Articles of William I, 1066-1087 AD
‘Here is shown what William, king of the English, with his principal men, decreed after the conquest of England…’
Transcription
80r (select folio number to open facsimile)
hic intimatur quid Willelmus rex An-
glorum cum principibus suis constituit, post conquisitio-
In primis quod super omnia unum uellet Deum >nem Anglię.
per totum regnum suum uenerari, unam fidem
Christi semper inuiolatam custodiri, pacem et secu-
ritatem inter Anglos et Normannos seruari.
[S]tatuimus1 etiam ut omnis liber homo fędere et sacra-
mento affirmet, quod infra et extra Angliam Wil-
lelmo regi fideles esse uolunt, terras et honorem
illius omni fidelitate cum eo seruare, et ante eum
contra inimicos defendere. Volo autem ut omnes
homines quos mecum adduxi, aut post me uene-
runt, sint in pace mea et quiete. Et si quis de illis
occisus fuerit, dominus eius habeat infra quinque
dies homicidam eius si potuerit. Sin autem,
incipiat persoluere mihi quadraginta sex marcas
argenti, quamdiu substantia illius domini perdura-
uerit. Vbi uero substantia domini defecerit, to-
tus hundredus in quo occisio facta est, commu-
niter persoluat quod remanet. Et omnis Francige-
na qui tempore regis Eaduuardi propinqui mei,
fuit in Anglia particeps consuetudinum An-
glorum, quod ipsi dicunt on hlote et an scote,
persoluatur secundum legem Anglorum. Hoc decretum
sancitum est in Ciuitate Claudia. Interdicimus etiam, ut nulla uiua pecunia uenda-
tur aut ematur nisi infra ciuitates, et hoc ante
tres fideles testes, nec aliquam rem >id est prohibitam< uetustam
sine fideiussore et waranto. Quodsi aliter
fecerit, soluat et persoluat, et postea foris-
facturam. Decretum est etiam ibi, ut si Francigena ap-
pellauerit Anglum de periurio, aut mordro,
furto, homicidio, ran, quod Angli dicunt apertam
rapinam[,] quę negari non potest, Anglus se defen-
dat per quod melius uoluerit, aut iudicio ferri,
aut duello. Si autem Anglus infirmus fuerit,
inueniat alium qui pro eo faciat. Si quis eorum uictus
fuerit, emendet xl solidos regi. Si Anglus
Francigenem appellauerit, et probare noluerit
iudicio aut duello, uolo tamen Francigenam
purgare se sacramento non fracto.
hoc quoque pręcipio et uolo, ut omnes habeant et
teneant legem Eaduuardi regis, in terris et in
omnibus rebus, adauctis iis, quę constitui ad u-
tilitatem populi Anglorum. Omnis homo qui uoluerit se teneri pro libero
sit in plegio, ut plegius teneat et habeat illum
ad iusticiam si quid offenderit. Et si quisquam ta-
lium euaserit, uideant plegii ut simpliciter
soluant quod calumniatum est, et purgent se, quia
in euaso nullam fraudem nouerunt. Requiratur hundred et comitatus, sicut ( ) ante-
cessores nostri statuerunt. Et qui iuste uenire de-
berent et uenire noluerint, semel summoueantur,
et si secundo uenire noluerint, accipiatur unus
bos, et summoueantur tertio. Et si non tertio ue-
nerint, accipiatur alius bos, quarta autem *>uice< si non ue-
nerint, reddatur de rebus hominis illius qui ue-
nire noluerit quod calumniatum est, quod dicitur
ceapgeld, et insuper forisfactura regis. Ego prohibeo ut nullus uendat hominem ex-
tra patriam, super plenam forisfacturam meam.Interdico etiam ne quis occidatur
aut suspendatur pro aliqua culpa, sed eruan-
tur oculi et testiculi abscidantur, et hoc prę-
ceptum non sit uiolatum, super forisfacturam
meam plenam.
Translation
Here is shown what William, king of the English, with his principal men, decreed after the conquest of England.
First, above all, he would wish that one God is to be worshipped throughout the whole of his kingdom, one inviolable Christian faith always to be observed, and peace and security between the English and Normans to be protected. We wish, furthermore, that each free person may affirm faithfully by oath that, within and beyond England, they wish to be faithful to King William, to protect his lands and honour with all fidelity to him, and to defend him against his enemies.
I wish, moreover, that all persons whom I have brought with me, and those who subsequently came, may live in peace and quiet. And if any one of these is killed, his lord should hold his murderer within five days, if possible.2 If not, he should begin to pay to me forty-six silver marks, as long as the wealth of that lord shall hold out. Whenever, in truth, the wealth of that lord should fail, the entire hundred in which the murder took place should together pay whatever is remaining.3
And each Frenchman who was in England at the time of king Edward, my relative, participating in the customs of the English, should pay that which is called lot and scot,4 according to the laws of the English. This decree was ratified in Gloucester.
Furthermore, we enjoin that no livestock may be sold or bought except inside towns, and in front of three faithful witnesses, nor any thing of long-standing – it is prohibited – without a guarantor and warrantor. But if he does otherwise, he should give back [the goods] and pay back [the money], and afterwards be fined.5
Furthermore, the decree, here, is that if a Frenchman should accuse an Englishman of perjury, or murder, theft, homicide, or ran6 (which is what the English call violent robbery),7 which cannot be denied, the Englishman may defend himself by whichever honest means he wishes, either trial by iron or duel.8 If, however, the Englishman is infirm, he may find another to take his place. If one of them is defeated, he should make amends of 40 shillings to the king. If an Englishman should accuse a Frenchman, but he does not wish to accept trial by duel, I wish nevertheless the Frenchmen to clear himself by an unbreakable oath.
This also I instruct and desire, that all may have and hold the law of King Edward,9 with regard to lands and all things, augmented by those laws which for usefulness to the English people will be constituted.
Every person who wishes to remain a freeman should be under pledge, so that if anyone should offend, the pledger may keep in custody that person for justice.10 And if any of such are acquitted, simply let the pledgers see to it that they free the one falsely accused, and exonerate him, because they found no crime in the acquitted one.
It is required that the hundred and shire be just as our predecessors established.11 And those who lawfully are obliged to come but do not wish to come, on the first occasion are withdrawn; and if on the second occasion they do not wish to come, one ox may be accepted, and on the third occasion are withdrawn. And if they do not come on the third, another ox may be accepted. If, however, they do not come on the fourth occasion in succession, from the things of that person who does not wish to come, one may render to the one who is falsely accused what is called cheapgild,12 and this in addition to the king’s fine.
I forbid anyone, upon my full penalty, to sell a man outside his homeland.13
I forbid, moreover, that anyone be slain or hanged for any crime, but eyes may be plucked out and testicles cut off; and this command should not be violated, upon my full penalty.
Footnotes
1 The original ‘S’ is missing due to damage.
2 The grammar is ambiguous as to whose lord is being referred to. However, the rest of the passage indicates that the murderer’s lord had the responsibility to imprison the murderer. It is, of course, quite possible that the lord of the murderer and the lord of the victim would be the same person, as both murderer and victim may have lived in the same area.
3 The hundred was a local administrative unit in later Anglo-Saxon England (especially from the tenth century), and was both a measure of land and the area served by a hundred-court. In the Midlands, hundreds were often assessed at a hundred hides, hence the name; however, in the south, this clear correspondence between size and name did not exist. See Sean Miller, ‘Hundreds’, in The Blackwell Encyclopaedia of Anglo-Saxon England, ed. Michael Lapidge et al (Blackwell, 2001), pp. 243–44. Hundreds and hundred-courts continued into the post-Conquest period.
4 ‘Scot and lot. A tax, i.e. scot, levied on members of a borough in varying proportions or shares, i.e. lot. Behind it was the idea that those who shared in the obligations and responsibilities by paying tax would also share in the privileges. It was a mark of status.’ A Dictionary of Medieval Terms and Phrases, ed. Christopher Corèdon with Ann Williams (D. S. Brewer, 2005).
5 This assumes that the goods being sold, without guarantor and warrantor, are stolen goods. The fine goes to the king.
6 Old English ran, ‘open robbery’: J. R. Clark Hall, A Concise Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, Fourth Edition (University of Toronto Press, 1960, repr. 2004).
7 The Latin, here, is rapina, from which we derive the modern ‘rape’; however, the meaning of rapina is far broader, essentially meaning violent plundering or robbery, though it may also include abduction, including that of a woman, which may well have led to rape in the modern sense. See Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources: online here. [accessed 13 December 2017].
8 Trial by hot iron: see C. Monk, The Anonymous Law Known as Ordal [‘Ordeal’]: Textus Roffensis, ff. 32r–32v Online here. Trial by combat, the duel, was unknown in Anglo-Saxon England.
9 Edward the Confessor, r. 1042–66. There are no known laws written by Edward. William appears to be referring to the body of early English laws that had built up and were used during Edward’s reign, including the latest pre-Norman Conquest laws by Cnut, r. 1016–35. Textus Roffensis (ff. 58r–80r), contains what is popularly referred to as the Institutes of Cnut, a Latin translation of a compilation of Old English laws by Cnut, Alfred, Edgar, Æthelred the Unready, and various short anonymous treatises. This was produced sometime after the Conquest, and gives us an idea of what William was alluding to by his ‘law of Edward’.
10 On plegium liberale (‘free pledge’), more generally referred to as frankpledge, see John Hudson, The Formation of the English Common Law: Law and Society in England from the Norman Conquest to Magna Carta (Longman, 1996), pp. 63–66.
11 The hundred-court and shire-court were both features of Anglo-Saxon legal administration.
12 Compensation for stolen property. From Old English ceapgyld.
13 To sell into slavery.
Almsgiving in honour of Bishop Gundulf, 1114-1124
Bishop Ernulf sets up alms-giving in honour of Gundulf, 1114–11241. Textus Roffensis, ff. 197r–197v. Translated from Latin and edited by Dr Christopher Monk.
Transcription
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hęc est elemosina, quam
domnus Ernulfus episcopus consensu
et rogatu monachorum constituit singu-
lis annis faciendam pro anima patris nostri
Gundulfi episcopi in anniuersario ipsius.
Secretarius debet dare quadraginta denarios. Camerarius quadraginta denarios. Celararius quadraginta denarios, et unum millenarium
allecium. Hedreham quattuor solidos, et duos salmones.
Frendesberi, Denintuna, Flietes, Wldeham,
sex solidos, et duos salmones; Stoches, duos salmones; Lamhetha, unum; Suthuuerca, unum. Hos
uiginti solidos recipiet celararius, et empto inde
pane et allece, ipse cum elemosinariis distribu-
et ipsa die pauperibus. Salmones autem
habebunt fratres in refectorio.
Translation
This is the alms-giving which the lord bishop Ernulf, 2 having granted it at the request of the monks, set up to be made every year for the soul of our father, bishop Gundulf,3 on his anniversary.4
The secretary ought to give forty pennies. The chamberlain, forty pennies. The cellarer, forty pennies and one thousand herrings.5 Haddenham four shillings and two salmon. Frindsbury, Denton, Fleet, Wouldham, six shillings and two salmon.6 Stoke, two salmon; Lambeth, one; Southwark, one.
These twenty shillings the cellarer will receive,7 and then having acquired bread and herrings, he himself with the almoner will distribute these very things to the poor on this day. The salmon however, the brothers will have in the refectory.
Footnotes
1 This text was not written by the principal scribe, who completed his work c. 1123, but was added as part of a folio that was inserted later in the twelfth century to replace one that had been cut out. The note does however relate to the period of Ernulf’s bishopric (1114–1124), and may well be a copy of an original charter by the bishop.
2 Bishop of Rochester at the time of the writing of Textus Roffensis (r. 1114–1124). He likely oversaw its completion around 1123.
3 Bishop and prior at Rochester, from 1077 to 1108.
4 i.e. the anniversary of his death, 7th March 1108.
5 The secretary, chamberlain and cellarer were obedientaries, i.e. senior monks.
6 The responsibility was shared between these four villages in Kent.
7 The arithmetic is correct: note, 12 pennies to a shilling, so the 120 shillings of the three obedientaries is equivalent to 10 shillings; added to the four from Haddenham in Buckinghamshire, and the six from the four Kentish villages, that makes 20 shillings in total.
Bishop Ernulf grants privileges and lands, c.1114-c.1123
Transcription
196v (select folio number to open facsimile)
Ernulfus Rofensis episcopus. Omnibus hominibus
de Buchingeham Francis et Anglis salutem.
Sciatus me concessisse ęcclesię Sancti Andreę de Roue-
cestra ad luminaria eiusdem ęcclesię ęcclesiam
de Edenham, et terras et decimas omnes quas ipsa
ęcclesia hucusque habuit uel deinceps habere
poterit, cum omnibus rebus in campis et pratis ad
ipsam ęcclesiam pertinentibus. Decimam etiam de do-
minio de Edenham et de Cudintuna in anno-
na, in uitulis, in agnis, in puleinis, in pur-
cellis, unam quoque hagam, et dimidiam hidam terrę
in Hedenham, quas Ansfridus clericus in uita sua
tenuit. Hęc omnia concessi et dedi ęcclesię Sancti An-
dreę, ut ipsa ęcclesia deinceps in perpetuum hęc
habeat et teneat pro anima mea, ita ut secreta-
rius ęcclesię quicunque ille fuerit post obitum meum
singulis annis in die anniuersarii mei det pro
anima mea decem solidatas panis pauperibus, et xxti
solidos in refectorium fratribus. Huius concessionis
testes sunt, ęcclesię Sancti Andreę prior Orduinus, et
totus fratrum conuentus. Heruisus eiusdem ęcclesię
archidiaconus; Rodbertus Dofforensis; Egel-
uuordus et Helias clerici; Ansfridus Dapifer,
et miles eius Uuillelmus de Sancto Albano; Willelmus
de Cusintuna cum filio suo Wimundo; Ra-
dulfus Picot de Stisteda; Robertus et Ricar-
dus cubicularii et plures alii Franci et Angli. 1
Translation
Ernulf, bishop of Rochester.2 To everyone of Buckingham, to the French and the English, greetings. Know that I have granted to the church of Saint Andrew of Rochester, for the luminaries of the same church,3 the church of Haddenham, and lands and all the tithings which the church itself hitherto held or hereafter will be able to hold, with all things in ploughland and meadowland pertaining to this church. And also, the Sunday tithing of Haddenham and Cuddington in grain,4 in calves, in lambs, in piglets, as well as the piece of enclosed land5 and the half-hide of land in Haddenham, which Ansfrid the priest holds for his living.
All these things I granted and I gave to the church of Saint Andrew, in order that this very church may have and hold these hereafter in perpetuity for the sake of my soul, so that the secretary of the church, whoever he may be after my death, each year on the day of my anniversary, may give for my soul ten solid loaves to the poor,6 and twenty shillings to the brothers in the refectory.
The witnesses of this grant are: Ordwine, prior of the church of Saint Andrew, and all the brothers of the monastery; Harvey, archdeacon of the same church; Robert of Dover; Adelard7 and Elias, priests; Ansfrid Dapifer, and his knight William of Saint Albans; William of Cossington, with his son Wimund;8 Ralf Picot of Stisted; Robert and Richard, chamberlains; and many others of the French and English.
Footnotes
1 The text on folio 197r is not by the main scribe. The original folio has been cut out and replaced.
2 Bishop of Rochester at the time of the writing of Textus Roffensis (r. 1114–1124). He likely oversaw its completion around 1123.
3 Latin ‘ad luminaria’: this figurative expression appears to refer to the brethren of the priory as spiritual lights or luminaries; it may also allude to the monks’ work of honouring the dead and saints, since a luminare is a candle used in honouring the shrines of the dead and the saints: see logeion.uchicago.edu (accessed 14.11.17).
4 One tenth of the year’s produce in grains
5 Latin haga, ‘haw’, borrowed from Old English haga, meaning an enclosure, a piece of land surrounded by a hedge; from which the hawthorn gets its name, as it functions well as a hedge. See ‘haw’, Christopher Corèdon and Ann Williams, A Dictionary of Medieval Terms and Phrases (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2005).
6 Or, ‘whole loaves’
7 Tentative; or, alternatively, Ealgheard.
8 Or, Wymund
Bishop Gundulf’s arrangements for the monk’s clothing,
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Hęc sunt quę ordinata sunt a domino nostro Gundulfo episcopo ad uestitum monachorum.
De Rouecestra, x libras. De molendino eiusdem uillę, xxx solidos. De cellario, xxiiii solidos. De Frandesberia, v libras et x solidas. De Stoches, xxx solidos. De Fletis, iiii libras et x solidos. De W[u]ldeham, maiori et minori, xxx solidos. De Hederham, v libras. De Tarenteford, ii libras. De Northfletis, iii libras et x solidos. De Cantuarię, iii libras. De Bullocesfelde, ii libras. De Grean, xv solidos. De Ærhetha, xx solidos. De Adeloldo de Cilesfelda, x solidos. De Uulmero eiusdem uillę, x solidos. Rodbertus de Uuateuilla, xv solidos. Radulfus Pincerna, vi solidos et viii denarios. De archidiacono, x solidos.
Willelmus de Editune, v solidos. Heimfred, vi solidos et viii denarios. Hunfrith Canuth, x solidos. Radulfus Pincerna, v solidos, de Culingis.
Et omnis decimas quas Anschetillus archidiaconus de Cantuaria tenebat de Adam fratre Eudonis Dapiferi.
Osbernus de Biliceham, xii solidos, Godefridus de Scræmbroce, x solidos. Ulgerius nepos
Geroldi, v solidos. De Æilesford, xx solidos. De Suðtune, xx solidos. De Uuleuuic, iiii solidos. De Ciselherste, iiii solidos.
Translation
HERE ARE THE ARRANGEMENTS BY OUR LORD AND BISHOP GUNDULF2 FOR THE CLOTHING OF THE MONKS.
From Rochester, 10 pounds. From the mill-house of the same estate, 30 shillings. From the cellarer,3 24 shillings. From Frindsbury, 5 pounds and 10 shillings. From Stoke, 30 shillings. From Fleet, 4 pounds and 10 shillings. From Wouldham, Greater and Lesser, 30 shillings. From Haddenham,4 5 pounds. From Dartford, 2 pounds. From Northfleet, 3 pounds and 10 shillings. From Canterbury, 3 pounds. From Bullocksfield,5 2 pounds. From Grain,6 15 shillings. From Erith, 20 shillings. From Æthelwold of Chelsfield,7 10 shillings. From Wulmer of the same estate, 10 shillings. Robert of Watteville, 15 shillings. Ralf Pincerna,8 6 shillings and 8 pennies. From the archdeacon, 10 shillings. William of Addington, 5 shillings. Heimfred, 6 shillings and 8 pennies. Hunfrith Canuth, 10 shillings. Ralf Pincerna of Cooling, 5 shillings. And of all tithings which Anschetill archdeacon of Canterbury was holding from Adam,9 brother of Eudo Dapifer. 10 Osbern of Belceham,11 12 shillings. Godfrid of Scræmbroce,12 10 shillings. Ulger, grandson of Gerald, 5 shillings. From Aylesford, 20 shillings. From Sutton, 20 shillings. From Woolwich, 4 shillings. From Chislehurst, 4 shillings.
Footnotes
1 The document lists Haddenham as one of the estates contributing to the clothing fund. Since the grant of Haddenham to St Andrew’s Priory at Rochester was confirmed after the death of archbishop Lanfranc in 1089, this is the earliest possible date of the original document. Bishop Gundulf died in 1108, thus marking the latest possible date. See notes 2 and 4 below.
2 Bishop Gundulf, second of the post-Conquest bishops of Rochester, was a monastic bishop, serving also as prior of the cathedral’s priory (St Andrew’s). He was consecrated as bishop in 1077 and served as bishop and prior until his death in 1108.
3 The cellarer was one of the obedientaries (senior monks) of the monastery. He would have kept his own accounts.
4 In Buckinghamshire. This estate was granted to Gundulf by archbishop Lanfranc, but after the archbishop’s death in 1089, King William II (William Rufus) disputed the grant forcing Gundulf to make a concession of fortifying Rochester Castle in exchange for the estate. A copy of the Domesday Book entry for Haddenham (‘Hedreham’) is preserved in Custumale Roffense, f. 8r, and the transference of the estate (‘Hedenham’) to Gundulf is recorded in a charter in Textus Roffensis, 173r.
5 Unidentified, but apparently somewhere in the parish of Bletchingley: kentarchaeology.ac, p. 224, n. 17.
6 Isle of Grain.
7 He was probably a knight and the brother of Baldwin, a monk of Rochester. See H. Tsurushima, ‘The Fraternity of Rochester Cathedral Priory about 1100’, Proceedings of the Battle Conference 1991, Anglo-Norman Studies 14 (1992), 313–337, at 326.
8 The surname pincerna means ‘butler’ or ‘cupbearer’; see Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources: http://logeion.uchicago.edu/index.html#pincerna.
9 Adam Sinclair, commissioner of Domesday Book and wealthy Norman landowner, serving under Bishop Odo. See: fionamsinclair.co.uk
10 Eudo Dapifer (dapifer is Latin for ‘server’, one who waits at tables), a Norman aristocrat, served as steward for William the Conqueror, William Rufus and Henry I. See Henry Ellis, A General Introduction to Domesday Book (1833), pp. 415–16.
11 Unidentified; however, there is a Belce Wood (Old English, Bylce wudu) in Sturry, Canterbury, which may indicate the approximate area. See Judith Glover, The Place Names of Kent (London: Batsford, 1976), p. 15.
12 Unidentified. The spelling has not been modernised; possibly ‘Sharnbrook’.
Funds for building and maintenance, 1114-1124
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Funds for building and maintenance 1114-1124
December 14, 2017Bishop Ernulf grants funds for the building and maintenance of St Andrew’s Priory, Date: 1114–11241. Textus Roffensis, f. 197r. Translated from Latin and edited by Dr Christopher Monk.
Transcription
197r (select folio number to open facsimile)
Notum sit omnibus tam posteris quam prę-
sentibus sanctę Rofensis ęcclesię fidelibus, quod
ego Ernulfus eiusdem ęcclesię episcopus concessi in
perpetuum ad edificandas et sustentandas
domos monachorum denarios quos presbiteri pa-
rochiani solent reddere uel quando
crisma accipiunt, uel ad synodum con-
ueniunt. Teste Heruiso archidiacono,
Guarnerio Cantuariensi monacho, Rodberto Dof-
forensi canonico, Ansfrido Dapifero, Athe-
lardo, Ricardo, Gosfrido, Scotlando, Ęlsta-
no filio Adelardi, Osberno filio Osmundi,
et multis de familia nostra, et aliis.
Translation
Let it be known to all (as much to the future as the present faithful of the holy church of Rochester) that I Ernulf,2 bishop of the same church granted in perpetuity for the building and maintenance of the monks’ home the money which the priests of the parish are accustomed to render either when they receive chrism or assemble at the synod.3 Witnessed by Harvey, the archdeacon; Warner of Canterbury, monk; Robert of Dover, canon; Ansfrid Dapifer; Adelard; Richard; Gosfrid;4 Scotland;5 Ealhstan6 son of Adelard; Osborn son of Osmund; and many from our family and others.
Footnotes
1 This text was not written by the principal scribe, who completed his work c. 1123, but was added as part of a folio that was inserted later in the twelfth century to replace one that had been cut out. The note does however relate to the period of Ernulf’s bishopric (1114–1124), and may well be a copy of an original charter by the bishop.
2 Bishop of Rochester at the time of the writing of Textus Roffensis (r. 1114–1124). He likely oversaw its completion around 1123.
3 A list of the payments for chrism (holy anointing oil) due from the churches in the diocese of Rochester is found on ff. 220v–222r of Textus Roffensis.
4 Or, Geoffrey
5 Oddly, given as a personal name
6 I’ve used the slightly more familiar Old English spelling.
Privileges relating to the Church at Stourmouth, 1093-1108
Agreement between Bishop Gundulf and Haimo son of Vitalis concerning privileges relating to the church at Stourmouth, Date: 1093–1108. Textus Roffensis, f. 185v. Translated from Latin and edited by Dr Christopher Monk.
Transcription
185v (select folio number to open facsimile)
hęc est conuentio
quam Haimo filius Vitalis fecit uersus Gun-
dulfum episcopum de Rouecestra, quod ipse Haimo
dedit episcopo et monachis ęcclesiam de Sturmu-
tha et suam dominicam decimam totam cum omnibus
consuetudinibus quę ad eandem ęcclesiam per-
tinent, et iiiior acros terrę qui in ęcclesia sunt,
et in eodem manerio pasturam ad centum
oues. Et hoc fecit pro anima patris sui et
matris suę et pro sua, et propter hoc quod quendam
fratrem suum fecit monachum in ęcclesia Sancti An-
dreę. Et hęc ipsa conuentio fuit facta coram
Anselmo archiepiscopo, ita quod ipsemet affuit,
et ita fieri concessit. Et isti sunt testes
qui affuerunt: Baldeuuinus monachus, Wido monachus, Ansfridus clericus, Ra-
dulfus camerarius, Iuo de mala uilla, et alii
plures de familia archiepiscopi, et Willelmus de Etesham.1
Translation
This is the agreement which Haimo son of Vitalis2 made with respect to bishop Gundulf of Rochester:3 to the bishop and monks this very Haimo gave the church of Stourmouth and all its Sunday tithing, with all customary payments which pertain to the same church, and 4 acres of land which are in the church, and in the same manor pasture for one hundred sheep. And this was made for the soul of his father and his mother and his own; and, on account of this, his brother was made a monk in the church of St Andrew. And this very agreement was made in the presence of archbishop Anselm, therefore he himself was present, and therefore he granted that it be done. And these are the witnesses who were present: Baldwin the monk; Guy the monk; Ansfrid the priest; Ralf the chamberlain; Ivo of Malaville,4 and several others of the archbishop’s household; and William of Adisham.5
Footnotes
1 The words ‘allii […] Etesham’ were added by a different, though contemporary, hand. There does not appear to be any erasure, so it would seem that a space was left by the principal scribe, who perhaps was unexpectedly taken from his work and forgot to complete the text on his return.
2 Vitalis of Canterbury: see K. S. B. Keats-Rohan, Domesday People: A Prosopograhy of Persons Occurring in English Documents 1066–1166 (Woodbridge: Boydell, 1999), I: Domesday Book, p. 443.
3 Bishop and prior at Rochester, from 1077 to 1108.
4 Or, Ives.
5 Adisham, tentatively for Etesham. Adisham was earlier known as Edesham (1006) and Eadesham (c.1100); see Judith Glover, The Place Names of Kent (London: B. T. Batsford Ltd., 1976), p. 3; Etesham may perhaps be a variant spelling.
Land in Frindsbury to Rochester Cathedral, c.1100-c.1123 AD
An agreement made by the monks of Rochester with the wife of Robert Latimer, concerning land in Frindsbury, c. 1100–c.1123. Textus Roffensis, ff. 200v–201r. Translated from Latin and edited by Dr Christopher Monk.
Fifteen hides at Fen Stanton and Hilton, Hunts. to Rochester Cathedral, 1012
Æthelred II grants to Bishop Godwine of Rochester fifteen hides at Fen Stanton and Hilton, Hunts.*, A.D. 1012. Textus Roffensis, ff. 159v–162r. Translated from Latin and Old English by Dr Christopher Monk.
Six sulungs at Bromley to Rochester Cathedral with the use of forest in the Weald, 998
Æthelred II1 restores to the see of Rochester six sulungs at Bromley and the use of forest in the Weald.*, A.D. 998. Textus Roffensis, ff. 156v–159v. Translated from Latin and Old English by Dr Christopher Monk.
The King's Peace, late 10th century
Pax (‘Peace’) relates to physical boundaries or limits of the ‘King’s peace’.
This Old English version is unique to Textus Roffensis. This relates to physical boundaries or limits of the ‘King’s peace’.
Transcription
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Ðus feor sceal beon þæs cinges grið, fram
his burhgeate þær he is sittende, on feo-
wer healfe his. Ð>æt< is iii mila 7 iii furlang, 7
iii æcera bræde, 7 ix fota, 7 ix scæftamunda,
7 ix berecorna.
Translation
Thus far shall be the king’s peace1 from his city gate [or ‘gatehouse’] where he is seated, on its four sides. That is 3 miles, and 3 furlongs, and 3 acres, and 9 feet, and 9 spans, and 9 barleycorns.
Footnotes
1 OE grið, having the sense of a delimited area of sanctuary or protection.
How the person must swear an oath, c.900 AD
Anonymous, unknown date. Concerns instructions for swearing an oath.
Transcription
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On ðone Drihten Hu se man sceal swerie.3
þe ðes haligdom is forehalig, ic wille beon N4
hold, ⁊ getriwe, ⁊ eal lufian ðæt he lufað, ⁊ eal
ascunian ðæt he ascunað æfter Godes rihte, ⁊
æfter woroldgerysnum, ⁊ næfre willes ne gewe-
aldes, wordes ne weorces owiht don ðæs him
laðre bið, wið þam ðe he me healde swa ic earnian
wille, ⁊ eall þæt læste þæt uncer formæl wæs þa
ic to him gebeah, ⁊ his willan geceas. On ðone Drihten þe ðes haligdom is forehalig
swa ic spæce drife mid fullan folcrihte butan bræde,
⁊ butan swice, ⁊ butan æghwylcum facne, swa me
forstolen wæs ðæt orf N ðæt ic onspece, ⁊ þæt
ic mid N befangen hæbbe.
On ðone Drihten næs ic æt ræde, ne æt dæde,
ne gewita, ne gewyrhta, ðær man mid unrihte N
orf ætferede. Ac swa ic ( ) orf hæbbe swa ic
hit mid rihte begeat, ⁊ swa ic >hit< tyme swa hit me se
sealde ðe ic hit nu on hand sette, ⁊ swa ic orf hæb-
be swa ic orf hæbbe5 swa hit me se sealde ðe hit to
syllanne agte, ⁊ >swa< ic orf hæbbe swa hit of minum
agnum ðingum com ⁊ swa hit on folcriht min agen
æht is, ⁊ min infoster. On ðone Drihten, ne teo ic N, ne for hete, ne
for hele, ne for unrihtre feohgyrnesse, ne ic
nan soðre nat bute swa min secga me sæde, ⁊ ic
sylf to soðe talige ðæt he mines orfes þeof wære. On ðone Drihten,
ic eom unscyldig ægðer ge dæde ge dihtes æt þære
tihtlan ðe N me tihð. On ðone Drihten, se að is clæne ⁊ unmæne, ðe N swor. On ælmihtiges Godes naman ðu me >be
clæne þæt þæt ðu me sealdest, ⁊ fulle ware wið
æftersp>r æce on ða gewitennesse ðe unc ða mid
wæs
soðre gewitnesse stande unabeden, ⁊ ungeboht
to swa ic hit minum egum oferseah, ⁊ minum earum
oferhyrde ðæt ðæt ic him mid sæcge. On ælmihtiges Godes naman, nyste ic on ðam
ðingum þe þu ymbe specst ful ne facn, ne wac ne
wom, to ðære dæityde ðe ic hit þe sealde, ac hit
ægðer wæs ge hal, ge clæne butan ælcon facne. On lifiendes Godes naman
swa ic feos bidde swa ic gywanan hæbbe ðæs þe me
N behet ða ic him min sealde. On lifiendes Godes naman, ne ðearf ic N
sceatt, ne scylling, ne penig, ne peniges weorð,
ac eal ic him gelæste ðæt ðæt ic him scolde
swa forð swa uncre wordgecwydu fyrmest
wæroN.
Translation
How the person must swear an oath.
In the Lord,6 whose holiness is foremost: to [name of lord]7 I wish to be loyal and true, and to love all that he loves, and to shun all that he shuns according to God’s law and secular customs, and neither willingly nor intentionally to carry out either a word or deed which to him is hateful; I wish to live up to the regard with which he may hold me; and everything agreed between us I will carry out when I submit to him;8 and his will I have chosen.
In the Lord, whose holiness is foremost: thus I prosecute my suit, with full folk-right, without fraud and without guile, and without anything false; and thus from me was stolen the livestock by [name of defendant]; that [livestock] I lay claim to, and that [livestock] with [name of helper] I have seized.9
In the Lord: I was neither, in counsel or in deed, a witness or an accomplice at the place where a person unlawfully took away livestock from [name of plaintiff]. Moreover, therefore, I have livestock which I rightfully obtained, and thus I guarantee that he sold it to me, which I now confirm by swearing;10 and so I have livestock just as he sold it to me, which he delivered up as seller; and so by my own means I have livestock as it came; and it, according to folk-right, is my own property, mine to rear.
In the Lord: I accuse [name of defendant], not from malice, nor as a pretext, nor for unrighteous gain, nor, in truth, do I know anything besides that which my informant told me, and I myself truthfully do state that he was a thief of my livestock.
In the Lord: I am innocent, both in deed and intent, of the charge of which [name of plaintiff] accuses me.
In the Lord: the oath which [name of defendant or plaintiff] swore is pure and without falsehood.
In the name of Almighty God: you promised me that you sold it to me whole and clean, and in full awareness against an after-claim, for which [name of witness of transaction] was the witness for us both.
In the name of Almighty God: as I here stand for [names of parties to transaction] in true witness, unbidden and unbought, that I saw with my own eyes and heard with my own ears that which I declare on their behalf.
In the name of Almighty God: I did not know of the things of which you speak, neither filth nor fault, blight nor blot,11 at the time which I sold it to you; rather it was both whole and clean, without any blemish.
In the name of the Living God: thus I make request for [my] goods as I do not have those which [name of defendant] promised me when I paid him.
In the name of the Living God: I did not steal from [name of plaintiff], neither a sceat nor a shilling,12 a penny nor a penny’s worth; rather I furnished him everything I was obliged thenceforth [to give], just as we had firmly agreed verbally.
Footnotes
1 Also referred to by scholars as Swerian (‘to swear an oath’). We should note carefully that se man should not automatically be assumed to specifically mean ‘the man’, as man (a variant of mann), though grammatically masculine, is used in Old English to mean ‘person’, either male or female. That women did swear oaths, were ‘oath-worthy’, in Anglo-Saxon England, particularly in the contexts of disputes and defence against false accusation, is well attested. See Carole Hough, ‘Women’, in The Blackwell Encyclopaedia of Anglo-Saxon England, ed. Michael Lapidge et al (Blackwell, 1999), pp. 485–87, esp. p. 486.
2 Patrick Wormald observes: ‘An assortment of oath formulae is likely to have a whole variety of dates. Some may indeed go back a long way. […] Most of the transactions covered by Swerian formulae were at least as old as seventh-century laws. But the date of the collection as a whole cannot of course be earlier than the latest formula it contains.’ He proceeds to make a reasonable argument for a date from 900 onwards. See The Making of English Law: King Alfred to the Twelfth Century, vol. 1 (Blackwell, 1999), p. 384. Swerian was copied by the principal scribe of Textus Roffensis, who completed his work around 1123.
3 The rubric heading (red ink) has been set on the same line as the text proper.
4 The abbreviation ‘N’ (which in the manuscript resembles a stretched ‘H’ with a small symbol above it, and a full-stop both before and after the letter) is borrowed from Latin scribal practice: see note 4 above.
5 ‘swa ic orf hæbbe’ is accidentally repeated by the scribe.
6 ‘In the Lord’ appears to be an invocation of God/Christ as Lord to witness the oath, similar to modern day ‘I swear by Almighty God that…’.
7 At this point in the manuscript the abbreviation ‘.Ñ.’ is used, borrowed from Latin scribal practice, where it stands for nomine (i.e. ‘name’, in either the dative or ablative case). In Old English scribal practice, a form of the Old English word nama (‘name’) should be understood. The oath-taker supplies the relevant name of a person, in this first instance the name of the lord to whom loyalty is being sworn.
8 Grammatically, the oath-maker could be swearing to submit either to ‘it’, i.e. the aforementioned agreement (‘þæt formæl’), or ‘him’, i.e. his lord.
9 Alternatively, referring to the defendant, ‘whom I accuse, and whom … I have seized’, though grammatically such a translation is problematic.
10 Literally, ‘which I now set down in hand’.
11 I have tried to preserve the performative effect of the alliteration of the original language, though the second alliterative pair in Old English actually plays on the sound of ‘w’: woc (‘weakness’) and wom (‘stain/blot’). The alliteration is intentional, underscoring the power of words in the context of oath-making.
12 Sceat (roughly pronounced shat), plural sceattas: a small silver coin.
Restoration to Rochester Cathedral of six sulungs at Wouldham and one mansa at Littlebrook, 995
Æthelred II1 restores to the see of Rochester at the request of Bishop Godwine six sulungs at Wouldham and one mansa at Littlebrook, 995. Textus Roffensis, ff. 152r–155r. Translated from Latin and Old English by Dr Christopher Monk.
Cnut’s Charter for Christ Church, Canterbury, 1023 AD
Concerns the granting of the port of Sandwich and related water rights to Christ Church, Canterbury. Transcription and translation of Textus Roffensis, 57v by Jacob Scott (pending review).
Concerns the granting of the port of Sandwich and related water rights to Christ Church, Canterbury. Transcription and translation of Textus Roffensis, 57v by Jacob Scott (pending review).
Latin, dating to 1023. No rubric, though there is a space left for one. A space is left for a display initial; or perhaps the initial has been completely obliterated by water damage. The arm of Saint Bartholomew apparently refers to a relic; also mentioned are a large cloak and Bartholomew’s gold crown.
Transcription
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[C]NVD rex anglorum dedit aecclesiae
xpi brachium Sancti Bartholomei
apostoli cum magno pallio, et sui capitis
auream coronam, et portum de sandwic,
et omnes exitus eiusdem aquae ab utraque
parte fluminis, ita ut natante naui
in flumine cum plenum fuerit, quam
longius de naui potest securis paruula
super terram proici, debet a ministris
aecclesiae xpi rectitudo nauis accipi. Null-
usque,
Translation
Cnut, king of the English, has given to the church of Christ, the arm of St Bartholomew the apostle with a large cloak, and of the head, a gold crown, and the port of Sandwich, and all of the outlets of the same water from both sides of the river, so that when a ship is in the river and it is full, how far from the ship can a small anchor be thrown on the ground, officials of Christ Church must assess the tightness of the ship, but none.
Acknowledgements
With thanks for the notes of Dr Christopher Monk.
Trial by Ordeal, mid-10th century
Textus Roffensis contains the code concerning the infamous administering of trial by ordeal: by water, by fire, and by bread and cheese.
Transcription
32r (select folio number to open facsimile)
Dom Be haten isene, an[d] wætere.
And of þam ordale we bebeodað godes bebo-
dum, 7 þæs arcebiscopes, 7 ealra bisceopa, þæt nan
mann ne cume innon þære ciricean siððan
man þæt fyr inbyrð, þe man þæt ordal mid hæ-
tan sceal, buton se mæssepreost, 7 se ðe þar-
to gan sceal, 7 beo þær gemeten nygon fet,
of þam stacan to þære mearce, be þæs mannes
fotan þe þarto gæð. 7 gif hit þonne wæter
sy, hæte man hit oð hit hleope to wylme,
7 sy þæt alfæt isen, oððe æren, leaden oððe
læmen. 7 gif hit anfeald tyh[t]le sy, dufe
seo hand æfter þam stane, oð þa wriste. 7
gif hit þryfeald sy, oð þæne elbogan. 7 þon-
ne þæt ordal geara sy, þonne gan twegen menn
inn of ægðre healfe, 7 beon hig anræde þæt
hit swa hat sy, swa we ær cwædon, 7 gan inn
emfela manna of ægðre healfe, 7 stande on
twa healfe þæs ordales andlang þære cy-
ricean, 7 þa beon ealle fæstende, 7 fram heo-
ra wife gehealdene þære nyhte, 7 sprænge
se mæssepreost halig wæter ofer hig ealle,
7 heora ælc abyrige þæs halig wæteres,
7 sylle heom eallum cyssan boc, 7 cristes rode
tacn, 7 na bete nan man þæt fyr na længe þon-
ne man þa halgunge onginne, ac licge þæt isen
uppan þam gledan, oð þæt þa æftemestan collan,
lecge hit man syððan uppan þam stapelan,
7 ne sy þær nan oðer spæc inne buton þæt
hig biddan god ælmihtig georne, þæt he þæt soðe-
ste geswytelie, 7 ga he to, 7 inseglige man
þa hand, 7 sete man ofer þæne þriddan dæg,
swa hwæðer, swa heo beo ful swa clæne bin-
nan þam insegle, 7 se þe þas lage abrece,
beo þæt ordal on him forad, 7 gilde þam
cyninge cxx scillinga to wite.
Translation
Judgement by hot iron or water
And with this ordeal, we are commanding the command of God and the archbishop and all bishops:
No one may come into the church – except the mass-priest and the one who shall undertake the ordeal1 – after the one who carries in the fire, who heats up the ordeal.
And, there, measure nine feet from the stake to the finish mark,2 according to the measure of the foot of the one who undertakes the ordeal.
And, then, if it be water, heat it until it rapidly boils; and the cooking pot may be iron or brazen, leaden or earthen. And if it be a single accusation, he should plunge his hand after the stone, as far as the wrist. And if it be threefold, up to his elbow.
And when the ordeal is prepared, then from each side two men go in;3 and they shall reach agreement that it be as hot as we first said; and let equally as many persons of either side go in and stand on both sides of the ordeal, along the church. And all should have fasted and should abstain from their wife for the night. And the mass-priest shall sprinkle holy water over them all; and each of them shall taste of the holy water; and he shall give them the book4 to kiss and make the sign of the cross of Christ.
And no one may strengthen nor lengthen the fire when once the hallowing5 commences; but lay the iron upon the coals until they die down. Put it afterwards upon the post, and there let not anyone speak within, except that he beseech God Almighty earnestly, so that He the truth may reveal.
And let the accused6 go forth; and seal his hand; and let it be determined over on the third day, whether it be foul or clean inside the seal.7 And whoever shall break this law, the ordeal on [account of] him shall be void, and he shall render the king 120 shillings as punishment.8
Footnotes
1 Literally, ‘the one who shall go thereto’; a similar phrase is used in the next paragraph.
2 i.e. the starting and finishing points the accused must walk between with the piece of hot iron in his hand.
3 i.e. from among the supporters of the defendant and plaintiff.
4 i.e. the Bible or a Gospel book.
5 or ‘sanctification’.
6 ‘him’.
7 It was determined if there was present any infection in the hand (e.g. visible puss): infection was the mark of the guilty; cleanness, the innocent.
8 The so-called ‘disobedience fine’: this seems to suggest that if the rules of the ordeal are not followed, then the ordeal is void and a fine must also be paid to the king.
Corpse Robbery, late 10th century
This anonymous law fragment Walreaf (‘Spoil of the Slain/Corpse Robbery’) forbids the robbery of corpses.
This anonymous lawcode fragment forbids the robbery of corpses. Possibly Scandinavian in origin as it uses the term niðing meaning ‘outlaw’.
Transcription
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Walreaf is niðinges dæde. Gif hwa of sacen
wille, do þæt mid eahta 7 feowertig fulborenra
þegena.
Translation
Corpse robbery is an outlaw’s deed.
If someone should wish to be acquitted thereof, do so with forty-eight full-born [or ‘noble-born’] thegns.1
Footnotes
1 i.e. the accused requires the oath of 48 thegns to refute the charge.
Edmund’s First Code, 942-6 AD
The code’s chief concerns are ecclesiastical: clerical celibacy, church dues and alms, and restoration of church buildings.
Transcription
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Eadmundes cyninges EADMUND cyning < asetnysse.
gesomnode mycelne sinoð to lundebyrig
on ða halgan easterlicon tid ægðer gegodcun-
dra hada ge woroldcundra, ðær hwæs oDa, 7
wulfstan arcebisceop, 7 mænige oðre biscopas
smeagende ymbe heora saula ræd, 7 ðara ðe
him underðeodde wæron. Dæt is ærest
ðæt ða halgan hadas ðe godes folc læran scy-
lan lyfes bysne, ðæt hi heora clænnesse he-
aldan be heora hade, swa wer-hades, swa wif
hades, swa hweðer hit sy. Gif hy swa ne don
þonne syn hy ðæs wyrðe ðe on ðam canone
cwæð, ðæt is ðæt hy ðolian worold-æhta, 7
gehalgodre legerstowe, buton hy gebetan. Teoðunge we bebeodaþ ælcum cristenum men
be his cristendome, 7 cyric-sceat, > 7 ælmes
feoh, gif hit hwa don nelle, sy he amansumod. Gif hwa cristenes mannes blod ageote, ne cu-
me he na on ðas cyninges ansyne, ær he on
dæd-bote ga swa biscop him tæce, 7 his scrift
him wissige. Se ðe wið nunnan hæme, gehal-
godre legerstowe ne sy he wyrðe, bute he
gebete, ðe ma ðe manslaga, ðæt hylce we
cwædon be æwbryce. Eac we gecwædon þæt ælc
biscop bete godes hus on his agnum, 7 eac þo-
ne cyning myngige ðæt ealle godes cyrcan
syn wel be-hweorfene swa us mucel þearf is.
Da ðe mansweriað, 7 lyblat wyrcað, syn hy
a fram ælcum godes dæle aworpene, buten
hy to rihtre dædbote gecyrraN.
Translation
The law of King Edmund1
King Edmund assembled a great council2 at London on the holy Eastertide, both divine and worldly ranks. Oda3 and Archbishop Wulfstan4 were there, and many other bishops inquiring about the counsel of their souls and of those who were subject to them.5
What is first is that those in holy orders fulfil an exemplary life, in order to teach God’s people; that they hold their cleanness6 according to their office, whether they be male or female.
If they do not do so, then they shall be treated accordingly as is stated in the rule,7 namely, they forfeit worldly possessions and a holy burial, unless they repent.
We command tithing for each Christian, in conformity with Christendom, and church-scot,8 and alms-giving. If anyone does not do this, he shall be excommunicated.
If someone sheds the blood of a Christian, he may not come into the presence9 of the king until he repents, just as the bishop shall teach and show him his penance.
He who has sex with a nun, he shall not be worthy of a holy burial, no more than a murderer, unless he shall repent. Such waywardness we refer to as adultery.
Also, we say that every bishop shall reform the house of God by himself; and he shall also remind the king that all of God’s church be widely spread, as is our great need.
Those who swear falsely and work sorcery, they shall be cast off forever from every portion of God, unless they turn to lawful penitence.
Footnotes
1 King Edmund ruled 939–946.
2 ‘synod’.
3 Oda, archbishop of Canterbury, 941–958.
4 Wulfstan I, archbishop of York, 931–956; not to be confused with the more famous Wulfstan, archbishop of York, 1002–1023.
5 or ‘him’, i.e. the king.
6 i.e. remain celibate.
7 ‘canon’.
8 a tax paid to the church.
9 literally, ‘face’.
Æthelred’s Woodstock Code, 997 AD
‘This is the decree which King Æthelred and his council decreed at Woodstock for all the people as a remedy of peace in Mercia…’
Transcription
46r (select folio number to open facsimile)
Æþelredes cyninges geræd-
ÐIS is seo gerædnys ðe æþelred < nisse.
cyning 7 his witan geræddon eallon
folce to friþes bote æt wudestoce, on myrce-
nalande æfter engla lage, þæt is þæt ælc freo-man
getreowne borh hæbbe, þæt se borh hine to ælcon
rihte gehealde gif >he betyhtlad wurðe. Gif
he ðonne tyht-bysig sy, gange to þam þryfeal-
dan ordale. Gif se hlaford sæcge þæt him naðer
ne burste, ne að, ne ordal syððan þæt gemot wæs
æt bromdune. Nime se hlaford him twegen ge-
treowe þegenas, innan þam hundrede, 7 sweri-
an þæt him næfre að ne burste, ne he þeof-gyld
ne gulde, butan he þone gerefan hæbbe, þe
þæs wyrðe sy, þe þæt don mæge. Gif se að þonne
forð-cume, ceose se man þonne þe þær be-tyht
let sy, swa hweðer he wylle, swa anfeald ordal,
swa pundes wurþne að, innan þam þrim hun-
dredan ofer þrittig peninga. Dif hy þonne
aþ syllan ne durron, gange to þam þryfealdan
ordale. Dif he þonne ful wurðe, æt þam for-
man cyrre bete þam teonde twygylde, 7 þam
hlaforde his were, 7 sette getreowe borgas þæt he
ælces yfeles geswice eft. 7 æt þam oþran cyr-
re, ne sy þær nan oðer bot butan þæt hlaford[;]
gif he þonne ut-hleape 7 þæt ordal forbuge, gyl-
de se borh þam teonde his ceap-gyld, 7 þam hla-
forde his were, þe his wites wyrðe sy. 7 gyf
mon þone hlaford teo þæt he be his ræde utt-
hleope, 7 ær unriht worhte, nime him fif
þegnas to, 7 beo him sylf sixta, 7 ladie hine þæs.
7 gif seo lad forð cume, beo he þæs weres wur-
ðe. 7 gif heo forð ne cume, fo se cyning to
þam were, 7 beo se þeof ut-lah wið eall folc; 7 hæb-
be ælc hlaford his hired-men, on his agenon
borge. Gif he ðonne betyhtled wurðe, 7 he utt
oþhleape, gylde se hlaford þæs mannes were þam
cyninge. 7 gif man þone hlaford teo þæt he
be his ræde ut-hleope, ladie hine mid fif þeg-
num, 7 beo him sylf sixta. Gif him seo lad byr-
ste, gylde þam cynge his were, 7 sy se man ut-lah.
7 beo se cyng ælc þæra wita wyrðe þe þa men ge-
wyrcen þe bocland habban, 7 ne bete nan man
for nanre tyhtlan butan hit sy >þæs< cynges gere-
fan gewitnesse. 7 gif þeow-man ful wurðe
æt þam ordale, mearcie man hine æt ðam for-
man cyrre, 7 æt ðam oðrum cyrre ne sy þær
nan oþer bot buton þæt heafod. 7 þæt nan
man ne do naþor ne ne bycge, ne ne hwirfe bu-
ton he borh hæbbe, 7 gewitnesse. Gif hit þon-
ne hwa do fo se land-hlaford to, 7 healde þæt orf
oð þæt man wite hwa hit age mid rihte. 7 gif
hwylc man sy þe eallon folce ungetrywe sy, fa-
re þæs cynges gerefa to, 7 gebringe hine un-
der borge, þæt hine man to rihte gelæde, þam þe
him onspræcon. Gif he ðonne borh næbbe,
slea mon hine, 7 on ful lecge, 7 gif hwa hine
forenne forstande, beon hy begen anes rihtes
wyrðe. 7 se þe þys forsytte, 7 hit geforðian
nylle, swa ure ealra cwide is, sylle þam cynge
cxx scllingas.
Translation
Decree of King Æthelred
This is the decree which King Æthelred and his council decreed at Woodstock for all the people as a remedy of peace in Mercia according to English law:
That is, that every freeman have a trustworthy surety, that the surety hold him to all justice, if he be charged.
If he then be accused, he should go to the three-fold ordeal.
If the lord should declare that neither oath nor ordeal failed for him since the assembly at Bromdune:1 let the lord take for him two trustworthy thegns, from within the hundred, and swear that neither oath failed for him nor did he pay a thief’s fine – unless he has the reeve, who is worthy to do this, and he may do this.
If the oath then is forthcoming, then let the person who be accused choose whichever he will, whether the single ordeal, or the oath worth a pound within the three hundred, [if the suit is] over thirty pennies.
If then they dare not give an oath, let him go to the three-fold ordeal.
If then he be judged guilty, at the first occurrence he shall compensate the plaintiff two-fold and the lord with his wergeld; and let trustworthy sureties be appointed so that he henceforth desist from every evil.
And at the second occurrence, let there not be any other compensation there except his head.2
If he should then escape and avoid the ordeal, let the surety compensate the plaintiff with the market price of his goods, and to the lord his wergeld, who is entitled to his fine.
And if someone should accuse the lord, that it was by his counsel that he escaped and committed the wrong, let him [the lord] take five thegns, and be himself a sixth, and defend himself from this. And if the defence is forthcoming, let him be entitled to the wergeld. And if it be not forthcoming, let the king take the wergeld, and let the thief become an outlaw against all the people.
And let every lord have his retainers3 in his own surety. If he [a retainer] then should stand accused and he should escape, let the lord pay the man’s wergeld to the king.
And if someone should accuse the lord, that it was by his counsel that he escaped, let him defend himself with five thegns, and be himself a sixth. If for him the defence should fail, let him pay the king his wergild and let the man be an outlaw.
And let the king be entitled to every fine which the men who have bookland pay out, and let no one compound4 for any accusation unless it be by witness of the king’s reeve.
And if a slave is judged guilty at the ordeal, one should brand him at the first occurrence, and at the second occurrence, there should be no other pay-back there except his head.
And that no one neither sell nor barter unless he have surety and a witness.
If then someone should do this, let the land-lord take and hold the property5 until he understands who owns it rightfully.
And if someone should be untrustworthy to all the people, one should go to the king’s reeve and bring him [the untrustworthy one] under surety, so that one may bring him to justice, to those who accused him.
If he then does not have surety, let him be slain, and lie in guilt; and if someone should defend him beforehand, may they both prove at once to be straight.
And he who obstructs this, and does not wish to carry it out, just as we all say: let him give the king 120 shillings.
Footnotes
1 Bromdune, unidentified; possibly the same as Brumdon in Dorset (Bosworth-Toller Anglo-Saxon Dictionary: available here [accessed 07/07/2017]
2 Actually reads ‘the lord’ (‘þæt hlaford’); but compare the later clause regarding the slave, where ‘the head’ (‘þæt heafod’) is given. It is likely either hlaford was used in error, or it was being used metaphorically, since the lord is indeed the head of his people.
3 literally, ‘household-men’.
4 compound: ‘forbear from prosecuting (a felony) in exchange for money or other consideration’ (Oxford Dictionary of English).
5 or ‘livestock’.
Monumental Inscriptions recording project
The KAS has been collating and recording information from Kent graveyards and churches for over 100 years.
Updated 01/04/2017
The KAS has been collating and recording information from Kent graveyards and churches for over 100 years.
The Monumental Inscriptions records available on the Society website come from a variety of sources many of which were transcribed and indexed from notebooks in KHLC and the KAS Library etc by Frank & Zena Bamping, Margaret Broomfield, Christine Pantrey, Pat Tritton and Dawn Weeks, assisted by other members of the K.A.S. Many were available as a result of the transcriptions collected by Leland L Duncan, Bax and Rice and others from the 1760s. Other MI records have been provided by members and other enthusiasts.
This website can only possibly contain a fraction of the information once available in the churchyards of all ages throughout Kent.
Index of sites
Adisham
Aldington
Alkham
Allhallows
Ash next Ridley
Ash next Sandwich
Ashford
Aylesford
B
BapchildBarfreston
Barham
Beckenham
Bekesbourne
Benenden
Bethersden
Betteshanger
Bexley
Biddenden
Bishopsbourne
Blean
Boughton
Boughton Malherbe
Brabourne
Brasted
Bredhurst
Brenchley
Brenzett
Bridge
Bromley
Brook
Brookland
Buckland
Burham
Burmarsh
C
Canterbury, All Saint's ChurchCanterbury, Cotton's Hospital
Canterbury, Eastbridge Hospital
Canterbury, Holy Cross Church
Canterbury, Maynard's Spital
Canterbury, St Dunstan's Church
Canterbury, St Jesus Hospital churchyard
Canterbury, St John's Church
Canterbury, St Peters churchyard
Capel le Fern
Capel near Tudeley
Chalk
Chalk, St Mary the Virgin Church
Challock
Charing
Charing Notes
Charlton near Blackheath
Charlton near Dover
Chartham
Chatham, Maidstone Road Cemetery
Chatham, St Mary Burial Ground
Chatham, St Mary the Virgin Church
Chatham, Unitarian Church
Chelsfield
Cheriton
Chevening
Chiddingstone
Chilham
Chillenden
Chislehurst
Chislet
Cliffe
Coldred
Cooling
Crundale
Cudham
Cuxton
D
DarenthDartford
Deal
Deal
Denton
Deptford
Detling
Dover, St Martins
Dover, St Marys
Downe
Dymchurch
E
East FarleighEast Langdon
East Peckham
East Peckham, St Michaels
Eastry
Eastwell
Ebony
Egerton
Elham
Elmstead
Elmstone
Erith
Ewhurst
Eythorne
F
FairfieldFarnborough
Farningham
Faversham
Fawkham
Folkestone
Footscray
Fordwich
Frindsbury
Frindsbury, 1874 extn
Frittenden
G
Gillingham, Grange Road CemeteryGillingham, St Mary Magdalene Church
Godmersham
Goodnestone next Faversham
Goodnestone next Wingham
Goudhurst
Grain
Graveney
Gravesend
Great Chart
Great Mongeham
Guston
H
HadlowHalling
Halstead
Ham
Harbledown
Hartley
Hastingleigh
Hawkhurst
Hawkinge
Headcorn
Herne
High Halden
High Halstow
Higham - 1922
Higham - 2012
Hinxhill
Hoath
Hoo
Hoo, St Werburgh Church
Horsmonden
Horton Kirby
Hothfield
Hougham
Hunton
Hythe
I
IckhamIfield
Ightham
Ivychurch
K
KemsingKenardington
Kennington
Keston
Kingsnorth
Kingston
Knockholt
Knowlton
L
LamberhurstLee
Leigh
Lenham
Lewisham
Little Chart
Littlebourne
Longfield
Loose
Lower Hardres
Luddesdown
Luton
Lydd
Lyminge
Lympne
Lynsted (Linstead)
M
Maidstone, All Saints ChurchMaidstone, Baptist Burial Ground
Maidstone, Holy Trintiy
Maidstone, Methodist Church
Meopham
Mersham
Molash
N
NackingtonNew Romney
Newchurch
Newenden
Newington
Nonington
North Cray
Northbourne
Northfleet
Northiam
Nursted
O
Old RomneyOrlestone
Orpington
Ospringe
Otford
Oxney
P
PaddlesworthPatrixbourne
Penshurst
Petham
Plaxtol
Pluckley
Postling
Preston near Faversham
Preston near Wingham
R
RainhamRainham, St Margaret's Church
Ramsgate
Reculver
Ridley
Ringwould
Ripple
Rochester, Fort Pitt Military Cemetery
Rochester, St Margaret's Church
Rochester, St Margret's Cemetery
Rochester, St Nicholas Cemetery
Rochester, St Nicholas Church
Rolvenden
S
SaltwoodSandhurst
Sandwich, St Bartholomews
Sandwich, St Clements
Sandwich, St John's Hospital
Sandwich, St Mary's Church
Sandwich, St Peter's Church
Sandwich, St Thomas's Hospital
Seal
Sellindge
Selling
Sevington
Shadoxhurst
Sheldwich
Shipbourne
Shoreham
Shorne
Shoulden
Sibertswold
Sittingbourne, St Michael Church
Sittingbourne, St Michael Churchyard
Smarden
Smeeth
Snargate
Snave
Snodland, All Saints Church
Snodland, Christ Church
Southfleet
St Margaret at Cliffe
St Mary Cray
St Paul's Cray
St-Mary-in-the-Marsh
Stalisfield
Stanford
Stansted
Staple
Staplehurst - 1922
Staplehurst, All Saints (2009 & 2013)
Stelling Minnis
Stodmarsh
Stoke
Stone in Oxney
Stourmouth
Stowting
Strood
Strood, St Nicholas
Sturry
Sundridge
Sutton at Hone
Sutton next Ripple
Swanscombe
Swingfield
Sydenham
T
TenterdenThanington
Tilmanstone
Tovil
Trottiscliffe
Tudeley
U
Upper HardresW
WaldershareWalmer
Waltham
Warehorne
West Kingsdown
West Langdon
West Wickham
Westbere
Westcliffe
Westwell
Whitfield
Whitstable
Wickambreaux
Willesborough
Wilmington
Wingham
Wittersham
Womenswold
Woodchurch
Woodnesborough
Woolwich
Wootton
Worth
Wouldham
Wrotham
Wye
Monumental Inscriptions of St Michael Church, Sittingbourne
Monumental Inscriptions of St Michael Church, Sittingbourne including concise wills, other notes and photographs - recorded by D. E. Williams Easter 2017.
St Michael’s Church, c.1910
INTRODUCTION
The above view, from the south east, is much clearer than can be obtained today, when the church seems very constricted by modern buildings and mature trees. On the right, in the south east of the churchyard, one can identify the Boulding tomb, with it's railings, and just west of this, the railings of the Hogwood tomb. Almost all of the headstones, east of the Boulding tomb, which probably include most of the Garrett and Bax monuments, recorded by Bax and Rice in 1897, are no longer to be found. I have included these, with acknowledgement to Bax and Rice.
The main part of the churchyard is west and north of the church, the space is relatively small for such a parish when compared to others nearby, notably St Mary, Newington, which has a considerably larger plot.
I have divided the churchyard into four areas,
A - is a very small area south of the tower and east to the west wall of the south chapel;
B - is the south east and eastern section, prominent in the above photograph;
C - is the whole of the area west of the church
D - is the whole area north of the church.
I have added the area suffix to each monument number. The transcriptions are listed alphabetically. Although I follow the original layout, I do not follow the original fonts.
It should be noted that there are many, finely decorated 18th century headstones and a prominent 18th/19th century chest tomb, which have completely obliterated inscriptions; the churchyard contains a high number of body stones.
I have added concise versions of Prerogative Court of Canterbury, wills, which were proved in London and Canterbury Court wills, the majority in the archdeaconry court, which were proved in Sittingbourne. I have also included entries from local commercial directories, etc.
My thanks to my wife, Beverley, for her invaluable assistance, and also to Ted Connell for placing this record onto the K.A.S. website and for compiling the index.
D.E. Williams
Borstal,
Rochester.
Easter Sunday, 2017
INSCRIPTIONS
1 (D). HEADSTONE
[SACRED]
TO THE MEMORY OF
HANNAH WIFE OF
WILLIAM ABBOT
[DIED NOVEMBER 1853]
[ ]
[Eroded Verses]
ALSO THE ABOVE
WILLIAM ABBOT
[DIED FEBRUARY 1858]
[ ]
2 (D) COPED STONE
SOUTH SIDE
THIS SPOT IS HALLOWED AS THE RESTING PLACE OF
THOMAS ALEXANDER
LATE STOREKEEPER OF THE ORDNANCE
IN THE MAURITIUS WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE
ON THE 26th OF JANUARY 1854 AGED 73
NORTH SIDE
ALSO GRACE HIS BELOVED DAUGHTER
WHO DIED ON THE 21st OF NOV 1852
(GRACE WAS 30 YEARS OLD IN THE 1851 CENSUS)
PREROGATIVE COURT OF CANTERBURY WILL, NO DATE OR LOCATION GIVEN
THOMAS ALEXANDER
VERY PIOUS PREAMBLE, UNUSUAL FOR PERIOD.
THE WHOLE OF HIS PROPERTY, AFTER DEBTS, FUNERAL AND PROBATE COSTS ARE PAID, TO HIS WIFE, GRACE, IN TRUST FOR THEIR CHILDREN. AFTER HIS WIFE'S DEATH WHAT REMAINS TO THEIR CHILDREN, EQUALLY SHARED.
WITNESSES: ROBERT MACFARLANE AND J. DARNE
PROVED 20th FEBRUARY 1854, GRANTED TO HIS WIDOW, GRACE.
3 (C) HEADSTONE, VERY ERODED
[SACRED]
[TO THE MEMORY OF]
JOHN ARNDELL
OF THIS PARISH WHO DEPARTED THIS
LIFE THE 14th OF FEBRUARY 1822
AGED 68 YEARS
LIKEWISE [ANN A]RNDELL
SISTER OF [THE ABOVE] WHO DEPARTED
THIS LIFE [ ] [ ] [1841
[ ]
CANTERBURY COURT WILL, DATED 1st FEBRUARY 1822JOHN ARNDELL, CARRIER.
TO SISTER, ELIZABETH BARNARD, £200; TO HER HUSBAND, JOHN, THE FREEHOLD HOUSE THEY OCCUPY, FOR THEIR LIFETIMES, AFTER BOTH THEIR DEATHS, THEN TO THEIR SON, ALFRED, FOR EVER.
TO NIECE, ANN BARNARD, £100; TO NEPHEWS CHARLES, RICHARD, STEPHE N, WILLIAM, JAMES, FREDERIC, EDWIN AND HENRY BARNARD, £100 EACH; TO HIS SISTER, HANNAH FORSTER, £300; TO NEPHEW, JOHN ARNDELL BARNARD, THE FREEHOLD HOUSE NOW IN NEPHEW JOHN'S OCCUPATION AND CURRIER SHOP, ALSO A FREEHOLD COTTAGE, OCCUPIED BY JOHN FLETCHER, ALSO A FREEHOLD COTTAGE AT THE EAST END OF SITTINGBOURNE, OCCUPIED BY EDWARD SMITH, BUTCHER, FOR EVER, ALSO £200.
TO HIS SISTER ANN ARNDELL, HIS OWN HOUSE, LATELY OCCUPIED BY JAMES FIELD, ESQUIRE, ALSO A FREEHOLD COTTAGE OCCUPIED BY THOMAS WEST, FOR HER LIFETIME AND AFTER HER DEATH, TO NEPHEW JAMES BARNARD.
ALSO TO SISTER ANN, ALL HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE, PLATE, LINEN,CHINA AND RESIDUE OF HIS PROPERTY FOR EVER.
SISTER ANN IS EXECUTOR.
WITNESSES: JOHN DEAN, JOHN SMITH AND WILLIAM ARNOLD.
PROVED 3rd MAY 1822. VALUE OF GOODS, CHATTELS AND CREDITS, LESS THAN £3,000
4 (C) HEADSTONE
CATHERINE WIFE OF
HENRY BACK
DIED 13th MARCH 1854
AGED 78 YEARS
JOHN IRONS
SON OF THE ABOVE
DIED 31st MARCH 1849
AGED 40 YEARS
THE ABOVE NAMED
HENRY BACK
DIED 17th FEB 1867?
[ ]
5 (C) HEADSTONE
SACRED
TO THE MEMORY OF
ANN BALLARD
WIFE OF JOSEPH BALLARD
LATE OF GRO[VEHURST?] IN THIS PARISH
OBT. JUNE 2nd 1805
AGED 72 YEARS
(Four lines eroded verse)
ALSO NEAR THIS SPOT
LIETH ISAAC SON OF THE ABOVE
OBT. JAN 27th 1822
AGED 63 YEARS
LEAVING A WIDOW, 3 SONS
AND 7 DAUGHTERS
ALSO OF MARY WIDOW OF ISAAC?
BALLARD OBT. OCTOBER 30th 1840?
[AGED 75 YEARS [ ]
PREROGATIVE COURT OF CANTERBURY WILL DATED 22nd FEBRUARY 1813ISAAC BALLARD, OF THE "ROSE" INN.
DEBTS, FUNERAL AND PROBATE COSTS FIRST PAID.
HIS FUNERAL TO BE "AS SMALL AS DECENTLY CAN BE". TO WIFE, MARY, ALL REAL AND PERSONAL ESTATE AND EFFECTS, SHE AND HIS BROTHER, RICHARD, OF HOO COMMON, MILLER*, ARE EXECUTORS.
WITNESSES: JOHN LEACH AND PETER BATES.
PROVED 22nd FEBRUARY 1822
* BALLARD'S MILL WAS A PROMINENT FEATURE ABOVE HOO FOR MANY YEARS.
6 (C) HEADSTONE, VERY ERODED
[SACRED]
[TO THE MEMORY OF]
SAMUEL BARNES
OF THIS PARISH, YEOMAN
WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE
THE 19th OF JULY 1800
AGED 63 YEARS
ALSO
WILLIAM BARNES
SON OF THE ABOVE
WHO DIED THE 27th OF [DECEMBER] 182[0]
[ ]
CANTERBURY ARCHDEACONRY COURT WILL DATED 27th MARCH 1800SAMUEL BARNES, GRAZIER.
HIS OWN HOUSE IN SITTINGBOURNE, WITH THE SLAUGHTER HOUSE AND STABLE, ETC., TO SON JOHN, ALSO TWO SHAMBLE SHOPS OR STALLS IN THE MIDDLE OF MILTON HIGH STREET, FORMERLY OCCUPIED BY JOHN SIMES AND CHARLES MARNCOCK, SINCE OCCUPIED BY SON JOHN, TO HIS SONS, SAMUEL AND JOHN, EQUALLY SHARED, FOR EVER.
HIS LAND CALLED THE WELL ? ? INCH, OF ABOUT 5 ACRES IN A FIELD CALLED SAWYER'S FIELD, PART ARABLE AND THE REST, PLANTED WITH HOPS AND FRUIT TREES, CALLED SHAMBLE FIELD, NOW IN TILLAGE AND PLANTED WITH APPLES AND CHERRIES, OF ABOUT 6 ACRES; ALSO ANOTHER PIECE PLANTED WITH FRUIT TREES, ADJOINING AND FORMERLY PART OF SHAMBLE FIELD, OF ABOUT 1 ACRE; ALSO A PIECE, PLANTED WITH HOPS ADJOINING SHAMBLE FIELD AND PURCHASED FROM THE LATE LORD DUDLY, THEN IN THE OCCUPATION RICHARD ARNNOLD, THEN OF [ ] GRAYLING AND AFTERWARDS OF THOMAS SIMPSON, NOW IN HIS OWN OCCUPATION. ALSO TWO HOUSES IN SITTINGBOURNE, OCCUPIED BY HIS SISTER, MARY TWOPENNY AND JOHN HARMS, TO HIS DAUGHTERS, ELIZABETH AND SUSAN BARNES, EQUALLY SHARED, FOR EVER, SUBJECT TO A PAYMENT OF £200 TO DAUGHTER, SARAH BARNES, WHEN SHE IS 21.
TO DAUGHTERS, ELIZABETH AND SUSAN, THE GOOD FURNITURE IN HIS BEST CHAMBER, HIS BEDROOM, KITCHEN AND PANTRY, EQUALLY SHARED.
TO HIS CHILDREN, ELIZABETH, SUSAN, SARAH, SAMUEL, JOHN, THOMAS, DANIEL , WILLIAM, ROBERT AND JAMES, £5 EACH FOR MOURNING.
RESIDUE, REAL AND PERSONAL, INCLUDING LIVESTOCK, HORSES, CATTLE, SHEEP AND CROPS, AFTER PAYMENT OF HIS DEBTS, FUNERAL AND PROBATE COSTS, TO SONS, SAMUEL AND JOHN, IN TRUST, TO CARRY ON FARMING AND GRAZING BUSINESS, UNTIL HIS YOUNGEST CHILD IS 21. WHILE THEY CARRY ON BUSINESS, THEY TO PAY 3 SHILLINGS PER WEEK TO SONS WILLIAM AND THOMAS AND DIVIDE REMAINDER OF PROFITS AMONG HIS CHILDREN, DANIEL, JAMES AND SARAH, (SON RICHARD IS ALREADY PROVIDED FOR UNDER HIS GRANDFATHER'S WILL), UNTIL THEY ARE 21, IN THE MEANTIME THE MONEY USED FOR THEIR MAINTENANCE AND EDUCATION.
AFTER HIS LEASES EXPIRE, OR WHEN YOUNGEST CHILD IS 21, AND BUSINESS CEASES, MONEY FROM THE SALE OF STOCK, AS FOLLOWS, £1,00 TO SON JAMES AND REMAINDER DIVIDED AMONG SONS, THOMAS, DANIEL AND WILLIAM, EQUALLY DIVIDED. IN CASE EITHER OF HIS SONS, JAMES, THOMAS, DANIEL AND WILLIAM ARE, AT THE TIME OF THE DIVISION, DEAD, WITH NO LAWFUL ISSUE, THEIR SHARE TO SURVIVORS. IF ANY HAVE DIED LEAVING LAWFUL ISSUE, THEN THEIR SHARE TO THE CHILD/CHILDREN.
SONS SAMUEL AND JOHN ARE EXECUTORS AND GUARDIANS OF ROBERT, JAMES AND SARAH, UNTIL THEY ARE 21.
WITNESSES: JOHN GIBBONS, WILLIAM ? LUSHMAN AND B. FAUSSETT.
PROVED 30th SEPTEMBER 1800 VALUE OF GOODS, CHATTELS AND CREDITS, LESS THAN £2,000
7 (C) SMALL HEADSTONE
HERE LYETH YE BODY
OF JOHN BARNS OF
THIS PARISH WHO
DIED OCT 23rd
1741
----------Ground Level----------
[AGED 34 YEARS]
8 (A) HEADSTONE
TO THE MEMORY OF
JAMES BATE
OF THIS PARISH WHO DEPARTED
THIS LIFE THE 31st? [AUGUST]
1802 AGED 32 YEARS
Psalm 37, Verse 37
"I went by, and lo,
He was Gone,
I Sought Him, But His Place
Could no where be Found"
ALSO FRANCES WIFE OF THE ABOVE
JAMES BATE
WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE THE
7th OF OCTOBER 1800
AGED 32 YEARS
ALSO FRANCES BATE
DAUGHTER OF THE ABOVE
[ ]
[ ]
PREROGATIVE COURT OF CANTERBURY WILL DATED 12th MAY 1802JAMES BATE, SHOPKEEPER.
HE IS SICK AND WEAK.
REAL ESTATE TO WIFE, FRANCES, FOR LIFE, AFTER HER DEATH, TO SON JAMES, FOR EVER, ON CONDITION THAT HE PAYS £200 DUE ON MORTGAGE AND £150 TO DAUGHTER FRANCES BATE. IF SON JAMES DIES PRE 21 WITH NO LAWFUL ISSUE, THEN THE PROPERTY TO DAUGHTER FRANCES, FOR EVER.
ALL PERSONAL ESTATE, GOODS, CHATTELS, RIGHTS, CREDITS, AFTER DEATH OF HIS WIFE, TO HIS SON AND DAUGHTER, EQUALLY SHARED AT 21 YEARS. IF THEY BOTH DIED PRE 21 WITH NO LAWFUL ISSUE, THEN ALL TO HIS WIFE, FOR EVER.
WIFE AND COUSIN, JOHN BATE OF SITTINGBOURNE, LINEN DRAPER, AND GOOD FRIEND, WILLIAM GREATHEAD OF BLUE TOWN, SHEERNESS, LINEN DRAPER, ARE EXECUTORS.
WITNESSES: ROBERT HINDE, WILLIAM GARRETT AND JOHN SMITH.
PROVED 22nd FEBRUARY 1803
9 (A)
TO THE MEMORY OF
JOHN BATE
OF THIS PARISH, B ?
WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE
THE 28th OF DECEMBER 1813
AGED 44 YEARS
LEFT SURVIVING A WIDOW AND
SEVEN CHILDREN
ALSO CECELIA DAUGHTER OF THE
ABOVE WHO DIED MAY 28th 1827
AGED 18 YEARS
ALSO HARRIETT RELICT OF THE
ABOVE JOHN BATE WHO DIED AT
BOSTON, LINCOLNSHIRE?
MAY [ ] 18[ ]7
[ ]
10 (C) HEADSTONES AND BODYSTONES, OVER VAULT(S)
TO
THE MEMORY OF
ELIZABETH
WIFE OF MR JOHN BATE
WHO DIED THE 8th OF FEBRUARY 1823
AGED 57 YEARS
ALSO OF
MR JOHN BATE
WHO DIED THE 30th OF NOVEMBER 1847
AGED 75 YEARS
ALSO OF MARIA
RELICT SUCCESSIVELY OF
THE LATE REV
JOSEPH TANNER, ESQ.
AND MR JOHN BATE
WHO ENTERED INTO REST
THE 3rd OF NOVEMBER 1849
AGED 69? YEARS
TO
THE MEMORY OF
MARY DAUGHTER OF
JOHN AND ELIZABETH BATE
WHO DIED THE [ ] OF NOVEMBER 1827
AGED 2[ ] YEARS
ALSO OF
ELIZA AGED 23? MONTHS
GEORGE AGED 13? MONTHS
ELIZABETH AGED 11? MONTHS
SAMUEL AGED [ ] YEARS
11 HEADSTONES (FROM BAX AND RICE, 1897)
TO THE MEMORY OF
MARY WIFE OF
WILLIAM BAX
OF THIS PARISH
COLLAR MAKER
WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE
THE 2nd OF MARCH 1778
AGED 32 YEARS ?
ALSO THE ABOVE
WILLIAM BAX
WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE
THE 14th OF JULY 1792
AGED 80 YEARS?
PREROGATIVE COURT OF CANTERBURY WILL DATED 26th NOVEMBER 1784WILLIAM BAX, COLLAR MAKER.
TWO HOUSES AND LAND AT EAST END OF SITTINGBOURNE, NOW OCCUPIED BY [ ] BUDDS AND [ ] SUDELL? AND ALL OTHER REAL ESTATE, TO DAUGHTER, ELINOR, WIFE OF JOHN GARRETT OF SITTINGBOURNE, COLLAR MAKER, FOR EVER.
TO GRANDSONS, WILLIAM BAX GARRETT, JOHN, GEORGE AND RICHARD GARRETT, SONS OF JOHN AND ELINOR, £100 EACH AT 21 YEARS.
TO BROTHER RICHARD, COACH HARNESS MAKER, MONEY DUE FROM THE FRIENDLY SOCIETY OF DREDGERS OF MILTON OR ANY OTHER CLUB OF WHICH HE IS A MEMBER.
TO SISTER, ELIZABETH BARLARN? OF FOLKESTONE, WIDOW, £5; TO SISTER, ELINOR STROUD OF ASHFORD, WIDOW, £5.
TO ANN POPPLEWELL, OF SITTINGBOURNE, WIFE OF HENRY, BUTCHER AND HER CHILDREN, MARY AND RICHARD, £20, EQUALLY DIVIDED. THIS MONEY TO BE PAID TO THE FATHER AS BY THE WILL OF KINSMAN, JOHN PATEY, LATE OF ASHFORD, GENTLEMAN, TESTATOR WILL BE ENTITLED TO £100 ON DEATH OF JOHN PATEY'S BROTHER, GEORGE.
RESIDUE OF GOODS, CHATTELS, RIGHTS, CREDITS AND PERSONAL ESTATE, AFTER HIS DEBTS, FUNERAL AND PROBATE COSTS ARE PAID, TO DAUGHTER, ELIZABETH GARRETT. SON IN LAW, JOHN GARRETT IS EXECUTOR .
WITNESSES: JAMES TONGE, JAMES BATE AND BR. FAUSSETT
PROVED 4th OCTOBER 1792
12 (C) HEADSTONE
[ ]
MARGARET WIFE OF
THOMAS BIRCH OF THIS
PARISH AND DAUGHTER OF JOHN
AND MARGARET KEEPPEN WHO
DEPARTED THIS LIFE APRIL
THE 24th 1776 AGED 42? YEARS
ALSO [ ] CHILDREN
LEFT ISSUE TWO DAUGHTERS
? AND ELIZABETH
13 (B) CHEST TOMB, RAILED
SOUTH SIDE
SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF
GEORGE SON OF THOMAS AND ANN BOULDING
OF THIS PARISH WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE THE 6th OF JAN 1847 AGED 61 ? YEARS
LEAVING 4 SONS & 2 DAUGHTERS
"Blessed are the Dead which die in the Lord"
THIS TOMB WAS ERECTED BY GEORGE ROBERT AND EDWIN
SONS OF THE ABOVE NAMED GEORGE AND ROSE BOULDING
EAST SIDE
SACRED
TO THE MEMORY OF
EDWARD THOMAS
SON OF
GEORGE & ROSE
BOULDING
WHO DEPARTED
THIS LIFE THE 16th OF
NOV 1814
AGED 7 YEARS
WEST SIDE
ALSO
EDWIN BOULDING
DIED AUGT. 23Rd 1903
AGED 84 YEARS
ALSO EMMA WIFE OF THE ABOVE
DIED JULY 8th 1913
AGED 83 YEARS
"Asleep"
1838 STAPLETON DIRECTORY, GEORGE SENIOR, BUTCHER; 1881 CENSUS, GEORGE JUNIOR, BUTCHER AND CATTLE DEALER, EMPLOYING 1 MAN, EDWIN, POSTMAN. ONE WOULD EXPECT SUCH A TOMB, IN A PROMINENT POSITION TO BELONG TO THE LOCAL GENTRY. IT THROWS AN INTERESTING LIGHT ONTO THE STATUS AND WEALTH OF SOME TRADESMAN.
14 (C) HEADSTONE
SACRED
TO THE MEMORY OF
EDWARD BRENCHLEY
WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE
THE 31st OF AUGUST 179[4]
AGED 73 YEARS
ALSO OF
ELIZABETH HIS WIFE
WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE
THE 2nd? OF JANUARY 1780
AGED 71 or 74 YEARS
BUFF SEE COWLAND
15 (C) HEADSTONE
IN MEMORY OF
THOMAS BURLEY
OF THIS PARISH WHO DEPARTED
THIS LIFE THE 3rd OF DECEMBER 1809
AGED 39 YEARS
"The Child of Affliction"
ALSO ONE SON AND TWO DAUGHTERS
OF THE ABOVE
WILLIAM DIED THE 20th OF AUGUST
1807 AGED 8 MONTHS
ELIZABETH DIED THE 5th OF JULY
1809 AGED 10 YEARS
FANNY DIED THE 12th OF JULY
1818 AGED 17 YEARS
ALSO ANN WIFE OF THE ABOVE
THOMAS BURLEY
WHO DEPARTED [THIS LIFE] THE 22nd
[ OF JANUARY 1828]
[ ]
16 (C) HEADSTONE
TO THE MEMORY
OF
WILLIAM CLEAVE
OF THIS PARISH
WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE
THE 9th OF SEPTEMBER 1828
AGED 65 YEARS
LEAVING A WIDOW, 4 SONS & 7 DAUGHTERS
ALSO MARY WIFE OF THE ABOVE
WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE
THE 27th OF JULY 1837
AGED 67 YEARS
CANTERBURY COURT WILL DATED 11th JANUARY AND 6th FEBRUARY 1826WILLIAM CLEAVE, BUILDER
APPOINTS WIFE, MARY AND THOMAS REASON OF SITTINGBOURNE, UPHOLSTERER AND JOHN DEAN OF SITTINGBOURNE, TAILOR AND ? , EXECUTORS.
TO THEM HIS ESTATE, UPON TRUST. AN INVENTORY TO BE MADE OF HIS GOODS WHICH ARE HIS WIFE'S FOR LIFE, SHE IS TO HAVE HIS HOUSE, RENT FREE FOR LIFE, AS LONG AS SHE REMAINS HIS WIDOW, SHE CAN OCCUPY ANY OF HIS HOUSES, RENT FREE, AS SHE CHOOSES, SHE CAN ALSO CARRY ON HIS BUSINESS IF SHE CHOOSES. HIS STOCK IN TRADE AND TOOLS TO BE VALUED AND SON WALTER CAN HAVE FIRST OPTION OF BUYING THEM. WALTER CAN LIVE IN HIS DWELLING HOUSE WHERE BUSINESS IS CARRIED OUT FROM, DURING HIS MOTHER'S LIFETIME, UNTIL THE YOUNGEST CHILD IS 21 WALTER TO PAY RENT OF £30 PER ANNUM TO TRUSTEES AND PAY RATES AND KEEP HOUSE IN GOOD ORDER. ALSO TO WALTER THE GOODWILL OF THE BUSINESS.
PROPERTY NOT ALREADY MENTIONED TO BE LET, AND NET RENTS TO HIS WIFE, FOR LIFE AND WIDOWHOOD, TO SUPPORT HER AND CHILDREN. IF WIFE REMARRIES SHE LOSES ALL RIGHTS AND IS NO LONGER AN EXECUTOR. INCOME FORMERLY PAID TO HER GOES TO THE MAINTENANCE AND EDUCATION OF THEIR CHILDREN UNTIL THEY ARE 21, THEY ARE HENRY, ELIZA, HARRIET AND ANN REGARD ?. WHEN THEY ARE ALL 21, TRUSTEES TO SELL ESTATE AND SHARE EQUALLY AMONG HIS CHILDREN ALL PROCEEDS.
WITNESSES: ALICE CORFIELD?, 6 WARDROBE PLACE, DOCTORS' COMMONS AND GEORGE DUNMAN?, SAME PLACE.
WILLIAM KEEL, SITTINGBOURNE, THOMAS YOUNG, SITTINGBOURNE AND GEORGE KEEL, SITTINGBOURNE.
NOTE, AFTER FIRST WITNESSES, ABOUT CHANGES TO VARIOUS LINES, AFTER THIS HE SIGNS AGAIN AND NEW WITNESSES SIGN.
PROVED 31st MARCH 1829. POWER RESERVED TO REASON AND DEAN.
17 (C) SMALL HEADSTONE
HERE LIETH YE BODY
OF ROBERT CLIFFORD
WHO DIED JAN YE 27th 1742
AGED 45 YEARS
ALSO RICH. CLIFFORD
SON DIED JAN 22nd 1739
AGED 10? MONTHS
(THE YEARS IN THE MODERN CALENDAR ARE 1743 AND 1740)CANTERBURY COURT WILL DATED 11th JANUARY 1742 (43)ROBERT CLIFFORD, VICTUALLER.
TO SON ROBERT, £50, TO BE PAID TO HIS GRANDFATHER, JOHN OLLIVER OF DODDINGTON AND SECURELY INVESTED BY HIM UNTIL ROBERT IS 21.
ALSO TO ROBERT HIS WATCH, SILVER SPURS AND 2 GOLD RINGS WHICH TESTATOR USUALLY WEARS. TO BROTHER (IN LAW?), WILLIAM SUTTON OF BEARSTEAD?, VICTUALLER AND HIS WIFE, ELIZABETH, £5 EACH TO BUY MOURNING.
REST AND RESIDUE, READY MONEY, INVESTED MONEY, DEBTS, FURNITURE, PLATE, LINEN, HORSES, HAY, STOCK IN TRADE AND PERSONAL ESTATE, AFTER PAYMENT OF DEBTS, FUNERAL AND PROBATE COSTS, TO WIFE, AMY FOR EVER, SHE IS EXECUTOR.
WITNESSES: THOMAS WACKLIN, EDWARD ELLEN AND J. BATCHELLER.
PROVED 14th APRIL 1743
18 (C) HEADSTONE, VERY ERODED
[ ]
[ ]
MARY CLIFFORD
WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE
OCT [ ] 1800? AGED 20 YEARS
ALSO FRANCES CLIFFORD
DAUGHTER? OF
GEORGE? AND MARY CLIFFORD
WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE THE 30th
[OF] FEBRUARY 1807 AGED 25 YEARS
19 (C) HEADSTONE, VERY ERODED
[ ]
[ ]
JOHN CLIFFORD
OF THIS PARISH
WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE
NOVEMBER [18] 1810 AGED 60? YEARS
[ ]
JOHN & MARY [ ]
[ ] ANN M[ ]
[ ]
[ ]
MARY WIFE OF
JOHN CLIFFORD
WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE
[FEBRUARY] [ ] 1828 AGED [ ] YEARS
CANTERBURY COURT WILL DATED 17th NOVEMBER 1810JOHN CLIFFORD, THE ELDER, BLACKSMITH.
DEBTS, FUNERAL AND PROBATE COSTS TO BE FIRST PAID.
TO DAUGHTERS MARY OF SITTINGBOURNE, SPINSTER AND HARRIET PARKER, WIDOW, (HIS EXECUTORS) ALL OF HIS ESTATE, UPON TRUST, TO ALLOW HIS WIFE MARY, TO USE THE SAME AND TAKE INTEREST PAYMENTS FOR LIFE. AFTER HER DEATH, TO DAUGHTER MARY, £50. REST AND RESIDUE TO FOUR DAUGHTERS, MARY, HARRIET PARKER, ANN WIFE OF THOMAS HUGHES OF FRINSTEAD, LABOURER AND MARCY WIFE OF RICHARD EPPS, EQUALLY SHARED. DAUGHTERS, MARY AND HARRIET ARE EXECUTORS.
WITNESSES: RICHARD BATHURST AND E. CRUMP
PROVED 14th MAY 1811. POWER RESERVED TO HARRIET PARKER, VALUE OF GOODS, CHATTELS AND CREDITS LESS THAN £450
20 (A) HEADSTONE
SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF
MARY WIFE OF WILLIAM COLLEY
OF THIS PARISH
WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE 11th NOV 1794
AGED 56? YEARS
ALSO ELIZABETH SECOND WIFE OF
THE ABOVE WHO DIED 24th DEC 18[46]
AGED [ ]3 YEARS
ALSO
WILLIAM CHAPMAN COLLEY
SON OF WILLIAM AND ELIZABETH
[WHO DIED] [6th] JUNE 1854
[Buried]
CANTERBURY COURT WILL DATED 17th AUGUST 1853WILLIAM CHAPMAN COLLEY, GENTLEMAN.
DEBTS, FUNERAL AND PROBATE COSTS FIRST PAID FROM PERSONAL ESTATE, IF INSUFFICIENT, THEN PAID FROM REAL ESTATE. APPOINTS SISTER, ELIZABETH MARY COLLEY OF SITTINGBOURNE AND NIECE EMILY MUGGLETON, WIFE OF SAMUEL OF SITTINGBOURNE, WHEELWRIGHT, EXECUTORS.
HIS 1/6 INTEREST IN A HOUSE AND MALTHOUSE, WITH KILN ADJOINING AND OUTBUILDINGS IN RAINHAM AND ALL OTHER FREEHOLDS, COPYHOLD AND LEASEHOLD ESTATE TO SISTER ELIZABETH, SHE TO RECEIVE RENTS FOR LIFE AND KEEPING PROPERTY IN GOOD REPAIR AND INSURED FOR £120. AFTER HER DEATH THEN TO EMILY MUGGLETON, FOR EVER.
TO EXECUTORS ALL ESTATES VESTED IN HIM AS TRUSTEE OR MORTGAGEE ACCORDING TO TERMS.
WITNESSES: J. A. SMITH, SOLICITOR, SITTINGBOURNE AND JOHN SMITH, GENTLEMAN, SITTINGBOURNE.
PROVED 6th SEPTEMBER 1854. POWER RESERVED TO ELIZABETH COLLEY. GOODS, CHATTELS AND CREDITS VALUE LESS THAN £1,000
1838 STAPLETON DIRECTORY, WILLIAM CHAPMAN COLLEY, GROCER, TEA DEALER AND CHEESEMONGER.
21 (C) HEADSTONE
SACRED
TO THE MEMORY OF
CECILIA DAUGHTER OF
JOHN AND MARY ANN COOPER
OF THIS PARISH WHO DEPARTED THIS
LIFE THE 15th OF DECEMBER 1846
AGED 11 YEARS
ALSO HARRIETT SISTER
OF THE ABOVE WHO DIED 15th SEPTEMBER 1857
AGED 7 YEARS
"Gone to the Grave in Youth's Bright Bloom,
They could not keep thee from the Tomb,
Nor can Recall thee from the Dead."
ALSO OF
MARY ANN ANOTHER SISTER
WHO DIED 14th AUGUST 1860
AGED 27 YEARS
"Weep not Dear Friends that here we Lie,
Prepare yourselves in Peace to Die,
That tho' Death comes we all may Rise,
To greet our Saviour in the Skies"
22 (C) HEADSTONE
SACRED
TO THE MEMORY OF
HANNAH WIFE OF MR THOMAS COOPER
OF THE BOROUGH?, SOUTHWARK
AND FORMERLY OF THIS PARISH
WHO DIED THE [ ] OF MARCH 1827
AGED 47 YEARS
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23 (C) HEADSTONE
IN MEMORY OF
JOHN EDMUND COULTER
WHO DIED THE 16th OF JULY 1850
AGED 40 YEARS
THIS STONE IS ERECTED BY
HIS WIDOW
1838 STAPLETON DIRECTORY, BOOK SELLER, STATIONER, LIBRARY, READING ROOM, ALSO AGENT OF THE KENT FRIENDLY SOCIETY, ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF SAVINGS BANK SOCIETY, SECRETARY OF SITTINGBOURNE AND MILTON LOAN SOCIETY, RECEIVER OF SUBSCRIPTIONS, SITTINGBOURNE AND MILTON AUXILIARY BUILDING SOCIETY.
24 (B) HEADSTONE
SACRED
TO THE MEMORY OF
THOMAS COWLAND
OF THIS PARISH WHO DEPARTED
THIS LIFE THE 17th OF AUGUST 1799
AGED [ ] 5 YEARS
LIKEWISE [ ] CHILDREN
WHO DIED IN THEIR INFANCY
ALSO SUSANNAH COWLAND
WIFE OF THE ABOVE
WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE
THE 20th OF MAY 1832
AGED 75 YEARS
LIKEWISE [ANN] WIFE OF
[ ] BUFF
AND DAUGHTER OF THE ABOVE
WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE
THE 22nd OF MARCH 18[2]4
AGED 46? YEARS
25 (C) HEADSTONE
IN MEMORY OF
MRS MARY CRIGHTON
WIFE OF MR JAMES CRIGHTON
OF LEMAN STREET, GOODMAN FIELD
WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE
THE 26th? OF SEPTEMBER 181[3]
IN THE [ ]7th YEAR OF HER AGE
ON HER JOURNEY
HOME FROM MARGATE TO LONDON
A JAMES CRIGHTON, OF THE SAME ADDRESS AS ON THE INSCRIPTION, DIED IN 1847, LEAVING A P.C.C. WILL, WHICH STATES THAT HE WAS A BAKER.
26 (D) HEADSTONE
ERECTED
BY HIS AFFECTIONATE WIFE AND
DAUGHTER IN MEMORY OF
THE REV.
WALTER OKE CROGGON
WESLEYAN MINISTER
HAVING LABOURED WITH HONOUR
AND SUCCESS IN VARIOUS PARTS
OF GREAT BRITAIN AND
IRELAND AND FOR SEVERAL
YEARS IN FRANCE, THE IONIAN
ISLES AND GREECE, THIS
DEVOTED SERVANT OF CHRIST
FELL ASLEEP AT
SITTINGBOURNE JAN 30th 1854
IN THE 63rd YEAR OF HIS AGE
"I Know that my Redeemer Liveth"
PREROGATIVE COURT OF CANTERBURY WILL DATED 28th DECEMBER 1853WALTER OKE CROGGON.
HE HAS AN HOUSE, AT THE TOP OF ST. GLUVIAS, ST. PENRYN, CORNWALL, OCCUPIED BY THOMAS BARELEY. THE DEED FOR THIS HOUSE SIGNED BT WILLIAM RICHARD CROGGON OF LONDON AND GIVEN TO HIM BY HIS FATHER, THOMAS, IN HIS WILL.
HE HAS £700 STOCK IN THE ANNUITY? CONSOLS. DIVIDENDS ARE PAID TO MESSRS MILES & CO. BANKERS OF BRISTOL.
HIS BOOKS, PLATE, MANUSCRIPTS AND PICTURES, TO DAUGHTER MARIANNE, IF SHE MARRIES, AFTER HER DEATH THEN TO HER HUSBAND FOR LIFE. IF THEY HAVE CHILDREN, THEN SHARED EQUALLY AMONG THEM AFTER FATHER'S DEATH.
HE GIVES LEAVE TO HIS DAUGHTER AND HUSBAND OR THEIR CHILDREN, TO SELL THE HOUSE.
IF MARRIANNE DIES BEFORE HER MOTHER, (LUCY), HIS WIFE WILL RECEIVE ALL RENTS FOR LIFE, AFTER HER DEATH, ALL BOOKS, PRINTS, PLATE AND FURNITURE THAT HIS WIFE OWNED BEFORE THEIR MARRIAGE OR SHE HAD PURCHASED SINCE, HE CONSIDERS HER PROPERTY. HE GIVES TO HIS WIFE ALL MANUSCRIPTS, HE "FEELS PERSUADED" THAT HIS WIFE WILL GIVE MARRIANNE TO COPY OR LOAN ANY SHE MAY WANT. HIS WIFE TO GIVE MARRIANNE ALL THE PLATE SHE DOES NOT WANT. IF HIS WIFE REMARRIES ALL PLATE TO MARRIANNE.
THE SALVER HE HAD AT LANTE AND CUP HE HAD AT CHARENTON TO REMAIN WITH CROGGON FAMILY AND GO TO MARRIANNE, SHE IS TO HAVE THE MEDITERRANEAN PICTURES. BOOKS TO BE SHARED BETWEEN HIS WIFE AND MARRIANNE. IF MARRIANNE NEVER MARRIES AND NEEDS TO LIVE ON ANY OF THE MONEY IN THE CONSOLS, SHE CAN WITH HIS WIFE ? IF MARRIANNE DOES NOT MARRY THEN, AFTER HER DEATH AND HIS WIFE'S DEATH, ANY RESIDUE TO WHOM THEY DECIDE. HIS WIFE AND DAUGHTER ARE EXECUTORS.
WITNESSES: AMOS BALEY OF SITTINGBOURNE AND CHARLES ROWE OF SITTINGBOURNE
PROVED 3rd MARCH 1854. POWER RESERVED TO LUCY CROGGON.
27 (C) HEADSTONE
SACRED
TO THE MEMORY OF
SARAH
WIFE OF EDMUND CRUTTENDEN
OF THIS PARISH
WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE
[DECEMBER?] [ ] 1801
AGED [ ] YEARS
ALSO THE ABOVE
EDMUND CRUTTENDEN
WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE
THE 16th OCTOBER 1858
AGED 79 YEARS
ALSO OF MARY DOROTHY HIS WIFE
WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE
[DECEMBER] [ ] 18[7]3 AGED 86 YEARS
ALSO ADELAIDE DAUGHTER OF THE
ABOVE WHO DIED MARCH [ ] 1872
IN THE 41st YEAR OF HER AGE
[ ]
PIGOT DIRECTORY 1832, EDMUND CRUTTENDEN, CATTLE DEALER
28 (C) HEADSTONE
SACRED
TO THE MEMORY OF
GEORGE DEACON
WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE
28th DAY OF NOVEMBER 1838
AGED 49 YEARS
1838 STAPLETON DIRECTORY, BEER SELLER, MILTON
29 (D) CRUCIFORM HEADSTONE
SAMUEL DEAN
DIED SEPTEMBER 23rd 1815
AGED 73 YEARS
ALSO JOHN DEAN SON OF THE ABOVE
WHO DIED MAY 22nd 1859 AGED 76 YEARS
ALSO ANN WIFE OF JOHN DEAN
WHO DIED APRIL 2[ ] 1863 AGED 65 YEARS
ALSO JOHN ROWLAND
SON OF THE ABOVE JOHN DEAN
WHO DIED MARCH 25th 1839
AGED 10 MONTHS
CANTERBURY COURT WILL DATED 5th JULY 1808SAMUEL DEAN, TAILOR.
TO DAUGHTER, SARAH WIFE OF RICHARD CREED OF HIS MAJESTY'S OFFICIES? OF ENGINEERS, FAVERSHAM, £20.
REST AND RESIDUE OF ALL ESTATE, TO SON JOHN, WHO IS EXECUTOR, FOR EVER.
WITNESSES: ROBERT GIBBS, THOMAS WHITE AND RICHARD TANNER
PROVED 22nd MARCH 1816. SON JOHN IS ALSO A TAILOR. VALUE OF GOODS, CHATTELS AND CREDITS, LESS THAN £800.
30 (C) HEADSTONE, VERY ERODED
SACRED
TO THE MEMORY OF
[THOMAS] DENNIS [OF THIS]
[PARISH] WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE
[ ] 1776 [ ]
[ ]
[6 Lines eroded verses]
ALSO MARAGARET WIFE OF
THOMAS DENNIS
(Buried)
[Either March 1780 or November 1790]
RESURRECTION AT HEAD OF DENNIS HEADSTONE
DIVERS SEE HOGWOOD
31 (D) HEADSTONE
THIS STONE IS ERECTED
TO
COMMEMORATE THE INTERMENT
OF
SUSANNA
WIFE OF RICHARD DRAYSON
WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE
THE 10th DAY OF OCTOBER 1823
AGED 38 YEARS
LEAVING A HUSBAND AND SEVEN CHILDREN
TO LAMENT THE IRREPARABLE LOSS
ALSO THE ABOVE
RICHARD DRAYSON
WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE
THE 17th OF JUNE 1832?
AGED [ ] YEARS
LIKEWISE ANN ELIZABETH
DAUGHTER OF THE ABOVE
WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE [ ] 1830
[ ]
32 (D) TWO HEADSTONES IN DOUBLE PLOT
SACRED
TO THE MEMORY
OF
AGNES DAUGHTER OF
JOHN AND AGNES DRAYSON
OF THIS PARISH
WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE
THE 2nd OF AUGUST 1829
AGED 16 YEARS
SACRED
TO THE MEMORY
OF
JOHN DRAYSON
OF THIS PARISH
WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE
THE 2nd OF NOVEMBER 1837 AT S[EA]
AGED 56 YEARS
ALSO
CHARLES SON OF THE ABOVE
JOHN DRAYSON AND AGNES HIS WIFE
WHO DIED THE SAME DAY ABOVE
AGED 30 YEARS
LIKEWISE
AGNES WIFE OF THE ABOVE
JOHN DRAYSON
WHO [DEPARTED THIS] LIFE
THE 7th DECEMBER 1840
[ ]
CANTERBURY COURT WILL DATED 18th FEBRUARY 1831JOHN DRAYSON
DEBTS, FUNERAL AND PROBATE COSTS FIRST PAID. TO WIFE AGNES, FOR LIFE, ALL HIS PROPERTY, A YEAR AFTER HIS WIFE'S DEATH, TO DAUGHTER ELIZABETH, "FOR HER ?
AND UNDUTIFUL CONDUCT, PARTICULARLY TO HER MOTHER", £50.
REMAINDER OF THE ESTATE TO BE DIVIDED AMONG HIS OTHER CHILDREN, CHARLES, MARY ANN AND JANE IN EQUAL SHARES.
HIS WIFE, VALENTINE COURT OF FAVERSHAM AND STEPHEN COURT OF MILTON, ARE EXECUTORS.
WITNESSES: HARRY BACK, WILLIAM RICH AND MATTHEW BONNER
PROVED 9th MAY 1838. VALUE OF GOODS, CHATTELS AND CREDITS. LESS THAN £600.
JOHN DRAYSON WAS AN EXECUTOR OF WILLIAM MILLENOR IN 1813 AND WAS DESCRIBED AS A CABINET MAKER.
CANTERBURY COURT WILL DATED 28th MARCH 1840AGNES DRAYSON
APPOINTS BROTHERS, VALENTINE AND STEPHEN COURT, EXECUTORS.
TO DAUGHTERS, MARY ANN AND JANE, £150, EQUALLY SHARED.
REAL ESTATE AND REMAINDER , AFTER PAYMENT OF DEBTS, FUNERAL AND PROBATE COSTS, DAUGHTERS SARAH HEARNDEN, MARY ANN AND JANE DRAYSON, AND GRAND DAUGHTER, AGNES DRAYSON, EQUALLY SHARED. GRAND DAUGHTER'S SHARE TO BE USED AT EXECUTOR'S DISCRETION DURING HER MINORITY, TOWARDS HER MAINTENANCE, EDUCATON AND ADVANCEMENT IN LIFE. IF SHE DIES BEFORE SHE IS 21, HER SHARE TO BE DIVIDED AMONG THE THREE DAUGHTERS.
WITNESSES: HENRY MILASH? AND WILLIAM TAYLOR
PROVED 4th JUNE 1841. VALUE OF GOODS, CHATTELS AND CREDITS, LESS THAN £600
33 (C) HEADSTONE
TO
THE MEMORY OF
ELIZABETH
SECOND WIFE OF
THOMAS EASON
FORMERLY OF MILTON
WHO DIED THE 25th OF JUNE 1854
AGED 45? YEARS
34 (C) HEADSTONE
IN
MEMORY OF RICHARD
SON OF ROBERT AND
SARAH EDMONDS
OF NEW CROSS, SURREY
DIED 16th JUNE 1840
AGED 78 YEARS
EPPS SEE HOGWOOD
35 (C) HEADSTONE
SACRED
TO THE MEMORY OF
CAPT. JOHN FARRINGTON
WHO LOST HIS LIFE BY FALLING
OVERBOARD
ON THE 18th DAY OF SEPT. 1843
AGED 38 YEARS
(Gap)
ALSO HENRY SON OF THE ABOVE
DIED [ ] FEBRUARY 1850
AGED 26 YEARS
ALSO HENRY RAWLINGS
GRANDSON OF THE ABOVE
DIED MARCH 16th 1856
AGED 11 DAYS
ALSO GEORGE SON OF THE ABOVE
DIED JANUARY 18th 1869?
AGED 49 YEARS
CAPTAIN FARRINGTON DIED IN THE SWANSEA CIVIL REGISTRATION DISTRICT, TOGETHER WITH THE FACT, THAT IN AN 1850 DIRECTORY, HIS WIDOW WAS A COAL MERCHANT, IT SEEMS HE WAS TRANSPORTING COAL FROM SOUTH WALES.
36 (C) HEADSTONE
SACRED
TO THE MEMORY OF
MARGARET WIFE OF
MICHAEL FINNIS
OF THIS PARISH
WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE FEB 29th 1820
AGED 46 YEARS
ALSO THE ABOVE
MICHAEL FINNIS
WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE JUNE 21st 18[45]
AGED 73 YEARS
LIKEWISE THOMAS SEATH?
SON OF THE [ABOVE? ]
[ DIED FEBRUARY 1805?]
38 (B?) (FROM BAX AND RICE 1897) HEADSTONE
HERE
LYETH THE BODY OF
ELEANOR WIFE OF
JOHN GARRETT
OF THIS PARISH
WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE
THE 28th OF DECEMBER 1788
AGED 41 YEARS
LEFT A HUSBAND AND 4 SONS
VIZ, WILLIAM, JOHN, RICHARD AND GEORGE
(Verses not recorded?)
ALSO OF THE ABOVE
JOHN GARRETT
WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE
14th OF DECEMBER 1797
AGED 57 YEARS
(Verses not recorded?
PREROGATIVE COURT OF CANTERBURY WILL DATED24th AUGUST 1792JOHN GARRETT, COLLAR MAKER.
HIS NEW BUILT HOUSE IN SITTINGBOURNE, NEAR THE "PLOUGH" INN, TO SON WILLIAM BAX GARRETT, FOR EVER.
ANOTHER NEW HOUSE NEAR THE ABOVE, TO SON JOHN GARRETT, FOR EVER.
ANOTHER HOUSE IN SITTINGBOURNE OCCUPIED BY BENJAMIN SNELLING, TO SON RICHARD, FOR EVER. ANOTHER HOUSE IN SITTINGBOURNE OCCUPIED BY THOMAS BUDDS, TO SON GEORGE, FOR EVER.
A HOUSE IN WEST STREET, FAVERSHAM, OCCUPIED BY [ ] BISHOP, TO HIS FOUR SONS, SHARED EQUALLY.
ALL HIS LEATHER, ROPE, HARNESSES, COLLARS AND OTHER STOCK IN TRADE, TO SON WILLIAM TO ENABLE HIM TO CARRY ON TRADE.
REST AND RESIDUE, READY MONEY, INVESTED MONEY, BANK ANNUITIES, HOUSEHOLD GOODS AND FURNITURE, PLATE, LINEN AND PERSONAL ESTATE, AFTER PAYMENT OF HIS DEBTS, FUNERAL AND PROBATE COSTS, TO HIS FOUR SONS AT 21 YEARS OF AGE, EQUALLY SHARED........
APPOINTS JOHN ARNDELL OF SITTINGBOURNE CURRIER AND WILLIAM KING OF GREEN STREET, TEYNHAM, GROCER, EXECUTORS AND GUARDIANS OF HIS SONS. ARNDELL AND KING TO HAVE 5 GUINEAS EACH AS A SMALL GRATUITY.
WITNESSES: MARY REYNOLDS, HENRY GIBBS, SERVANTS TO MR BARLING AND JOHN BARLING OF FAVERSHAM.
PROVED 31st JANUARY 1798
39 (B?) (FROM BAX AND RICE) HEADSTONE
HERE
LYETH THE BODY OF
JOHN SON OF
JOHN GARRETT
OF THIS PARISH
COLLAR MAKER
WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE
APRIL [ ] [1794]
AGED [ ]
(Verses not recorded)
40 (B?) (FROM BAX AND RICE) HEADSTONE
SACRED
TO THE MEMORY OF
WILLIAM BAX GARRETT
OF RAINHAM
WHO DIED THE 10th OF NOVEMBER 1837
AGED 40 YEARS
ALSO THE FOLLOWING CHILDREN OF THE ABOVE
MARY WHO DIED THE 3rd OF AUGUST 1828
AGED 2 YEARS AND A HALF
JOHN WHO DIED THE 11th OF DECEMBER 1836
AGED 4 MONTHS
FRANCES WHO DIED THE 31st OF DECEMBER 1837
AGED 5 YEARS
HENRY WHO DIED THE 17th OF JANUARY 1838
AGED 7 YEARS
41 (B) LEDGER, MISPLACED?
SACRED
TO THE MEMORY OF
WILLIAM BAX GARRETT
OF THIS PARISH
WHO DIED 16th JULY 1850 (sic)*
AGED 86 YEARS
ALSO RUTH WIFE OF THE ABOVE
WHO DIED 22nd NOV 1859
AGED 82 YEARS
ALSO JOHN SON OF THE ABOVE
WHO DIED 19th MARCH 1865
AGED 59 YEARS
WHO LIES IN MILTON CHURCHYARD
*Died in 1849
PREROGATIVE COURT OF CANTERBURY WILL DATED 15th FEBRUARY 1849WILLIAM BAX GARRETT, HARNESS MAKER.
ALL REAL AND PERSONAL ESTATE, SUBJECT TO PAYMENT OF HIS DEBTS, FUNERAL AND PROBATE COSTS, TO WIFE RUTH, ABSOLUTELY. TO HIS EXECUTORS ALL REAL ESTATE VESTED IN HIM AS TRUSTEE OT MORTGAGEE. SON WILLIAM AND SON IN LAW GEORGE PAYNE ARE EXECUTORS.
WITNESSES: JOHN GARRETT AND WILLIAM GARRETT, JUNIOR.
PROVED 28th JULY 1849. POWER RESERVED TO WILLIAM BAX GARRETT, JUNIOR.
42 (C) HEADSTONE
IN
MEMORY OF
MR? SILLS G[IBBONS]
[ ] WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE
[ ] APRIL 1807 AGED 62 YEARS
LEAVING A WIDOW THOMAS, [JOHN],
AND THE FOLLOWING MARY, FRANCES
CHILDREN RICHARD SILLS
JANES WIFE OF THE ABOVE SILLS [GIBBONS]
[DIED [ ] FEBRUARY 18]12
[ ]
CANTERBURY COURT WILL DATED 10th NOVEMBER 1798SILLS GIBBONS, CARPENTER.
WISHES TO BE BURIED IN A GOOD, PLAIN OAK COFFIN, WITH NO OUTSIDE COVERING, WITH HIS NAME AND AGE, WITH FOUR PAIRS OF STRONG HANDLES AND BRASS NAILS.
AFTER PAYMENT OF HIS DEBTS, FUNERAL AND PROBATE COSTS, TO WIFE, JANE HIS HOUSE IN SITTINGBOURNE, WITH WORKSHOP, STABLE AND STOREHOUSE, YARD, GARDEN AND ORCHARD, ALSO HIS THREE HOUSES IN MILTON, OCCUPIED BY WIDOW BAKER, [ ] ELSON AND [ ] GORE, ALSO HIS HOUSE IN OADE STREET, BORDEN, OCCUPIED BY WIDOW WAGHORN.
AFTER HIS WIFE'S DEATH, , HIS FIVE SONS AND TWO DAUGHTERS, THOMAS, JAMES, RICHARD, JOHN, SILLS, MARGARET AND FRANCES GIBBONS, TO SHARE EQUALLY, THE PROPERTIES, AFTER PAYING OFF ANY CHARGES ON THEM.
HIS STOCK IN TRADE TO BE VALUED WITH ANY DEBTS OWED AND SHARED EQUALLY AMONG HIS CHILDREN. THE HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE, PLATE, LINEN AND CHINA TO HIS WIFE, ABSOLUTELY. TO HIS CHILDREN, HIS SHARE OF AN ESTATE AT STONE NEAR DARTFORD. TO HIS WIFE, HIS LIVESTOCK AND TOOLS, SHE TO CARRY ON HIS BUSINESS, AS LONG AS SHE THINKS FIT, SHE TO HAVE RESIDUE OF PERSONAL ESTATE.
HIS WIFE AND RICHARD HARMAN, CARPENTER OF BORDEN, ARE EXECUTORS.
WITNESSES: WILLIAM CLEAVE, JOSEPH ARNOLD AND THOMAS HEDGCOCK.
PROVED 28th JULY 1807 GOODS, CHATTELS AND CREDITS LESS THAN £3,500
43 (C) HEADSTONE FINELY CARVED RESURRECTION AT HEAD
SACRED
TO THE MEMORY OF
MR CHARLES GLOVER
OF THIS PARISH WHO DEPARTED THIS
LIFE OCTOBER 13th 1819
AGED 50 YEARS
ALSO SARAH WIFE OF THE ABOVE
MR CHARLES GLOVER
WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE JANUARY 31st 182[8]
AGED 45? YEARS
CHARLES GLOVER WAS AN EXECUTOR OF WILLIAM MILLENOR IN 1813 AND WAS DESCRIBED AS A BUTCHER.
44 (C) HEADSTONE
SACRED
TO THE MEMORY OF
LUCY FIFTH DAUGHTER
OF THE LATE
JOHN FRANCIS GORDELIER
OF FAVERSHAM
WHO DIED 27th AUGUST 1843
AGED 47 YEARS
45 (C) HEADSTONE
SACRED
TO THE MEMORY OF
SIX BELOVED CHILDREN OF
JAMES & ELIZABETH GOUGE
OF THIS PARISH
CHARLES JAMES JUNE 2nd 1810 AGED 6 MONTHS
JEMIMA SEPT. 13th 1816 AGED 10? YEARS
MARGARET OCT 21st 1831 AGED 29 YEARS
WILLIAM MAR 18th 1835 AGED 20 YEARS
SAMUEL AUG 12th 1835 AGED 18 YEARS
SOPHIA SEPT. 24th 1835 AGED 22 YEARS
"They were Lovely and Pleasant in their Lives,
In their deaths are not Divided"
"Nip'd by the wind & unkindly Blast,
Parched by the Sun's directed Ray,
The ? Glories ? Waste
The Short Lived ? Die
?
? "
46 (C) HEADSTONE
TO THE MEMORY OF
ISAAC GREEN
WHO DIED MARCH THE 11th 1843
AGED 36 YEARS
ALSO SUSANNAH GREEN
WIFE OF THE ABOVE WHO DIED
THE 13th OF OCTOBER 1842
AGED 30? YEARS
ALSO MARIA THEIR DAUGHTER
DIED FEBRUARY THE [ ] 1834
AGED 3 YEARS
[Worn Verses]
PIGOT DIRECTORY 1840, ISAAC GREEN, OF THE "GEORGE" HOTEL
47 (C) HEADSTONE
THIS STONE
IS ERECTED IN MEMORY OF
WILLIAM HALMARACK
WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE
JUNE 7th 18[5]8
AGED 44? YEARS
ALSO
ELIZABETH REDFORD
MOTHER OF THE ABOVE?
WHO DIED [ ]
[ ]
PRINCIPAL PROBATE REGISTRY 29th JUNE 1858WILLIAM HALMARACK OF SITTINGBOURNE, SADDLER. ADMINISTRATION TO JOHN PETERS OF BROMPTON, TAILOR, ONE OF THE EXECUTORS. EFFECTS VALUE UNDER £450. RESWORN AT UNDER £600.
48 (C) SMALL HEADSTONE
HELEN
OBIT 9th JAN. 1848
( HELEN HASSELLS)
49 (D) HEADSTONE
SACRED
TO THE MEMORY OF
DAVID HOGBEN
WHO DIED THE 21st OF AUGUST 1849
AGED 57 YEARS
"Thou Turnest Man, O Lord to Dust,
Of which he first was Made,
And when thou Speak'st the Word Returns,
? Instantly Obeyed"
PREROGATIVE COURT OF CANTERBURY WILL DATED 25th APRIL 1845DAVID HOGBEN, BREWER.
WIFE SARAH AND GEORGE GOUGE OF SITTINGBOURNE, GROCER, ARE EXECUTORS.
TO WIFE, £30. HIS PROPERTIES IN SITTINGBOURNE, BOUGHT FROM MRS CRUMP TO HIS WIFE FOR LIFE. AFTER HER DEATH, TO HIS BROTHER WILLIAM AND SISTER LYDIA HOGBEN, EQUALLY SHARED, FOR THEIR LIVES, THE PROPERTIES ARE TO BE INSURED AND MAINTAINED. AFTER THE DEATH OF THE SURVIVOR THEN TO GEORGE GOUGE, UPON TRUST, TO SELL.
ALL HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE, PLATE, LINEN, CHINA, BOOKS AND EFFECTS TO HIS WIFE FOR LIFE. THEN AS FOR THE PROPERTY ABOVE. RESIDUE OF PERSONAL ESTATE, UPON TRUST, ALSO TO BE SOLD. PROCEEDS INVESTED IN GOVERNMENT FUNDS, IN TRUSTEE'S NAME. INCOME FROM THIS TO WIFE FOR LIFE. AFTER HER DEATH, UPON TRUST, TO BENEFIT HIS BROTHER AND SISTER, FOR LIFE. AFTER THEIR DEATHS THE PRINCIPAL TO BE TRANSFERRED TO HIS NEPHEWS AND NIECES, GEORGE, THOMAS, ALFRED, MARY, EDWARD HOGBEN AND SARAH WIFE OF JAMES BRIDAL?, ALL CHILDREN OF LATE BROTHER, THOMAS, AND ALSO TO CHILDREN OF LATE SISTER, MARY PETTY, EDWARD AND THOMAS, SHARED EQUALLY.
WITNESSES: RICHARD BATHURST, SOLICITOR, FAVERSHAM AND J. K. BRADLEY, GROCER, SITTINGBOURNE.
PROVED 14th SEPTEMBER 1849.
50 (B) LARGE, SQUARE COPED STONE, ONCE RAILED
HOGWOOD TOMB, NOTE HOW CLOSE THE CHURCH IS TO WATLING STREET ON THE RIGHT.
SOUTH SIDE
IN MEMORY OF
EDWARD HOGWOOD
WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE
THE 18th APRIL 1843
AGED 55 YEARS
ALSO
JOHN ROBERT DIVERS
WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE
THE 14th AUGUST 1858
AGED 66 YEARS
WHO WAS INTERRED AT OSPRINGE, KENT
ALSO ELIZABETH DIVERS
WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE
THE 3rd MARCH 1877
AGED 86 YEARS
NORTH SIDE
IN MEMORY OF
ELIZABETH EPPS
WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE
THE 12th? APRIL 1845
AGED 78? YEARS
ALSO
ELIZABETH HOGWOOD
WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE
THE? [JANUARY 184]6
AGED 44 YEARS
PREROGATIVE COURT OF CANTERBURY WILL DATED 24th OCTOBER 1838
EDWARD HOGWOOD, OF 15 UPPER GROSVENOR STREET, MIDDLESESX, FORMERLY OF GILLINGHAM, BUTLER TO MRS RADCLIFFE, OF SAME ADDRESS.
TO WIFE, ELIZABETH, HIS FOUR FREEHOLD HOUSES IN SITTINGBOURNE AND TWO HOUSES IN FLUSHING STREET, MILTON, ONE OF THE LATTER PURCHASED FROM RICHARD TAGG, THE OTHER FROM WILLIAM EASON, FOR EVER.
HE HAS A MORTGAGE ON A COTTAGE AT TEYNHAM, "FOR SERVICING TO ME THE REPAYMENT OF £500 AND INTEREST". HE GIVES THE SAME £500 TO HIS WIFE, ABSOLUTELY. HE GIVES THE COTTAGE, (SECURITY FOR THE MORTGAGE), TO HIS WIFE, FOR EVER.
ALSO TO HIS WIFE, HIS STOCK IN THE 3 ½ % ANNUITIES. ANY OTHER FREEHOLD ESTATE TO HIS WIFE, FOR EVER.
TO HIS SON, 19 GUINEAS. REST AND RESIDUE OF PERSONAL ESTATE, ALSO TO HIS WIFE, SHE IS EXECUTOR.
WITNESSES: EDWARD ROWLAND PICKERING AND ARTHUR P. PICKERING OF LINCOLN'S INN.
PROVED 9th AUGUST 1843.
51 (C) HEADSTONE, TOP VERY ERODED
ALSO
MRS. MILDRED HUNT
[WIFE?] OF THE ABOVE
WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE THE
[ ] DAY OF APRIL 18[4]2
AGED 64? YEARS
52 (C) HEADSTONE
SACRED
TO THE MEMORY OF
SAMUEL HURD
WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE
THE 3rd? DAY OF SEPT. 1854
AGED [ ]8 YEARS
(Eroded Verses)
PREROGATIVE COURT OF CANTERBURY WILL DATED 2nd SEPTEMBER 1854SAMUEL HURD, INNKEEPER.
FIRST ALL DEBTS, FUNERAL AND PROBATE COSTS PAID.
HE DESIRES TO BE BURIED IN THE "NEW BURIAL GROUND NEAR THE CASTLE WALL IN ROCHESTER", AND A HEADSTONE PLACED OVER HIS GRAVE.
TO HIS WIFE, CHARLOTTE, THE USE OF SUCH OF HIS HOUSEHOLD GOODS, FURNITURE, PLATE, LINEN AND CHINA AS SHE CHOOSE, SUFFICIENT FOR HIS HOUSE IN ROCHESTER, OR SIMILAR ONE, FOR HER LIFETIME. SHE CAN HAVE POSSESSION AND OCCUPATION OF HIS HOUSE IN MORDEN STREET, ROCHESTER, OCCUPIED BY [ ] SMITH OR THE RENT FOR LIFE SUBJECT TO KEEPING THE HOUSE IN GOOD REPAIR. HIS LEASEHOLD HOUSE AND ALL OTHER HOUSEHOLD GOODS, MONIES, PERSONAL ESTATE AND EFFECTS, TO JAMES JACOB NORTH? OF ASHBOURNE, DERBYSHIRE, ESQUIRE AND JOHN MOUNT OF BLUETOWN, SHEERNESS, GROCER, UPON TRUST, TO CONVERT INTO MONEY AND COLLECT DEBTS AND INVEST IN GOVERNMENT FUNDS, FREEHOLD, COPYHOLD OR LEASEHOLD SECURITIES AND PAY INCOME RECEIVED TO HIS WIFE, FOR LIFE. IF SHE BECOMES BANKRUPT OR A DEBTOR, TRUSTEES TO SELL LEASEHOLDS AND INVEST HALF THE PROCEEDS AND PAY INTEREST TO HIS BROTHER JAMES, FOR LIFE. AFTER HIS DEATH, TO PAY THE PRINCIPAL SUM TO HIS CHILDREN, (EXCEPT WILLIAM), IN EQUAL SHARES. THE OTHER HALF OF THE PRINCIPAL, TO BE SHARED AS DIRECTED BY HIS WIFE. IN DEFAULT OF SUCH DIRECTION, THEN TO HIS WIFE'S NEXT OF KIN.
HIS WIFE, JOHN MOUNT AND JAMES JACOB NORTH ARE EXECUTORS.
WITNESSES: WILLIAM TOMLINSON, SOLICITOR, ASHBOURNE AND GEORGE TOMLINSON, HIS CLERK.
PROVED 13th FEBRUARY 1856 POWER RESERVED TO JOHN MOUNT AND CHARLOTTE HURD
53 (C) HEADSTONE
SACRED
TO THE MEMORY OF
MARK IVES
OF THIS PARISH
WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE
THE 19th OF OCTOBER 1840
AGED 41 YEARS
LEFT SURVIVING A WIDOW AND
THREE CHILDREN
VIZ. MARY ELIZABETH,
HESTER ANN
AND ELLEN GRACE
STAPLETON DIRECTORY 1838, MARK IVES, GROCER, TEA AND CHEESE MONGER, ALSO CHINA, GLASS AND EARTHENWARE MERCHANT,
54 (C) HEADSTONE
HERE
LIETH YE BODY OF
WILL. JACKSON WHO
DEPARTED THIS [LIFE]
[ ] DECEMR. 1745 AGED [ ]
ALSO JOZAAN [HIS] WIFE
WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE
14th OCTOR. 17[ ] AGED 79
JACQMIN SEE PHILLIPE
KEEPEN SEE BIRCH
55 (B) HEADSTONE
THE KEYES INSCRIPTION IS ON A SUPERIOR STONE, AND IS WELL PRESERVED.
HERE LIETH THE
BODY OF MARY WIFE OF
JOHN KEYES SHE DIED
SEPT. YE 23rd 1712 AGED
28 YEARS
HERE ALSO LIETH YE BODY
OF YE SAID ABOVE JOHN
KEYES WHO DEPARTED
THIS LIFE YE 17th DAY OF
MARCH 1722 AGED 42 YEARS
NEAR THIS PLACE
LIETH THEIR THREE SONS
CANTERBURY COURT WILL DATED 12th MARCH 1721 (22)JOHN KEYES, OF MIDDLETON ALIAS MILTON, MILLER.
TO WIFE, ALICE, FOUR HOUSES IN MILTON, OCCUPIED BY JOHN? , RICHARD BURTON, ALEX ANDER CRAKE? AND JOHN WILLARD, ALSO THE "SHIP" IN SITTINGBOURNE, OCCUPIED BY JOHN WESTLAKE, ALSO HOUSE AT THE DENNERARY? IN NEWINGTON, OCCUPIED BY ROBERT HASTED?, FOR LIFE. AFTER HER DEATH, THEN TO HIS SISTER'S DAUGHTER, ELIZABETH LITTLE OF LONDON, SPINSTER, FOR EVER, SHE ALSO TO HAVE £5 FOR MOURNING.
TO THOMASIN MULLINGER, HIS SERVANT MAID, NOW LIVING WITH HIM, 50 SHILLINGS TO BUY MOURNING.
ALL DEBTS TO BE PAID OUT OF READY MONEY, SHOP DEBTS, GOODS AND CHATTELS, IF SUFFICIENT LEFT AFTER HIS FUNERAL AND PROBATE COSTS ARE PAID, THE LEGACIES TO BE PAID. RESIDUE TO HIS WIFE, WHO IS EXECUTOR.
WITNESSES: JOHN BATCHELLER, M. THURSTON AND THOMAS BAKER.
PROVED 27th APRIL 1722
56(C) HEADSTONE
SACRED
TO THE MEMORY OF
HESTER KING OF THIS PARISH
SHE DIED 9th OF JANUARY 1841
AGED 41 YEARS
"Blessed are the Dead
That Die in the Lord"
57 (C) HEADSTONE , BOTTOM HALF
[ALSO]
[THE] ABOVE NAMED
ANN KINGSMILL
WHO DIED MARCH 5th ? 1860
AGED 63 YEARS
SILAS KINGSMILL
DIED FEB. 7th 1862
AGED 73? YEARS
AND WAS INTERRED IN THE CEMETERY [ ]
58 (C) HEADSTONE
SACRED
TO THE MEMORY OF
JOHN SON OF
JOHN AND ELIZABETH KNOWLES
OF THIS PARISH WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE
JANUARY 21st? 1806
AGED 1[ ] YEARS
ALSO ANDREW SON OF THE ABOVE
JOHN AND ELIZABETH KNOWLES
WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE
JANUARY 11th 1817
AGED 23 YEARS
(Eroded Verses)
ALSO ELIZABETH KNOWLES THEIR SISTER
BORN JAN. 15th? 1787? DIED MARCH 3rd 1862
INTERRED IN THE [CEMETERY?]
MAIDSTONE JOURNAL, 21st JANUARY 1817
"JAN 11th AT SITTINGBOURNE, MR ANDREW KNOWLES,
AGED 23, A YOUNG MAN OF RESPECTABLE CHARACTER AND
FAMILY, MUCH REGRETTED BY THEM AND HIS FRIENDS,
AFTER A LONG AND SEVERE ILLNESS"
59 (C) HEADSTONE
SACRED
TO THE MEMORY OF
JOHN KNOWLES
OF THIS PARISH WHO DEPARTED
THIS LIFE 15th OCT 1820
AGED 64 YEARS
(Eroded Verses)
ALSO ELIZABETH WIFE OF THE ABOVE
WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE THE
[ ] AGED 81 YEARS
ALSO OF THOMAS KNOWLES
SON OF THE ABOVE
DIED NOV 6th 1856 AGED 68 YEARS
PREROGATIVE COURT OF CANTERBURY WILL DATED 29th MARCH 1814JOHN KNOWLES, PLUMBER, GLAZIER AND PAINTER.
ALL PROPERTY AND LAND IN SITTINGBOURNE OR ELSEWHERE AND ALL PERSONAL ESTATE, TO WIFE ELIZABETH, FOR LIFE, AS LONG AS SHE REMAINS HIS WIDOW. AFTER HER DEATH OR REMARRAIGE, THEN TO HIS CHILDREN, EQUALLY SHARED. (HE APPOINTS HIS WIFE AND JEREMIAH FINNIS AS EXECUTORS BUT THEN CROSSES THIS OUT ON SEPTEMBER 31st 1815 ).
WITNESSES: ANN FINNIS, ELIZABETH FINNIS AND WILLIAM LYNG
AFFIDAVIT 9th FEBRUARY 1821
ELIZABETH KNOWLES, SPINSTER, SAMUEL HAYWARD OF 2, ST. DUNSTAN'S HILL, LONDON, GLASS MANUFACTURER AND JOSEPH CHATER OF THE SAME PLACE, GLASS MANUFACTURER, ARE SWORN.
HAYWARD AND CHATER WERE WELL ACQAUNTED WITH THE DECEASED, THEY HAVE SEEN HIM WRITE AND SIGN DOCUMENTS. HAVING CAREFULLY EXAMINED THE WILL AND SAY THAT THE NAME CROSSED OUT WAS JEREMIAH FINNIS OF SOUTHWARK, CARVER AND GILDER. THEY CONFIRM THAT CROSSED OUT LINES AND THE NOTE IN THE MARGIN OF THE DATE IN 1815, ARE IN DECEASED'S HAND.
PROVED 20th FEBRUARY 1821. GRANTED TO HIS WIDOW, ELIZABETH.
NOTE IN MARGIN DATED SEPTEMBER 1838, ELIZABETH KNOWLES HAS DIED LEAVING THE WILL UNADMINISTERED. NOW GRANTED TO DAUGHTER, ELIZABETH KNOWLES, RESIDUARY LEGATEE.
CANTERBURY COURT WILL DATED 11th APRIL 1842THOMAS KNOWLES, PAINTER, (AND CARVER AND GILDER)
THOMAS TURNER OF SITTINGBOURNE, SADDLER AND JOHN DEAN OF SITTINGBOURNE, TAILOR, ARE EXECUTORS.
TO THEM ALL REAL ESTATE, UPON TRUST, TO SELL, PROCEEDS TO HIS RESIDUARY ESTATE. ALL HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE, PLATE, LINEN, CHINA AND EFFECTS, STOCK IN TRADE, DEBTS OWED, MONEY AND OTHER PERSONAL ESTATE, TO TRUSTEES, UPON TRUST. THEY TO PAY HIS DEBTS, FUNERAL AND PROBATE COSTS. THEY TO ALLOW HIS WIFE, MARGARET, TO HAVE USE OF HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE AND OTHER HOUSEHOLD GOODS FOR LIFE OR WIDOWHOOD. AFTER HER DEATH, TRUSTEES TO SELL AND ADD PROCEEDS TO HIS RESIDUARY ESTATE. TRUSTEES TO INVEST MONEY IN GOVERNMENT FUNDS AND PAY INTEREST TO WIFE MARGARET FOR LIFE OR WIDOWHOOD. AFTER HER DEATH, PRINCIPAL MONEY AND HER FURNITURE AND GOODS TO HIS DAUGHTER AND GRANDCHILDREN, AMELIA SELLS, WIDOW, ELIZABETH ANN SELLS, ELEANOR, ARTHUR AND MARIA KNOWLES, EQUALLY SHARED, WHEN GRANDCHILDREN 21 YEARS OF AGE.
IN THE MEANTIME THE INTEREST TOWARDS THEIR MAINTENANCE AND EDUCATION.
WITNESSES: RICHARD BATHURST, SOLICITOR, FAVERSHAM AND THOMAS BATHURST, SITTINGBOURNE.
PROVED 14th JANUARY 1857. THOMAS TURNER HAS DIED . VALUE OF GOODS, CHATTELS AND CREDITS, LESS THAN £200. RESWORN JUNE 1858 AT LESS THAN £300
AFFIDAVIT SAME DATE AS ABOVE.
HENRY KOWLES OF SITTINGBOURNE, PLUMBER, SON OF DECEASED, IS SWORN.
ON THE DAY OF HIS FATHER'S FUNERAL, HE FOUND A SEALED ENVELOPE CONTAINING THE WILL. THE WILL BEING PROVED IS THE SAME IN EVERY RESPECT, INCLUDING ALTERATIONS AND OBLITERATIONS.
60 (C) FALLEN HEADSTONE
SACRED
TO THE MEMORY OF
WILLIAM CHARLES SAMUEL LANG
SON OF WILLIAM & ELIZA LANG
OF THE [ ] [CH]ATHAM
WHO DIED [FEBRUARY [ ] [1838] AGED 3 YEARS
(Eroded Verses)
61 (C) ELEGANT CLASSICAL CHEST TOMB
LINSELL AND WANSTALL TOMB.
(I HAVE FOUND NO INFORMATION ON THESE FAMILIES.)
EAST SIDE
IN THIS VAULT
ARE DEPOSITED THE REMAINS
OF
MR ROBERT LINSELL
OF THIS PARISH
WHO DIED THE 25th? OF MAY
1808 AGED 47 YEARS
SOUTH SIDE
SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF
MR STEPHEN WANSTALL
BROTHER TO THE WIDOW LINSELL
(OF THIS PARISH)
WHO DIED 19th JUNE
1815
AGED 44 YEARS
NORTH SIDE
SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF
DENNIS WIFE OF
ROBERT LINSELL
WHO DIED THE 4th OF JAN 1842
AGED 84 YEARS
62 (C) HEADSTONE
[SACRED]
TO THE MEMORY OF
SARAH WIFE OF
WILLIAM LISHMAN
OF THIS PARISH
WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE
OCTOBER [ ] 180[4]
AGED [ ]2 YEARS
ALSO THE ABOVE
WILLIAM LISHMAN
[WHO DIED JUNE [ ]]18[22]?
[ ]
63 (C) HEADSTONE
SACRED
TO THE MEMORY OF
CHARLOTTE WIFE OF
THOMAS LY[ON]
OF THIS PARISH
WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE
THE 19th OF MARCH 1827
AGED 63? YEARS
ALSO DANIEL [LYON]
WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE
[ ] MARCH 1823
AGED 21 YEARS
64 (C) HEADSTONE
[SACRED]
[TO THE MEMORY OF]
MARY
WIFE OF JOHN MASTERS
? ? ? ?
WHO DIED THE 28th OF DECEMBER
1828
AGED [ ]3 YEARS
ALSO JOHN MASTERS
WHO DIED MARCH 25th 1863
AGED 81 YEARS
ALSO ELIZABETH
SECOND WIFE OF THE ABOVE
WHO DIED APRIL 13th 1879
AGED 75 YEARS
AND TWO CHILDREN
ELIZABETH & WILLIAMS
WHO DIED IN THEIR INFANCY
1851 CENSUS, JOHN MASTERS, WEST LANE, FRUITERER, BUT AGE GIVEN AS 67?
65 (C) HEADSTONE
MARY
SECOND WIFE OF
WILLIAM MILLENOR OF
THIS PARISH WHO DIED [ ]
1800? AGED 56 YEARS
ALSO OF THE ABOVE
WILLIAM MILLENOR
[Footstone Obscures]1820
[ ]
CANTERBURY COURT WILL DATED 23rd OCTOBER 1813WILLIAM MILLENOR, FRUITERER
ALL PROPERTY AND LAND AT SITTINGBOURNE, BAPCHILD AND NEWINGTON, TO CHARLES GLOVER OF SITTINGBOURNE, BUTCHER AND JOHN DRAYSON OF SITTINGBOURNE, CABINET MAKER, UPON TRUST.
THEY, WITH CONSENT OF HIS WIFE, WHILE SHE REMAINS HIS WIDOW OR AFTER HER DEATH OR REMARRIAGE, ON THEIR OWN DISCRETION, TO SELL HIS ESTATE. THE PROCEEDS TO BE PART OF HIS PERSONAL ESTATE. THE RENTS UNTIL PROPERTY SOLD TO BE PART OF HIS PERSONAL ESTATE. HIS PERSONAL ESTATE TO HIS WIFE FOR LIFE OR WIDOWHOOD. AFTER HER DEATH OR REMARRIAGE, THEN SHARED EQUALLY TO ALL OF. HIS DAUGHTERS AT 21 OR DAY OF MARRIAGE AND TO SONS WHEN ALL ARE 21 YEARS. BEFORE THEN TRUSTEES CAN ADVANCE SUMS TO HIS CHILDREN AT THEIR DISCRETION.
GLOVER AND DRAYSON ARE EXECUTORS.
MILLENOR SIGNS WITH HIS MARK.
WITNESSES: ROBERT HINDS, JUNIOR, JOHN HINDES AND WILLIAM GARRETT.
PROVED 5th JUNE 1820. CHARLES GLOVER HAS SINCE DIED.
MILLS SEE BOULDING
66 (D) HEADSTONE
SACRED
TO THE MEMORY OF
JOHN MITCHELL
[WHO] DIED APRIL 21st 1836
AGED 80 YEARS
"{With Patience] to the Last he did Submit,
[And Mur]mered not at what the Lord thought Fit,
[He with] a Christian Courage did Resign,
[His Soul to] God at his Appointed Time"
ALSO ELINOR HARRIOTT
PARNELL WIFE OF THE
ABOVE DIED MARCH 20th 1[ ]
AGED [ ] YEARS
67 (C) HEADSTONE FINELY CARVED HEAD
SACRED
TO THE MEMORY OF
[MARY] WIFE OF JOHN MOORE
OF THIS PARISH, COOPER WHO
DEPARTED THIS LIFE
[AUGUST 1757]
[ ]
[ALSO] JOHN MOORE
[WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE]
[ ] APRIL 1770 [ ]
[ ]
CANTERBURY COURT WILL DATED 24th JULY 1769JOHN MOORE, COOPER.
TO HIS DAUGHTER (SARAH ANNE), ALL HER MOTHER'S CLOTHES, ALSO £50, AS FOLLOWS, £5 AT 14 YEARS, £5 AT 19 YEARS AND £35 AT 21 YEARS, IF HER AUNT SMITH IS ALIVE, SARAH WILL NOT RECEIVE THE MONEY WITHOUT AUNT SMITH'S CONSENT, UNTIL SHE IS 21. IF SARAH DIES BEFORE SHE IS 21, WITHOUT RECEIVING ANY MONEY, IT WILL BE DIVIDED EQUALLY AMONG HIS OTHER CHILDREN. IF SARAH BECOMES ILL AND IT IS THOUGHT NECESSARY, SHE MAY HAVE £5 BEFORE SHE IS 14.
TO SON THOMAS, £50 TO PUT HIM OUT APPRENTICE IN MEANTIME THE INTEREST FROM THIS TOWARDS HIS MAINTENANCE AND EDUCATION, BUT TO NO OTHER PURPOSE.
IF HE DIES THE £50 TO THE OTHER CHILDREN, EQUALLY SHARED. HE NOT TO RECEIVE ANY MONEY UNTIL HE IS 22, EXCEPT WHAT IS SUFFICIENT TO APPRENTICE HIM.
TO SON JAMES, £50, AS FOR THOMAS BUT EDUCATION NOT MENTIONED.
TO SON WILLIAM AS FOR JAMES. TO SON JOHN, WHO IS EXECUTOR, REST AND RESIDUE OF GOODS AND EFFECTS, STOCK IN TRADE, MONEY OWED, CLUB MONEY, (AFTER HIS DEBTS ARE PAID). HIS PLATE TO BE SHARED EQUALLY AMONG HIS CHILDREN. THERE ARE TWO OTHER EXECUTORS, HIS BROTHER (IN LAW), JOHN SMITH AND PETER REASON, " WHO I HOPE OUT OF CHARITY TO THE CHILDREN WILL ACT FOR THEIR GOOD"
WITNESSES: THOMAS BIRCH, GEORGE CRONDER? AND MARY CRONDER?
68 (C) HEADSTONE, BODY STONE ON LEDGER
SACRED
TO THE MEMORY OF
LUCY
THE BELOVED WIFE OF
JOHN PARKINSON
OF CHESHUNT
IN THE COUNTY OF HERTFORD
WHO DIED 20th SEPTEMBER 1837
AGED 55 YEARS
69 (D) HEADSTONE
SACRED
TO THE MEMORY OF
JOHN PARKS
OF THIS PARISH WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE
THE 19th OF APRIL 1826
AGED 38 YEARS
LEAVING A WIDOW AND DAUGHTER
VIZ. ANNE BORN THE SAME YEAR
70 (C) HEADSTONE WITH CREST OF ORDER OF ST. LOUIS
D.O.M.
ICI REPOSE LE CORPS
DE MELLNR? JEAN BAPTISE LOUIS PHILLIPE
COMTE DE CICQUERAY
DESCENDU? ANCIENT FAMILLE NOBLE DE NORMANDIE
CHEF DE L'LEADRE CADRE
DES ARMES NAVLES DU ROI DE FRANCE
COMMANDEUR DE L'ORDRE DE SAINT LOUIS
MORT LE 30th JULIET [1802] [ ] 72 ANS
REAR
IN MEMORY OF
MONS. ALEXIS JACQMIN
OF THIS PARISH LATE OF PARIS
WHO DIED DEC. 1st 1826
[Footstone Obscures]
ALSO [LOUISA MAGDA]LENE
W[IFE OF THE ABOVE]
WHO [DIED JULY [ ] 1838]
[AGED ABOUT 80 YEARS]
FROM AN ACCOUNT OF PHILLIPE IN JOHN CLANCY'S HISTORY OF SITTINGBOURNE
PHILLIPE'S FAMILY WERE INVOLVED IN GLASS MAKING IN THE MIDDLE AGES.
HE WAS BORN IN MAY 1730, THE THIRD SON OF THE LORD OF VALMENIER AND IN 1745 ENTERED THE COAST GUARD SERVICE. HE WAS PROMOTED ENSIGN IN 1751. IN 1757 HE WAS POSTED TO THE WARSHIP, "DUKE OF BURGUNDY" AND PROMOTED LIEUTENANT, HE SAW ACTIVE SERVICE IN CANADA, WHICH WAS LOST TO BRITAIN BY GENERAL WOLFE'S VICTORY AT QUEBEC IN 1759.
IN 1763 HE SERVED ON THE "STRANGER", SEEING ACTION OFF BREST AGAINST THE ROYAL NAVY, IN THE SAME YEAR HE WAS MADE A KNIGHT OF ST. LOUIS.
IN 1771 HE WAS A CAPTAIN IN COMMAND OF A FRIGATE, IN 1772 HE WAS CAPTAIN OF THE 64 GUN "PROTEUS". IN 1775 HE WAS MADE A MAJOR IN THE MARINE CORPS AND PROMOTED IN 1781 TO BRIGADIER IN THE NAVY. IN THE LATTER YEAR .
IN 1782 HE WAS CAPTAIN OF THE 74 GUN "BELOVED" AND IN THE SAME YEAR MARRIED MARIE LOUISE DE PRODEL. IN 1786 HE WAS A SQUADRON COMMANDER.
AT SOME TIME AFTER THE FRENCH REVOLUTION, HE WENT TO LONDON AS A REFUGEE AND IT SEEMS THAT DURING THE SHORT LIVED TREATY OF AMIENS, 1802, HE MAY HAVE BEEN RETURNING TO FRANCE WHEN HE DIED AT SITTINGBOURNE. BUT THERE ARE SOME FACTORS WHICH CAST DOUBT ON THIS VERSION OF HIS END. THERE MUST HAVE BEEN SOME RELATIONSHIP WITH JACQMIN WHO IS BURIED IN THE SAME GRAVE AND JACQMIN WAS "OF THIS PARISH", I.E. SITTINGBOURNE, IN FACT JACQMIN'S WIFE MAY HAVE LIVED ON IN THE TOWN UNTIL SHE DIED, IN 1838. DID PHILLIPE DIED IN LONDON AND WAS BURIED IN SITTINGBOURNE BY JACQMIN, WHO WAS ALREADY RESIDENT? AFTER ALL PHILLIPE WAS 72 WHEN HE DIED AND SO, UNLESS HIS DEATH WAS SUDDEN, IT MIGHT SEEM ODD TO WANT TO RETURN TO FRANCE WHEN HE MAY HAVE BEEN IN FAILING HEALTH, ON THE OTHER HAND HE MAY HAVE HAD A STRONG DESIRE TO DIE IN HIS NATIVE LAND?
THE NAME ALEXIS JACQMIN (OF PARIS) APPEARS IN THE DICTIONARY OF THE FRENCH NOBLESSE IN THE 1740'S SO IT SEEMS THAT JACQMIN SHARES A SIMILAR FAMILY BACKGROUND WITH PHILLIPE.
71 (C) HEADSTONE
SACRED
TO THE MEMORY OF
WILLIAM PILES
OF THIS PARISH, MARINER WHO DEPARTED THIS
LIFE [ MAY [ ] 1823?] AGED [ ] YEARS
72(C) HEADSTONE
SACRED
TO THE MEMORY OF
SUSANNA PAXTON THE WIFE OF
PHILEMON POWNOLL
[WHO DIED] 6th JUNE 1819
AGED 46? YEARS
PHILEMON POWNOLL WAS PROBABLY RELATED TO THE DISTINGUISHED NAVAL OFFICER , PHILEMON POWNOLL, WHO WAS KILLED IN ACTION IN 1781. THE FAMILY WAS FROM DEVON.
73 (D) HEADSTONE
IN MEMORY OF
ELIZABETH
WIFE OF THOMAS REASON OF THIS
PARISH WHO DIED THE [ ] OF JANUARY 1787
AGED [ ] YEARS
74 (D) HEADSTONE
SACRED
TO THE MEMORY OF
WILLIAM REASON
WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE
THE 24th OF OCTOBER 1828
AGED 79 YEARS
WHO WAS COLLECTOR OF THE PAROCHIAL
RATES 47 YEARS FOR THIS PARISH
"With Patience to the End he did Submit,
And Murmured not at what the Lord thought fit,
He with a Christian Courage did Submit,
His Soul to God at the Appointed Time"
ALSO RACHEL REEVES
WHO DISCHARGED THE [DUTY OF]
HOUSEKEEPER TO THE ABOVE UPWARD
OF FORTY YEARS WITH THE UPMOST
FRUGALITY AND FIDELITY
DIED MARCH 12th MARCH 1849
IN THE 73rd YEAR OF HER AGE
CANTERBURY COURT WILL DATED 22nd JANUARY 1824WILLIAM REASON, LATE SCHOOLMASTER.(DIED AT MILTON)
DESIRES EXECUTOR TO PUT UP A HEADSTONE TO HIM, WITH HIS NAME, DATE OF HIS DEATH, AGE AND CONDITION IN LIFE.
TO RICHARD HODGES AND MARY HIS WIFE,£50, IF THEY BOTH DIED IN HIS LIFETIME, THEN TO ISAAC BOULDING REEVES. HIS HOUSE IN SITTINGBOURNE, IN HIS OCCUPATION, AND ALL OTHER REAL ESTATE, TO RACHEL REEVES, FOR EVER. ALSO TO RACHEL REEVES, HIS GOODS, CHATTELS, CREDITS, FURNITURE, PLATE, LINEN, CHINA, READY MONEY, INVESTED MONEY, CLUB MONEY AND PERSONAL ESTATE, AFTER PAYMENT OF HIS DEBTS, FUNERAL, PROBATE COSTS AND LEGACY, FOR EVER.
RACHEL REEVE, JOHN [ Crease ] AND CLOTHIER AND THOMAS TAYLOR OF SITTINGBOURNE, HAIRDRESSER, ARE EXECUTORS.
WITNESSES: THOMAS HUNT, MARY ELIZABETH WATSON AND WILLIAM LYNG
PROVED POWER RESERVED TO THOMAS TAYLOR, THE THIRD WITNESS HAS SINCE DIED. VALUE OF GOODS AND CHATTELS, LESS THAN £1,000
CANTERBURY COURT WILL DATED 26th FEBRUARY 1849
RACHEL REEVES, SPINSTER.
APPOINTS STEPHEN COURT OF MILTON, COAL MERCHANT, ROBERT STROUTS OF MILTON, BUTCHER AND NIECE ELIZABETH BERRY WIFE OF GEORGE BERRY OF SITTINGBOURNE, EXECUTORS. TO THEM, ALL HER INVESTMENTS AND PERSONAL ESTATE, UPON TRUST, TO SELL AND PAY HER DEBTS, FUNERAL AND PROBATE COSTS. ONE THIRD OF RESIDUE TO ELIZABETH BERRY, ONE THIRD TO NIECE ELIZABETH GRIGSBY WIFE OF JAMES GRIGSBY, REMAINING THIRD TO NIECE RACHEL REEVES PRICE, WIFE OF HENRY PRICE.
TO STEPHEN COURT AND ROBERT STROUTS, ALL REAL ESTATE VESTED IN HER , UPON TRUST, ACCORDING TO THE CONDITIONS ATTACHED.
SIGNS WILL WITH HER MARK.
WITNESSES: WILLIAM TAYLOR AND STEPHEN COURT.
PROVED JUNE 25th 1849. VALUE OF GOODS, CHATTELS AND CREDITS LESS THAN £800. POWER RESERVED TO ELIZABETH BERRY.
75 (C) HEADSTONE
SACRED
TO THE MEMORY OF
MR THOMAS REASON
OF THIS PARISH
WHO DIED 13th JUNE 1829
AGED 70 YEARS
ALSO
ELIZABETH
SECOND WIFE OF THE ABOVE
WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE
8th JULY 1855
AGED 81 YEARS
PREROGATIVE COURT OF CANTERBURY WILL DATED 7th JUNE 1829THOMAS REASON, UPHOLSTERER.
FIRST, ALL DEBTS, FUNERAL AND PROBATE COSTS PAID.
TO SON THOMAS FILMER REASON, FOR EVER, HIS HOUSE IN SITTINGBOURNE, STOCK IN TRADE AND FIXTURES AND £200. IF AT ANY TIME HIS WIFE ELIZABETH STOPS LIVING WITH SON THOMAS, THEN HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE AND GOODS TO BE EQUALLY DIVIDED BETWEEN THEM.
TO DAUGHTER ELIZABETH BECKETT REASON, £1,000 IN THE 3% REDUCED ANNUITIES.
REST AND RESIDUE EQUALLY DIVIDED BETWEEN HIS WIFE, SON THOMAS AND FRIEND CHARLES BECKETT OF GRAVESEND, BREWER, UPON TRUST, TO INVEST PROCEEDS (AFTER SALES?), AND PAY INTEREST TO HIS WIFE FOR LIFE. AFTER HER DEATH, UPON TRUST, AN ADDITIONAL £1,000 3% ANNUITIES TO NAME OF DAUGHTER ELIZABETH.
RESIDUE TO SON THOMAS.
WIFE, SON AND CHARLES BECKETT ARE EXECUTORS.
WITNESSES: RICHARD BATHURST, SITTINGBOURNE, RICHARD BATHURST, JUNIOR AND MARY MAILING.
PROVED 13th AUGUST 1829. POWER RESERVED TO CHARLES BECKETT.
PREROGATIVE COURT OF CANTERBURY WILL DATED 12th DECEMBER 1839
ELIZABETH REASON.
DEBTS, FUNERAL AND PROBATE COSTS FIRST PAID.
TO SON THOMAS FILMER REASON, FOR EVER, HER HOUSE IN SITTINGBOURNE, LATELY BOUGHT FROM AMOS LEEDS, NOW OCCUPIED BY JESSE WRASTON AND OTHERS.
TO DAUGHTER, ELIZABETH BECKETT CLEAVE, £100 NEW 3 ½ % ANNUITIES.
TO SON THOMAS REST AND RESIDUE, IN CONSEQUENCE OF HER LOST BY BAD INVESTMENTS, £550, WHICH WAS TO HAVE BEEN HER SONS, AT HER DEATH, BY HIS FATHER'S WILL ?
SON THOMAS IS EXECUTOR.
WITNESSES: RICHARD? SMITH AND GEORGE WAKEFIELD, JUNIOR.
PROVED 27th OCTOBER 1855.
REDFORD SEE HALMARACK
REEVES SEE REASON
76 (C) HEADSTONE
IN
MEMORY OF
FRANCIS ROUSE
OF THIS PARISH WHO DIED
THE [ ] FEBRUARY
1790
AGED 68 YEARS
PREROGATIVE COURT OF CANTERBURY WILL DATED 17th FEBRUARY 1790FRANCIS ROUSE, RIDING OFFICER. (CUSTOMS OFFICER, WHO PATROLLED SECTION OF COAST ON HORSEBACK.)
TO BROTHER JOHN, £20; TO THE FOUR CHILDREN OF LATE SISTER, KATHERINE SHOULDERS, MARY, CATHERINE, ELIZABETH AND JOHN, £5 EACH; TO BROTHERS, CHARLES AND BENJAMIN AND SISTER, ALICE, WIFE OF THOMAS BIRCH, GROCER, £20 EACH; TO NEPHEWS, BENJAMIN ROUSE, £50, FRANCIS CARTER OF DOVER, ? , £10. ALSO TO FRANCIS CARTER, ALL HIS CLOTHES. TO NIECE, MARY ROUSE, DAUGHTER OF BROTHER, BENJAMIN, ALL HIS PLATE.
REST AND RESIDUE OF GOODS, CHATTELS, CREDITS, MONEY, MONEY IN PUBLIC FUNDS AND PERSONAL ESTATE, AFTER PAYMENT OF HIS DEBTS, FUNERAL AND PROBATE COSTS, TO BROTHER, RICHARD, RICHARD AND BENJAMIN ROUSE ARE EXECUTORS.
WITNESSES: CALHAN GLOVER AND B. FAUSSETT
PROVED 8th JUNE 1790 POWER RESERVED TO BENJAMIN ROUSE.
77 (C) SMALL HEADSTONE
SACRED
TO THE MEMORY OF
GEORGE SARGENT
POSTMAN OF THIS PARISH
TWENTY SIX YEARS
WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE
THE 19th OF DECEMBER 1849
AGED 57 YEARS
ALSO ELIZABETH WIFE OF
THE ABOVE WHO DIED 16th MARCH
[ ]
[ ]
STAPLETON DIRECTORY, 1838, LISTS A GEORGE SARGENT AS A TAILOR, SAME MAN?
78 (D) HEADSTONE
[SACRED]
TO THE MEMORY OF
JOHN SEATH
OF THIS PARISH
WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE
THE [ ] OF MAY 1788
AGED 38 YEARS
[Eroded Verse?]
ALSO
ANN WIFE OF THE ABOVE
JOHN SEATH
WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE
NOVEMBER 18th 1817
AGED 65? YEARS
79 (D) HEADSTONE
SACRED
TO THE MEMORY OF
RICHARD SEATH
LATE OF MURSTON, YEOMAN
WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE
THE 31st OF AUGUST 1815
AGED 52 YEARS
PREROGATIVE COURT OF CANTERBURY WILL DATED 28th APRIL 1813RICHARD SEATH, OF MURSTON, GENTLEMAN.
HIS REAL AND PERSONAL ESTATE CHARGED WITH PAYMENT OF HIS DEBTS, FUNERAL AND PROBATE COSTS.
TO SISTER ANN SEATH, £200 AND HIS PLATE AND LINEN; TO NEPHEW JOHN BECKE SEATH, SON OF LATE BROTHER, WILLIAM, £1,200; TO HESTER MATILDA SEATH, DAUGHTER OF LATE BROTHER, JOHN, £600. THE INTEREST OF £400 TO SISTER MARY, WIFE OF JOHN WHITE, FOR LIFE.
AFTER HER DEATH, THE PRINCIPAL SUM OF £400 TO HER CHILDREN, EQUALLY SHARED.
TO JOHN WHITE OF 3 PRINCES STREET, WALWORTH, THE HOUSE HE OCCUPIES; TO RICHARD WHITE, SON OF SISTER MARY, £600; TO JOHN WHITE, ALSO SON OF MARY, £800; TO SOPHIA WHITE, MARY'S DAUGHTER, £800; TO THOMAS WHITE, ALSO SON OF MARY, £2,200.
HIS ESTATE AT EAST HALL, MURSTON, TO BE VALUED. NEPHEW THOMAS WHITE CAN CARRY ON FARMING BUSINESS WITH ROBERT SEATH FOR 14 YEARS AFTER HIS DEATH. THOMAS WHITE TO PAY SEATH AND HIS HEIRS £200 A YEAR AS RENT AND HALF THE MAINTENANCE COSTS OF EAST HALL ESTATE. AFTER 14 YEARS SEATH TO PAY THOMAS WHITE HALF THE LIVE AND DEAD STOCK VALUE? TO ANN SOPHIA BARNES, WIDOW, DAUGHTER OF HIS LATE BROTHER, JOHN, THE INTEREST OF £400, FOR LIFE, AFTER HER DEATH, THE PRINCIPAL £400 TO ALL HER LAWFUL CHILDREN AT 21 YEARS. IF SHE DIES WITH NO LAWFUL CHILDREN, THE £400 WILL GO INTO HIS RESIDUARY PERSONAL ESTATE. TO ANN SARAH AND ELIZABETH WHITEHEAD, CHILDREN OF LATE SISTER, SARAH WIFE OF WALTER WHITEHEAD, £100 EACH AT 21 YEARS OF AGE.
TO HIS NATURAL DAUGHTER, CHARLOTTE BALLARD, £600. HIS MANORS, HOUSES, LAND IN KENT OR ELSEWHERE AND RESIDUE OF PERSONAL ESTATE, AFTER HIS DEBTS, FUNERAL AND PROBATE COSTS AND LEGACIES ARE PAID, TO BROTHER ROBERT, FOR EVER. THE LATTER IS EXECUTOR.
WITNESSES: ROBERT HINDE, ROBERT HINDE, JUNIOR AND JAMES TAYLOR.
PROVED 14th FEBRUARY 1816
80 (D) SMALL HEADSTONE
ANN SENIOR
1855
1840 PIGOT DIRECTORY, BOOKSELLER AND STATIONER
81 (C) DOUBLE HEADSTONE
HERE
LIETH YE BODY
OF WILLIAM
SON OF JOHN
SARAH SHARP
OF THIS PARISH
WHO DIED APRIL
[ ] 1735
]
JOHN SHARP
-------------------
[DIED AUGUST 1736] HERE
LIETH YE BODY
OF SARAH WIFE OF
JOHN SHARP
[WHO DIED ]
JUNE 2nd 1720
AGED 43 YEARS
ALSO MARY
GREENHILL
DAUGHTER OF
YE SAID JOHN SHARP
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[DIED NOVEMBER 1729]
CANTERBURY COURT WILL DATED 16th APRIL 1735
JOHN SHARP, INN HOLDER.
TO SERVANT KATHERINE EDMONDS, £100; TO SERVANT JOHN LEWIS, £5, IF WITH HIM AT DEATH;
£5 TO CHILDREN OF KINSMAN, WILLIAM BROCKWELL, LATE OF MILTON, BAKER, DECEASED, IF MORE THAN ONE CHILD EQUALLY SHARED.
TO SON IN LAW, HENRY GIBBONS OF MAIDSTONE, INN HOLDER AND DAUGHTER, SARAH, HENRY'S WIFE, HIS HOUSE IN MILTON AND ALL OTHER HOUSES AND ALL REAL ESTATE, FOR EVER.
HIS DEBTS AND LEGACIES, FUNERAL AND PROBATE COSTS TO BE PAID FROM PERSONAL ESTATE. TO HENRY GIBBONS AND HIS WIFE SARAH, THE RESIDUE, HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE, GOODS, BONDS, MORTGAGES AND PERSONAL ESTATE. HENRY AND SARAH ARE EXECUTORS.
WITNESSES: FRANCES BATCHELLER, WILLIAM BATCHELLER AND J. BATCHELLER.
PROVED 5th DECEMBER 1736
82 (C) HEADSTONE
SACRED
TO THE MEMORY OF
WILLIAM STANTON
SURGEON
OF THIS PARISH
WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE
THE 2nd OF FEBRUARY 1811
AGED 47 YEARS
ALSO DEBORAH WIFE OF THE
ABOVE WHO DIED THE 22nd OF
MARCH 1838 AGED 66 YEARS
ALSO ELIZABETH TURNER
SISTER OF THE LAST NAMED WHO DIED THE
26th OF MARCH 1838 AGED 73? YEARS
PREROGATIVE COURT OF CANTERBURY WILL DATED 8th JANUARY 1806WILLIAM STANTON, SURGEON.
FIRST, DEBTS, FUNERAL AND PROBATE COSTS PAID.
TO FRIENDS JOHN TONGE, OF SITTINGBOURNE, LINEN DRAPER AND JAMES TONGE OF CHATHAM, LINEN DRAPER, ALL OF HIS ESTATE, UPON TRUST, TO SELL AT THEIR DISCRETION AND GET IN ALL DEBTS OWED. THEY TO INVEST MONEY IN PUBLIC FUNDS AND PAY HIS WIFE, DEBORAH, FOR LIFE, THE ANNUAL INTEREST. AFTER HER DEATH, TO PAY HIS NIECE, MARY SUSANNA STANTON, DAUGHTER OF HS LATE BROTHER, THOMAS, THE INCOME AT 21 YEARS OF AGE, UNTIL THEN THE INTEREST GOES TOWARDS HER MAINTENANCE AND EDUCATION. IF SHE DIES BEFORE SHE IS 21, WITH NO LAWFUL ISSUE, THE INTEREST TO HIS SISTER IN LAW, ELIZABETH TURNER, OF SITTINGBOURNE, SPINSTER AND SISTER IN LAW, MARY STANTON, WIDOW OF BROTHER, THOMAS, FOR THEIR LIFETIMES. WHEN THEY HAVE BOTH DIED, THEN HALF THE PRINCIPAL TO HIS MATERNAL UNCLE, [ ] WILLS, CLERK, RECTOR OF [ ], CUMBERLAND, THE FATHER OF HIS LATE RESPECTED FRIEND, JOHN WILLS.
TO HIS WIFE ALL THE PLATE AND LINEN. JOHN AND JAMES TONGE ARE EXECUTORS.
HE STATES THAT THE WORDS, "FORMERLY ASSISTANT SURGEON OF HIS MAJESTY'S REGIMENT OF [ ] GUARDS" HAVE BEEN CROSSED OUT AND THE BEQUEST TO HIS WIFE OF THE PLATE AND LINEN, INTERLINED.
(THIS IS NOT TRANSCRIBED IN THE OFFICIAL COPY, WHICH IS ALL THAT IS AVAILABLE).
WITNESSES: SARAH BRETT?, MARTHA TIDY , SERVANT TO MR STANTON AND RICHARD BATHURST, SITTINGBOURNE.
PROVED 18th MAY 1811
PREROGATIVE COURT OF CANTERBURY WILL DATED 31st DECEMBER 1821
DEBORAH STANTON, WIDOW, OF KEY STREET, SITTINGBOURNE.
SHE IS INFIRM IN HER BODY.
DESIRES TO BE BURIED BESIDES OR WITH HER LATE HUSBAND.
AFTER PAYMENT OF HER FUNERAL COSTS AND DEBTS, ALL HER PROPERTY TO HER SISTER , ELIZABETH TURNER, WHO LIVES WITH HER, FOR EVER, THE LATTER IS EXECUTOR.
SHE ASKS HER TO OBTAIN WITHOUT DELAY, THE 200 GUINEAS WHICH ELIZABETH LENT TO GEORGE MONK TRACEY OF SITTINGBOURNE AND TO PURCHASE AN ANNUITY FOR HER OWN BENEFIT. THIS ADVICE IS "WORTH RECOMMENDING AND WORTH HER ATTENTION".
HER PLATE IS IN THE HANDS OF GODDARD FOSTER OF SITTINGBOURNE, WATCH MAKER. ON A PLEDGE OF £10, WHICH SHE RECEIVED FROM HIM, SHE DIRECTS THE £10 TO BE PAID AND THE PLATE REDEEMED WITHOUT DELAY. THIS COMPRISES A SILVER WATCH, PAIR OF SHOE BUCKLES, 5 TEA SPOONS MARKED "T", A TABLE SPOON MARKED "J.P.", PAIR OF SUGAR TONGS MARKED "W.E.S.", 6 TABLES SPOONS MARKED "W.J.S.", 2 GRAVY SPOONS MAKED "W.J.S.", PAIR OF SALT SPOONS MARKED "W.J.S.", A "HANDSOME" SUGAR URN AND CREAM URN BOTH MARKED "W.J.S.",11 TEA SPOONS MARKED "W.J.S." AND A MOURNING RING OF MISS TURNER'S.
SHE NOW REPEATS ALL HER PROPERTY TO GO TO SISTER, ELIZABETH.
WITNESSES: EDWARD DICKENSON AND JAMES HATCH.
PROVED 19th APRIL 1838. DECEASED WAS LATE OF CHALKWELL. ADMINISTRATION WAS GRANTED TO JOSEPH GOODCHILD, ELIZABETH TURNER DIED WITHOUT PROVING THE WILL.
PREROGATIVE COURT OF CANTERBURY WILL DATED 31st MARCH 1838
ELIZABETH TURNER.
HER FUNDED PROPERTY AND ALL OTHER EFFECTS TO HER SISTER, DEBORAH STANTON, IF SHE SURVIVES HER, IF NOT THEN TO JOSEPH GOODCHLD OF TOOLLEY STREET, LONDON, "IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE WISH OF MY SISTER WHO NOW LIES DANGEROUSLY ILL AND CANNOT DIRECT ME HOW TO DO THIS, I HOPE IT IS WRIGHT, (sic) I HAVE WRITTEN PLAIN BUT SHORT"
NO WITNESSES
AFFIDAVIT 9th APRIL 1838
JOHN BAGGS, SERVANT OF JOSEPH GOODCHILD OF 2 TOOLLY STREET, SOUTHWARK, GLASS MERCHANT, IS SWORN.
HE WAS WELL ACQUAINTED WITH ELIZABETH TURNER FOR SEVERAL YEARS AND AT TIME OF HER DEATH. HE HAS FREQUENTLY READ HER LETTERS TO MR GOODCHILD'S FATHER AND HE HAD SEEN HER SIGN HER NAME WHEN HE HAD ACCOMPANIED HER TO THE BANK OF ENGLAND TO RECEIVE DIVIDENDS. HE HAS CAREFULLY EXAMINED THE WILL AND CONFIRMS IT IS IN HER HAND.
AFFIDAVIT 11th APRIL 1838
THOMAS TILLEY OF SITTINGBOURNE, GLAZIER AND PLUMBER IS SWORN.
HE WAS WELL ACQUAINTED WITH MISS TURNER , LATE OF CHALKWELL, FOR SEVERAL YEARS AND AT TIME OF HER DEATH. HE IS VERY FAMILIAR WITH HER HANDWRITING AND SIGNATURE. SOME DAYS AFTER HER DEATH, HE PURCHASED FROM MR. JOSEPH GOODCHILD AND REMOVED FROM HER HOUSE TO HIS, A CHEST OF DRAWERS. SOME DAMAGE HAPPENED WHEN TAKING THE CHEST THROUGH THE WINDOW OF DECEASED'S HOUSE AND WHEN REPAIRING THE DAMAGE HE FOUND THE WILL , WHICH HAD FALLEN BEHIND A DRAWER. HE HAS EXAMINED THE WILL AND CONFIRMS IT IS THE SAME DOCUMENT HE FOUND AND THAT THE WRITING ON IT IS MISS TURNER'S.
PROVED 18th APRIL 1838
83 (C) HEADSTONE
BENEATH
THIS STONE ARE DEPOSITED
THE MORTAL REMAINS OF
MR JOHN STEVENS
WHO DEPARTED THIS TRANSITORY LIFE
THE 10th DAY OF MARCH 1818
AGED 70 YEARS
ALSO
MRS ANN STEVEN
WIFE OF THE ABOVE
WHO DEPARTED THIS TRANSITORY LIFE
THE 7th DAY OF APRIL 1829
AGED 82 YEARS
CANTERBURY COURT WILL DATED 30th APRIL 1812JOHN STEVENS, MALTSTER.
FIRST ALL DEBTS, FUNERAL AND PROBATE COSTS TO BE PAID.
TO WILLIAM HAYZLEDEN OF MILTON, SADDLER, £60, TO BE PAID WITHIN 3 MONTHS AFTER DEATH OF TESTATOR'S WIFE, ANN, FOR HIS TROUBLE IN THE EXECUTION OF THE TRUSTS IN THE WILL.
TO JAMES GOUGE OF SITTINGBOURNE, LAND SURVEYOR, £10.
HE WISHES TO MAKE PROVISION FOR HIS NEPHEW, SAMUEL STEVENS, WHO IS EMPLOYED IN THE MALTING TRADE CARRIED ON BY TESTATOR AND HIS BROTHER, BENJAMIN AT BAPCHILD.
HIS EXECUTORS AND TRUSTEES TO GIVE SAMUEL TESTATOR'S HALF SHARE OF THE BUSINESS, HE TO PAY ONLY FOR THE STOCK IN TRADE; ALSO TO SAMUEL ALL HOUSEHOLD FURNITURE AND EFFECTS IN THE BUSINESS AT BAPCHILD, AS ON AN INVENTORY MADE BY THE TESTATOR.
TRUSTEES TO LEND SAMUEL OUT OF THE RESIDUE OF THE ESTATE, £600, SAMUEL TO GIVE A BOND AND WARRANT OF ATTORNEY AS SECURITY FOR PAYMENT OF INTEREST AT 5% PER ANNUM, DURING THE LIFE OF TESTATOR'S WIFE, AFTER HER DEATH, HE GIVES SAMUEL £500, PART OF THE £600 AND THE REMAINING £100, 6 MONTHS AFTER HIS WIFE'S DEATH. TRUSTEES WILL NOT CALL UPON SAMUEL TO REPAY THE PRINCIPAL SUM DURING HIS AUNT'S LIFE, UNLESS HE DEFAULTS ON THE INTEREST PAYMENTS.
TO HIS EXECUTORS AND TRUSTEES, HIS HALF SHARE OF THE MALT HOUSE, COTTAGE, STABLES AT BAPCHILD, UPON TRUST, TO ALLOW SAMUEL TO USE AND OCCUPY IT, DURING HIS AUNT'S LIFE, SAMUEL TO PAY TO HIS AUNT ANN AN ANNUITY OF £10. AFTER HER DEATH, AND PAYMENT OD ARREARS OF THE ANNUITY AND ANNUAL INTEREST ON THE £600 AND PAYMENT OF THE £100, THEN THE MALT HOUSE AT BAPCHILD TO BE CONVEYED TO SAMUEL, FOR EVER.............
TO HIS WIFE, HIS HOUSE AT SITTINGBOURNE AND THE FURNITURE, PLATE, LINEN, CHINA AND EFFECTS . AFTER HER DEATH, TO NEPHEW SAMUEL STEVENS, WILLIAM HAYZLEDEN AND JAMES GOUGE, UPON TRUST, TO BE SOLD AND PROCEEDS TO GO INTO HIS RESIDUARY PERSONAL ESTATE.
REST AND RESIDUE, UPON TRUST, TO INVEST IN PUBLIC FUNDS WITH INTEREST PAID TO HIS WIFE, FOR LIFE. THE RESIDUE 6 MONTHS AFTER HER DEATH AND MONEY FROM SALE OF HIS HOUSE AND CONTENTS, TO BE DIVIDED AND SHARED AMONG HIS NEPHEWS AND NIECES, EQUALLY, THEY ARE, JAMES, ELIZABETH AND ANN, CHILDREN OF HIS LATE BROTHER, JOSEPH, WILLIAM AND BENJAMIN WRIGHT, SONS OF HIS SISTER ANN AND HER HUSBAND WILLIAM, OF ELTHAM, GARDENER AND JOHN TOWNSEND, SON OF SISTER, SARAH WIFE OF [ ] TOWNSEND OF [ ], BERKSHIRE............................................
WIFE ANN, HAYZLEDEN AND GOUGE ARE EXECUTORS.
WITNESSES: MARY ANN BATHURST, RICHARD BATHURST, SITTINGBOURNE AND E. CRUMP, HIS CLERK.
PROVED 16th JUNE 1818. VALUE OF GOODS, CHATTELS AND CREDITS LESS THAN £2,000
PREROGATIVE COURT OF CANTERBURY WILL DATED 2nd FEBRUARY 1825
ANN STEVENS.
AFTER HER DEATH SHE WISHES MONEY in the FAVERSHAM SAVINGS BANK TO BE DISTRIBUTED AS FOLLOWS, £10 TO HANNAH FARROW OF SITTINGBOURNE, WHO IS IS LIVING WITH HER SISTER AND BROTHER IN LAW. RESIDUE TO MRS ANN HAYZLEDEN WHO LIVES AT NEWINGTON, SHE ALSO TO HAVE HER WATCH, CLOTHES AND BED HANGINGS, THE LATTER RECENTLY PURCHASED. SHE REQUESTS THE SURVIVING EXECUTOR OF HER LATE HUSBAND TO SEE HER WILL IS CARRIED OUT.
SIGNS WILL WITH HER MARK.
WITNESSES: ELIZABETH MITCHELL AND D. GRACE.
PROVED 3rd JUNE 1828. GRANTED TO JAMES GOUGE, LAND SURVEYOR OF SITTINGBOURNE, SURVIVING EXECUTOR OF HER LATE HUSBAND. VALUE OF GOODS, CHATTELS AND CREDITS, LESS THAN £100.
DATE OF DEATH STATED AS 29th MARCH 1829, SO, NOT CONSISTENT WITH INSCRIPTION
84 (C) HEADSTONE, VERY ERODED
[ ]
[ ]
[ ] STRO[NGHILL]
[ ] OCTOBER? 17[ ]
AGED 66 YEARS
[ ] STRONG[HILL]
[ ] MAY 1779? AGED 22 YEARS
85 (D)
SACRED
TO THE MEMORY OF
AMY WIFE OF
THOMAS SUTTON
OF THIS PARISH
WHO DIED 11th APRIL 1856
AGED 62 YEARS
ALSO FOUR CHILDREN WHO
DIED IN THEIR INFANCY
VIZ. HENRY, THOMAS NOARES?,
FREDERICK AND EMMA
"A Kind, Indulgent Mother, a Warm
and Sincere Friend"
SWIFT SEE BOULDING
TANNER SEE BATE
86 (B) HEADSTONE
[ ]
[ ]
ROBERT TAPLEY
OB. [ ] APRIL 1741
[ ]
CANTERBURY COURT WILL DATED 15th APRIL 1741ROBERT TAPLEY, HOUSE CARPENTER.
HE IS SICK AND WEAK.
TO WIFE SUSAN, FOR EVER, HIS HOUSE AND MALTHOUSE, BARN, STABLE, MILKHOUSE, GARDEN AND ORCHARD AND 18 ACRES OF ARABLE, PASTURE AND WOODLAND IN HARRIETSHAM AND LENHAM, LATELY OCCUPIED BY PETER CROUCHER, NOW BY JAMES BARHAM; HIS HOUSE IN SITTINGBOURNE, "OPPOSITE AGAINST THE CHURCH THERE" , IT WAS BUILT BY JOHN STEPHENS OF SITTINGBOURNE, CARPENTER, SINCE OCCUPIED BY TESTATOR AND NOW EMPTY.
AFTER THE PAYMENT OF HIS DEBTS, FUNERAL AND PROBATE COSTS, THE RESIDUE , REAL AND PERSONAL, HOUSEHOLD GOODS AND FURNITURE, PLATE, LINEN, READY MONEY, INVESTED MONEY AND DEBTS, TO HIS WIFE, FOR EVER; SHE IS EXECUTOR.
WITNESSES: JOHN REEVE, EDWARD ELLEN AND J. BATCHELLER.
PROVED 25th APRIL 1741
87 (D) DARK GREY LEDGER, ILLEGIBLE IN PLACES, LYING
ON THE GROUND, CLOSE TO THE FOUNDATIONS OF A DESTROYED CHEST TOMB.
REMAINS OF THE TAPPENDEN TOMB
THE UPRIGHT STONE, WHICH WAS LYING ON TOP OF THE LEDGER, MAY BE A SIDE OR END PANEL? THE FOUNDATION, IN THE FOREGROUND LOOKS RATHER SQUARE IN RELATION TO THE LEDGER WHICH IS ABOUT SIX FEET LONG. IN THE BACKGROUND IS AN OLDER, ILLEGIBLE TOMB, I WONDER IF THIS IS ALSO OF THE TAPPENDEN FAMILY?
HERE LIETH INTERRED THE BODY OF JOHN
TAPPENDEN SON OF RICHARD AND MARY
TAPPENDEN OF CROWN KEY WHO DEP.
THIS LIFE [ MAY [ ] 1717]
[AGED 48 YEARS]
[ ]BODY OF
RICHARD TAPPENDEN [OF] CROWN
KEY HUSBAND OF [MARY TAPPENDEN
[WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE?}
[ ] OCTOBER [ ] 169[4] AGED 6[ ] YEARS
LEAVING ISSUE [ ] SON [ ] DAUGHTERS
[ ] CHILDREN
BY HER?
ALSO RICHARD TAPPENDEN JUNIOR SON
OF RICHARD & MARY TAPPENDEN OF
CROWN KEY DEPARTED THIS LIFE
21st OF JUNE 169[2] IN THE 18th ? YEAR
OF HIS AGE
CANTERBURY COURT WILL DATE OBSCURERICHARD TAPPENDEN OF MILTON, MARINER.
HE IS SICK IN BODY.
SON JOHN IS EXECUTOR. DESIRES TO BE BURIED IN SITTINGBOURNE CHURCHYARD IN THE SAME GRAVE AS FIRST WIFE MARY.
TO DAUGHTER, UNA, £300 AFTER THE DEATH OF HIS "NOW" WIFE, MARY, ALSO BEDDING, BEDSTEAD, LINEN, [ ] AND HOUSEHOLD GOODS.
CONCERNING JOHN LANES, OF MILTON, MARINER, WHO WAS MARRIED TO LATE DAUGHTER, ELLEN, [ obscure ], NOW IN TESTATOR'S CUSTODY, FOR BENEFIT OF THEIR DAUGHTERS, MARY AND KATHERINE LANES, ALL THE THINGS WHICH WERE THEIR MOTHER'S, 6 LARGE SILVER SPOONS, MARKED E.T., ONE SMALL SPOON? MARKED K.T.; A SILVER CUP MARKED R. T. E.; 4 GOLD RINGS; 1 PIECE OF GOLD VALUED, 23s 6d ; 1 HALF PIECE OF GOLD, VALUED, 11s 9d; 1 QUARTER PIECE OF GOLD, VALUED, 5s 10½ d; 1 SILVER NUTMEG GRATER AND 4 OLD 5s PIECES OF SILVER; SILVER SALT, SILVER CASE ?, TOOTH PICK IN FASHION OF AN ANCHOR?, 6 DIAPERS, 3 DIAPER CUPBOARDS AND CLOTHES; SUIT OF CHILD'S BED LINEN, 6 NAPKINS, 1 CHILD'S BED?, 14 APRONS, 2 LACE HANDKERCHIEFS, 1 PLAIN AND 2 PAIRS LACE SHEETS,1 RED MANTLE WITH SILVER AND GOLD LACE, 1 WHITE MANTLE, 1 RED MANTLE WITH? , 1 GREEN MANTLE, SILK? , 1 SILK GOWN AND PETTICOAT, 1 WHITE SARSENTT? HOOD, 1 COMMON PRAYER BOOK, SILVER PORRINGER MARKED N, 1 SILVER CORAL, HER MOTHER'S WEDDING RING, 3 OTHER GOLD RINGS, 1? PIECE OF GOLD VALUE 23s 6d, 5 QUARTER PIECES OF GOLD VALUED 21s 4 ½ d, SILVER BOX MARKED E.T., A SILVER CUP MARKED M.L., 5 SHILLING PIECES, ½ CROWN, 1 GILT MILLED SHILLING, AND OTHER SMALL PIECES OF MONEY VALUED 38s, 6 LARGE SILVER ? MARKED E.T., 1 SILVER SALT MARKED E.T., 1 SILVER THIMBLE, KNIFE AND FORK TIPPED WITH SILVER, PAIR OF SISSORS, WITH SILVER CHAIN, 1 SILVER BODKIN MARKED E.T., 1 SILVER WHISTLE, AMBER NECKLACE, 1 HOLLAND SHEET WITH LACE ? , 1 WHITE SATIN MANTLE, 6 DIAPERS? , 1 DAMASK CUPBOARD CLOTH, 7 FLAX NAPKINS, 1 WHITE ROCKETT, 2 HOLLAND PILLOW BEARES, 1? APRON, 1 LACED? , 3 PAIRS FINE SHEETS, PAIR OF DOUBLE LACED RUFFLES, 1? SCARF, BLACK TAFFETY HOOD, 2 WHITE SARSNETT HOODS, 1 CORNET?, A SUIT OF CHILD'S BED LINEN, WITH SATIN SLEEVES, 1 LACED SUIT AND HEAD BAND?, PAIR OF SILK GLOVES, FLOWERED SILVER PIN CUSHION, 1 [ ] WITH SILVER AND GOLD LACE, 1 SILK BLUE PETTICOAT, PAIR OF SILK SLEEVES, BIBLE MARKED E.T., 1 BLUE SILK PARRENTEEN GOWN, SILK TABBY PETTICOAT, A BOOK ENTITLED " THE GREAT ASSIZE", A RED RIBBON, A WHITE RIBBON, FOR A MANTLE, ONE MARKED R.E.T.
JOHN LANES IS BOUND TO HIM IN THE SUM OF £200, LANES IS TO LEAVE HIS DAUGHTERS, £50 AT HIS DEATH, EXECUTORS TO KEEP BOND.
TO GRAND DAUGHTERS, MARY AND KATHERINE LANES, £50 EACH AT 21 OR DAY OF MARRIAGE.
TO SON JOHN, HIS HALF SHARE OF 2 HOYS AND THE RIGGING AND TACKLE AND HIS 2 HOUSES IN SITTINGBOURNE AND BAPCHILD, ONE PURCHASED FROM MARY DIV?????, FRANCIS MOORE AND ANNA HIS WIFE, AND THOMAS DIVIA????? AND ELIZABETH HIS WIFE. ALSO SEVERAL HOUSES IN MILTON LATE OCCUPIED BY ABRAHAM HARPER, WILLIAM BART, GENT. AND WIDOW ANDERSON, TO JOHN FOR LIFE.
AFTER HIS DEATH, TO HIS LAWFUL CHILDREN, IN DEFAULT TO DAUGHTER UNA AND HER HEIRS, IN DEFAULT, TO TO HIS GRAND DAUGHTERS, MARY AND KATHERINE LANES AND THEIR HEIRS, IN DEFAULT, THEN TO HIS COUSIN, JAMES BROWN OF PLUCKLEY, YEOMAN, AND HIS HEIRS, FOR EVER.
AFTER THE DEATH OF HIS NOW WIFE, TO DAUGHTER UNA, THE HOUSE HE LIVES IN IN MILTON, FOR LIFE, AFTER HER DEATH TO HER CHILDREN, IN DEFAULT, TO SON JOHN AND HIS HEIRS, IN DEFAULT, TO TO GRAND DAUGHTERS, MARY AND KATHERINES AND THEIR CHILDREN, IN DEFAULT, TO COUSIN JAMES BROWN, FOR EVER.
HIS HOUSE AT TONGE, LATELY OCCUPIED BY [ ] BISHOPP AND 2 HOUSES IN MILTON AND BOBBING LATELY OCCUPIED BY THOMAS FLETCHER , WALTER LEE AND MARGARET HARRIS, WIDOW, TO SON JOHN AND HIS HEIRS, IN DEFAULT AS IN THE PREVIOUS SUCCESSIONS.
RESIDUE AFTER PAYMENT OF DEBTS AND LEGACIES, TO SON JOHN, FOER EVER.
WITNESSES: JOHN LEENARD, THOMAS BENNITT AND WILLIAM BACK.
PROVED 2nd NOVEMBER 1694
CANTERBURY COURT WILL DATED 16th MAY 1717
JOHN TAPPENDEN, OF CROWN KEY, GENTLEMAN.
TO SON RICHARD, £700, AS FOLLOWS, £300 WHEN HE COMPLETES HIS APPRENTICESHIP, £300 12 MONTHS AFTER THAT AND 12 MONTHS LATER, THE REMAINING £100; TO SON WILLIAM AT 21, £600; TO SON THOMAS AT 21, £700; TO HIS WIFE, JOHANNA, FURNITURE IN HIS BEST CHAMBER AND BED CHAMBER, HER CHOICE OF 6 PAIRS OF SHEETS, , 6 TOWELS, 24 NAPKINS, ALSO A SILVER TANKARD MARKED J.T.J., ALSO FOR HER LIFETIME, 2 FIELDS ADJACENT TO HER JOINTURE LAND IN MURSTON, WHICH HE PURCHASED FROM JOHN FRY, ALSO SEVERAL SMALL PIECES OF LAND AND A LITTLE WOOD, VALUE £5, IN BOUGHTON COURT ? ADJOINING HER OWN ESTATE.
TO SON RICHARD HIS HOUSE AND 10 ACRES OF HOP GROUND IN BOUGHTON UNDER BLEANE, FOR EVER.
TO SON JAMES, AN ANNUITY OF £50 FROM LAND AT LENHAM OCCUPIED BY RICHARD WAKELY.
WIFE, JOHANNA TO RECEIVE THE ANNUITY DURING HIS MINORITY, FOR HIS MAINTENANCE AND EDUCATION, AS LONG AS SHE REMAINS HIS WIDOW.
TO SON CHARLES, HIS BARN AND LAND AT ON THE HILL AT LENHAM AND MEADOW, OCCUPIED BY RICHARD BRENCHLEY AT LENHAM, FOR EVER.
HIS WIFE TO RECEIVE THE RENTS WHILE CHARLES IS A MINOR, AS FOR SON JAMES.
TO SON WILLIAM, HIS 3 HOUSES IN MILTON, OCCUPIED BY THOMAS DOE, NICHOLAS JACKSON AND WILLIAM BECK?, ALS THE YARD CALLED POORES' YARD OCCUPIED BY BECK AND JACKSON, ALSO 20 ACRES OF WOODLAND IN LENHAM IN HIS OWN OCCUPATION, FOR EVER.
TO SON THOMAS, HIS HOUSE IN SITTINGBOURNE AND HIS HOUSE IN LYNSTEAD, OCCUPIED BY CHRISTOPHER ELLIS, FOR EVER.
THE RESIDUE, REAL AND PERSONAL TO SON JOHN, FOR EVER, JOHN IS EXECUTOR.
SON JOHN, SHOULD PRESENT HIS MOTHER, AND HIS AUNT AND UNCLE BANNISTER AND HIS BROTHERS WITH A "HANDSOME SUIT OF MOURNING".
IF HE DIES AT SITTINGBOURNE, HE WISHES TO BE BURIED IN THE PARISH CHURCHYARD IN HIS FATHER'S TOMB AND A BLACK MARBLE STONE LAID OVER HIM.
HIS FRIENDS, RICHARD EASSELL, JOHN SMITH, NICHOLAS JACKSON, AUGUSTINE COBB, RICHARD ELDEN AND JOHN BATCHELLER TO BE PALL BEARERS.
IF ONE IS MISSING, THEN CAPTAIN SAMUEL BELCHER TO TAKE HIS PLACE.
IF HIS WIFE DIES DURING THE MINORITY OF SONS JAMES AND CHARLES, HE APPOINTS BROTHER (IN LAW) JACOB BANNISTER TO BE TRUSTEE FOR THEM. AND USES THEIR INCOME AS STATED BEFORE.
IF BANNISTER SUBSEQUENTLY DIES DURING THEIR MINORITY, HE LEAVES THEM TO CARE OF SON JOHN AS HE HAS DIRECTED.
WITNESSES: NICHOLAS MANNOOCH, JOHN BRENCHLEY AND RICHARD BUTLER.
CODICIL 18th MAY 1717
TO WIFE, JOHANNA, £100, TO HIS SONS, A HOUSE, 2 BARNS, 1 DOVE HOUSE AND SEVERAL ACRES OF ARABLE AND PASTURE, KNOWN AS HOBLETTS IN LENHAM, PURCHASED FROM JOHN TURNER AND NOW OCCUPIED BY RICHARD BRENCHLEY, FOR EVER, REST OF WILL RATIFIED.
WITNESSES, AS FOR WILL.
PROVED 29th MAY 1717
88 (C) HEADSTONE
SACRED
TO THE MEMORY OF
WILLIAM TERREY
DIED MAY 24th 1843
AGED 68 YEARS
ALSO JANE TERREY
SECOND WIFE OF THE ABOVE
DIED NOV. 7th 18[57]
AGED 66 YEARS
REAR
(OR ORIGINAL FRONT?)
SACRED
TO THE MEMORY OF
ELIZABETH WIFE OF
WILLIAM TERREY
OF THIS PARISH
WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE
THE 23rd OF JANUARY 1816
AGED 28 YEARS
ALSO WILLIAM TERREY
SON OF THE ABOVE
WHO DIED IN HIS INFANCY
CANTERBURY COURT WILL DATED 30th SEPTEMBER 1833WILLIAM TERREY, BREWER..
TO THOMAS TONGE VALLANCE OF SITTINGBOURNE AND WIFE, JANE TERREY, £50 OD 3% CONSOLIDATED BANK ANNUITIES, UPON TRUST, TO PAY INTEREST TO HIS DAUGHTER, MARY ANN, WIFE OF [ ] COCHRANE OF THE ROYAL ARTILLERY, WOOLWICH, FOR LIFE, INDEPENDENT OF PRESENT OR FUTURE HUSBAND.
AFTER HER DEATH, UPON TRUST, TO PAY THE INTEREST TO HER CHILDREN, EQUALLY SHARED AT 21. IN DEFAULT OF CHILDREN, THEN CONTINUING ON TRUST. REAL AND PERSONAL ESTATE TO HIS TRUSTEES, TO PAY ANNUAL PRODUCE TO WIFE, JANE, FOR LIFE. AFTER HER DEATH, UPON TRUST, TO PAY REMAINDER AND THE £50 STOCK, EQUALLY AMONG ALL HIS CHILDREN, EXCEPT MARY, WHO ARE LIVING AT TIME OF HIS WIFE'S DEATH. HIS TRUSTEES ARE HIS EXECUTORS.
WITNESSES: WILLIAM VALLANCE, JAMES VALLANCE AND GEORGE GROSVENOR.
PROVED 10th AUGUST 1843. GOODS, CHATTELS AND CREDITS VALUE LESS THAN £800
POWER RESERVED TO THOMAS TONGE VALLANCE.
89 (C) HEADSTONE
[IN MEMORY OF]
MARY ANN
WIFE OF THOMAS TILLEY
WHO DIED [ ] NOVEMBER [ ]
AGED 27? YEARS
ALSO SARAH LANG[RAHAM ?]
SECOND WIFE OF THE ABOVE
THOMAS TILLEY
WHO DIED THE 15th? OF JUNE ? 184[ ]
AGED [ ] YEARS
THOMAS TILLEY IS PROBABLY THE PLUMBER, GLAZIER AND PAINTER IN THE STAPLETON 1838 DIRECTORY. HE DIED IN 1848, LEAVING A P.C.C. WILL HE ALSO APPEARS IN THE 2nd AFFIDAVIT AFTER ELIZABETH TIRNER'S WILL, 1838.
90 (A) HEADSTONE SEVERELY ERODED AT TOP AND BOTTOM
[SACRED]
[TO THE MEMORY OF]
[JAMES TONGE]
[DIED FEBRUARY 1781]
ALSO
THOMAS TONGE
SON OF THE ABOVE JAMES TONG
WHO DIED DECEMBER [ ]
1807
AGED 60 ? YEARS
[ ? ]
[ ? ]
[ ? ]
PREROGATIVE COURT OF CANTERBURY WILL DATED 19th NOVEMBER 1777JAMES TONGE, BREWER.
ALL HIS LAND PLANTED WITH FRUIT TREES, KNOWN AS GREAT HOLDRIDGE AND ABOUT 1 ACRE, IN SITTINGBOURNE, TO SON JAMES, FOR EVER.
TO JOHN SMITH BARLING OF FAVERSHAM, GENTLEMAN, £2,000, UPON TRUST, TO INVEST IN GOVERNMENT FUNDS OR OTHER SECURITIES AND THE INTEREST TO BE PAID TO SON JAMES, FOR LIFE. AFTER HIS SON'S DEATH, THE £2,000 TO BE EQUALLY SHARED BETWEEN ALL OF SON JAMES'S CHILDREN. IF JAMES DIES LEAVING NO CHILDREN LIVING, THEN TO SON THOMAS AND DAUGHTERS, DOROTHY ANN AND SARAH TONGE AND GRANDSON, WILLIAM VALLANCE.
TO SON WILLIAM, £200; TO DAUGHTERS DOROTHY AND SARAH, £100 EACH; TO GRANDSON, WILLIAM VALLANCE, £2,000 AT 21 YEARS. £100 TO BE LAID OUT TO PLACE WILLIAM VALLANCE IN A TRADE OR PROFESSION, AS HE CHOOSES, WILLIAM VALLANCE ALSO TO HAVE ALL HIS CLOTHES.
TO JOHN SMITH BARLING, £20 TO PAY TO DAUGHTER ELIZABETH, WIFE OF JOHN VALLANCE, ALSO TO ELIZABETH AN ANNUITY OF £20, FOR LIFE.
TO HIS DAUGHTERS, DOROTHY AND SARAH, ALL THE HOP POLES IN HIS 10 ACRE HOP GROUND AT ? LEAD IN SITTINGBOURNE AND MILTON ABD HOP CROP. THEY CAN OCCUPY THE LAND AND DRY THE HOPS, THEY ALSO TO HAVE HIS "NEW ORDERED" OAST HOUSE AND MALT HOUSE, FORMERLY CALLED JACKSON'S BARN IN SITTINGBOURNE, GRATIS.
THEY TO BAG AND LAY THE HOPS IN THE OAST AND MALT HOUSE, FOR ONE MONTH AFTER THE SEASON, AS LONG AS THEY USE THE HOP GROUND. ANY OF HIS DAUGHTERS CAN OCCUPY HIS HOUSE ADJOINING THE RED LYON INN IN SITTINGBOURNE, LATE OCCUPIED BY THOMAS TEMPLEMAN AND FOR AS LONG AS SHE/ THEY CHOOSE, GRATIS.
TO DAUGHTER, DOROTHY, THE FURNITURE IN HIS BEST FORE CHAMBER, EXCEPT THE CASH BOX AND IT'S CONTENTS; TO DAUGHTER SARAH THE FURNITURE IN THE BACK CHAMBER, EXCEPT THE GREEN BED AND TWO PAIRS OF SHEETS; TO SON THOMAS, HIS CASH BOX AND CONTENTS, AND ? IN THE GREAT PARLOUR.
REST AND RESIDUE OF FURNITURE TO HIS 3 DAUGHTERS, EQUALLY SHARED. HE DESIRES HIS DAUGHTERS TO GIVE DAUGHTER ELIZABETH VALLANCE, "A FEW NECESSARIES" ALL SILVER PLATE TO SON THOMAS AND DAUGHTERS, DOROTHY AND SARAH AND GRANDSON WILLIAM VALLANCE, EQUALLY SHARED.
TO THE POOR ? AND POOR WIDOWS IN SITTINGBOURNE, £10, DISTRIBUTED AMONG THEM BY HIS EXECUTOR. HE CHARGES HIS PROPERTY, EXCEPT LAND ALREADY GIVEN TO SON JAMES, AND ALL GOODS AND PERSONAL ESTATE, EXCEPT THOSE ITEMS ALREADY BEQUEATHED, WITH PAYMENT OF HIS DEBTS AND LEGACIES.
TO THE MAINTENANCE OF GRANDSON, WILLIAM VALLANCE, AN ANNUITY OF £20. ALL HIS PROPERTY EXCEPT THAT ALREADY CHARGED, TO SON THOMAS, WHO IS EXECUTOR .
WITNESSES: JOHN CUMMING, PETER FLINT AND SAMUEL FLINT
PROVED 16th FEBRUARY 1781
PREROGATIVE COURT OF CANTERBURY WILL DATED 28th APRIL 1806
THOMAS TONGE, GENTLEMAN.
FIRST, ALL DEBTS, FUNERAL AND PROBATE COSTS TO BE PAID.
TO SISTER DOROTHY ANN GRAYLING OF SITTINGBOURNE, WIDOW, ALL HOUSEHOLD GOODS, FURNITURE, PLATE, CHINA, EASY MONEY, PROPERTY AND EFFECTS, ALSO £3,000.
IF DOROTHY DIES IN HIS LIFETIME, HER LEGACY TO NEPHEW THOMAS GRAYLING, SON OF DOROTHY, AND £400.
TO SISTER SARAH TONGE, SPINSTER OF SITTINGBOURNE, £100. TO SARAH FOWLE, WIDOW, OF ADAM FOWLE, LATE OF CANTERBURY, BUTCHER, £20. ALSO TO THOMAS GRAYLING, HIS HOUSE AND FARM AT SHOTTINGTON? GREEN AT CHILHAM, OCCUPIED BY WILLIAM WYLES; TO DOROTHY GRAYLING AND SARAH TONGE, HIS HOUSE IN SITTINGBOURNE NOW OCCUPIED BY THEM, FOR LIFE; AFTER THE SURVIVOR'S DEATH, TO NEPHEW WILLIAM VALLANCE OF SITTINGBOURNE, BREWER, FOR EVER, HE ALSO TO HAVE RESIDUE AND IS EXECUTOR.
WITNESSES: THOMAS DERING, OF SITTINGBOURNE, GRAZIER, JOHN ARNDELL OF SITTINGBOURNE, CARRIER AND RICHARD BATHURST, ATTORNEY OF SITTINGBOURNE.
PROVED 16th JANUARY 1807.
TURNER SEE STANTON
91(A) CHEST TOMB WITH "MEDIEVAL" STYLE DECORATION
VALLANCE TOMB, DESIGNED BY AYMER VALLANCE?
WEST END
HERE LIES THOMAS
SOUTH SIDE
WILLIAM VALLANCE BORN MARCH 1829
EAST SIDE
DIED 18th NOVEMBER 1902
NORTH SIDE
PACE(?) AVE DE PROFUNDIS AMEN
VALLANCE WAS A CAREER ARMY OFFICER.
THIS TOMB WAS PROBABLY DESIGNED BY VALLANCE'S SON, AYMER VALLANCE, THE ANTIQUARY AND ASSOCIATE AND BIOGRAPHER OF WILLIAM MORRIS AND CONTRIBUTOR TO THE ARCHAEOLOGIA CANTIANA.
FROM A MAIDSTONE NEWSPAPER 27th NOVEMBER 1902
"THE LATE CAPTAIN VALLANCE---- THE FUNERAL OF THE LATE CAPTAIN T. W. VALLANCE, OF AYMERS, TOOK PLACE ON SATURDAY AFTERNOON, AT ST. MICHAEL'S CHURCHYARD.
THE HYMNS WERE "JESUS LIVES, NO LONGER NOW", AND "TEN THOUSAND TIMES, TEN THOUSAND". THE OFFICIATING CLERGY WERE THE REV. T.G.L. LUSHINGTON (VICAR OF SITTINGBOURNE), R.B. BARBER (RECTOR OF ELMLEY), AND T.J. SEWELL (VICAR OF LYNSTEAD). SEVERAL HANDSOME FLORAL TRIBUTES WERE TO BE SEEN ON THE COFFIN. WITH THE EXCEPTION OF THE YOUNGEST SON OF THE DECEASED, WHO IS IN SOUTH AFRICA, EVERY MEMBER OF THE FAMILY WAS PRESENT.
AMONG OTHERS WHO ATTENDED THE FUNERAL WERE MR ALLEN TASSELL, DR. PRIDEUX SELBY, MR R.G.E. LOCKE, MR F. GARELL BARNES, LIEUT,. COL. TYLER, LORD TEYNHAM, MR R. MERCER, MR F.G. GIBSON, MR W.J. HARRIS, ETC. THE INTERMENT WAS WITNESSED BY A LARGE GATHERING OF PEOPLE"
WANSTALL SEE LINSELL
92 (C) HEADSTONE
IN
MEMORY OF
ROBERT HUBBLE
WHIBLEY
BORN 27th NOV. 1822
DIED 20th JAN 1825
ELIZABETH S.
WHIBLEY
BORN 11th JULY 1826
DIED 10th JULY 1847
93 (D) HEADSTONE
IN
MEMORY OF
MARY WHITE
LATE OF MURSTON WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE
ON THE 1st OF FEBRUARY 1822
AGED 76 YEARS
ALSO ROBERT SEATH, YEOMAN
BROTHER OF THE ABOVE
LATE OF EAST HALL WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE
THE 9th OF MARCH 1823
AGED 68 YEARS
PREROGATIVE COURT OF CANTERBURY WILL DATED 13th FEBRUARY 1820MARY WHITE, OF MURSTON, WIDOW.
DESIRES TO BE BURIED IN SITTINGBOURNE CHURCHYARD AS NEAR TO HER PARENTS AS POSSIBLE.
ALL HOUSEHOLD GOODS, FURNITURE, BOOKS, PLATE, LINEN, CHINA, CLOTHES, RINGS AND ORNAMENTS OF HER PERSON AND MONEY, TO DAUGHTER, SOPHIA ANN COWLAND WIFE OF THOMAS COWLAND OF CANTERBURY, BRAZIER, ABSOLUTELY.
RESIDUE OF PERSONAL ESTATE, AFTER PAYMENT OF DEBTS, FUNERAL AND PROBATE COSTS, TO HER 3 SONS, JOHN, THOMAS AND RICHARD AND DAUGHTER SOPHIA COWLAND, EQUALLY SHARED.
SONS JOHN AND THOMAS ARE EXECUTORS.
WITNESSES: SARAH FOUGAMBLE? AND JOHN BUCKTON OF CANTERBURY, ATTORNEY.
CODICIL 7th DECEMBER 1820
SHE IS NOW WEAK IN BODY.
SHE HAD BEQUEATHED RESIDUE OF PERSONAL ESTATE TO HER SONS AND DAUGHTER. SON RICHARD HAS SINCE DIED, LEAVING 3 CHILDREN, JOHN, RICHARD AND MARY, ALL MINORS, SO HIS SHARE TO HIS CHILDREN AT 21 YEARS. IN MEANTIME, MONEY TO BE INVESTED IN PUBLIC FUNDS AND INTEREST TOWARDS THEIR MAINTENANCE AND EDUCATION AND PLACING OUT.
WITNESSES: ELIZABETH? MITCHELL AND SOPHIA LOUDWELL.
PROVED 14th MAY 1822. SOPHIA COWLAND HAS ALSO SINCE DIED . POWER RESERVED TO THOMAS WHITE.
PREROGATIVE COURT OF CANTERBURY WILL DATED 2nd JANUARY 1822ROBERT SEATH, OF EASTHALL, MURSTON, GENTLEMAN.
FIRST, HIS DEBTS, FUNERAL AND PROBATE COSTS TO BE PAID FROM REAL AND PERSONAL ESTATE.
INTEREST FROM £800 TO SISTER MARY WHITE, FOR LIFE, AFTER HER DEATH, THEN £800 TO JOHN AND THOMAS WHITE AND SOPHIA COWLAND, SONS AND DAUGHTER OF SISTER MARY.
£600 TO JOHN BEAKE SEATH OF TONGE, YEOMAN AND THOMAS WHITE OF MURSTON, YEOMAN, UPON TRUST, THEY TO INVEST THE MONEY IN REAL OR GOVERNMENT FUNDS, FOR THE CHILDREN OF NEPHEW, RICHARD WHITE, EQUALLY SHARED AT 21, IN THE MEANTIME, THE INTEREST TOWARDS THEIR MAINTENANCE AND EDUCATION.
TO SOPHIA COWLAND, £400; TO JOHN WHITE, £1,000; TO NIECES ANN AND ELIZABETH WHITEHEAD, £100 EACH..........................................................
TO NEPHEWS, JOHN BEAKE SEATH AND THOMAS WHITE, ALL REAL ESTATE VESTED IN HIM AS TRUSTEE OR MORTGAGEE.......................................
THE LATTER ARE EXECUTORS.
WITNESSES: ROBERT HINDE, JUNIOR, M. HINDE AND JAMES TAYLOR.
CODICIL 30th JUNE 1822
MARY WHITE, HIS SISTER, IS NOW DEAD. HE REVOKES THE LEGACY OF £800 TO JOHN AND THOMAS WHITE AND SOPHIA COWLAND AND THE £800 WILL NOW BE PART OF HIS RESIDUARY PERSONAL ESTATE.
PROVED 22nd JULY 1823
94 (C) HEADSTONE
IN
MEMORY OF
SARAH THE WIFE OF
THOMAS WHITE
OF EAST HALL IN THE PARISH
OF MURSTON
WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE
THE [ ] OF FEBRUARY 1823
AGED 3[ ] YEARS
[ ] ISSUE
[ ] DAUGHTER, VIZ.
THOMAS [ ]
95 (D) HEADSTONE
SACRED
TO THE MEMORY OF
JOHN WHITE
OF THIS PARISH
WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE
THE 18th OF JANUARY 1829
AGED 56? YEARS
ALSO SIX CHILDREN WHO DIED
IN THEIR INFANCY
LEAVING A WIDOW FOUR SONS
AND ONE DAUGHTER
RICHARD, ROBERT, GEORGE
JOHN AND MARIA
ALSO SARAH WIFE OF THE
ABOVE WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE
THE 27th OF NOVEMBER 183[ ]
AGED [ ] YEARS
PREROGATIVE COURT OF CANTERBURY WILL DATED 17th JANUARY 1829JOHN WHITE, IRONMONGER.
FIRST, DEBTS, FUNERAL AND PROBATE COSTS TO BE PAID.
ALL FREEHOLD AND LEASEHOLD PROPERTY AND LAND, READY MONEY, INVESTMENTS, RENT ARREARS, DEBTS, GOODS, CHATTELS, STOCK IN TRADE AND PERSONAL ESTATE, TO HIS WIFE, FOR LIFE. AFTER HER DEATH OR REMARRIAGE, THEN TO HIS CHILDREN, EQUALLY SHARED AT 21 YEARS..................................
TO WIFE SARAH, THOMAS WHITE OF MURSTON, GENTLEMAN AND SON RICHARD, REAL ESTATE VESTED IN HIM AS TRUSTEE OT MORTGAGEE...........................................
THE LATTER THREE ARE EXECUTORS.
WITNESSES: JOHN HINDE, THOMAS RUFF AND THOMAS ADAMS.
PROVED 3rd SEPTEMBER 1829.
96 (C) HEADSTONE
SACRED
TO THE MEMORY OF
ELEANOR WIFE OF
STEPHEN WILLCOCK
OF THIS PARISH
WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE
[ ] MARCH 1819
AGED 27? YEARS
97 (C) HEADSTONE
[SACRED]
[TO THE MEMORY OF]
STEPHEN WILLCOCK
WHO DIED THE 17th OF SEPTEMBER
18[25]
AGED 37 YEARS
98 (C) HEADSTONE, VERY ERODED
[SACRED]
[TO THE MEMORY OF]
MR WILLIAM HO[PPER] [WILLSON]
WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE
THE [ ] DAY OF MARCH 1833
AGED 54? YEARS
[ ]
[ ]
[ ]
ALSO
[Illegible]
[WHO DEPARTED THIS LIFE]
[THE] [ ] DAY OF APRIL 184[ ]?
AGED 64 ? YEARS
Index of Names - from gravestones only
Names Index
ABBOT 1
ALEXANDER 2
ARNDELL 3
BACK 4
BALLARD 5
BARNES 6, 7
BATE 8, 9, 10
BAX 11
BIRCH 12
BOULDING 13
BRENCHLEY 14
BUFF 24
BURLEY 15
CLEAVE 16
CLIFFORD 17, 18, 19
COLLEY 20
COOPER 21, 22
COULTER 23
COWLAND 24
CRIGHTON 25
CROGGON 26
CRUTTENDEN 27
DEACON 28
DEAN 29
DENNIS 30
DIVERS 50
DRAYSON 31, 32
EASON 33
EDMONDS 34
EPPS 50
FARRINGTON 35
FINNIS 36
GARRETT 38, 39, 40, 41
GIBBONS 42
GLOVER 43
GORDELIER 44
GOUGE 45
GREEN 46
HALMARACK 47
HASSELLS 48
HOGBEN 49
HOGWOOD 50
HOPPER 98
HUBBLE 92
HUNT 51
HURD 52IRONS 4
IVES 53
JACKSON 54
KEEPPEN 12
KEYES 55
KING 56
KINGSMILL 57
KNOWLES 58, 59
LANG 60
LANGRAHAM ? 89
LINSELL 61
LISHMAN 62
LYON 63
MASTERS 64
MILLENOR 65
MITCHELL 66
MOORE 67
PARKINSON 68
PARKS 69
PAXTON 72
PHILLIPE 70
PILES 71
POWNOLL 72RAWLINGS 35
REASON 73, 74, 75
REDFORD 47
REEVES 74
ROUSE 76
SARGENT 77
SEATH 36,78,79,93,94,95
SENIOR 80
SHARP 81
STANTON 82
SURGEON 83
STEVENS 84
STRONGHILL 85
TANNER 10
TAPLEY 86
TAPPENDEN 87
TERREY 88
TILLEY 89
TONGE 90
VALLANCE 91
WANSTALL 61
WHIBLEY 92
WHITE 93
WILLCOCK 96, 97
WILLSON 98