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Westbere Tithe Schedule (110KB) - signed 23rd June 1837
    With names of landowners, occupiers and fieldnames with acreages, and tithe payments

 

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Westbere Tithe award schedule - signed 23rd June 1837

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Owner Occupier

No.

Description Cultivation

Quantities

Rector

Appropriator
Sheet 2
Sarah
   Adley




















Thomas &
  George
    Adley


Edward
   Blackland














Sheet 3
Edward
   Collard




William
   Cumming


William
  Hutchinson




















Daniel
 Youden
Mary
 Adley

Himself
















Jesse
   Hall




Himself

Frederick
   Cumming


97
100
101
102
103
104
107
105
106
254
255
256
265
266
267
268
269
270
271
272


38

39


6
12
13
14
17
18
19
20
21
23
22
158
167a
171
181


219
238
260
264


26
28
27

186


Private Road
Upland 12 Acres
Cottage Premises &
Hilly Field
The Bank
Private Road
The Shaw
Home Pasture
Home Pasture
Hog Marsh
Hog Marsh
Part of 12 Acres
20 Acres
Part of 12 Acres
Hog Marsh
The Drove Way
The Drove Way
Pond Marsh
Pond Marsh
Pond Marsh


Cottage &

Hop Oast


Street Field
Brick Clamp Field
Horse Marsh
---
---
Right Hand Marsh
Private Road
Great Field
Broom Field
Alder Marsh Shaw
Alder Marsh
Horse Marsh
Slip in Common Marsh
Pt of  Common Marsh
Further Bridge Marsh


West Meads
Rose Mead
Three corner Piece
The Floats


Summer Hill House
---
Three Meadow

Peake Marsh


Road
Pasture
Garden
Arable
Arable
Road
Wood
Pasture
Pasture
Pasture
Pasture
Pasture
Pasture
Pasture
Pasture
Pasture
Pasture
Pasture
Pasture
Pasture


Garden

---


Arable
Arable
Pasture
Pasture
Pasture
Pasture
Road
Arable
Arable
Wood
Pasture
Pasture
Pasture
Pasture
Pasture


Pasture
Pasture
Pasture
Pasture


Garden
Garden
Pasture

Pasture


0.1.12
12.3.38
0.3.12
6.1.13
6.0. 6
0.0.26
0.1.33
2.2.26
8.0.36
1.0. 2
0.3.16
7.1.25
18.3.35
4.2.17
1.3. 8
1.0.13
0.1.27
3.3.28
3.1.26
 1.1.12
82.3.11

0.0.21

0.0.  5
0.0.26

6.2.27
15.3. 8
0.3.15
0.2.35
0.3.36
1.0.23
0.2.11
32.1.16
3.2.10
0.2.18
0.3.15
1.0.10
0.0.37
1.1.32
 3.2.37
70.2.10

1.3.31
2.3. 0
2.0.14
2.0.19
8.3.24

0.3.21
0.2. 3
10.0.17

 0.3.30
12.1.31























21. 1. 6




0.0.11
















39. 9 .1





1.16.10






2. 2.3½

















































Owner Occupier

No.

Description Cultivation

Quantities

Rector

Appropriator
Canterbury
 Dean &
  Chapter:
Lessee 
 William
  Cumming





Lady
   Fagg








Sir John
   Fagg












Sheet 4

















Corporation
  of Sandwich




John
   Friend




Thomas
   Foord
Frederick
   Cumming




James
 Tharpe



William
   Fagg





John
 Andrews

Himself
Thomas
 Marsh
John
 Howard



























John
   Friend

Unoccupied


John
   Wotton




Robert
   Harrison

24
25
182
183
184
185
215

220


29
30
33
44
45
55
56
54


71
61

62

66
67
68
69

70
72
73
74
75
76
204
207
209
214
217
224
230
231
233
235
236
237




7
10
15
149


8
16a
148a
169


211

Cold Brooks
The Drove Way
1st Shoulder Marsh
2nd Shoulder Marsh
3rd Shoulder Marsh
4th Shoulder Marsh
Marsh Garden

West Mead


Old Slip Ground Piece
Pickering Hill
Church Clere?
---
House Premises &
---
The Meadow
Cottage


Nursery
House Lodge &

---

---
Private Road
Orchard
Walnut Tree
   Farm House &
Gravel Pit field
Old Hop Ground
Fore Brook
Private Foot Path
Pudhams
Pudhams Shaw
Five Acre Marsh
The Hall
Adler Flat Marsh
Gunner? Marsh
Part of West Mead
Half Road
The Wall
Long Three Acres
Two Acre Marsh
The drove Way
Young Alder Marsh
Long Three Acres
Extraordinary Charge
 on 1a 3r 14p of Hops



1st part of Sturry Field
Further pt of Sturry Fld
Right Hand Marsh
House


Slip in Sturry Field
2nd Right Hand Marsh
Elven? Marsh
Common Marsh


Pithers Marsh

Pasture
Pasture
Pasture
Pasture
Pasture
Pasture
Garden

Pasture


Arable
Pasture
Arable
Garden
Garden
Garden
Pasture
Garden


Wood
Garden

Garden

Garden
Road
Garden

Premises
Pasture
Hops
Pasture
Wood
Arable
Wood
Pasture
Pasture
Pasture
Pasture
Pasture
Road
Pasture
Pasture
Pasture
Pasture
Pasture
Pasture

@ 10s


Arable
Arable
Pasture
Garden


Arable
Pasture
Pasture
Pasture


Pasture

1.1.37
0.3.12
4.2.38
4.0.39
3.2.25
3.3.25
0.1.22

 1.1.15
20.2.13

3.1.13
16.2.23
1.2.31
0.0.18
 1.1.17
0.1.27
7.1.10
 0.1.  1
31.0.20

1.0.10
0.0.24

0.2. 2

0.1.22
0.0.18
1.0. 2

0.2.16
3.2.12
1.3.14
1.2.22
0.0. 9
18.1.24
0.1. 8
4.2.38
0.1.39
7.0.15
1.3.27
0.2.38
0.0.38
0.1.26
2.0.37
2.2.19
0.1.25
2.3. 3
 3.1.38
56.3.  6
per acre 


0.2.33
6.2.  8
1.0.24
0.2.12
8.3.37

1.1.  1
1.0.19
2.0.18
1.3.17
6.1.15

1.1.18













4.16. 2









8.13. 3




























             
18.16. 2½
 0.18. 4½
19.14. 7  





5.14. 9





0. 1. 3

0. 5. 2

































































Owner Occupier

No.

Description Cultivation

Quantities

Rector

Appropriator
Late William
 Fulke
  Greville
Executors
Thomas
 Fitzpatrick &
Roger Davies
 Green



Sheet 5
Richard
   Hambrook





Thomas
   Holtum




William
  Hutchinson















Isaac
   Pidduck






William
   Pledge


Sheet 6
Anne Smith's
  Charity
   Trustees

Lord
   Londes










































Sheet 7









Thomas
 Rammell



William
 Collis

Edward
 Blaxland


Himself
Charles
 Mead




James
   Smith




Himself
















Himself







Edward
   Blaxland



Edward
   Blaxland


Himself



Anne
 Mead



























Robert
 Gurney
Tenants 
 of Land
Mary
 Adley





Mary
 Adley
Stephen
 Amos
Stephen
 Howard
William
 White jun.
William
 Marsh
John
 Rowland
Edward
 Youden
Henry
 Amos

5

9
11
157
142a

155
167



144
143
145
146
147


2
3
4
156


239
240
241
242
243
244
245
246
247
248
251
252
253
259
263


122
123
125
126
127
278


166
169



170
180


35
41
78
80
31

32
34

40
46
57
63
64
65
77
195
200
201
202
203
210
212
216
218
221
223
227
229
232
249
257
261
222

225

172

213
226
228
234
262
258

47

48

49

50

51

52

53

Great Deans Meadow

Sturry Field
Kits Acre
Little deans Meadow
Home Field

Lower Marsh
Further part
   Common Marsh


House Premises &
House Field
Garden Field
Mill Field
Mill Field


House Shop &
Home Orchard
Middle Piece
Lower Marsh


Mill Marsh
Jenny Marsh
The Winnings
The Winnings
Black Road
The Drove way
House Marsh
Cats Tail Marsh
Common Marsh
Wall Marsh
Mill Marsh
Cat Tail Marsh
Fodder Marsh
Sondes Marsh
Sondes Marsh


Part of 18 acres
Part of 18 acres
Slip Field
Ten Acres
House Meadow
Coppersbridge Marsh


Rose  Marsh
Common Piece



1st Pt Common Marsh
2ns Pt Common Marsh


East Ham
Butts
The Shaw
Bush Close
The Shaw

Westbere Field
Eastham & Lower
   Spinals
Oast Field
House Premises &
Barn
The Meadow
Gurney Field
Gurney Hop Field
Bush Close
Alder Marsh
House Marsh
Spicketts Marsh
Little House Marsh
Two Acre Piece
Part of Pithers
Old Two Acres
West Mead
Half Acre Piece
Doctor Marsh
The Wallo
Snag Marsh
Square Marsh
Hatchett Marsh
Three Acres
Four Acres
The Floats
Wall Marsh

Private Road

Pt of Common Marsh

Horse Marsh
1st Stream Marsh
Two & Half Acres
2nd Stream Marsh
The Floats
Turnip Marsh

Cottage &

Cottage &

Cottage &

Cottage &

Cottage &

Cottage &

Cottage &
Extraordinary charge
  on 2a 1r 4p of Hops
Pasture

Arable
Arable
Pasture
Pasture

Pasture

Pasture


Garden
Pasture
Pasture
Pasture
Pasture


Garden
Orchard
Pasture
Pasture


Pasture
Pasture
Pasture
Pasture
Pasture
Pasture
Pasture
Pasture
Pasture
Pasture
Pasture
Pasture
Pasture
Pasture
Pasture


Arable
Arable
Pasture
Pasture
Pasture
Pasture


Pasture
Pasture



Pasture
Pasture


Wood
Wood
Wood
Wood
Wood

Arable

Arable
Arable
Garden
Yard
Pasture
Arable
Hops
Arable
Pasture
Pasture
Pasture
Pasture
Pasture
Pasture
Pasture
Pasture
Pasture
Pasture
Pasture
Pasture
Pasture
Pasture
Pasture
Pasture
Pasture
Pasture

Road

Pasture

Pasture
Pasture
Pasture
Pasture
Pasture
Pasture

Garden

Garden

Garden

Garden

Garden

Garden

Garden

  @ 10s

6.2.13

2.2.11
1.0.21
0.3.26
0.1. 2

0.3. 2

 1.0. 6
13.1. 1

0.1.36
2.0. 0
2.0.34
0.3.26
2.0.  3
7.2.19

0.1.33
1.1.28
1.1.10
2.1.19
5.2.10

1.3.31
3.3.28
4.3.10
4.2.23
1.3. 7
0.2.34
3.1.14
2.0.32
5.0.15
4.1.27
2.3. 5
4.2.20
3.3.38
2.2. 0
 0.1.34
47.0.38

10.3.15
7.2.37
3.0.13
10.3.36
5.0.24
 8.3.31
46.2.36

1.3.21
2.0.11
3.3.32


1.2. 8
1.2.32
3.1. 0

5.311
3.2.32
0.3. 5
5.0.20
0.2.31

28.1.33

4.2.26
19.3.28
1.0.30
0.2.23
2.0.22
6.1.32
2.1. 4
6.2.22
19.2.25
5.3. 2
2.1.14
2.1. 4
2.0.30
2.2.16
2.1. 6
3.3.34
0.1.30
2.0. 5
2.3. 5
1.2.29
3.0.14
2.3. 0
3.0. 0
4.2. 6
1.0.22
1.3.13

1.0.12

0.2. 3

2.3.19
2.1.10
2.1.32
2.3.17
1.0.28
3.0.14

0.0.37

0.0.30

0.1. 0

0.2.12

0.0.24

0.0.37

   0.1.24
171.0.33
per acre












5. 0. 2






2.15. 3





2. 4. 2
















9.15. 9







16.12.11



0.18. 5




0.15. 0



























































           
56. 7. 1
 1. 2.  9
57. 910



































































Owner Occupier

No.

Description Cultivation

Quantities

Rector

Appropriator
Sturry
  Parish
    Officers

John
   Tharpe


Anne
   Webb





















Sheet 8












William
 Collis
& others

Himself



Thomas
 Austin
Tenants
 of Lands
Thomas
 Webb



















John
   Tharpe





Edmund
   Tharpe

1
142


205
206


36

150

151
152
153
154
159
160
161
162
163
164
165
173
174
175
176
177
178
179
187
188
189
190
191
192
193
194
196
197
198
199

Sporting Place
Part of Sporting Place


Square Half Acre
Long Half Acre


Cottage &

Private Road

Stack Yard &
1st Gate Marsh
1st Gate 2nd Marsh
1st Gate 3rd Marsh
The Onion Beds
2nd Gate Marsh
2nd Gate 2nd Marsh
3rd Gate Marsh
3rd Gate 2nd Marsh
4th Gate 4th Marsh
3rd Gate 3rd Marsh
4th Gate 4th Marsh
6th Gate 4th Marsh
4th Gate 4th Marsh
5th Gate 4th Marsh
4th Gate Marsh
5th Gate Marsh
The Hall
6th Gate 3rd Marsh
6th Gate Marsh
6th Gate 4th Marsh
7th Gate Marsh
9th Gate 2nd Marsh
8th Gate Marsh
The Wall
9th Gate Marsh
10th Gate Marsh
Wall
11th Gate Marsh
Wall

Gardens
Pasture


Pasture
Pasture


Garden

Road

Garden
Pasture
Pasture
Pasture
Pasture
Pasture
Pasture
Pasture
Pasture
Pasture
Pasture
Pasture
Pasture
Pasture
Pasture
Pasture
Pasture
Pasture
Pasture
Pasture
Pasture
Pasture
Pasture
Pasture
Pasture
Pasture
Pasture
Pasture
Pasture
Pasture

0.2. 8
0.0.  6
0.2.14

0.1.37
0.2.  3
1.0.  0

0.0.34

0.0.33

0.2.10
2.0.22
2.0.13
3.3.13
3.2. 0
1.2.12
1.0.16
3.1.17
2.0.26
2.0.18
4.2. 0
2.3. 2
2.1. 8
1.1.26
1.3.33
2.3. 1
2.2. 8
5.0.14
1.2.10
3.0.30
2.2. 9
2.0.36
2.1. 1
4.3.27
4.3.11
3.0.13
10.1.33
0.1.26
11.3. 0
 0.3.21
94.1.12



0. 9. 3



0. 3. 2



































21.16. 5












































Owner Occupier

No.

Description Cultivation

Quantities

Rector

Appropriator
Thomas
   Webb

Westbere
 Innhabitants

Edward
   Wotton















James
   Wotton

John
   Wotton




Sheet 9
Thomas
   Wotton


James
   Browning

Henry Amos
& others

Thomas
   Wotton















William
  Hutchinson

Michael
 Rowland
Thomas
 Wotton



Himself
William
 Cox
John
 Howard
William
 Goulden
Sarah
 Hogben

37


79


86
87
88
89
90
91
92
93

94
95
96
208




250


59

85
98
99


60
81

82

83

84

Cottage &


Bread & Cheese Field


Part of 12 Acres
Part of 12 Acres
Part of 12 Acres Shaw
Part of 12 Acres Shaw
Barn Field
Private Road
Loam Pitt
The Pitt

House & Premises &
Orchard Field
Half Private Road
Rough Marsh
Extraordinary charge
  on 1a 1r 22p of Hops



Long Slip


Cottage &
---
Little Fox Field
Private Road
Great Fox Field


House Premises &
Cottage &

Cottage &

Cottage &

Cottage &
Garden


Garden


Pasture
Pasture
Wood
Wood
Arable
Road
Hops
Arable
 & Wood
Garden
Pasture
Road
Pasture

@ 10s


Pasture


Garden
Garden
Arable
Road
Arable


Garden
Garden

Garden

Garden

Garden

0.1.31


2.0.12


5.2.16
7.0. 0
0.3.24
0.1. 5
11.2.11
0.0.17
1.1.22

0.2.21
1.1.37
3.1.23
0.116
 1.3.10
34. 2.  2
per acre


0.2. 0


0.0.21
0.1.30
1.2. 4
0.0.18
 9.1.20
11.2.13

0.1.11
0.0. 7

0.0. 7

0.0. 7

0.0.  7
0.1.39

0. 4. 7


1. 2. 1














             
11.17 5½
0.13.10½
12.11.  4 

0. 2. 1







5.13. 5









0. 5. 6





























Owner Occupier

No.

Description Cultivation

Quantities

Rector

Appropriator
Edward
   Brown





William
   Cumming

Thomas
   Foord


























Sheet 10
Henry
   Hodges



St John's
 Hospital
  Canterbury

Edward
   Wotton

Sir Brook
 William
  Bridges










Edward
 Newport
Thomas
 Stupple?
William
 Sayer

Frederick
   Cumming

Robert
   Harrison

















John
 Pool
Aaron
 Sidders?
Thomas
 Browning




Henry
   Goldfinch



Robert
   Harrison


Himself


Edwin
   Collard











293

294

295


302


282
283
284
288
289
290
291
296
297
298

299
303
304
306
307
308
309
310
311
292

300

301




285
286
287


305



312


108
109
110
111
112
113
114
115
116
117
118
119
124

273
274
275
276
277

Cottage &

Cottage &

Field in no. 293


Rushbrown Corner


Blean Close Shaw
Blean Close Shaw (?)
Blean Close Shaw
Well Field
Well Field
Horse Loose
Horse Loose Shaw
Gravel Pit & Pond
Casey Field
Rushbrown House
   & Premises
Private Road
Half of above & Bank
Great Field
Eleven Acres
The Drove Way
Lower Meadow
The Slip
The Slip
Folly Field
Saw Pit Garden &

Cottage &

Cottage & 
Extraordinary charge
  on 8a 1r 8p of Hops



Pear Tree Field
Orchard Field
House Premises &


Part of Great Field



Part of Great Parlours


The Shaw
Great Field
Great Field Shaw
Private Road
Ten Acres
Hill Field
Farm House &
Orchard Field
Fore Brook
Fore Brook
Barn Field
Barn Field Shaw
Fore Brook 
   & Sluice Field
Drove Way & Wall
First Stream Marsh
First River Marsh
Second Stream Marsh
Second River Marsh
Garden

Garden

Arable


Pasture


Wood
Arable
Woof
Pasture
Pasture
Arable
Wood
---
Arable
Garden &
 Orchard
Road
Road
Arable
Hops
Pasture
Pasture
Pasture
Pasture
Pasture
Arable

Garden

Garden

@ 10s


Arable
Pasture
Gardens/
 Meadow

Arable



Pasture


Wood
Arable
Wood
Road
Arable
Pasture
Premises
Pasture
Pasture
Pasture
Arable
Wood

Pasture
Pasture
Pasture
Pasture
Pasture
Pasture

0.0.17

0.0.17

1.2.21
1.3.15

0.0. 4


0.2.24
12.3.19
0.2.25
3.0.12
5.3. 9
16.0.26
0.0.35
0.0.25
8.3. 1

5.2.13
0.0.32
0.1. 7
139.0.16
8.1. 8
6.0.31
6.2.17
1.0.14
2.2.19
4.1.19
0.1.35

0.1. 7

   0.1. 7
223.3. 1
per acre


14.2.21
6.3.12
 5.1. 0
26.2.33

1.0. 8



1.3. 7


0.1. 2
24.3.37
0.0.27
0.1. 6
10.2.38
1.3.31
0.3.24
1.1. 9
1.2. 6
2.1.18
17.1. 4
0.1.21

4.0. 0
1.3.21
2.3.39
3.0. 4
3.1. 7
 4.0.21
81.1.35






0. 4. 3

0. 0.0½


























             
19. 7. 2¼
7.  9. 4¾
26.16. 7  




2.16. 1

0. 1. 2



0. 4.10





















0. 1. 6






0.13.14






























           
82. 9. 3




6. 8. 7

0. 8.10




















Owner Occupier

No.

Description Cultivation

Quantities

Rector

Appropriator
Edwin
   Collard

Thomas
   Kemp

Isaac
   Pidduck








Sheet 11






Rev
 Wyndham 
  Knatchbull
   (Glebe)




Himself


Himself


Himself
















Rev Thomas
   Bruce



120


121


128
129

130
131
132
133
134
135
136
137
138
139
140
141


42
43


279
313


280
281


Kemp Field


Cottage Garden &


Four Acres
Half Way House
   & Premises
---
Cottage
Private Road
Cottage Field
Salt Fish Corner
Private Road
Old Hill Field
Pole Wood Field
Mount Philip
Ozier Bed
Poll Wood Meadow
Poll Marsh


Vicarage House 
Church Yard


Public Roads
Public Roads


Stream & Main River
Half part of River


Waste


Arable


Arable


Arable

Garden
Garden
---
Road
Pasture
Pasture
Road
Arable
Arable
Pasture
Oziers
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Some Monumental Inscriptions of Westbere Church

Some Monumental Inscriptions of Westbere 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. [Az. on a bend or voided az. 3 ++lets fitchy or KNATCHBULL imp. Gu. a saltire or, on a chief gu. 2 piles ermine GILBERT]. Heere lyeth the Body of George Knatchbull, the Sonn of Richard Knatchbull late of Mersham Hatch Esq. which George married Joane the Daughter of Thomas GYLBERT, late of Sandwich, Gent. and dyed the xxiith of December 1619.

2. On Another Flat Stone. [(no tinctures) 3 otters in pale, each with a fish in its mouth GRAYDON imp. 2 bars, a leopd. in chief]. Sub hoc Tumulo requiescit Johannes Graydon Armiger, nuper de Fordvico, in hâcce Viciniâ; qui, Anno Domini, 1655 Londini natus, et, juvenilibus Annis, Vitam agens maritimam, ins Artibus quibus ad verum Honorem pervenitur, ad maximam Dignitatem gradatim, etc, quasi peditentim, provehebatur; cùm tandem sub Auspicijs Annae Reginae (felicissimae Memoriae) Vice Admirallus constitutus, Classi Regiae apud Indos Occidentales praeficeretur. Vir, sanè, Virtute, quâ se in Praelio gessit strenuâ; Clementiâ, quâ in Hostes devictos usus est, humanâ; Comitate in Vicinos urbanâ; et, in Regem Patriamq mirâ Fidelitate, clarissimus. Obijt 12 Martij, Anno Salutis 1726/7. Aetatis vero 71.

3. On Another. [3 lions rt. 2&1 (no tinctures)]. Here lieth The Body of The Revd. Decimus NEWMAN, Rector of this Parish; Tenth Son of Daniel Newman of Seal in Kent, Esq, by Anne his Wife, Daughter of John BEST of the City of Canterbury, Barister (sic) at Law, who married Mary, Daughter of George RICH of Seal in Kent, Gent, by whom he had Issue, Anna-Maria, Francis, John, and Thomas. He died June 17 1722 aged 61 Years.

4. On Another, on wch. are cut ye Figg. of 2 naked Children, joining hands. Here lie the Bodies of Thomas and Edmond GILBERT, Twins born the 19th of March An.Dom. 1639 deceased Anno Dominie 1640.

5. On Another …………./of Anne FITZGERALD eldest ……/ mas Fitzgerald Esquier ……../GILBERT of Westberer ……………/.

6. Five other Flatstones whose Inscriptions are lost. 1 of them has the Appearance of great Antiquity, and has a Cross raisd upon it.

7. Some Remains of good Painted Glass, in the East and ye North Windows.

8. The Arch between the Chancell and Body is supported by ye Figg. of a Man & a Woman in very odd Postures.

In The Body.
9. On a Mural Monument on The North wall. (Gu. a fess wavy ermne. betw. 6 billets or). In vicino Pulvere jacet Corpus Henrici TWYMAN de Rushborne, Generosi, qui duxit in Uxorem Annam Filiam Antinij HAMMOND de St. Alban’s, in Orientali Parte hujus Comitatus, ac ex quâ suscepit tres Filios, et quatuor Filias, quorum tres Filij. viz: Hammond, Henricus et Antonius; et tres Filiae viz. Elizabetha, Maria et Anna. Patrem suum supervixerunt. obijt Septemb. 11 Anno Salutis 1677. Aetatis 43. in cujus Memoriam Uxor maerens hunc Tumulum posuit.

10. On a very Neat Monument, on The East Wall. Here lieth The Body of Mr Hammond TWYMAN, late of Rushborne. He married Anne, Daughter of Mr Peter TOMLIN, Gent. of Updowne in The Isle of Thanet. By her he left 3 Sons, and 6 Daughters. He was distinguishe’d for his good Nature, Piety, and a Friendly generous Disposition. There hath been seldom found more good Qualities than he was possest of, in one Person. obijt 29 Feb. 1727/8. Aetatis 61. Near This Place lies the Body of Mr Anthony TWYMAN, who was Fellow of St. John’s College in Cambridge, and Master of The Revels in Ireland; Tutor to the late LORD HENCHINGBROOKE: Sometime after to the LORD FINCH, wth. whom he travell’d as his Governour. After his Return he travelled with the LORD BURFORD, The present DUKE of ST. ALBANS; LORD NASSAW PAWLET, LORD SPENCER, The present EARL OF SUNDERLAND; and Oliver ST JOHN, Esq. through Italy, Germany, France, Holland, and Ireland; being greatly esteem’d for his Learning abroad, and admired by all that knew him, at home. It pleased Almighty God, his Body here to rest and to mingle his Dust with his Ancestors. He died, 18 Sept. 1722. Aetatis 42. To The Pious Memory of My Honourd Father and much lov’d Unkle, this Monument was erected by Mr Peter Twyman, eldest Son to Mr Hammond Twyman. H. SCHEEMAKER & H. CHEERE.

11. On a Flat Stone. Here lieth The Body of Mr Daniel FAIRMAN late of Sturry Court, he died June 16 1729 aged 31 Years. He married Mary, Daughter of Hammond TWYMAN of Rushborn, Gent, whom he left surviving with 1 Son, and 2 Daughters. He sorrowfull Widow laid this Stone to perpetuate the Memory of a tender Father, and so good an Husband. If Virtue, Justice, and kind Neighbourhood,/If Truth, Sincerity, and what was good,/If Gentleman, and Yeoman, ever yet,/Center’d in anyone; In him They met.

12. This Church consists of The Chancell, Body, and a Small Vestry, at the North Side of The Chancell. In a small Wooden Steeple, at ye West End, hang 2 Small Bells, without Inscription.

13. It was dedicated to All Saints – and is a Rectory in ye Gift of The King.

14. The present Rector is the – viz. 1757. (added in another. hand) [Revd. Robert JENKIN since Charles ALLEN. AD 1780].

15. Mr Somner, in his Chartham News, informs us, that, an Iron Anchor, whole and sound, was found, deep in the Earth, in digging a Well here; as were also many Oyster and Cockle Shells.

Index of Names and Places

Names Index
ALLEN 14
BEST 3
CHEERE 10
FAIRMAN 11
FITZGERALD 5
GILBERT 1, 4, 5
GRAYDON 2
GYLBERT 1
HAMMOND 9
JENKIN 14
KNATCHBULL 1
NEWMAN 3
RICH 3
SCHEEMAKER 10
TOMLIN 10
TWYMAN 9, 10, 11Places
Canterbury 3
France 10
Germany 10
Holland 10
Ireland 10
Italy 10
Mersham Hatch 1
Rushborne 10, 11
Sandwich 1
Seal 3
St. Alban’s 9
Sturry Court 11
Updowne, Isle of Thanet 10
General
Master of The Revels 
   in Ireland 10

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