Tithe Apportionment for Lympne

Lympne - Maps and Tithe award schedules Population 1801 to 1921 Lympne Tithe award schedule  119KB - signed 21st September 1841     With names of landowners, occupiers and fieldnames with acreages, and tithe payments Back to List of Kent Maps, Tithe awards/schedules For details about the advantages of membership of the Kent Archaeological Society   click here Back to Research         Back to Homepage

Lympne Tithe award schedule - signed 21st September 1841 Back to Lympne Maps etc Information kindly provided by  Pat Tritton Owner Occupier No. Description Cultivation Quantities Vicarial Appropriator Remarks Sheet 1 Edward    Andrews Thomas    Austin John    Bridger William    Bridger Thomas  Charles Burt Sir John William   Bead   Brydges,      Baronet Rev  Champneys Sheet 2 William    Down Richard    Impett Daniel Taylor & others John Crust  & others Richard    Impett John    Cowell William  Keeler  & others James    Buss Henry    Cook Ann    Fuller Thomas    Austin Rev  Champneys John Knowles & others William    Marchant 137 146 242 77 234 111 103 106 107 235 139 140 1 348 64 65 5 330 10 2 3 4 6 7 8 9 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 25 26 27 28 24 191 193 213 306 307 House & garden    in 3 parts --- House garden    & Office house House Garden    & Office house House & Garden Spry field Five acre field House field Spring field House and Garden Five acre field Gravelly field Twenty acre field Small field --- --- Harringe Brook Wood Plantation House and Garden --- Greeks Long Meadow Great field Tery Wood Garden field Fen acre field Hills Meadow --- --- --- --- House field House & two Gardens Office houses & Farm   yards in three parts Hoath Ash Close Pound field --- Benhams Meadow Benhams Meadow Broom field Small Wood House and Garden    Great Otterpool Marsh Marsh Little forty Road side Otterpool --- Pasture --- --- --- Pasture Pasture Pasture Pasture --- Arable Arable Arable Pasture Meadow Pasture Wood --- --- Arable Pasture --- Arable Wood Meadow Arable Meadow Meadow Pasture Arable Hops Pasture --- --- Pasture Pasture Arable Plantation Pasture Meadow Meadow Wood --- Pasture Pasture Arable Shrubbery Pasture 0.1.13 1.1.14 1.2.27 0.2. 4 0.1. 4 0.0.34 6.3. 3 4.1.23 13.3. 4 20.1.27 38.2.14 0.1.14 6.1.17 11.3.37 18.1.14 29.1.33 0.0.32 0.2.23 0.0.  4 0.2.29 51.0.17  1.0.35 52.1.12 0.0.18 3.1.26 13.0.29 3.2.17 134.3. 0 4.2.27 5.3.15 10.3.17 1.1.18 3.3.29 4.2.20 3.1. 8 5.0. 3 2.1.34 0.1.31 0.1.30 22.3.17 8.3.20 85.2.19 0.0.37 4.1.11 8.1.27 4.3.28 2.0.35 0.1.23 13.3. 5 9.2.22 15.3.26 0.1. 9    1.2.19 375.0. 2 0. 6. 8 0. 1. 6 1. 1. 0 6.13. 0 0.18. 0 1. 7. 0 0. 0. 8 0. 2. 6 5. 9. 6 25.16. 6 6. 9. 8 ?11.15. 8 86. 0. 0 Owner Occupier No. Description Cultivation Quantities Vicarial Appropriator Remarks John    Cowell Venerable  James Croft, Archdeacon of Canterbury Sheet 3 John    Cowell James    Baker Himself Stephen  Foreman & William  Gardner Henry    Ovenden William    Pilcher Rev Edwin   Biron 54 208 76 55 59 60 63 270 278 51 346 49 52 53 257 258 259 260 264 267 269 253 254 255 256 265 266 Black Rills Corner field Two Houses & Gdns House & garden Cliff Cliff Lympne Park Wood Wood in 3 parts House and Garden    New Cottage House and Garden House and Garden Barn field Eye field Walnut Orchard Apple Orchard field Spring field Office houses & Yards    in 2 parts Wood field --- Hop Garden field House and Garden House field --- Alders --- --- Pasture Pasture --- --- --- Planting Wood Wood --- --- --- --- Arable Arable Pasture Pasture Pasture --- Pasture Pasture Arable --- Pasture Pasture Pasture Pasture Pasture 3.0. 4 8.2.17   0.1. 3 11.3.24 0.0.18 1.3.39 2.3.20 51.2. 3 4.3. 2  54.1. 9 115.1.33 0.0.28 0.0.18 0.2.24 25.3. 0 51.1. 0 1.3. 0 1.0.29 4.3.29 0.2.19 6.1.39 5.2.34   4.1.36 102.3.10 0.1.23 2.3. 4 1.0.29 1.1.17 2.2.14  2.2.29 10.3.36 2.12. 0 8. 5. 4 7. 3. 1 2. 9.10 28.10. 0 Owner Occupier No. Description Cultivation Quantities Vicarial Appropriator Remarks William    Day William    Deedes      Esquire Sheet 4 William Cheesman William    Deedes      Esquireelf John    Burch Odiane   Cassingham 175 176 316 134 136 263 132 133 135 138 148 149 336 337 339 342 128 --- --- House and Garden Bound Wood Wood field Slip in Newingreen Great field Fern field Wood field High park Collins field Collins field House field House and Garden    in 2 parts Office houses and    Gardens in 4 parts Cliff Court up Meadow Meadow --- Wood Pasture Wood Arable Pasture Pasture Pasture Arable Pasture Pasture --- --- --- Arable 2.1.32 1.2.18 0.0.18 4.0.28 15.3.13 2.2.27  1.0.23 19.2.25 39.1. 2 7.2.16 4.3.27 3.2.29 7.3.31 7.1. 2 1.0.32 0.1.15 0.3.18  0.2. 1 75.3. 3 33.1. 0 0.17. 0 1.13. 4 6. 0. 4 1.13. 0 17.10. 0 11. 0. 0 Mrs Phabe     Down William John     Evelyn Richard    Impett Miles  & others Stephen  Southon, junr Robert    Thompson David    Andrews Mrs ?  Edwards    & others Robert    Austin 104 338 204 320 232} 233} 247 246 56 57 58 271 272 273 274 275 276 277 287 189 300 301 302 303 304 Cade Land House and garden Marsh Marsh Cade Land House and Garden House and Garden One acre field Eighteen acre field Beacon field House field --- Office & Farm yard House & Garden House field House field --- Globe field Deal field Pond field Middle field Cliff field Near field --- Arable --- Pasture Pasture Pasture Pasture --- --- Pasture Arable Arable Meadow Arable --- --- Pasture Pasture Arable Arable Meadow Pasture Pasture Arable Ravine Arable 13.2. 2 0.0.24 5.2.24 22.3.30 28.2.14 6.1.10  9.3.34 16.1. 4 0.0.13 0.0.19 1.0. 4 17.2.16 6.3.13 2.0.24 2.0.12 0.2.30 0.0.17 1.2.32 4.2.14 6.3. 8 5.0.35 1.3.15 6.1.11 4.1.38 3.1. 0 0.0.21 14.2.29 79.1.39 2. 9. 9 6. 1. 6 3.10. 0 6. 3. 1 21. 4.18 Owner Occupier No. Description Cultivation Quantities Vicarial Appropriator Remarks Sheet 5 William John     Evelyn John &  Francis    Chittenden Venerable  James Croft, Archdeadon of Canterbury Edward    Carter     Hughes 118 280 285 282 284 71 108 109 110 112 113 114 115 116 117 119 120 121 122 123 185 186 222 230 House and Garden Folks Wood --- --- Buck White field Fourteen & Twenty   seven acre field Part of acre field Pigeon house field Hse & Yard in 2 parts Heart Hill Cow field Little Wellhouse Side of Cliff Longham Rocky field Great Wellhouse Sanfoin field Small Profits Hop Garden Small Wood Wellhouse Wood Maxted field Garden --- --- Wood Wood Arable Arable Arable Arable Arable --- Pasture Pasture Arable Shrubbery Arable Pasture Arable Arable Arable Hops Wood Wood Meadow --- Pasture 0.0.27 13.2. 6 2.0.30 2.1.34  2.2.13 20.3. 2 40.2.24 6.0.38 3.0.27 1.2.17 6.0.24 12.3.34 4.3. 8 3.3.16 4.2.14 13.0.37 15.2.19 9.3.34 7.1. 7 4.2.25 2.1.17 25.2.24 3.0.21 0.1.11    0.1. 4 166.2.11 1. 9. 0 12.11. 0 1.15. 0 35. 0. 0 Sheet 6 John    Figg John    Friend Edward    Impett Thomas    Mount George  Mummery &Thomas Taylor Thomas    Brooks John    Farris John    Friend 75 82 85 86 97 241 98 99 279 283 288 305 268 311 144 209 ---- House & Garden Four Office houses and    yard in 4 parts House field Spout field Garden field Lower Marshall field Upper Marshall field Folks Wood Broom field Beacon field --- House and Garden House House & Garden Marsh Arable --- -- Pasture Pasture Arable Pasture Pasture Wood Arable Arable Arable --- --- --- Arable 1.2.30 0.1.19 0.1. 1 4.0.39 11.3.18  6.1. 9 24.3. 4 13.2. 0 8.1.21 8.3.13 8.3. 8 41.0. 7  0. 2. 2 81.0.11 0.0.38 0.0.11 0.0.31 3.3. 9 3. 7. 0 6.14. 0 0.0. 5 0. 5. 6 5.17. 0 19.16. 0 2. 0. 0 Owner Occupier No. Description Cultivation Quantities Vicarial Appropriator Remarks Folkestone  Town, of  Charity Land Richard  Springett   Harvie Richard    Hills Thomas    Hills George    Wanstall James    Watts James    Watts Richard    Hills Thomas    Hills George  Austen & others 91 92 93 94} 95} 96} 105 225 231 173 174 201 202 203 11 141 309 Five acre field Houses Yard & Gdn Dial field -- Creeks --- Brownings Little Islands Five acre field Brattle Land Brattle Land Brattle Land Brattle Land Brattle Land House & Garden Sellenge Meadow Houses & Garden Arable --- Arable Pasture Pasture Pasture Pasture Oziers Arable Arable Pasture Pasture Pasture Pasture --- Pasture --- 5.2.25 0.2.13 3.2. 0 10.3.34 6.2.12 4.0.28 11.1.31  1.3.16 44.2.39 5.1.17 9.3. 2 5.2.32 4.3.33 8.2.13  82. 6 37.2. 6 0.1. 0 5.3.32 0.0.35 5.10. 0 0. 6. 0 5.10. 0 0. 3. 0 1. 3. 3 3.13. 0 2. 6. 0 3.13. 0 Sheet 7 John  Hogben Sir John  Edward    Honywood Mrs Mary  Ann Hogben Sir John  Edward    Honywood Henry    Sampson Elijah    Mockett Stephen   Southon,     junior 248 184 48 124 125 126 127 156 157 158 159 160 183 187 192 194 217 218 219 220 181 314 206 198 199 200 House and Garden Eldergate Wood Part of small Orchard Hawthorn field Cold Harbour Reynold field Twenty four etc Three acre field Thirty acres Slade field House field House Garden etc Lodge field Marsh Marsh Marsh Cliff Office Houses     & farm yard Farm yard & Houses House and Garden Thirty acre field Part of Garden Elm field Marsh House field Stone Bridge field --- Wood --- Arable Pasture Arable Arable Arable Arable Pasture Pasture --- Pasture Meadow Arable Arable Wood --- --- --- Pasture --- Pasture Pasture Pasture Pasture 0.2.17 13.1. 0 0.0.17 28.2.19 6.1. 4 11.1.21 40.0. 6 3.0.12 28.2.34 9.2.23 6.1.31 0.2. 6 11.0. 6 4.0. 6 27.0. 0 7.0.13 0.2.31 0.2.13 0.2. 4 0.0.29  39.0.  0 224.3.39 0.0. 9 14.3.30 46.0.13 13.0.27 16.2.10 90.3. 0 0. 5. 0 1. 6. 6 19. 1. 6 17. 0. 3 36. 0. 0 Owner Occupier No. Description Cultivation Quantities Vicarial Appropriator Remarks Sheet 8 Stephen   Southon,     senior James  Watts 129 130 131 142 150 154 162 163 164 165 169 377 308 325 326 330 331 329 212 Large field --- --- Nine acre field House field Barn field Hammel --- Chapel field Corbet field Side field Slip Garden in two parts Chapel field --- Dwelling house office     & yard Apple Orchard Slip ?Maldon Lees Arable Hops Wood Arable Arable Arable Pasture Wood Arable Pasture Pasture Pasture --- Pasture Pasture --- --- Pasture Pasture 74.3. 6 9.0.13 1.0.38 9.3. 5 5.2.30 12.3.30 0.2.26 2.2. 6 8.2.10 4.2.25 19.2.32 3.1.10 0.0.37 4.0.39 4.0.17 0.2. 9 0.1.23   2.0.24 164.2.20 10.2.38 11. 0. 0 2.11. 0 44.15. 0 William    Hughes Thomas    Imfield George    Knott Sheet 9 Clerk of    Lympne Parish  Surveyors of    Lympne William   Marchant James    Watts Thomas    Imfield Edward    Everest John    Sherwood Themselves William   Marchant 211 214 319 210 223 165 29 30 31 38 39 40 41 42 43 2?? 243 230 251 262 309 81} } 328 237 Two acre field Office houses & yard   in three parts Marsh field House & Garden House & Garden House and Garden Brooks Gumm field Great field Forge field Green ???g??hs Old Hop Garden Forge field --- Barn and Yard Road & Barn Garden House & Farm Yard    in four parts --- Wood in four parts House & Garden Cliff Honeypot Lane Chapel Garden     & House Pasture --- Pasture --- --- --- Meadow Arable Arable Pasture Meadow Arable Arable Arable Meadow --- --- --- --- Wood Wood --- --- --- --- 2.1.34 0.3.14 3.3. 4 0.0.31 0.0.38 7.2. 1 0.1. 4 6.3.13 18.3. 9 109.3.38 8.3. 8 7.2.23 20.1.25 3.2. 2 84.3.11 4.2.14 0.0.31 0.1.33 0.0.36 1.0.17 2.0.14   0.0.23 201.1.27 0.0.27 0.0.19 0.1. 6 1.0.17 0.2. 3 1.12. 8 0. 2. 6 0. 5. 0 Owner Occupier No. Description Cultivation Quantities Vicarial Appropriator Remarks William   Marchant John    Newman John Camden    Neale George    Young John    Newman John    Figg 89} 90} 236 44 45 46 47 50 252 281 147 151 152 155 170 171 172 315 321 322 323 327 French field --- Office House Garden    and Dwelling House Four acre field Mow field Barn field --- Moat Hill field House & Garden Folks Wood Honeypot Eleven acre field Barn field Garden field Cliff Shaw field Honeypot Shaw Seventeen acre field Hammell Eight acre field Six acre field Office Houses &     Farm Yards House field Arable Meadow ---- Arable Pasture Pasture Arable Pasture --- Wood Arable Arable Arable Shrubbery Arable Wood Pasture Arable Pasture Arable --- Arable 7.3. 5 2.2.26  0.0.21 10.2.12 4.1.17 5.0. 6 4.2.19 9.0. 3 7.2.29 0.1.38  3.1.  4 34.1.36 11.2. 4 4.3.26 4.3.17 0.2.14 2.3. 0 2.2.13 17.0.35 1.1.36 8.1.13 5.3.32 0.1. 0  3.0.13 63.2. 3 0.18. 0 4. 0. 0 4.10. 0 3. 7. 0 5.18. 0 12. 8. 0 Sheet 10 Her Majesty’s  Board of    Ordnance George    Finn James     Watts Her Majesty’s  Board of    Ordnance 161 166 167 168 178 179 180 182 313 332 333 334 335 341 343 344 345 150 195 196 197 205 190 228 229 261 290 Brents Rocky field Stable field Raddish Twelve acres Six acre field Little Brents Great Brents Three acre field Cliff House field --- Spot --- Orchard Office Houses & Farm    Yard in two parts Small field House & Orchard House and Garden Marsh Marsh Marsh Gulls Canal Canal Towing Path --- Towing path Road Arable Pasture Arable Pasture Pasture Pasture Pasture Pasture Shrubbery Pasture Pasture Pasture Garden --- --- Pasture --- --- Pasture Pasture Pasture Pasture --- --- --- Pasture --- 14.1. 0 8.2.20 5.2.31 12.2.10 7.2. 4 7.1.30 12.1.29 2.2. 3 0.1.38 5.3.27 6.2. 8 0.2.30 0.1. 8 0.0.28 0.1. 8 0.0.31  0.0.18 85.3. 3 0.0.37 8.2.13 7.3.23 12.0.21 12.0. 5 40.2.22 7.2.29 1.2.19 0.2.20 0.0. 6  2.1. 9 12.1. 3 7.17. 6 6.19. 0 9.14.10 Owner Occupier No. Description Cultivation Quantities Vicarial Appropriator Remarks Her Majesty’s  Board of    Ordnance Sheet 11 Rachael    Plank Mrs Mary     Ralph Mrs Elizabeth   Rennick John     Rolfe James    Sharpe Edward    Hughes Richard    Impett Charles  Baker & others Richard    Vidgeon Richard    Paine James Ellis & others Elizabeth    Figg John     Rolfe Paine 188 189 221 226 227 318 312 324 240 310 145 238 239 Banquette or     Broad Rd Rampart Part of Rampart or    Broad Road Banquette Rampart Banquette & Rampart    Studfall house House & Garden     in 4 parts House and Garden Garden Four Houses Gardens     etc Garden House and Garden House Yard & Mill Pasture Pasture Pasture Pasture Pasture Pasture --- --- --- --- --- --- --- 6.0.39  5.1.17 11.2.16 0.3.17 1.1. 2 1.1.34 0.0.30 3.3.  3 0.0.23 0.0. 6 0.0.14 0.1. 8 0.1. 0 0.0.20 0.0.13 1. 3. 2 0. 7. 6 0. 3. 0 0. 2. 6 0.10. 0 William     Stevens Henry    Stoakes Viscount    Strangford Martha    Tournay George    Wanstall Charles    Willis William  Stevens  & others William  Syerrell  & others Henry    Stoakes John    Kingsnorth Robert    Castle William Hills & others William    Poss 84 79 80 32 33 34 35 36 37 249 317 286 243 67 68 101 102 Cottage and Garden    in two parts Three Houses    & Gardens Two Houses & Gdns --- --- --- --- House and Garden --- Plantation --- Wood field House & Garden Studfall Studfall House & Gdn --- --- --- Arable Pasture Pasture Pasture --- Pasture Wood Pasture Arable --- Pasture Pasture Pasture --- 0.3.36 0.2.14 0.0.35 3.3.21 3.1.24 3.1.36 3.3. 1 0.0.26 3.1.11 0.1.37  6.0.  0 26.1.36 33.2.30 0.0.11 1.3.31 0.1.22 1.0.10 0.1. 7 3.2.30 0. 7. 0 0. 2. 6 4. 0. 3 1. 5. 8 0.17. 9 1.10.10 12.13. 3 Owner Occupier No. Description Cultivation Quantities Vicarial Appropriator Remarks Sheet 12 Charles    Willis Stephen    Wratten Venerable  James   Croft, as Archdeacon of Canterbury  (Rectorial     Glebe) Rev Edwin    Biron   (Vicarial        Glebe) James     Watts Stephen    Wratten Thomas    Mount John Baker & Mark   Newman Thomas    Mount 100 207 340 61 62 66 69 70 73 74 87 88 214 215 216 347 78 83 72 Windfall field House & Garden Garden Beacon field Hog Brook Foddering Close Slip Pond Close Signal field Northern Town Forge field Eighteen & twelve     acre field Stake field Inner twelve acres Broom field House and small field Old Castle Office   Houses & Farm Yard Vicarage House     & Garden Church Yard Pasture --- Garden --- --- Pasture Pasture Pasture Pasture Arable Arable Arable Arable Arable Arable --- --- --- --- 15.0.26 0.0.23 0.0.  7 0.0.30 15.2. 5 3.1.34 5.3. 9 2.2.26 4.1. 7 1.1.24 15.1. 2 15.0. 9 32.3. 7 22.1. 4 12.1.24 5.1.20 0.2.35   1.0.39 138.1.38 0.0.38 1.3. 5 2.0. 3 3. 8. 3 0. 2. 0 10. 0. 0 0. 5. 0 35. 0. 0 Whilst every care has been taken in transcribing information from old records which in themselves are prone to error or  misinterpretation, visitors to this site need to recognise that there will be errors. 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Some Monumental Inscriptions of Lympne Church

Some Monumental Inscriptions of Lympne Church, noted by Rev Bryan Faussett noted 1757. Kindly typed up for the website by Pat Tritton.

In The Chancell.
1. On a Flat Stone, with this Coat. (Dexter side not drawn, but inscribed FINCH as before, Page 7.11. Per salt. c’changed arg. & gu. 4 ++lets c’changed [Agst. this coat is written] These are Arms of TWYSDEN). Here lieth interr’d The Body of Mrs Sarah, ye Wife of Mr John Finch of This Parish, who departed this Life, Aprill 19th 1702. In The 37th Year of her Age. She had Issue 2 Sons, namely Tilden, who lies interrd at Saltwood; and William who lies in this Church Yard. He died in ye 2d. Year of his Age. Here also lieth ye Body of John Finch of Limpne Gent. Eldest Son to George Finch of Wye, Gent. by Mrs Jane Twysden his First Wife, Daughter to Thomas Twysden of Wye Gent, long since deceased. Baptised in ye Year of Our Lord God 1635, on Michaelmass Day, and was interrd under this Stone 7 Feb. 1707/8. Aged 73.

2. On Another Flat Stone. Here lieth The Body of Elisabeth, Daughter of Peter BOWNEY, Minister of this Parish, and of Elisabeth his Wife. She departed this Life May 31 A.D. 1671. Aged 1 Year and 7 Months. And, must it be so? Yes, ye know,/That, Death, because of Sin’s our Foe./Nor Young, nor Old, nor Rich, nor poor,/Can ‘scape Death’s Stroke, it is so sure./When many spend much Time in Pleasure,/Thou soon was’t took to Heaven’s Treasure./Rest, Little Corpse, from Sin and Pain,/Till Soul and Body meet again./Then, Thou that read’st, think, what here lies;/And, in Thy Day, learn to be wise.

3. There is a very Ancient Altar Tomb in the South Wall of this Chancell; but The Inscription is entirely defaced and gone.

In The North Isle.
4. On a large Flat Stone – with this Coat. [On a bend 3 f-de-l. between 2 wings (or leaves) fessewise]. Here lies interr’d The Body of Captain Isaac BATCHELOUR, who being commission’d to serve his Majesty, under an honourable Title, in the Militia of this County was discharged by Death, 26 May 1681. Aged 40. Whose sorrowfull Widow, Mrs Margaret Batchelour as a Pledge of her Respects for his surviving Memory placed this Stone for an imperfect Monument of his Deserts, and her Affection. Since a Life-vanquish’d Captain here doth lie,/Death hath a Sting, and Grave The Victory./But, hold – Can he be vanquish’d, whose last Breath/Challeng’d The Grave, and triumph’d over Death?/No. He but changed his Quarters, and march’d on,/To meet his Captain of Salvation./Under whose more auspicious Command,/He’s now commission’d in a better Band./Where Souldiers all are Saints, and Heav’n The Prize;/And Pray’rs and Praises their Sole Exercise./Thus fights our Captain, and proclaims his Cause,/In Thund’ring Peals of Halleluiahs.
Under The Same Stone lieth ye small Reliques of Margaret Batchelour who died an Infant, and was buried Nov. 19 1680. He had, by his Fore-mention’d Consort 3 other Children; Elisabeth, Mary, and John.

5. On Another Flat Stone. Here lieth The Body of The Revd. Mr Henry BAGNALL, Vicar of Limne who left One Son Henry now Rector of Frittenden. He departed this Life, Nov. 23 1748. Aged 75. Rebecca his Wife caused this Stone to be laid.

6. In The Body of The Church are 4 Ancient flat Stones without Inscription. One of which has been formerly inlaid with Brass.

7. This Church seems to have been larger; but, it consists at present only of The Chancell, Body, and Side Isle, to ye North. It has a Tower Steeple, which stands about The Middle of The Building, with 5 Bells; all made by Robert CATLING, in ye Year 1742.

8. At The Bottom of The Hill on which the Church, and a Deacon’s House stand, was The famous Portus Lemanis of The Romans; now called Studfall Castle. Its Contents within ye Walls seem to be about 9 Acres. The Walls are above 12 Feet Thick; their Height not to be guess’d at, as there is not any Part of them whole. *Roman Tiles or Bricks, are laid in Them in Layers, or Courses, at certain Paralel Distances; I think about 5 Feet. (*See Dr. WOODWARD’s Account of some Roman Antiquities, discover’d near Bishops Gate London, P.20). These Tiles have their Edges or Ends, turn’d up; which, I imagine, was done in order to lock them, as it were, to one another; and, not to make them take ye firmer Hold of The Mortar, as Dr HARRIS seems to think. For, upon Examination, I found they were laid in such a concatenated Manner; The End of ye One clasping the End of The Other; and, by that Means, linking The whole Layer of them together. From Durovernum (or Canterbury) To this Place, The Roman Military Way, call’d Stone Street, may be fairly traced, lying strait and conspicuous at this very Day. I think, with Dr. GALE and Many Others, that this was, certainly, The Portus Lemanis of The Romans. The Ingenious Mr SOMNER, however, would rather have it to have been New Romney. But I think ye Reasons wch. he gives in Favour of his Opinion, are easily refuted.

9. The Church is dedicated to St. Stephen. It is a Vicarage, in The Gift of ye Arch Deacon of Canterbury. The Present Vicar is Mr Claudius CLARE, viz. 1757.

10. [Inset, loose, is the upr. pt. of pp.159-60 of Gent. Mag. 1756 "now first publish’d from the MS" of Wm. GOSTLING, communicated to a friend in 1727, abt. a sinking of land at Lymne, abt. 1725, after a very wet season].

Index of Names and Places

Names Index
BAGNALL 5
BATCHELOUR 4
BOWNEY 2
CATLING 7
CLARE 9
FINCH 1
GALE 8
GOSTLING 10
HARRIS 8
SOMNER 8
TWYSDEN 1
WOODWARD 8Places
Bishops Gate London 8
Durovernum (or Canterbury) 8
Frittenden 5
New Romney 8
Portus Lemanis 8
Saltwood 1
Stone Street 8
Studfall Castle 8
Wye 1General
Captain 4
Militia 4