11 ANTIQUITATES SEU HISTORIARUM RELIQUI2E SUNT TANQUAM TABULllil
NAUFRAGII; CUM, DEFICIENTE ET FERE SUBMEllSA RERUM MEMORIA,
NIHILOMINUS HOMINES lNDUSTRII ET SAGAOES, PER'l'INACI QUA.DAM ET
SCRUPULOSA DILIGENTIA, EX GENEALOGIIS1 F'ASTIS, TITULIS, MONUMENTIS,
NUMISMATIBUS, NOMINIBUS PROPRilS ET STYLIS, VERBORUM ETY:MOLOGIIS1
PROVERlms, TRADITIONIBUS, ARCHIVIs,· ET INSTRUMENTIS, TAJ,{ PUBLICIS
QUAM PlUVATIS, HISTORIARUM FRAGMENTIS, LIBRORU:M NEUTIQUAM HISTORI·
CORUM LOCIS DISPERSIS,-EX HIS, INQU.AM, OMNIBUS VEL ALlQUIBUS,
NONNULLA A TEMPORIS DILUVIO ERIPIUNT ET CONSERVA.NT. RES S.A.NE
OPEROSA, SED MORT.A.LIBUS GRAT.A. ET OUM REVERENTIA QUAD.AM CON•
J UNCTA."
"ANTIQUITIES, OR REliilN.A.NTS OF HISTORY, ARE, AS WAS SAID, TANQU.AM
TABUL.lEl N.A.UFM.GII; WHEN INDUSTRIOUS PERSONS, BY AN EXACT .A.ND
SCRUPULOUS DILIGENCE AND OBSERVATION, OUT OF MONUMENTS, NAMES,
WORDS, PROVERBS, TRADITIONS, PRIVATE RECORDS AND EVIDENCES, FRAG·
MENTS OF STORIES, PASSAGES OF BOOKS THAT CONCERN NOT STORY, .A.ND
THE LIKE, DO SAVE AND RECOVER SOMEWHAT FROM THE DELUGE Oll'
TIME."-Advanccment of Lca;rnvng, ii.
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SOC IETIE S IN UNION.
For Inurc1,an/le o/ Publications, etc.
The Society of Antiquaries.
The Royal .Archooological Institute of Great Britain,
The British Archreological Association.
The Society of .Antiquaries of Scotland.
The Architectural Museum, 18 Tutton Street, Westminster.
The Numismatic Society.
The London and Middlesex Archreological Society.
ThP. Historic Society of Cheshire and Lancashire.
The Kilkenny and South-east of Ireland .A.rchreological Society.
The Lincoln Diocesan Architectural Society.
The Norfolk and Norwich Archreological Society.
The Suffolk Institute of Archreology.
The Surrey Archreological Society,
The Sussex Archreological Society.
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The Wiltshi.re Archreological and Natural Histo1·y Society.
The Somersetshi.re Archreological and Natural History Society, Taunton Castle.
Societe Archeologique de Dunkerque.
The Society of Antiquaries, Normandy.
The Society of Antiquaries, Picardy.
The Society of Antiquaries, Poitiers,
The Abbeville Society of Emulation.
The Bristol and Gloucestershi.re Arcbreological Society (Rev. W. Bazeley,
Matson Rectory, Gloucester).
The Cambridge Antiquarian Society (Rev, S. S. Lewis, Corpus Ch1isti College),
The Powysland Club, Morris C. Jones, Esq., Gungrog, near Welshpool.
Societa Romana di Storia Patria, Biblioteca Chigiaua, Palazzo Chigi, Roma.
The berbyshi.re Archroological Society (Arthur Cox, Esq., Mill Hill, Derby).
ABSTRACT OF PROCEEDINGS, 1880-1.
DuRING the Annual Meeting l1eld at Tenterdeu, on July 28th
and 29th, 1880, the p1·ogramme, pt'inted in Vol. XIII, pp. xlv,
xlvi, was satisfactorily carried out.
Members who reached Headcorn Station by the early tra.in
inspected two ancient houses, formerly cloth-halls, near the Church,
now occupied by Mrs. Paige a.nd Mr. Goodwin. In the 1atte1· the
spandrels of the tie-beams, iu the roof, bear the monogram "i. R."
a.ud a rebus formed of the h·tter "A.," and a chess-rook. The!le
suggest that the house was . probably built by some one named
Rook, whose initials, coupled with those of his wife, were I. and
.A. R.
At the meeting for despatch o:f business, held. in the Literary
Iustitut~, at Headcorn, the Earl Amherst presided ; and around
him were seated, Viscount I-Iolmesdale, Sir Edmund l!'ilme1•, M.P.,
Sir Walter Stirling, W. A. Tyssen-Amherst, Esq., M.P., Archdeacon
Harrison, Capt. Tylden-Pattenson, Canon Jenkins, Charles Powell,
Esq., Robert Furley, Esq., G. E. Hannam, 'Esq., J. F. Streatfeild,
Esq., H. B. Mackeson, Esq., Wm. Walter, Esq,, Rev. A. J.
Pearman, Canon Scott Robertson, General Dixon, Major Parker,
Capt. Hatfeild, J. :B~. Wadmore, Esq., Canon Weldon, etc., etc.
The following Report was read by Canon Scott Robertson, and
adopted by the meeting :-
In presenting the Twenty-third Annual Repo1t of the Kent Archreo1ogical
Society, the Council can once more congratulate its Members upon its progress
and prospects.
'.!.'hey are happy in being able to announce that all the papers for the
Thirteenth Volume of Ai•cltaJofogia Cantiana. are now printed. 1.'he illustrations
ru:e also complete, nnd a portion of the Index is ah-eady in type.
Neo.rly two yeors have elapsed since Volume XII was issued; and the
Council would desire to draw attention to the fact that, although the Society js
now ente1'ing upon the 1.wenty-foUl'tb year of its existence, the number of
volumes already issued is only twelve. Consequently the average rate of issue
of ou1· Arolucologia has, on the whole, been little more than one volume in two
years. •
xl KENT .A.RCH..EOLOGIC.A.L SOCIETY,
A.s the illustrations of the forthcoming Thirteenth Volume are forty-five in
number, and its lette1·press occupies about GOO pages, tbe value of this volume
will be fully equivalent to the amount of two years' subscriptions.
The balances standing to the Society's credit at tbe bankers amount to the
~um of £292, all of which, and more, will be required to defray the. bill of the
Society's printers for _printing and binding 940 copies of the forthcoming
volume. The main cost of its expensive illustrations has already been
defrayed.
The Society's numbers continue to increase, notwithstanding the lamented
deaths of many Members, and the withdrawal of others. Forty-eight Members
hnve joined the Society during the past twelve months; and fifteen candidates
await election at your hnncls to-day,
For the convenience of Member~ who may desil'e to possess an unfolded
copy of the chromo-litbograph of the plincipru. fresco iu the Crypt Chapel of
St. Gabriel, in Canterbury Catheilral, the Council caused fifty copies of it to be
prepared on larger papel' fol' sale to Members at 5s. a copy. About one half of
these copies still remain for sale to those who wish to preserve them unfolded,
in a portfolio or framed,
The remarkable and unique early frescoes in the Crypt at Canterbury being
very little known, you1· Council have caused fifty sets of the illust1·ations
prepared for our AralUl!olo(l·ia to be worked off on large paper for publication.
Each set of plates, being accompanied by 120 pages of descriptive letterpress,
will form a handsome royal quarto volume, to be sold to the public at £2 2s. Od,
each.
Duriug the early part of this year the site of the Premonstratensian Abbey
of St. Rhadegund, at J3radsole, near Dover, has been excavated; and many
discoveries have been made respecting the Abbey Chul'ch and buildings. Your
Council gl11dly assisterl by contl'ibuting £5 towards the cost of the excavations.
A. plan of the Abbey site has been prepared, and a copy of it will be found in
our temporai·y museum at Tenterden.
With reference t.o the earlier and more important branches of English
archreology, very interesting discovel'ies of Roman and Sai.on 1·emains have
been made during the past twelve months by an active member of our Society,
who is one of our local secretaries, Mr. George Payne, jun., of Sittingbourne,
Previous and similar results of his researches have been described by him in
several volumes of our .;frclu:eologia. His recent discoveries were made upon
three different sites-two in Sittingbourne and one in Milton. One site
yielded remains of three interments of Romans, and Mr. Payne preserved
works of a1·t in glass and in bronze, of the pllrest Roman period. Another site
in Sittingbourne disclosed two interments, one being that of the child of some
noble or wealthy Roman. The child's leaden coffin bears ornamentation which
is unique, and with it were found annillre, and a ring, a.a well as other objects
of interest and value. On the third site, which is in Milton, Mr. Payne opened
five Saxon graves ; having in previous years noted the opening of twenty-five
other and similar S.μ:on graves in the same field. He has kindly permitted
some of. the Roman remains to be exhibited in the temporary museum at
Tenterden .
.Another discovery of Saxon interments has occurred in Cliffe at Hoo,
during the present month of July, by labourers who are making the Hoo
Railway.
Friends in Tenterden, and its neighbourhood, have evinced a lively interest
in our meeting, and have done all they can to promote its success. Although
little or nothing remains of the monastic house at Mottenden, in Headcorn ; or
of the Abbfly of Loseoham, in Newenden ; and although the original man~ions
of the great families of Hales, IIarlakenden, and Guldeford, have for the most
part gone to such decay that they would not repay the ti•ouble of a visit; yet
there are inte1·esting churches which will be inspected, and the Council believe
that Members will enjoy the meeting. They will, at all events, be enabled to
examine the height, the symmetry, and the solidity of that steeple at
Tenterden, which has been proverbially associated with the ori,Erin of Goodwin
Sandi.
PROCEEDINGS, 1880. xli
Mr. George Payne, junior, was added to the Oouncil; Mr. R. C.
Hussey and Canon E. Moore were re-appointed as Auditors; and
nineteen gentlemen we1·e elected Members of the Society.
The Churches of Headcorn, Smarden, and Woodchurch were
then visited. Papers read there are printed in this volume, or will
be inserted in the next volume.
The Annual Dinner, held in the Town Hall at Tenterden, under
the presidency of Sir Edmund Filmer, M.P., was attended by 129
ladies and gentlemen.
After dinner, the Evening Meeting was held in Freeman's
Auction Room, where an admirable museum had been kindly
arranged with great labour anction of coins, charters, municipal maces,
pictures, etc. At tbe Evening Meeting the c1iair was at first
occupied by Captain Tylden Pattenson, and afterwards by the
Mayor of Tenterden. Papers were read by Mr. Furley ( On the
JJJa1·ly History of Tente1·den), the Rev. R. Cox Hales (On tlie H((.les
FamiM, Canon Jenkins (On the Gttlclefo1·d Family), and tho Rev.
A. J. Pearman ( On Tenterclen Okwrclt).
On the second day Appledore Station was the place 0£ 1·endezvous,
whence visits were made to the Churches of Appledore, Stone
in Oxney, and Wittersham. Luncheon was held in Wittersham
Girls' Schoolroom, under the presidency of the Rector and Rural
Dean, the Rev. S. H. Parkes. Thence one partv drove to Smallhythe
Church, and back to .A.ppledore Station. • The greater part
of the company, however, visited the Churches of Rolvenden and
N ewenden, and were entertained by Mr. nnd Mrs. Selmes at tea on
thei1• lawn at Losenham Abbey, whence Mr. Selmes conducted the
party to inspect the N ewenden earthwo1·ks. They then drove over
the marshes by Maytham Wharf back to .A.ppledore Station.
On Tuesday, Sept. 28th, 1880, the Council met at Canterbury
at the house of Canon James Craigie Robertson, who kindly permitted
its Members to assemble in his library. Twelve 0£ the
Council attended, and the Earl Amherst presided.
The Secretary laid on the table the earliest copy of .,frch11Jologia
Oantiana, Volume XIII, stating that it contained papers written by
twenty-eight different authors, that it was illustz•ated by fifty
plates and woodcuts, extended over 630 -pages, a.nd was the fifth
volume which Canon Scott Robertson had enjoyed the privilege of
editing for the Society.
The Secretary reported that, on tl1e 24th of September instant,
Mr. Neale's facsimile drawing (made at the Society's expense from
a wall painting in Canterbury Cathedral Crypt), representing The
Naming of St. Jol,,n. the Baptist, had been placed, duly framed and
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glazed, in the Library of the Dean and Chapter. Subsequently
the Council passed a resolution a"4thorising the Secretary to deliver
to the Rev. Canon James C. Robertson (Librarian of the Chapter
Library) the other drawings made by Mr. Neale, and used in the
illustrations of ..tfrclu.eologia Cantiana, Volume XIII, upon the distinct
condition that the said drawings shall be exhibited within the
Library, iu perpetuity, and shall on no account be removed from
the Cathedral precincts. Canon James C. Robertson guaranteed
that this condition should be complied with.
Votes of Thanks for assistance rende1·ed at the Society's
Annual Meeting, at Tenterden, were then accorded to Captain
Tylden-Pattenson, for making all the preliminary arrangements
resp~cting carriages and the dinner ; to Mr. Furley, Canon
Jenkins, the Rev. F. Haslewood, the Rev. R. C. Hales, the Rev. A.
J. Pearman, the Rev. W. B. Staveley, the Rev. E. :M:. Muriel, and
thP, Rev. M. D. French, £or Papers read by. them ; to the Rev. F.
Haslewood, the Rev. S. O. Tress Beale, Mr. J. Ellis Mace, junior,
and Mr. S. Willsher, for much help with the Museum; to Mr.
Outram, of the London and County Bank at Teuterden, for kindly
h:isuing tbe tickets ; to Mr. and Mrs. Selmes, of Losenham Abbey,
for hospitality and great assistance at Newenden; to Rev. F. B.
Wells and Mrs. Whelan, for hospitality; to Mr. T. H. Oyler, for
much valuable assistance at Headcorn; to Mr. _George Payne,
junior, for directing the carriages during both days; to Sir Edmund
Filmer, for presiding at the Dinner. .
It was resolved that tbe Secretary should investigate and report
upon the feasibility of holding the next Annual Meeting at Canterbury
with a view to visiting Wingham.
Mention was made of the discovery of wall paintings in Brooke
Church, 11ear W ve, and of the Archbishop's desire that something
might be done to rescue the ruins of the chancel of St. Pancras
Chapel (near St. Augustine's College, Canterbury) from the degradation
it now suffers at the hands of its owner.
The Bodleian Library at Oxford, and seven other applicants for
membership of the Society, were then elected to that privilege.
On Thursday, Dec. 30th, 1880, the Council met at Maidstone,
in the Society's Rooms. The Earl Amherst presided, and ten
members of Council attended.
It was resolved that the next Annual Meeting shall be held at
Canterbury, and tbat Wingham shall be visited on the second day.
Seventeen uew Members were elected.
On the 21st of March, 1881, the Council met at Canterbury, in
the Library of the Dean and Chapter. The Dean 0£ Canterbury
presided, and ten members of Council were present,
l'ROC:EEDINGS, 1881; xllii
The Report of the Local Committee £or arranging the Annual
Meeting was fully discussed.
Nine new Members were elected.
On the 21st of June, 1881., the Council assembled at the house
of the noble President in Grosvenor Square. The Earl Amherst
took the chair, and nine :Members were present.
The Secretary reported that he had visited Reculver, and in
response to his representations, the Director of Admiralty works,
Colonel Pasley, C.B., had courteously ordered that the work necessary
for protecting the newly exposed portion of the core of tbe
wall of the Roman Oast·rum, at Reculver, shall be so arranged as to
]eave visible the greater portion of the ancient work.
He reported likewise respecting the excavations at St.. Pancr.a.s
Chapel, Canterbury, which the Bishop of Dover and Canon Routledge
are conducting.
The programme of the Annual Meeting was finally settled.
Nine new Members were elected. •
On Wednesday, July 27th, 1881, the 'l'weuty-fourth Annual
Meeting of the Society was commenced, at Canterbury, by holding
the Business Meeting in the Schoolroom, or ancient upper ball (of
the time of Richard II or Henry IV), in the Hospital of St.
Thomas, at Eaatbridge. The Earl Amb<::1•st presided, and around
him were seated tbe Bishop of Dover, Sir Walter Stirling, Archdeacon
Harrison, Canon J. C. Robertson, General MacQueen,
Robert Furley, Esq., G. E. Hannam, Esq., the Rev. W. Temple
(Master of Eastbridge Hospital), Lionel Fletcher, Esq., W. 0.
Hammond, Esq., Captain Hatfeild, the Rev. T. A. Carr, Mrs. Carr
and Lady Oakeley, Colonel Hartley, General Dixon, the Rev. Dr.
Reyner, the Rev. W. 'Benham, Canon Scott Robertson, etc., etc.
The following Report was read and adopted :-
Tbe Twenty-fourth A.nnual Report of the Kent Archreologicnl Society is
being read at Canterbury, where the Fb:st an
Winchelsey, during three days Sept. 28-30, m 1295; Edward II
there visited Archbishop Reynolds in the summer 0£ 1824; and
Edward III was entel'tained by Archbishop M.eopham on the 20th
of April 1331. Not a vestige, however, can now be seen of the
archiepiscopal residen.ce.
The ancient gabled dwelling 0£ the Provost, called the College,
which, after the Dissolution, became the seat of the Palmer
baronets, remained standing until the middle of this century, when
it was pulled down and a new house was built upon its site. Its
destruction snapped another link between the modern village of
Wingham and its ancient glory. That Provost's House had been
at various epochs the residence of ecclesiastics, who eventually distinguished
themselves in tbe state, and attained high honours in
the Church. One of the earliest Provosts in the reign of Edward I
was Amadeus, son of the powerful Lord St. John. Among his
successors were William Reade, who became Bishop of Chichester
in 1869 ; Thomas Rotherham, Archbishop of York ; and :five Archdeacons,
four of whom were closely related to Archbishops. One
0£ them, Thomas Morton, was Archdeacon of Ely; thl'ee were
Archdeacons 0£ Canterbury, viz., Thomas Ohicheley, William
W arham, and Edmund Cranmer ; one Henry Ediall, was Arcbdeacon
of Rochester. The Canons' houses had been occupied by
men_ who subsequently achieved still higher honours. Archbishop
Wh1t~lesey, and Archbishop Kemp ; Richard. Courtenay, Bishop of
Norw1ch (1413-16); and Philip Morgan, Bishop of Worcester
(1419-25), and 0£ Ely (1425-3'7); John Stopyndon, Master of the
Rolla (1438-46); John Prophet, Dean of York (1416); Vincent
Clement, Archdeacon of Huntingdon, Wilts, and Winchester
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CANONS' ROUSES AT WINGHAM. li
(1458-'72) ; and several ecclesiastical judges who dispensed justice,
as Dean of the Arches or as Chancellor of the Archbishop, had occupied
Canons' stalls and houses at Wingham.
From traces of, important ruins discovered in the garden of the
modern Vicarage-house, we may infer that the residences of the
Canons extended southward £rom the street for a conside1·able
distance. Probably they may have been erected around a
quadrangular close, of which the north side stood in the present
street, and the eastern side abutted upon the high road which leads
to Adisham. It is a very singular fact that these Canonical bouses
in Wingham were accounted to stand within the liberty of the
Cinque Port of Hastings.
There were six Prebendaries or Canons, and each of them was
bound by the College statutes .to reside here during at least four
months of every year. In 1511 there were also four Vicars
Choral, one Stipendiary Chaplain, £our Choral Olerlrn, and two
Choristers attached to the College. Nor was this the full complement
o:f the staff comtemplated by the statutes 0£ foundation.
The number of Vicars Cboral should have been eight, each of them
in Priest's or Deacon's orders ; and there should have been four
trained choristers. Consequently the Collegiate buildings must
have occupied a considel'able area. When the College was finally
dissolved in 1547-8, pensions £or life were assigned to the o:fficia1s;
and no less than fourteen of them survived until tbe reign of Queen
Mary, when they were still receiving these annual allowances.
In the Prebenda.1-house attached to his Wimelingwelde
Canonry, Dr. William de Heghtresbury ma.de bis will in the year
1372. Yet he was buried in Ickham Church, of which he was Rector.
Private Chapels were attached to some, at least, of the Canons'
houses here. '.l'his fact has been made memorable by a curious
incident which occurred about the year 1360. Dugdale* narrates
how a niece of Edw. III, the Lady Elizabeth, daughter of the
l\farquess of Juliers, Earl of Cambridge, became a veiled nun after
the death, in 1852,, 0£ her husband, John, Earl of Kent, brother
of the fair Joan of Kent who married tbe Black Prince. N evertheless,
she subsequently forsook her vows, and was i,ecretly married
to Sir Eustace D' Aubrichecourt in the Chapel of the dwelling-house
of Robert atte Brome, a Canon of Wingham. .
Which of the Prebenda.l houses was occupied by him we
ca.nnot clearly ascertain ; but it was either that 0£ the Peddin~ odr
0£ the Bonington C1monry. RobE.'lrt atte Brome, no doubt, derive
his name £l'om a.n estate in Barham, which gives its name _to Brome
Park the chief seat 0£ the Oxenden family. Re remained in tosst3-
sion of his Oanonry and Prebendal-house here until 1372, w dn !
was buried in Wingham Church. His will is preserve . a·
Lambeth ; in it he remembered all his colleagues here, beq:1ea.thingd
to each Canon :five marks (£3 6s. 8d.); 13a. 4d. to each V1car, an
20a. to the Little Clerks (par-vis cle1·icis ).
ll' JJa1·m1age, ii., 96.
Iii CANONS' HOUSES AT WINGHAM.
Whethex he shared in the punishments awarded £or the
clandestine marriage, we cannot say; but the lady who broke her
religious vows, and her husband, were both of them subjected to
severe penances during the whole subsequent course of their
lives.
Respecting the dwelling attached to the Chilton Ca.nonry,
which Archbishop Whittlesey once occupied, it is recorded that, in
1511, when Ambrose Payne was its incumbent, the house so
greatly needed repair as to be nearly ruinous. Canon Payne had
obtained the Chilton Prebend in April, 1499, and he held it until
1521, when he exchanged it £or a Canon's stall in the Collegiate
Church of Hastings. Whether he repaired the dwelling-house, or
suffered it to fall down, we are not informed.
Mr. Parker says, in his Domestic .A.rchitectwre of the Mi,ddle
.Ages, that at Wingham there are several timber and half-timber
houses 0£ the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, and one of the
fourteenth.* He ascribes the latter to the reign 0£ Edward III, t
and gives an engraving of the well-moulded barge-hoard in its
gable.t One of the fifteenth century houses at Wingham,
which Mr. Parker engraves,§ seems to be identical with that
Prebendal-house which stands nearest to the spectator in Mr.
Wadmore's sketch here given, This house contains on the ground
floor, a panelled ceiling, identical with or very similar to that of the
:fi:ft<>enth century which Mr. Parker has engraved upon an earlier
pa,ge of his work, lj The remoter dwelling-house sbewn in Mr.
W admore's sketch 1s now the Red Lion Ion, much frequented by
artists and tourists, where the Bench of Magistrates sits once a
month, and where the members of the Kent Archreological Society
obtained their luncheon on the 28th of July, 1881. Many of its
rooms are of great interest to the Antiquary ; and one of the
smaller windows in the upper storey 0£ its front seems to be 0£ a
date almost as early as the reign of Richard II.
* Vol. iii., 308.
§ Vol. iii., 308.
w. A. SCOTT ROBERTSON.
t Vol. ii., 288.
II Vol. iii., 127,
t Vol. ii., 30,
