afterwards, by a deed not having any date, settled it on Robert de Polre, but whether his successor sold it or not to John Chich, is uncertain, as there is a chasm of this time in the private evidences of it, (fn. 9) though the records of St. Augustine make him to have some interest in this manor in the 3d year of king Edward III. anno 1330. The next that I find to have had possession of it, are Hardres and Isaac, who by joint conveyance in the 22d year of king Henry VI. conveyed it to William Say, for the use of Robert Rigden, in whom the title did not remain long, for he in the 33d year of that reign conveyed all his concern in it by sale to William Barton and John White, and they by joint consent alienated it in the reign of king Henry VI. to Richard Pargate, citizen of Canterbury, who died in the 35th year of that reign, and by his will (fn. 10) gave it, after his wife Isabel's death, to his son Edward, who was succeeded in it by his son and heir John Pargate, whose descendant Edward, in the 25th year of king Henry VIII.'s reign passed it away to Peter Bruin; and after it had remained many years united to this family, Henry Bruin dying without issue, gave it to his sister Jane Bugge, who in the 1st year of king James I.'s reign sold it to her kinsman John Bruin; and he in the 5th year of it alienated it to William Denne, who dying without issue male, Margaret his only daughter and heir carried it in marriage to Mr. Edward Hougham, after whose death it devolved to his two surviving daughters, Elizabeth, married to Mr. Edward Rose, of Chistlet, and Anne to Mr. John Bettenham, of Canterbury, who jointly possessed it in 1656, (fn. 11) at which time and perhaps for some time before, it was known by the name of Morton only. It afterwards became the property of Sawkins, from one of which name it was passed away to Mr. Wm. Hammond, of Stone-house, near Canterbury, who on his son's marriage settled it on him, and dying possessed of it in 1773, was succeeded by his son Mr. Henry Hammond, who died here on July 20, 1784, and his son Mr. William Hammond, now of Stonehouse, is the present possessor of it.
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