General Index
general iNDEX
Page numbers in italics refer to illustrations
BA Bronze Age
ER Early Roman
IA Iron Age
LBA Late Bronze Age
LIA Late Iron Age
RB Romano-British
Absolon, William 284
Acol 97
Acrise, parish register 158, 174
Adisham, parish register 162, 177
Alkham, parish register 157, 158, 164
Allen, James, mayor 183
Allington, Roman finds 255
Andrade, Simon de 100
Anglo-Saxon/Saxon period
brooch, silver 15-16
burgh 120
Canterbury ‘wagon market’ 249
cemeteries (burials) 263, 266, 267, 270
churches, minsters 112, 114, 259
dens 77
settlement 108-11, 112
see also coins; Grange; pottery
Anglo-Saxon Chronicle 120
animal bone
cattle 20, 22, 51, 69, 139, 140, 147
dog 22, 139, 140, 147
field vole 140
frog 140
horse 22, 51, 69, 139, 140, 147
house mouse 140
pig 20, 22, 51, 69, 139, 140, 147
rabbit 22
rat 141
red deer 22
sheep/goat 20, 22, 51, 69, 139, 140, 239
shrew 140
see also Canterbury: Wincheap suburb; Grange; Maidstone: Church St; Rainham
antler-working 22
Appledore 112, 113, 130n.14
Archaeology South-East 17
Archer, Henry 97
Arthur, James, jurate 181
Arundel, Thomas, archbishop 38, 45n.27
Ash 77, 171, 173, 174, 175, 177
Ashenden, Richard 184
Ashford 98, 171, 179, 180
Austen, David 177
Aylesford, crossing point 255
Bagnall, William, rector 174
Baker, Ann 184
Bamme family 10, 11, 25, 30n.67
Bamme, Adam 7, 9
Bamme, Eade 9
Bamme, Joan (née Martin) 9, 10
Bamme, Richard 9
Bapchild 171, 277
baptisms
and baptismal (Christian) name 210-13, 211, 214, 217
recorded in parish registers 153, 155, 156, 158, 162, 163, 165
during the English Civil War 166-7, 169, 170, 173
during the Commonwealth 174-5
on Thanet 95
Barclay 120
Barden 88
Barden Mill 86
Barming 251, 257-8
Barnfield, hundred 120
Barrett, Thomas, curate 159
Barrow, Simon 170, 174
barrows, BA 265, 270
bath-houses, Roman 255, 257, 258; see also Minster-in-Thanet
Battle Abbey 34, 126
Bax, Susanna 177
beads, Anglo-Saxon 263
Bearsted 98
Beaufitz family 5, 10-11
Beaufitz, Agnes de 11
Beaufitz, John and Alice 30n.67
Beaufitz, William de 10, 11
Beaufort family 41
Beaufort, Cardinal 42-3
Beaufort, Edmund, duke of Somerset 40
Beaufort, Henry, marquis of Dorset 40
Beaulieu abbey 34
Becket, St Thomas 33, 41
Beerye, Creature 214
Bekesbourne 1, 4
Bell, Thomas 285
Benenden
church 112, 113
parish 107, 109, 115, 119, 120, 121
parish register 165, 169, 171, 180
Benfleet (Essex) 4
Berg, Mary, book review by 310-12
Berry, Margaret and Alexander 218
Beseley, Richard, rector 217
Bethersden 176, 178, 180, 216
Betteshanger 169, 171
bibliography of Kentish archaeology and hist-ory 321-32
Bicknor, parish registers 158
Bidborough 90, 91
Biddenden, parish register 159, 165
Bigbury, pottery 266
Biggenden, Ann 185
Bill, Margaret 224, 227
Binge, George 99
Binge, William and Ciriacke 96
Binge, William the elder 99
Birchetts Wood 85
Birchington
Church Wardens’ Accounts 93, 100, 101
migrants and mobility 94, 94, 96, 97, 99
parish register 162, 164
bird bone 20, 22, 141, 240
bird-feeder, lead 21
Bishop’s Transcripts 156, 157, 158-9, 160, 166, 174, 216
Bishopsbourne
parish register 165, 174
rectory 283
Black Death 6, 12, 24, 126
Blackborne 120, 121
Blacke, John 180
Blackfriars 1 wreck 253
Blagg, Hannah Maria 224, 228
Blean 165, 174
Blean Woods 42
Blomfield, Sir Reginald 223
Blowfield, John 97
Bodiam 109, 113, 114, 115, 116, 117, 118, 126
Boniface, Archbishop 79
book mount 21, 24, 25
Borden, parish register 165, 171
Bostock, Robert, rector 175
Boteler, Richard 169-70
Boughton Monchelsea 157, 259
Boughton-under-Blean 171
boundary stone 86, 86
Bourchier, Thomas, archbishop 38, 39, 40-1
Bourne Park 260, 261
Boyman, Richard 185
Brabourne 11, 180
Bradly, Alexander, minister 177
Bredgar 171
Bredhurst, parish register 165
Bregland (Bragelond), James and wife and daughter called Creature 219
Brenchley, parish register 158
Brent family of Charing 231
Brenzett, parish register 159
brewing
Roman 146-7
on Thanet 95
Bridge 174; see also Star Hill
Bridge Hill 266
Bronze Age
at Grange 15
barrows 265, 270
burial ring-ditches 265
Sittingbourne 270, 277, 278
Star Hill 263, 264
see also flints; pottery
brooches
LIA, copper-alloy132, 136, 137-8, 138
Saxon, silver 15-16
Brooke, Richard 305, 306, 306n.12
Brookland, parish register 160
Broome, John, parson 163
Broomfield 177
Brown, Sir Thomas 41
Brown, Thomas 177
Browne, Thomas, JP 184
Bruce Ward, Lillie 223-8, 230, 232
Bruce Ward, Robert 223-30, 232
buckles
Anglo-Saxon 263
medieval 21, 24
Burgham 113, 114, 115, 117, 118, 119
Burham 255
burial mounds 261
burials
Bronze Age 265, 270
Roman/RB 15, 149, 263, 270
Anglo-Saxon 263, 266, 267-8, 270
recorded in parish registers 153, 155, 156, 158, 162, 163, 165, 166-7, 169, 170, 174-5, 178
on Thanet 95, 96, 100
see also cemeteries; cremation burials
Burwash 115, 116
Butcher, John, register 180
Caesar, Sir Julius, doctor 101
Calverley, John 284
Canterbury 95
Anglo-Saxon ‘wagon market’ 249
Cathedral
parish register 165, 177
priors 37-8
Cathedral Archives (annual bibliography) 328-9
Christ Church Priory 33-46, 95
Congregational Church 210
Creature as Christian name in diocese 209-22
cross-head from St George St 23
7-9 Gordon Road 249
Inquisitions of St Augustine’s (Excerpta) 129n.4
Invicta Service Station (116-190 Wincheap) 247
Iron Age cult focus 246
28 Maiden’s Head 247
Meister Omers (house) 40, 42
parish registers in diocese 153-87
Pin Hill and Station Road East, LR inhum-ation cemetery 247
St Andrew, register 160, 171
St Augustine’s Abbey 34, 95, 112
St George, register 162
St Margaret, register 180
St Mary Bredman, register 165
St Mary Northgate, register 171
St Peter, register 169, 171, 181
shrine of St Thomas 33, 38, 44
Simmonds Road 247
Tabard Inn 35
Worthgate, rampart/wall 247
Canterbury: Wincheap suburb, Romano-British and medieval 235-50
Roman cemetery 247, 248, 249
Roman defensive circuit 247, 249
5 Wincheap/Gordon Road 247
10-16 Wincheap 235, 247
19 Wincheap (‘Captain’s Cabin’) 235-42, 246-9
Neolithic scraper 235
LIA, pottery 235
Roman/RB
animal and bird bone 235, 236, 237, 239, 240
burial-shaped pit 236-7
burials 237
CBM 235, 237, 239
coin, LR 242, 247
finds 237, 239
fish bone 235, 239, 240
human bone 237
ironworking (pits) 238, 246
metalled surfaces (G10-13) 239-40, 240, 242, 246-7, 249
19 Wincheap, Roman/RB (cont.)
metalworking 235, 237, 239, 240
pits (gravel quarries) 235-6, 237, 246, 247
pottery 235, 236, 239, 240, 242
quern 237
shell 235, 237, 239, 240
smithy 238-9, 238, 246, 247
timber buildings 238-9
medieval, and ditches 240-2, 241, 249
animal and fish bone 241, 242
finds 241, 242
pottery 241, 242
slag 242
Tudor 242, 249
45-47 Wincheap 242-9
prehistoric flint 242
Roman/RB, building and pottery 242-4
coins 244, 247
finds 244
medieval 244-6
buildings 244, 246, 249
metalled surface 244, 246-7, 249
84 Wincheap 247
Canterbury Archaeological Trust (CAT) 131, 235
Canterbury, archbishop of 37
appointment of 37, 39
enthronement of 40-1
estates 1, 117, 120, 127
land belonging to 75, 76, 91
Capel 79, 88, 89, 91
Capel-le-Ferne, parish register 158
caput see head manor
casket keys, copper-alloy 21
Caterowe, Lucy and husband 97
cemeteries
Roman
Canterbury 247, 248, 249
roadside 149
Anglo-Saxon 263, 267-8, 270
Chalklin, Christopher, book review by 317-19
Challock 98
Champion, Nicholas, parson 160
Champion, Nicholas, vicar 217
Champion, Dr Richard 217
chantries 9, 11, 12
chapels (and chapelries), and High Weald settlement 112, 113, 114, 118, 122; see also Grange
Charing
parish register 160, 171
Peirce House 231
Charles II, coin 281
Chart Sutton
Creature as name 216, 217, 218
parish register 171
Chester-Kadwell, Brendan, ‘A reappraisal of eleventh-century settlement in the eastern High Weald’ 105-30
Cheyne, Sir John 41
Chichele, Henry, archbishop 38-9
Chichester Cartulary 112, 114
Chilham 173, 175
Chillenden, parish register 165
Chislet 98, 99
Creature as name 216
Highstead 265
parish register 160, 164, 169, 171
Christian family 96
church court depositions 95
church registers 93
churches
Roman tufa 257
Saxon (and minsters) 112, 114, 259
and settlement 105, 107, 112-14, 113, 116, 118, 120, 121, 122, 127
on Thanet 94-5
churchwardens 156, 288
Cinderhill 87
Cinque Ports 1-32, 95
Clare family 76, 79, 90, 91
Clare, Gilbert, 9th Earl of 79
Classis Britannica 252-3, 256, 259
Clayse, George 100
Cleve, Mary 97
Cleybrooke family (William, Stephen) 95, 99
Cleybrooke, Agnes (née Johnson) 95
Cleybrooke, Paul 95, 97
coffin, lead, Roman 15
coin collection, from Smarden 280-1
coin hoard, Roman 149
coin melting 15
coins
LIA, potin 132, 137, 147
Roman 242, 244, 247, 258
Anglo-Saxon 263, 267
medieval 21
George II, III, and IV 281
Napoleon III 280, 281
Victoria 280, 281
Coldharbour Lane, settlement 265
Coldred 174
Coldwell, John, dean 283-4
Cole, Deborah, ‘How mapping the lowy of Tonbridge can further our understanding of its origin, nature and extent’ 75-92
Collins, Martin 285
Colman, Elizabeth 181
comb, bone 20
Compass Archaeology Ltd 268
Connor, Meriel, ‘The Priory of Christ Church Canterbury and its connections with London in the late middle ages’ 33-46
Cooling 77
Castle 8
Cooper, Ann 179
Cooper, Anne 184
copper-smelting residue 18
Cornwaille, John 5
Cory, Francis, register 184
Cotes, Martin, chapter clerk 286, 287
Cotton, Jonathan see Jeffery, Emma
Coulson, Ian (ed.), Folkestone to 1500: a Town Unearthed, reviewed 313-15
court cases (depositions) 93, 96, 97, 98, 99, 102
cowrie shells 263
Craig-Mair, Veronica, and Sheila Sweetinburgh, ‘What’s in a name? Exploring the use of ‘Creature’ as a Christian name in the dio-cese of Canterbury in the early modern period’ 209-22
Cranbrook 112, 113, 120, 129n.14 209, 218, 219
parish register 164, 165, 169, 171, 173, 178, 181
Cranmer, Rachel 97
Cranmer, Thomas 155, 162, 217
Craven, Richard 97
Crawford, John, minister 178
Creature, used as Christian name 209-22
cremation burials (deposits)
IA 263
LIA/ER 261
RB ‘urns’ 149
Anglo-Saxon 263, 267
Crispe, Henry 97, 100
Crispe, John 97, 100, 101
Crispe, Richard 100
Crispe, William 101
Croakenden, James 179
Cromwell, Thomas 155, 158
cross-head staff, copper-alloy 21, 22-3, 22, 24
cross pendant, lead 21
Croxford, Ben, note on an unusual coin collection from a pond in Smarden 280-1
Croydon, Richard de, fishmonger 6
crucible, with copper-smelting residue 18
Crundale, parish register 165
Culpepper, Mary 97
Curling, Nicholas 96
Curling, Hannah 185
curse scroll, lead 257
Custiam, William 97
Cuxton, Roman buildings 255
Darenth, manor 77, 78, 79
Deal, parish register 165, 177-8
Dean Street, Roman quarry 256-7
dens (wood pastures) 107, 108, 111, 119, 120, 123, 124, 126
Digby, Kenelm, parson 163
Dingley, Nicholas, register 179
Dodd family 223, 225
Dodd, George Ashley 223
Doddiscombsleigh (Devon), stained-glass window 211
Domesday Book 1, 5
11th-century settlement 105, 107, 108, 111, 112, 113, 114-25, 126
Tonbridge 75, 77-9, 89, 90, 91
Domesday Monachorum 112-13, 113, 116, 120, 125, 129n.4
Donbar, William, minister 177
Doule, Ann 183
Dover 95
Castle 40, 41
Cinque Port 1, 5, 21, 23
parish registers 174, 175, 178
Dowle, Goodwife 97
Downlands, Walmer, brewing 147
Draper, Gillian see Meddens, Frank
Dresser, Madge, and Andrew Hann (eds), Slavery and the British Country House, reviewed 316-17
Drigsell 126
drove ways 111
Durkynghale 86-7, 90
Durkynghale, Dubel de 87
Durkynghale, William 87
Earle, Robert 180
East Farleigh 256, 257, 258
manor 77
Roman site 251
Romano-Celtic temple 257
Saxon church 259
Eastchurch 171, 179
East India Company coin 280, 281
Eastling 163, 165
East Peckham, manor 77, 84, 90
Eastry, parish register 165, 171
East Sutton 170, 171
Eastwell 162, 177, 180
Eccles 77
Roman villa 255
Eden Valley 87
Edward I 8, 79
Edward III 6, 41
Edward IV 42, 231
Edwards, Elizabeth, book review by 313-15
eggshell 141
Eglinder, Thomas 97
Elham 98, 165
Elham, Prior 36, 39
Elliott, Simon, note on the Medway formula... 251-60
Ellis, John 285
Elmsted, parish register 162, 163
Elmstone 170, 171, 174, 175
Elvie, Johan 183
Emyet, Mary 183
English Civil War see parish registers
Estfield, William, mayor 36
Etchingham 109, 114, 115, 116, 117, 118, 119
Eu, Henry, Viscount 41
Eu, Count Robert of 114, 117
Everard, Henry 99
Ewhurst 109, 113, 114, 115, 116, 117, 118
Eynsford, manor 77, 89
Eythorne 41, 165
Eyton, Ann 177
Fairfield, parish register 164
Farmer, Richard 178
farmstead, EIA 265
Farningham, manor 77
Farre family 232
Faukner, Elizabeth 180
Faversham 178
Fellows, Edward, minister 177
Fermenge[r], Tomyson 218
Ferris, Thomas and daughter Lucretia 100
ferry, across Wantsum Channel 191
Fetherby, John, Richard and ‘Creter’ 218
figurine, pipe-clay, Roman 134, 138, 138
fish bone 20, 24, 141-2, 145, 235, 239, 240, 242
fishing industry (fish trade) 6, 7, 25
fishing weights, lead 21, 24
Fitzgilbert, Richard 75, 76-7, 79, 89, 90, 91
Fitzstephen, William 33
flints, burnt 51, 54, 68, 236, 237, 239, 240, 272-3
flints, struck
prehistoric, Canterbury 242
Mesolithic, Sittingbourne 270, 277, 278
Mesolithic to EBA, Rainham 50, 51, 54, 69
Mesolithic/Neolithic or BA 268, 272, 273, 274-7, 275, 278
Neolithic 263, 265
late Neolithic-EBA 265
Fogg family 42
Fogg, Sir John 36
Folkestone
East Wear Bay Roman villa 193, 196
parish register 171, 178
ford, Roman 257-8
Fordwich 98
Foster family 224, 225, 226, 227, 229, 230, 232
Foster, Hannah 228
Foster, Susannah 224, 228
Foyle, Jonathan, Architecture of Canterbury Cathedral, reviewed 312-13
Freake, Edmund, dean 286
Frenche, Robert 218
Frindsbury, manor 77
Frinsted 171
Frost family, Elnor and Creature 216, 219
Furley, Robert 111
Gammon, James 183
Gardiner, Peter 181
Gill, Hannah 224, 225, 228
Gillingham 1, 3, 4, 5, 8, 9, 11, 12, 13
Bamme chantry chapel 9, 11, 25
glass
Roman 239, 244
Anglo-Saxon, palm cup 263
see also window glass
Gloucester, Humphrey, duke of 43
Godfery, Lambert 183
Godinton House, Ashford, heraldry 223-33
godparents 212, 213, 217
Godwin, Earl 76
Godwin frenesna (Godwin of Frenes) 4, 27n.19
Goldfinch, Thomas 177
Goldfinch, William 96
Goldstone, Roger 180
Goodenough, Rev. John 224, 225, 228
Goodnestone next Wingham 96, 97, 98, 175
Goodrich, William, minister 181
Gordon, Sir James 224, 225, 228
Goudhurst, parish register 165, 171
Grain (Isle of) 4
EIA pottery 48, 69
Grange 1-32
brickwork 13, 14-15, 19, 20
chantry chapel 8-9, 10
chapel (surviving) 6, 8, 9, 11-13, 12, 13, 14, 16, 18, 25
Grace Manor (nursing home) 3, 11, 12, 15, 19, 25
manor house 11, 12, 18-19, 25
moated site (ditch) 1, 11, 16, 18-19, 24
‘refectory’ 11, 13, 14, 14, 16, 18, 25
archaeology 15-23
prehistoric 15
Roman 15, 18, 23-4
aisled barn 15
burials and lead coffin 15
coin melting 15
mausoleum 15, 16, 18, 20
metalworking and lead slag 15
raised granary 15
villa 15
Saxon 15-16
brooch, silver 15-16
pottery 15
medieval 17-23, 24-5
animal bone 17, 20, 21-2, 24
medieval (cont.)
book mount 21, 24, 25
buildings 17-19, 24, 25
coins 21
cross-head staff 21, 22-3, 22, 24
crucible, with copper smelting residue 18
finds 17, 19-23, 24
pottery 17, 19-21, 22, 24
tile 17, 19-20
well 20
Grange Road 18
Grant, Alice 96
Grant, Robert 96
Great Chart 165, 171
Gybben (Gibben), Cretor 218
Hackington 99
Hadlow 76, 77, 78, 79, 84, 88, 89, 90, 91, 98
hairpins, copper-alloy, RB 237, 239
Halling, manor 77
Hammon, Edmund 97
Hann, Andrew see Dresser, Madge
Harbledown 171, 174
Harold, king 76
Harper, Russell, Sevenoaks & Around through Time, reviewed 319
Harreson, Elizabeth 177
Harrietsham 98
Creature as name 214
parish register 162, 164, 174
Harrington, Duncan, note on a rate assessment for St Mary, Lewisham (1770) 288-307
Harris, John 81
Harty 98
Harvey, John 178
Hasted, Edward 2, 3, 3, 8, 13, 80, 80, 84, 87, 88, 111
Hastings (Sussex)
Cinque Port 1-3, 4, 5, 23, 24
College 114
rape of 4, 5, 107, 114, 116, 117, 119, 124, 125
St Mary’s 112, 114
de Hastings family 5, 11, 12, 24
Hastings, Manasser de 4
Hastings, Robert de 4, 5
Hastings, Thomas de 6
Hastings, Sir William de 4
Hatton, Thomas 181
Haute family 42
Haward family 25
Haward, Anne 11
Haward, Thomas 11
Haward, William and Alice 11
Hawkes family 224, 225, 226, 227, 229, 230, 232
Hawkes, Abraham 183
Hawkes, Hannah 224, 226, 227-8
Hawkes, William 226
Hawkesborough hundred (Sussex) 107, 115, 117, 123, 124
Hawkhurst 109, 113, 115
parish register 160, 165, 171, 178
Hayman/Heyman, Nicholas, vicar 217
Hayte, Walter 285
Hayter, John 179, 180
Hazelhurst 113, 114, 115, 116, 118
Headcorn, Creature as name 214, 216, 217, 218
head manor (caput) 117, 119-20, 126
Helm, Richard, and Jake Weekes, ‘The early development of a Canterbury suburb? Romano-British and medieval archaeology at Nos 19 and 45-47 Wincheap’ 235-50
Henhurst hundred (Sussex) 107, 114, 115, 116, 117, 118, 123, 124, 126
Henry III 79
Henry VI 40, 41-2
Henry VIII 37, 155, 285-6
Henry of Blois, bishop 33
Henry of Eastry, prior 36
heraldry, at Godinton House, Ashford 223-33
Herne 98, 99
Hernhill, parish register 165
Hexden 120
Hexden Channel 120
Heyman, Peter, lawyer 217
Hieron, William, minister 180
High Halden 171, 178
High Weald (Eastern), 11th-century settlement 105-30
hinge pivot, iron 20
hobnails 134, 137
Holden, Creature 214
Holland, Hezekiah, minister 170, 183
Hollingbourne, parish register 165
Hoo 4, 77, 90
Horne, Robert 42
horse-harness pendants 20, 21
Hothfield 180
Hougham 173
Howline, Crature 218
Hubbard, Elizabeth 181
Huitson, Toby
Stairway to Heaven. The Functions of Med-ieval Upper Spaces, reviewed 310-12
book review by 312-13
Hull, William, vicar 164
human remains, Roman/RB 149, 237
Humfrey, Col. John 177
hundreds (and boundaries), and settlement 107, 111, 114-19, 115, 120
Huntt, Nicholas 178
Hyde, abbey and Abbot 34, 35
Hythe 5, 23, 165, 181
Ickham, parish register 165, 174
Iron Age, Grange 15; see also coins; Maid-stone: Church St; pottery; Rainham; Star Hill
iron slag 238
ironworking
Canterbury, RB 238, 246
Tonbridge 86
Iwade 171
Jeffery, Emma, Jonathan Cotton and Geoff Potter, note on a ring ditch in Sittingbourne 268-80
Jenken, Henry, mayor 178
jetton, French 21
Johnson, B., minister 177
Johnson, Robert, canon 284, 285
Jones, Howard Austin, ‘The Roman villa at Minster-in-Thanet. Part 9: an architectural reconstruction’ 189-207
Jordan, William 97
Jumpe, William, minister 163
Kadwell, George 184
Kemp, John, bishop 38
Kempe, John, archbishop 38, 39, 40
Kempe, Margery 209
Kenardington 171
Kendall, Peter, The Royal Engineers at Chatham 1750-2012, reviewed 317-19
Kent Archaeological Field School (KAFS) 260
Kent Archaeological Rescue Unit (KARU) 17
Kent History and Library Centre (annual bibliography) 329-31
key, iron, Roman 134, 137, 138
Killingray, David, book review by 316-17
Kinge, John 285
Kingsnorth 162
Kingston 171, 179
Kingston Downs, EIA settlement 265, 266
Kipps, John 184
Kittlestringe, Christopher 179
Kivill, Robert, JP 185
Knapp, Elizabeth and Revd Joseph 300, 304-5
Knatchbull, Mary 97
Knatchbull, Sir Norton 99
Knight, Henry, JP 180
Knighton, C.S., note on Acts of the Dean and Chapter of Rochester (1575-1584) 283-8
knives
Anglo-Saxon 263
medieval, iron 21, 239
Kyriell, Sir Thomas 41
Lambeth Palace, London 37, 38, 39
Lanfranc, archbishop 37, 76-7
Lankester, Agnes, Roger and Thomas 99
Lanyer, Martha 183
lathes 111, 119
lawyers 36
lead slag, Roman 15
Leaveland 174
Leeds, parish register 165
Leicester, earl of 101
Leigh parish 88, 90, 91
Lenham, parish register 163, 171, 181, 182, 183
Lesley, William 99
Levindale, William 96
Lewes Priory (abbey) 9, 34
Lewisham
Place House 305-6, 305
rate assessment for St Mary’s church (1770) 288-307
Leybourne, manor 77
Lilley family 219
Lilley, Creature 209, 218, 219
Lilley, Dorothy (née Saunders) 219
Lilley, Joan 218, 219
Lilley, Thomas 209
Lincoln, Mary 93
Lindly, Francis, pastor 160
Linton 171, 175
Linton, Robert 39
Littlebourne 98, 165
Little Chart 160
Creature as name 216, 217
Littlefield hundred 90
Livesey, Sir Michael 183, 184
Loe, William 185
London
clandestine marriages 186
connections with Christ Church Canterbury 33-46
Flower de Luce Inn, Southwark 35, 44n.4
High St Southwark 35, 35
hospital of St Thomas the Martyr, Southwark 23, 33, 34
mayors 8, 25
Roman stone structures, and ragstone trans-port vessels 253
St George’s 9
St Olave’s St (Royal Highway), now Tooley St 33, 35
see also Lambeth Palace
London Property Recovery and Accident Company 280, 281
Long, Andrew and Thomas 100
loom weights 51
RB, ceramic 237
Anglo-Saxon 263
Loose 171
Lossenham 120
Lower Halstow 24, 277
Lower Hardres 174, 177
Lucas, Mary 178
Luddenham, parish register 157, 171, 174
Luddesdown 77
Lydden 174
Lyminge 93, 163
Lathe of 112, 119
Lynsted 98
Macpherson-Grant, Nigel see Wilkinson, Paul
Maidstone
Barton Road, villa 255, 256
Bower Lane, villa 149, 255, 256
Church St see below
Crowhurst’s Stables 149
Earl St/Pudding Lane, RB ‘urns’ 149
Florence Road, villa 255
Fremlin Walk excavation 135, 137, 147-8, 148, 149, 150
Havock Lane 149
inhumation burials, Roman 149
Little Buckland Farm, villa 256
migration and mobility 98
parish registers 158, 160, 165, 171, 183
Roman period, and villas 255-6, 259; and see Church St below
St Faith’s St, RB ‘urns’ 149
Week St, RB building 148, 148, 149
see also Mount Villa
Maidstone: Church St RB settlement 131-51
animal bone, IA and RB 134, 138-41, 147
placed deposits 147
bird and fish bone, and eggshell 141-2, 145
brooch, LIA 132, 136, 137-8, 138
coins, LIA potin 132, 137, 147
ditches (boundary; enclosure), IA 132, 133, 134, 135-6, 137, 139, 141, 142, 143, 147, 148, 149
figurine, pipe-clay, Roman 134, 138, 138
finds, Roman 134, 137-8, 138
hearth or oven 132-3, 133, 134, 136, 142, 143-4, 146, 148
hobnails 134, 137
iron objects 137
key, iron, Roman 134, 137, 138
marine molluscs (shell) 134, 142
metalworking residues 144, 145
pits, RB 133-4, 133, 135, 136-7, 139-42, 144-7, 148
plant remains 133, 134, 143-7
cereal (spelt) processing 144, 145, 146
‘cumings’/malting waste 145, 146-7
radiocarbon dating 133, 134
postholes (G9), LIA 132, 143
Maidstone: Church St RB settlement (cont.)
pottery 134-7, 147
LIA/’Belgic’ 132, 134, 135, 136, 147
Roman 132, 133, 134, 135, 136-7, 138, 149
querns 134, 138, 148
trackway, Roman 132, 134, 137, 148, 149
Mallens, Robert 99
Malym, Henry and son Richard 219
Mandy, William 177
manors 117, 121, 126
Maplesden, John 284
Marden, parish register 165
Margaret of York 38, 41
Margate 93, 94
marine molluscs (shell) 17, 20, 24, 134, 142
Marler, James and James senior 218, 219
marriage licence allegations 93-4, 96, 98
marriages
recorded in parish registers 153, 155, 156, 158, 162, 163, 165, 166-9, 170, 172, 173, 174, 175-86
on Thanet 93, 94, 96, 98, 101-2
Marriot, Robert, clerk 183
mausoleum, Roman, Grange 15, 16, 18, 20
Meddens, Frank, and Gillian Draper, ‘”Out on a limb”: insights into Grange, a small member of the Cinque Ports Confeder-ation’ 1-32
Medway, quarrying 252-3
Medway Archives and Local History Centre (annual bibliography) 331-2
Medway Valley, Roman river navigability 251-60
Meopham, manor 77
Mercer, John, pirate 8
Merriman, Ann and Martha 224, 225, 228
Mersham 98, 180
Merton Priory 34
Mesolithic, at Grange 15; see also flints
metalworking see Canterbury: Wincheap suburb; Grange; ironworking; Maidstone: Church St; smithies
midwives 214, 216, 217
migration and mobility, on the Isle of Thanet 93-103
Milton 77, 99
Milton Regis 163, 171, 183, 277
Minster-in-Sheppey, parish register 160, 165, 179
Minster-in-Thanet
migration and mobility 94, 94, 96, 97, 99
Tothill St 191
Minster-in-Thanet: Roman villa
architectural reconstruction 189-207
Building 1 villa 191, 193-202
hearth 196
Building 3 bath-house 191, 199, 201, 202-3, 202
Building 4 east pavilion 191, 192, 193, 198, 199, 203-6, 204
Building 6 west pavilion 191, 192, 194, 198, 199, 203-6, 203
gateway (in south wall) 191, 192
glass for windows 201
large walled enclosure 191, 192, 193, 197, 201, 205
porticus 196, 198, 200, 201
trackway 191
villa setting 189-91
Minter, Ann 178
moated site see Grange
Molash 165
Monkton 94, 96, 97, 101, 147
Moraunt, Sir William 5
More, John 36
Morrice, Thomas 285
mount, copper-alloy 21
Mount Villa, Roman 137, 146, 149, 255
Mountstevan, John and son Thomas 99
Murston 171
Nackington, parish register 158
naming practices 209, 210-13; see also Creature
Neolithic
Canterbury, scraper 235
Grange 15
The Meads, henge 270
Sittingbourne 270, 277, 278
Star Hill 263, 264, 265
see also flints; pottery
Nethersole, William 97
Neville family 231
Newburgh, Nathaniel, rector 174
Newchurch, parish register 157
Newenden
parish 107, 109, 115, 120, 121
parish register 165
port 120
St Peter’s church 112, 113
Newill, Philip L.A., ‘The heraldry of Godinton House, near Ashford. Part 1: Introduction, Ward family heraldry and some miscell-anea’ 223-33
Newington near Sittingbourne 171
Newington-next-Hythe 171
New Romney 1, 21, 23
Nichols, John 12, 14, 19
Nizels 83, 86, 89
Nobisia, Andrea 100
Nonington
Creature as name 216
parish register 170
Roman brewing 147
Northbourne 98
Creature as name 216, 219
Northern Publishing Company of Belfast 280-1
Northfleet 77
villa 147
North Frith 84, 85
Norwood, Alexander 99
Nursted, parish register 158
Odiarne, Thomas 218
Odo, Bishop of Bayeux 1, 4, 11, 23, 24, 76, 77, 91, 120
Offham, manor 77
Olderst, William, register 178
Old Romney, parish register 163
Oliver, Katherine 180
Orchard, Libby 101
Orewell, John, goldsmith 37
Orlestone 98
O’Shea, Laura, and Jake Weekes, ‘Evidence of a distinct focus of Romano-British settlement at Maidstone? Excavations at Church Street 2011-12’ 131-51
Ospringe, parish register 165
Otford 77, 78
Otham, parish register 163, 173
Ouse Valley (Hunts.), 11th-century settlement and townships 106, 107-8, 110, 113, 116, 121-7, 122
ovens see Maidstone: Church St; Rainham
Owen, Evan ap and daughter Ann 100
Oxney 120, 121
Palaeolithic, handaxe 270
Pamplona, Brandeis 100
Panton, Frank, obituary 333-4
Pantrie, Mr, JP 184
parishes (parochia) 107, 114-16, 127
parish registers, Canterbury diocese 153-87
editing and omissions 163-4
entry-keeping during English Civil War and Commonwealth 153, 166-86
first paper registers 158, 159-61, 178
first parchment registers 158, 161-2, 178
Latin and English 164
opening year 153, 159, 162, 165-6
originals and copies 153, 159-62, 163-5
‘Registers’ (officials) 153, 169-72, 173, 174, 177, 184
on Thanet 101
Parker, Archbishop 155, 156, 157
Parker, George 99
Parramore, Thomas 98, 99
Partington family 224, 225, 226, 227, 228, 229, 230, 232
Patrixbourne 174
Pembury 79
pendant, gold, Anglo-Saxon 263
Penny, Stephen 96
Penshurst 40, 83, 87, 89, 90
perambulations, 13th-century 75, 79-91
Pettitt, Valentine 97
Pevensey manors (‘outliers’) 107, 117, 123
Pevensey Rape 117, 118
Philipot, Joan (née Sauneford) 6
Philipot, John 5, 6-9, 7, 12, 13, 24-5
Philipot, Margaret (née Stodeye) 7, 9
Philipot, Margery (née de Croydon) 6, 7
Phillips, Walter, dean 286
Piercebridge Formula 251-2
pin, bone, Roman 258
pintle, iron 21
placed deposits
animal bone 147
prehistoric pottery 267-8
placenames
early medieval settlement 108, 110, 111, 126
Grange (Grenic) 3, 12
plant remains see Maidstone: Church St; Rainham
Plaxtol 259
Plumer, Thomas 181
Porter, Sir John, parish priest 160
Portuguese, on Thanet 100-1
Potter, Geoff see Jeffery, Emma
pottery
prehistoric, placed deposits 267-8
Neolithic 265
Bronze Age
LBA 49, 50, 65, 68
post Deverel-Rimbury 47, 49, 55, 65, 67-8, 70
Iron Age 263
EIA group at Rainham 47-73
EIA fineware 265, 266
E-MIA 265
EMIA rusticated 266
MIA 50, 68
MIA saucepan pot 47, 49, 55, 67, 68, 70
La Tene/Marnian 47, 49, 67
LIA 132, 134, 135, 147, 235, 261, 266
LIA/’Belgic’ 47, 134, 135, 136, 147, 266
Roman 50, 132, 133, 134, 136-7, 149, 255, 258, 260, 266-7, 270, 273, 278
Alice Holt 240
BB2 136
black-burnished 134
central Gaulish micaceous ware 135
central Gaulish samian 134, 136, 138
Eastern Gaulish samian 134, 135
fine Upchurch-type 134, 137
fine whiteware 135
flint-tempered 134, 135
pottery, Roman (cont.)
glauconite-rich sand-tempered 134, 135, 136
grog- and shell-tempered 136
grog-tempered 134, 135, 240
grog-tempered ?R1 137
grog-tempered ‘Patch Grove’ ware 136
oxidised Upchurch-type 136
reduced sandyware (fabric R73) 136-7
sand-tempered ?LR2 137
South Gaulish samian 134, 136, 244
terra rubra 135
Early Saxon 267
Anglo-Saxon/Saxon 15
Frankish 263
medieval 17, 19-21, 22, 241, 242, 261
EM36 20
Fabric 3 (M38A) 20
fine sandy ware (fabric 6) 21
French Saintonge 19, 20, 21, 24
LM34B/MEDWHSCH or Medway hard silty-sandy ware 22
M38 fabrics 21
sand- and grog-tempered 21
sand- and shell-tempered 21
Powell, Richard 97
Prat, Mary 180
Pre-Construct Archaeology 14, 15, 18, 47
prehistoric
Grange 15
placed deposit of pottery 267-8
route across river at Tonbridge 76
see also flints; pottery; Rainham; Sitting-bourne, ring-ditch; Star Hill
Prentin, Francis, pastor 177
Preston next Wingham 170, 171, 174, 175
Pyne, Thomas, parish priest 160
quarrying, ragstone, Roman, and the Medway river 251-60
querns, RB 134, 138, 148, 237
Quintin, Frances, minister 177
Rabson, John 181
radiocarbon dating, Maidstone, plant remains 133, 134
ragstone quarrying, Roman 251, 252-3, 256-7, 259
Rainham, EIA pottery group from Manor Farm pub site, High St 47-73
animal bone 51, 69
ditches (enclosure) 49, 50, 51, 70
fenceline 51, 51, 70
flint (burnt) 51, 54, 68
flints (struck), Mesolithic to EBA 50, 51, 54, 69
loom weight 51
oven (‘Polynesian’) or storage heater (pit with burnt flint) 50, 52, 53, 69
parish register 172
pits, clay-lined 51
plant remains 51, 52, 54, 69
postholes 49, 50-1, 51, 52
pottery
LBA 47, 49, 50, 55, 65, 67-8, 70
IA/MIA 47, 49, 50, 55, 67, 68, 70
Roman 50
dating 67-8
fabrics 55, 65-7, 69
finishes 65
forms 58-65
rustication 55, 57, 65, 67
rectangular structure 50-1, 51, 52, 53, 70
roundhouse (post-built) 50, 51, 52, 53, 68, 70
stake holes 49, 50
Rameslie manor 5
Ramsgate 95
Randolfe, Alvered 97
‘rapes’ 116-17, 126
rate assessment (1770), Lewisham 288-307
Rawson, Francis, vicar 217
Reade, Alexander 180
Reculver 94, 98
Reibelius, Cornelius, doctor 101
Richard II 8
Rickard, John and two daughters called Creat-ure 214
Ridley, manor 77
Riggs, Mr, vicar 185
Riggs, Jane 181
ring (child’s bracelet?), copper-alloy, RB 239
ring-ditches
Sittingbourne 268-80
Star Hill, BA 265
Roades, Hannah 224, 227, 228
roads, Roman 15, 23, 24, 33, 148, 149, 190, 191, 255, 256, 257, 266; see also Watling Street
Rochester 78
Acts of the Dean and Chapter (1575-1584) 283-8
bridge 253-5
Consistory Court 288, 289
muniment volume 300
Roman 259
Rochester, bishop of 75, 77, 90, 127
Rockrey, Edmund 284
Rodmersham 162, 172
Rogers, Anne 179
Rolvenden
church 112, 113
hundred/parish 107, 109, 115, 120, 121
parish register 165, 172, 183-4, 186
Roman/Romano-British see Canterbury: Wincheap; coins; Grange; Maidstone: Church St; pottery;
quarrying; roads; villas
Romney Marsh 108
Rother River 107, 108, 109, 120
Rother Valley, 11th-century settlement 105-30
Rough, Daniel, town clerk 4, 6
Round, Dorothy 178
roundhouse see Rainham
Rowge, John, marbler 36
Ruckinge, parish register 163
Rushbourne near Westbere 99
Rye 5
Salehurst 109, 113, 114, 115, 116, 117, 118, 126
Salisbury, John, prior 36
Saltwood 173
Sandhurst 109, 112, 113, 115
parish register 165, 175
rector of 217
Sandwich 5, 23, 97, 98, 99, 101
Creature as name 216
parish registers 164, 172, 175, 177, 179, 184
Saunders, Bartholomew 96
Saunders, John 181
Saxon see Anglo-Saxon/Saxon
scissors, copper-alloy 21
Scobie, Christopher, Under Shrub Hill: A Chestfield Childhood, reviewed 319-20
Scott, Agnes (née de Beaufitz) 11
Scott, Sir John 11, 42
Scott, Peter 183
Seal, manor 77
Seasalter, parish register 160-1
Selbrittenden hundred 107, 115, 120, 121
Selkirk, Raymond 251-2, 259
Selling 176
servants
burial fees 156
migration and mobility 95, 96, 97, 98
settlement, 11th-century in the Eastern High Weald (Rother Valley) 105-30
Shadoxhurst, parish register 163, 172
Sharpe, Edward 180
Shaw, Amy 224, 227, 228
Shaw, David, book review by 315-16
Sheldwich 172, 176, 179
Shelvy, John 184
Shepley, Elizabeth 179
Shervie, John, register 184
Shipbourne parish 89, 90, 91
ship-service 1, 4, 5
Shirley, Richard, parish clerk 97
Sholden 174
Shonke, Mary 185
Shoyswell hundred (Sussex) 107, 114, 116, 117, 118, 123, 124
Sittingbourne 98
parish register 172, 175, 184
prehistoric ring-ditch 268-80
The Meads 270, 277, 278
Skoales, Thomas and daughter ‘Creter’ 218
slag 242; see also iron slag; lead slag
Smarden 99, 178
coin collection from pond 280-1
Smeeth 98
Smelt, Richard, fishmonger 6
Smith, Daniel 179
Smith, James 183
Smith, Luce 218
Smith, Thomas 97
smithies 86; Roman, see Canterbury: Wincheap suburb
Smyth, Walter and Robert 99
Snoad, Jane 180
Snodland, villa and stone bath 255
South Frith 84, 87, 89, 90-1
Southfleet, manor 77
Spateman, Sarah 224, 227
spears, Anglo-Saxon 263
Speldhurst 85, 90
Spenser, Henry 97
spur, iron rowel 21, 24
Stafford, Humphrey, duke of Buckingham 40
Stafford, Humphrey, earl of 39, 40
Stafford, John, archbishop 38, 39-40
Standish, Creature 218
Staple
Creature as name 216
parish register 165, 170, 171, 174, 175
Staple (Sussex), hundred 107, 116, 117, 118
Staplehurst
Creature as name 214, 216, 217, 218-19
parish register 161, 162, 165
Star Hill, Bridge
prehistoric 263-6
placed deposit of pottery 267-8
Neolithic flint and pottery 263, 264, 265
Bronze Age features 263, 264, 265
Iron Age
cremations 263
farmstead 265-6
LIA/ER cremation deposit 261
Roman 266-7
hexagonal feature, ?mid Roman 260-3, 266-8
Anglo-Saxon
burials and cemetery 263, 266, 267
coins 263, 267
pottery 260, 261, 263, 265, 266-7
Stephen de la Granche, duke of Brittany 3-4
Stephen of Penshurst 87
Stevenson, Jim, Living by the Sword: the Archaeology of Brisley Farm, Ashford, Kent, reviewed 309-10
Steyndrop, John 5
Stigand, archbishop 76, 89
Stokes, William 99
Stonar 95
Stone, John, monk 38, 39, 40, 41, 42, 43
Stone-in-Oxney 77
church 113, 113
parish register 161, 172, 186
Stone Wood 85
Stourmouth, parish register 164, 170, 171, 174, 175
strap-ends, medieval 21
Sturry 99, 162
Sutton Valence 170, 172, 173
Swalecliff 177
Swale River 4, 24
Swanscombe, manor 77
Sweetinburgh, Sheila see Craig-Mair, Veronica
Swift, William, rector 160
Swinford family 96
sword belt fitting 21, 24
Swyer, Katherine 98
Talbot, John, earl of Shrewsbury 41, 43
Tatnall, Valentine, shipwright 99
Taxatio (1291) 112, 114
Taylor, John 11
temple, Romano-Celtic 257
Temple Ewell, parish register 157
Tenterden
church 113, 113
godparents and baptism 212
hundred 120, 129n.14
parish register 165, 172, 178
Teston
bridge(s) 258
Roman site 251
villa 258
Textus Roffensis 11-12, 112, 125, 129n.4, 255
Teynham, parish registers 157, 164, 172, 173, 176
Thames River 34
Thanet (Isle of)
migration and mobility 93-103
parish registers 165, 172, 184-5
Thanington 96, 164, 165, 179
Thirsk, Joan, obituary 334-5
Thomas, Mike Seagar, ‘A regionally important Early Iron Age pottery group: the Manor Farm pub site, High Street, Rainham’ 47-73
Thornton, Alexander 93
Thorp(e), Catherine, drawing by 13, 13
Thurnham 186
Ticehurst 109, 114, 116, 118
tiles
Grange 17, 19-20
Roman 237, 239, 255, 258
imbrex 244
medieval 17, 246
Tyler Hill roof 246
Tilmanstone, parish register 158
Tiptoft, John, earl of Worcester 40, 41
toggle, bone 20
Toke family 223, 225, 231, 232
Toke, Thomas and Joan 223
tokens 280-1
lead 21
Tonbridge
castle 75, 76, 77, 79, 89, 91
Domesday 75, 77-9, 89, 90, 91
mapping the lowy 75-92
migrants 96
prehistoric route across river 76
Tovil
Mill 256-7
Roman site and features 251, 256, 258
transhumance 111, 112
Tudeley, manor 76, 77, 79, 88
Turner, Robert 179
Tutton, John 99
tweezers, copper-alloy, RB 239
Twiman, Henry 177
Twydall 11
Udall, Nicholas 210
Ulcombe 214
Upchurch 172
Upgate, Robert 5
Vaus, Walter and William de 28n.32
Venetians, on Thanet 100-1
Verrier, Richard and son ‘Creatour’ 216
villas, Roman 15, 24, 149, 189, 255-6, 257, 258, 259; see also Minster-in-Thanet
Waldershare 175
Wallis, Richard 99
Walmer, parish register 165
Walsingham, Sir Thomas 285
Walsingham, Thomas, chronicler 7, 8
Waltham 162
Wanes, Ronald 97
Wantsum Channel 94, 189, 190, 191, 201
ferry 191
Ward family 223, 224-5
heraldry 225-32
see also Bruce Ward
Ward, Rev. Charles (m. Susannah Foster) 224, 225, 228
Ward, Rev. Charles Bruce 224-5, 228
Ward, Rev. Francis (m. Margaret Bill) 224, 227
Ward, Rev. John (m. Ann Merriman) 224, 225, 228
Ward, John (m. Hannah Hawkes) 224, 227
Ward, Lydia 224, 225, 228
Ward, Margaret 224, 225, 228
Ward, Rev. Michael (m. 2nd Sarah Spateman) 224, 227
Ward, Michael (m. Hannah Roades) 224
Ward, Michael (m. Margaret) 224
Ward, Thomas (m. 2nd Amy Shaw) 224, 227
Ward, Thomas (m. Hannah Gill) 224, 225, 228
Ward, Thomas (m. Martha Merriman) 224, 225, 228
Warde family, of Sqerryes Court 230-1
Warehorne 180
Warkentin, Germaine et al. (eds), The Library of the Sidneys of Penshurst Place circa 1665, reviewed 315-16
Warren, Robert, token 280, 281
Washlingstone hundred 78, 79, 80, 85, 88, 90
Wassal 120
Watling Street 2, 3, 15, 23, 48, 270
Wealand, Margaret wife of 100
Webb, Richard 180
Webbe, Robert 99
Weekes, Jake, book review by 309-10; see also Helm, Richard; O’Shea, Laura
Welby, Peter 99
Wells, Sarah 184
Westbere 169, 172
West Farleigh 257
White, Elizabeth 179
White, Roger, tailor 99
Whitgift, John, archbishop 156
Whitsperhawke, Thomas and Creature 218
Whitstable 98
Wiborne, Percival, canon 284
Wickhambreaux, parish register 165, 172
Wild, Margaret and Richard 100
Wilde, Elias 185
Wilkinson, Paul, and Nigel Macpherson-Grant, note on investigations of an hexagonal feature at Star Hill, Bridge, 2003-2006: evidence of Iron Age and earlier occupation; Anglo-Saxon burials 260-8
Wilkinson, Richard 183
Willement, Thomas 223, 231-2
Willesborough, parish register 162
William I (the Conqueror) 76, 77, 116
Willoughby, Thomas, dean 283, 284, 285
wills 93, 96, 99, 102, 209, 218
window glass
Roman 201, 258
medieval 242
wine trade 20
Wittersham 98, 165, 172
Wolward, John 284, 285
Wood, Creature 214
Wood, Thomas, minister 170
Woodchurch 112, 113, 172
Woodgate, Edward, churchwarden 160
Woodnesborough, John, prior 38
wood pastures see dens
Woodruff, Simon and Robert 97
Woodville family 42
wool trade 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 24
Wootton, parish register 165, 177
Wouldham 255
Wright, David, ‘The earliest parish registers of the diocese of Canterbury: some observations, questions and problems’ 153-87
Wright, Elizabeth 96
Wrotham 77, 78, 79, 90, 289
Wrotham Heath, manor 77
Wyatt, Gill, ‘Migration and mobility in the Isle of Thanet in the late Elizabethan/Early Jacobean period c.1560-c.1620’ 93-103
Wye 185
Wyndham Green, Alan 223, 225
Wyze, Simon 9
Yevele, Henry, Master Mason 8
Zame, Camillo 100
Zeno de Castiglione, bishop of Bayeux 43