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- THE MANORS OF WILMINGTON AND SOMERFIELD, formerly called Somerville, in Sellindge, Kent, were antiently the property of a family of the name of Wilmington, who resided at the mansion of Somerville-court, one of whom, Stephen de Wilmington, held them in the reign of Edward I. by knight's service, of the castle of Dover, being part of those which made up the barony, called the Constabularie, there. Roger de Wilmington died possessed of them anno Io Edward III. leaving four daughters his coheirs, who married Orderne, Brockhull, Browning, and St. Laurence, and they shared these manors, then called the manor of Great Wilmington, (to distinguish it from another, called Little Wilmington, in Limne, which has always had the same owners) and Somerville between them. After which, on a partition made of their estates, these manors and this seat were allotted to St. Laurence. At length Katherine, daughter and sole heir of Thomas de St. Laurence, carried them in marriage to Sir William Apulderfield, who about the latter end of king Henry VI.'s reign conveyed them to Ashburnham and Tylle.
[Source: Hasted, Edward. "Parishes: Sellindge." The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent: Volume 8. Canterbury: W Bristow, 1799. 303-314. British History Online. Web. 19 March 2016. http://www.british-history.ac.uk/survey-kent/vol8/pp303-314.]
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THE MANOR OF CHISTLET claims over that part of this parish within the hundred of Blengate, which is the greatest part of it; and the remainder, being the borough of Rushborne, lying within the hundred of Westgate, is within the jurisdiction of that manor. Subordinate to the manor of Chistlet are the MANORS OF HERSING AND HOPLAND, the former being now usually called Haseden, they were both antiently held of the abbot of St. Augustine, by knight's service, by Hugh de Soldank, who was succeeded in them by a family who assumed their name from their residence at the latter; one of whom, Nicholas de Hopelonde, was a benefactor to the above abbey in king Henry III.'s reign, for it appears that there was much land then called by the name of Hopland, which extended likewise into this parish; for it appears by the register of the above abbey, that Sir Haward de Bechele was the abbot's tenant for a manor at Hoplonde, in this parish, in the beginning of the above reign, and he had then the abbot's licence to have divine service performed in his chapel, within the bounds of it, by his own chaplain, in his and his wife's presence, so that it should be without prejudice to their church of Westbere, of which he was a parishioner. The Hoplande's were succeeded here, before the end of king Edward I.'s reign, by the family of St. Laurence, who became about that time owners of other lands in this parish, by purchase from Hugh de Westbere.
After which both these manors continued in this name till about the latter end of king Henry V.'s reign, when Catherine, only daughter and heir of Thomas de St. Laurence, carried these manors in marriage to Sir William de Apulderfield, a man of much note in the succeeding reigns of king Henry VI. and king Edward IV. After which they became the property of the family of Isaak, who held them of the abbot by knight's service.
[Source: Hasted, Edward. "Parishes: Westbere." The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent: Volume 9. Canterbury: W Bristow, 1800. 68-74. British History Online. Web. 20 March 2016. http://www.british-history.ac.uk/survey-kent/vol9/pp68-74.]
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THE MANOR of the hundred of Tenham claims over this parish, subordinate to which is THE MANOR OF BADMANGORE in Lynsted, with THE MANORS OF LODGE and NEWNHAM united, the former of which, though it IS but little known at present, either as to its name or situation, yet in early times was eminent, by having for its proprietors successively, the Cheneys and Apulderfields, families of no small repute in this county.
Sir Robert Cheney, sold it before the 27th year of the reign of Edward III, to William de Apulderfield, who made it his chief residence, and kept his shrievalty here in the year above-mentioned, and in several years afterwards. He was descended from Henry de Apulderfeld, of Apulderfeld, in Cowdham, (fn. 1) who, with his son Henry, were, with other Kentish gentlemen, with Richard I. at the siege of Acon, in Palestine, where, on account of their bravery, they had granted to them an augmentation to their arms, which they and their descendants continued afterwards to bear, viz. Sable, a cross, or, voided of the field, their original arms being, Ermine, a fess vaire, or, and gules.
His great-grandson Sir William de Apulderfield was a man of much note in the reigns of Henry VI. and Edward IV. He left an only daughter Elizabeth, who became his heir to this manor, among the rest of his estates, which she carried in marriage to Sir John Fineux, chief justice of the king's bench in the reigns of king Henry VII. and VIII. He died in the 17th year of the latter reign, anno 1525, (fn. 2) leaving two daughters his coheirs, Jane, married to John Roper, esq. of Eltham, and Mildred, to James Diggs, esq. of Barham.
The origin of the family of Roper has been very fully treated of in the first volume of this history, p. 472, under the description of Eltham, where the eldest branch of it remained till within memory, and the descent of it is there brought down to the abovementioned John Roper, esq.
On the division of their inheritance, this manor, among others, was allotted to John Roper, in right of his wife. He was prothonotary of the king's bench, and attorney-general to Henry VIII. and died in 1524, at his manor of Welhall, in Eltham, to which he had removed from St. Dunstan's, the antient seat of the family. He left two sons, William Roper, esq. clerk of the king's bench, who succeeded him at Eltham, and Christopher, ancestor of the lords Teynham, and six daughters.
Christopher Roper, esq. the second son, succeeded his father in the manor of Badmangore, and its appendages, at the manor-house of which he resided; it stood on the east side of the park, but on the family's removing their residence from it, it was suffered to decay and run to ruin. By Elizabeth his wife, daughter and coheir of Christopher Blore, esq. of Rainham, he had several children, of whom John Roper, esq. the eldest son, succeeded him in this manor. He was Knighted in 1616, anno 14 James I. and on the same day created lord Teynham, baron of Teynham in this county, as a reward for his forward attachment to the king's interest, having been the first man of note who proclaimed the king in this county. He built the present seat of Linsted lodge, and inclosed a park round it, and afterwards made it his residence. He died in 1618, and was buried in the vault which he had made in the south chancel of this church.
¶His descendants, lords Teynham, continued to reside at Linsted lodge, all of whom lie buried in this church, down to Christopher, lord Teynham, the fifth in succession, who in 1687 was constituted lord-lieutenant and custos rotulorum of this county. He died at Brussels next year, having married Elizabeth, daughter of Francis Brown, viscount Montague, by whom he had several sons and daughters, of the former, John, Christopher and Henry, became all three successively lords Teynham, the latter succeeding to the title and estate on the deaths of his two elder brothers unmarried, and became the eighth lord Teynham. He died in 1716, leaving by his first wife two sons, Philip and Henry, successively lords Teynham, and by his third wife the lady Anne, second daughter and coheir of Thomas Lennard, earl of Suffex, and widow of Richard Barret Lennard, lord Dacre, remarried thirdly to the hon. Robert Moore, he likewise left issue, whose descendant became afterwards, in her right, intitled to the fee barony of Dacre. He was succeeded by his eldest son Philip, lord Teynham, who died unmarried in 1727, upon which the title and estate devolved to his next and only whole brother Henry, lord Teynham, who left by his first wife Catherine, daughter and coheir of Edward Powell, esq. of Sandford, in Oxfordshire, five sons and two daughters, of whom Henry the eldest son, on his death in 1781, succeeded him as lord Teynham, and married first Mary-Wilhelmina, eldest daughter of Sir Francis Head, bart. (whose second daughter and coheir married John his next brother) who died s.p. and secondly Betsy, widow of John Mills, esq. of the island of St. Christopher, and daughter of Mr. Webber, of Somersetshire, by whom he had two sons Henry and John, and two daughters. He died in 1786, and was succeeded by his eldest son Henry, being the present right hon. lord Teynham, and the twelfth lord, in succession from the first grant of the title. He has never resided at the Lodge, which has been for some years occupied by different tenants, and the greatest part of the park converted into farms of arable land. He is at present unmarried, and still continues the proprietor of these estates, with Colyers and Newnham farm, and others in this parish. He bears for his arms, Party per fess, azure, and or, a pale and three roebucks heads erased, counterchanged; for his crest, On a wreath, a lion rampant, sable, holding a ducal coronet between his paws, or; and for his supporters, on the dexter side, a buck, or; on the finister, a tiger reguardant, argent. And he has likewise a right to quarter with those of Roper, the several coats of Apledore, St. Laurence, Tattersal, Apulderfield, the same for service, Twite, Parke, and Hugdon, as appeared by a pedigree in the possession of Edward Roper, esq. of Welhall, in Eltham, attested and collected by John Philipott, Somerset herald in 1629.
[Note: see Roper pedigree Visitations 1629]
[Source: Hasted, Edward. "Parishes: Linsted." The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent: Volume 6. Canterbury: W Bristow, 1798. 296-307. British History Online. Web. 18 March 2016. http://www.british-history.ac.uk/survey-kent/vol6/pp296-307.]
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THE MANOR of Buckland next Faversham, at the time of taking the general survey of Domesday, was part of the possessions of Odo, the great bishop of Baieux, the king's halfbrother, and earl of Kent, under the title of whose lands it is entered.
These estates seem afterwards to have come into the possession of a branch of the family of Apulderfield, commonly called Apperfield, one of whom, William de Apulderfield, died in the 33d year of Edward III. possessed of the manor of Buckland, held of the king as of his castle of Leeds, as of the honor of Crevequer, by knight's service.
His son of the same name died in the 47th year of that reign, holding it as above-mentioned for the term of his life, the reversion of it being vested in Sybill, who was wife of Richard de Frognale, and it was found likewise that John de Frognale was her son and heir, and he died in the 49th year of it, possessed of this manor, with the advowson of the church of Bokeland, held in manner as above-mentioned, in whose descendants it continued down to Thomas Frogenhall, esq. who died possessed of this manor in 1505, holding it in capiteby knight's service, and by his will, proved that year, ordered his body to be buried in this church, and devised this manor, with its appurtenances, and other lands lying in Linsted, Tong, Tenham, and Stone, to Joane his wife for her life, and afterwards to be disposed of by his executors in deeds of charity. (See Will, Prerogative Court of Canterbury)
[Source: Hasted, Edward. "Parishes: Buckland." The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent: Volume 6. Canterbury: W Bristow, 1798. 396-401. British History Online. Web. 18 March 2016. http://www.british-history.ac.uk/survey-kent/vol6/pp396-401.]
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HE MANOR OF STOURMOUTH, alias NORTHCOURT, was held of the archbishop in the reign of king John, by Walter de Valoigns; (fn. 2) but it did not continue a great while afterwards in his name, for in the 5th year of king Henry III. the family of Hoese, or Hussee, as they came soon afterwards to be spelt, were in the possession of it, in which year Henry de Hussee obtained a charter of free-warren for this manor. His grandchild, of the same name, died anno 18 Edward I. possessed of this manor, with those of Dene, Childerston, and Chekeshille, whose son Henry Hussee received summons to parliament, among the barons of this realm, in the 15th year of the next reign of king Edward II. but this family was become extinct here before the latter end of Henry IV.'s reign, when this manor was in the possession of the eminent family of Apulderfield, but Sir William de Apulderfield, a man of much note in the reigns of king Henry VI. and king Edward IV [1420s through 1480s more or less]. leaving an only daughter and heir Elizabeth, she carried it in marriage to Sir John Fineux, chief justice of the king's bench, by whose eldest daughter and coheir Jane, it went in marriage to J.Roper, esq. of Wellhall, Eltham, prothonotary of the king's bench, and attorney-general to king Henry VIII. He died in 1524, having by his will given this manor to his youngest son Christopher, who was seated at Linsted. His great-grandson Christopher, lord Teynham, died possessed of it in 1622, leaving two sons, John, who succeeded him as lord Teynham, and William Rooper, esq. (for so he spelt his name) who inherited this manor, at which he resided in 1649. His son John Rooper, esq. seems to have died S. p for in 1718, Anne Dognate, widow, Margaret Rooper, and Mary Magdalen Tichborne, his aunts and coheirs, joined in the conveyance of it to Jenkin Gillow, gent. whose nephew Jenkin Gillow, afterwards, by his will, became possessed of it, and married his first-cousin Margaret Tappenden, but died S. p having devised it to his sister Anne, married to her first-cousin John Tappenden, merchant, of London, and her issue in tail. She died in 1779, leaving four sons and three daughters, of whom Margaret and John having conveyed their two sevenths to their father John Tappenden; the other five sevenths still continue the property of the other five children. A court baron is held for this manor.
[Source: Hasted, Edward. "Parishes: Stourmouth." The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent: Volume 9. Canterbury: W Bristow, 1800. 126-130. British History Online. Web. 18 March 2016. http://www.british-history.ac.uk/survey-kent/vol9/pp126-130.]
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William Apulderfield was a gentleman of an ancient family long seated at Otterpley in the Parish of Challock in Kent, and the family being a younger branch of those of Badmangore, in Lynsted.
The church of Lenham is dedicated to St. Mary. It is a large handsome building, with a square tower at the west end, in which is a good clock, which strikes the hours and quarters, and a set of chimes. It consists of two isles, and two chancels; on the north side of the high chancel, in the hollow in the wall, there is a figure in long robes, lying at full length, which seems very ancient, probably that of Thomas de Apulderfield, who lived in king Edward the III's reign, and was buried in this church.
Henry de Apulderfield of Apulderfield in Cudham, now contractedly called Apurfield, served the latter part of the twenty sixth year, but was Sheriff alone in the twenty seventh year of Edward the first.
William Apulderfield of Bedmancore in Lingsteed [sic] was Sheriff of Kent part of the twenty seventh and entirely the twenty eighth year, and thirty first year of Edward the third, and afterwards executed that office in the thirty-fourth, thirty-fifth, thirty-sixth, thirty-eigth, and forty-fourth of Edward the third.
Henry de Apulderfield of Otterpley in Challock was Sheriff of Kent the fifty first year of Edward the third, in which year that victorious Prince died.
Challock in the Hundred of Calehill hath two places in it, which may deservedly come within the Register of those Manors which are in this Survey to be recorded:
The first is Otterpley, which was an eminent Seat belonging to the ancient Family of Apulderfield. The first that I find of Note in any public record to have possessed it, was Henry de Apulderfield, who had the Grant of a Market and Fair to his Manor of Apulderfield in Coldham, in the thirty-eighth year of Henry the third.
OTTERPLEY is a manor in the parish of Challock, the mansion of which has been for many years pulled down, and the site and demesnes of it, which lay near Eastwell, included in the upper park there, which was formerly from it called Aperfields garden. This was one of the seats, of which there were several in this county, belonging to the ancient family of Appulderfield, called by contraction, Apperfield, whose original arms, "Ermine, a fess vaire, or, and gules", as well as their augmentation, granted by king Richard I. to Henry de Apulderfield, "Sable, a cross, or, voided of the field", are in several places on the roof of Canterbury cloisters, and in the windows of several churches in that city.
Henry de Apulderfield, who resided at Apulderfield, in Cowdham, was possessed of it in the reign of Henry III. His descendant Henry de Apulderfield held his shrievalty at Otterpley in Challock, in the 50th year of king Edward III. being the last of that prince's reign. From him it passed to Richard, lord Poynings, who died possessed of it in the 11th year of king Richard II. His grandson Richard left a sole daughter and heir Eleanor, who married Sir Henry Percy, afterwards earl of Northumberland, and he in her right became afterwards possessed of this manor. How long it continued in his descendants I have not found; but in the reign of king Henry VII. it was become the property of Moyle, whose descendant Sir Thomas Moyle, of Eastwell, chancellor of the court of augmentation, dying in 1560, without male issue, Catherine his daughter and coheir carried it in marriage to Sir Thomas Finch, of Eastwell, whose son Sir Moyle Finch, of Eastwell, having in 1589 obtained licence to inclose his grounds in Eastwell and the adjoining parishes, for a park, this manor and the site of the ancient mansion of Otterpley, were included by him within the pale of it, in that part of it called the upper park, near Eastwell, and the mansion of it, pulled down. Since which it has continued in the same succession of ownership with that park and manor, down to George Finch Hatton, esq. now of Eastwell, the present proprietor of it.
EASTURE in the parish of Chilham, was the Seat of a family which was also known by that surname, and in several ancient Deeds, which are not bounded or limited with any date, there is mention of John de Easture, who lived here in the Reign of Henry the third and Edward the first; after this name was vanished, the Apulderfields of Otterpley in Challock, a younger Branch of the Apulderfields of Bedmancore, were invested in the Possession; and of this family was Henry de Apulderfield, who was Sheriff of Kent in the fifty-first year of Edward the third, and likewise proprietary of this place. But, when this family resolved into a daughter and heir called Isabell, she by matching with John Idelegh, who had a large Income about Mepham, Chalk, and Cobham, cast it into the Inheritance of that family, where it had not long remained. A vicissitude like the former carryed it by Agnes the female heir of William Idelegh, to Christopher Ellenden, who was Master of a good estate about Seasalter and Damian Bleane, which Name not many years after shrunk into a daughter and heir likewise called Mary, descended from Thomas Ellenden, who was about the Reign of Henry the seventh matched to Edward Thwaits, so that in her right that family became settled in the Inheritance of this place, and remained in the possession, till in that age we stile our grandfathers, it was by sale translated into Morton, descended from the ancient family of the Mortons of Millbourn St. Andrews in the County of Dorset.
The Manor of Apulderfield by contraction now called Apurfield lies in the precincts of this Parish [Cudham], which was long time possessed by Gentlemen that took their surname from thence, and branched numerously into divers parts of this Shire. Henry de Apulderfield in the thirty-eighth of Henry the third, obtained a grant of a Fair and Market to his Manor of Apulderfield. In the eleventh year of Edward the second, John de Insula had a Charter of Free-warren granted to his Manor of Apulderfield, which was renewed to Stephen de Ashway in the thirty-eighth of Edward the third.
Hern[e] in the Hundred of Blengate, has nothing memorable in it but Haw-house, a Limb or portion of that wide Demeasne that the eminent family of Apulderfield held in this track; and when this name that had been deeply rooted in antiquity, and had spread to a large extent, in the latitude of it, was circumscribed in a daughter and heir called Elizabeth matched with Sir John Phineux, this seat was made by female interest, an addition to the income of this family, and here it remained undivided from it, till this name determined in John Phineux Esq. issued from a younger line of this family, who left only one daughter and heir, married to Sir John Smith, Grandfather to Philip Viscount Strangford, who in relation to that right this match has invested in him, is now the instant proprietary.
Lingsted lies in the Hundred of Tenham, and hath two places in it, of eminent Reputation. The first is Bedmancore, which was in Times of a very high Ascent, wrapped up in the Patrimony of Cheyney, of whom I shall speak more at Patricksbourn Cheyney their principal Seat; the last of which Family that held it was William de Cheyney, who dyed possest of it, in the eighth year of Edward the third, as appears Rot. Esc. Num. 58. But after his Decease it was not long resident in this Name; for in the twenty seventh year of the abovesaid Prince, I find it in the Tenure of William de Apulderfield, of whose Family take this compendious prospect. He was descended from * Henry de Apulderfield, of Apulderfield in Coudham, who with his Son Henry, are inserted in the Catalogue of those eminent Kentish Gentlemen who were engaged with Richard the first, at the Siege of Acon in Palestine. * Henry de Apulderfield another of this Family accompanied Henry the third, in his Expedition into Gascony, and his Son * Henry de Apulderfield, with John de Lovetot, did by a Commission dated the fifteenth of November, in the sixteenth year of Edward the first, sit as Justices of the Sewers for Romney Mersh. And this Henry was Sheriff of Kent the twenty sixth, and twenty seventh of the abovesaid Prince, and had Issue William de Apulderfield the abovementioned Lord of Bedmancore, who was Sheriff of Kent, in the twenty-seventh and twenty-eighth of Edward the third, and again the thirty first, thirty fourth,
thirty fifth, thirty sixth, thirty-eighth, and forty-fourth years of the above mentioned Prince, and held his Shrievaltie at Lingsted. Henry Apulderfield his Son, was Sheriff of Kent the fifty first of Edward the third, in which that glorious Prince paid that Tribute to Nature we all owe; and from this Man, did Bedmancore descend to his great Grandchild Sir William Apulderfield, a Man of very great Eminence in the Raign of Henry the sixth, and Edward the fourth, who concluded in a Daughter and Heir called Elizabeth, matched to Sir John Phineux, Lord Chief Justice of the Kings Bench in the Raign of Henry the seventh, as is attested by his Monument in Hern Church, and he in her right became possest of Bedmancore: but it was not long fastned to this Name, for this Man likewise concluded in two Female Coheirs, whereof Jane Phineux one of them, matched witn John Roper, Esquire; and Middred the other, wedded James Diggs of Diggs-court in Berham Esquire: from the first Alliance, Christopher now Lord Roper of Tenham, is lineally extracted, and, by Right of that Conjugal Union, is fortified in his present Possession and Title to this place.
There was a Chantry founded at Rye-house in the parish of Otford by Henry de Apulderfield, in the forty- sixth year of Edward the third, as appears Pat. Anno. 46. Edwardi tertii, Parte secunda Memb. 19.
NEWBURGH is partly situated in Rodmersham, and partly in Lingsted, and anciently had the Estimate of a Manor, and gave name to a family that was represented to the World, under that notion, as appears, by very old Deeds without date, in the hands of Mr. Bartholomew May, too tedious here to recite. In the twenty-fourth year of Edward the first, Isabell, wife of Henry de Apulderfield, held it at her death, and in the copy of the Inquisition Roll, it is called Manerium de Newburgh: but in ages of a more modern complexion, it fell from its former reputation, and by disuse shrunk into neglect and contempt, and is now only eminent, in that it was involved in that estate, that by Elizabeth coheir of Sir William Apulderfield devolved to Sir John Phineux, who finding his Sepulcher in female coheirs, Jane one of them, brought it over to her husband John Roper, Esquire, and from him by paternal efflux, is the title now wafted along, to the right honorable Christopher Roper, Baron of Tenham, removed by no wide Distance from this place.
The Manor it self, was enwraped in the Patrimony of the noble and ancient family of Apulderfield. William de Apulderfield, obtained a Charter of Free-warren to his Lands at Horsted in Rochester, in the thirty-eighth year of Henry the eighth.
Thomas de St. Lawrence held Swalecliffe, in the Hundred of Blengate, as appears by the Book of Aid, kept in the Exchequer, in the twentieth year of Edward the third, at making the Black Prince Knight, and dyed possest of it, in the twenty second year of that Prince, Rot. Esc. Num. 9. And from him did it descend to his Grandchild Thomas St. Lawrence, who setled it in Marriage with Katharine his Daughter and Heir, matched to Sir William Apulderfield, who determining in Daughters and Coheirs, Elizabeth, one of them, espoused to Sir John Phineux, Lord Chief Justice of the Kings Bench, brought it to confesse the Signory of that Family: but, he deceasing without Issue-male, Jane his only Daughter and Sole Inheritrix, being matched to John Roper Esquire, this Mannor became by this Alliance, inoculated into his Patrimony, and was resident in this Name untill the Beginning of King James; and then it was conveyed to Mr. Benedict Barnham.
Selling in the Hundred of Street, hath several places in it which cannot be declined without some memorial: Willmington and Somervill, are the first that occurre, and they gave Seat, and one of them Sirname, to a Family of Repute in that Age, because I find they had Land in other places in the County. Roger de Wilmington, held the Possession of them at his Death, which was in the eleventh year of Edward the third, and left his Estate here and elsewhere, to be shared between his four Daughters and Coheirs, matched to Ordmere, Bromming, Brockhull and St. Laurence; but upon the Division of the Estate, these accrued to St. Laurence, and in Right of paternal Devolution, John St. Laurence, Son of Thomas St. Laurence, held these at his Decease, which was in the tenth year of Richard the second, and from him their right devolved to his Son Thomas St. Laurence, whose Sole Daughter and Heir Katharine, brought them to be the Inheritance of Sir William Apulderfield; who about the latter
end of Henry the sixth, passed them away to Ashburnham and Till.
Stourmouth in the Hundred of Blengate, was a piece of that large Revenue, which owned the Signory of Hussey. In the fifty fifth year of Henry the third, Henry le Hussey obtained a Charter of Free-Warren, to his Manor of Stourmouth, and his Grandchild Henry le Hussey died possest of it in the sixth year of Edward the third, but, alass, neither the Nobleness of the Name, nor wideness of the Franchise, could keep this Family from departing from this place; for about the latter end of Henry the fourth, I find it in the Tenure of the eminent Family of Apulderfield; but setled not long here; for Sir William Apulderfield about the middle of Edward the fourth concluded Sir Jo. Phineux Lord Chief Justice of the Kings Bench, in the Reign of Henry the seventh made it his Demeasn: but the Title of this place did not long fix here; for, he dying without Issue Male, Jane his only Daughter, became his only Heir, who by espousing of Jo. Roper Esq; of St. Dunstans in Canterbury, linked it to the Demeasn of this Family; from whom in a continued Current of descent the Proprietie of it is now flowed down to William Roper, a Cadet or younger Branch of this Stem.
Sturrey in the Hundred of Blengate, was a Manor by a Prescription of many Generations wrapt up in the Patrimony of Apulderfeild, a Family whom we shall have occasion often to mention thoroughout the Body of this Survey, and here it continued till this Name met with its Tomb in a Daughter and Heir, known by the Name of Elizabeth, who was wedded to Sir John Phineux: and although he likewise concluded in a Female Heir, matched to John Roper Esquire, who drew along with her a great portion of the Estate, yet this still remained fixt in this Name and Family, even till our Fathers Memory; and then John Phineux Esquire died, and left this, and other vast possessions to his Daughter and Sole Heir Elizabeth Phineux, who brought them over to her Husband Sir John Smith, eldest Son of Sir Thomas
Smith, and Grand-father to Philip Smith Viscount Strangford, who by Right planted in him by so worthy a Predecessor, does entitle himself to the Interess and possession of it.
LORRINGDEN AND DEAN are two manors in the parish of Challock, the former of which is written in ancient deeds, Lourding, alias Lurdingden, and was formerly possessed by a family of that name, the place on which it stands being yet called Loringdens forstal; and Philipott says, that there was a tradition very frequent among the country people in these parts, that Loringden was once the mansion of gentlemen of this name, one of whom had a combat with one of the Apulderfields, of Otterpley, about the building of a chapel in the valley, which was pretended by Loringden to have been erected on his land.
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