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Cranbrook Poll for the Knights of the Shire, 1790 |
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Transcribed by Susan Young.
Taken on Pennenden Heath, on Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday, the 28, 29 and 30th days of June, 1790. By Leonard Bartholmew, Esq. Sheriff.
Candidates:
The Honourable Charles Marsham,
Sir Edward Knatchbull, Bart.
Filmer Honywood, Esq.
| SURNAME | GIVEN NAME | FREEHOLD | CONSISTING OF | OCCUPIERS | Marsham | Knatchbull | Honywood |
| Adams | Thomas | Cranbrook | house & land | self | x | x | |
| Austen | John | Cranbrook | house | T. Hoad | x | x | |
| Avery | Amos | Cranbrook | house & land | self | x | ||
| Bates | James | Frittenden | house & land | J. Hughes | x | ||
| Bates | Thomas | Cranbrook | house & land | self | x | ||
| Bonney | William | Sutton Val. | house & land | J. Bonney | x | x | |
| Brackfield | John | Cranbrook | houses | Knight, etc. | x | ||
| Bridgeland | Samuel | Cranbrook | land | self | x | ||
| Bridgeland | John | Cranbrook | house & land | self | x | ||
| Bright | James | Cranbrook | house & land | self & others | x | ||
| Burton | Gilbert | Cranbrook | house & land | self | x | ||
| Buss | William | Staplehurst | house & land | S. Philcock | x | ||
| Butler | John | Cranbrook | house & land | self | x | ||
| Couchman | William | Marden | house & land | Z. Sanley | x | x | |
| Croft | John | Cranbrook | house & land | self | x | x | |
| Dean | William | Cranbrook | house | self | x | x | |
| Dennet | James | Cranbrook | house & land | self | x | ||
| Dobell | Isaac | Cranbrook | house & land | Self | x | ||
| Dobell | Benjamin | Cranbrook | house | self | x | ||
| Elliot | John | Cranbrook | house | self | x | ||
| Elliot | John | Cranbrook | house & land | W. Inglis | x | x | |
| Foreman | Herbert | Cranbrook | house & land | G. Burton | x | ||
| Fox | Stephen | Cranbrook | house | self | x | ||
| Fuggle | William | Cranbrook | house | self | x | x | |
| Fuggle | John | Cranbrook | house | W. Quaif | x | x | |
| Geer | Joseph | Cranbrook | house | self | x | x | |
| Greenall | Thomas | Cranbrook | house & land | self & others | x | x | |
| Harman | Henry | Cranbrook | house & land | self | x | ||
| Harman | Henry | Cranbrook | house & land | self & others | x | x | |
| Honiss | Thomas | Egerton | house & land | John Turk | x | x | |
| Joy | Thomas | Cranbrook | house & land | self | x | x | |
| Kingsmill | Edward | Smarden | land | ...... Judge | x | x | |
| Larkin | James | Cranbrook | house & land | J. Nash | x | ||
| Leigh | Henry | Chislet | house & land | John Day | x | x | |
| Luff | Thomas | Cranbrook | house & land | self | x | ||
| Manwaring | Henry | Horsemonden | house & land | self | x | ||
| Martin | William | Cranbrook | houses | self & others | x | x | |
| Moore | William | Cranbrook | house & land | W. Woodyer | x | x | |
| Nairne | Charles | Cranbrook | house & land | self | x | ||
| Price | John | Cranbrook | house | W. Tarbut | x | ||
| Price | Peter | Cranbrook | house & land | Isaac Rogers | x | ||
| Ranger | Thomas | Cranbrook | houses | self & others | x | ||
| Read | John | Sutton Val. | house | R. Heathorne | x | x | |
| Reynolds | Richard | Frittenden | house & land | J. Austen | x | x | |
| Scott | John | Cranbrook | house & land | self | x | x | |
| Smith | Jos. | Cranbrook | house & land | self | x | ||
| Smith | John | Cranbrook | house | self | x | ||
| Spice | William | Cranbrook | house & land | self | x | ||
| Stonehouse | George | Cranbrook | house | self | x | ||
| Stunt | William | Cranbrook | land | self | x | ||
| Swatland | Thomas | B. Monchen | house & land | self & others | x | ||
| Taylor | James | Cranbrook | house & land | self | x | x | |
| Tempest | John | Cranbrook | house & land | self | x | x | |
| Thatcher | Thomas | Cranbrook | house & land | S. Wood | x | ||
| Tolhurst | John | Cranbrook | house & land | self | x | x | |
| Tooth | John | Cranbrook | house & land | self | x | x | |
| Tress | Stephen | Cranbrook | house & land | self | x | x | |
| Troughton | Henry | Birling | house & land | ..... May | x | x | |
| Vincett | Richard | Cranbrook | house & land | self | x | x | |
| Walter | Abraham | Cranbrook | house & land | self & others | x | x | |
| Wells | Richard | Cranbrook | house & land | self | x | x | |
| Wilmot | Robert | Cranbrook | house & land | self | x | x | |
| Wilmshurst | Stephen | Cranbrook | house & land | self | x | x | |
| Wilmshurst | Thomas | Cranbrook | house & land | self | x | x | |
| Winch | Richard | Hawkhurst | house & land | self | x | x | |
| Wood | John | Cranbrook | house & land | self | x | ||
| Wraight | John | Cranbrook | house & land | self | x | ||
| TOTALS | 31 | 35 | 35 |