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 KENT. 
 
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PREFACE. 
 
 offering the Memorials of Herne to the public I do 
 ^ not pretend to have very much knowledge of archaeology, 
 including as that vast subject does in its legitimate sphere, palaeo- 
 graphy, heraldry, and architecture. ' I have simply endeavoured 
 to collect from various sources, a brief but comprehensive history 
 of the parish, and to furnish the visitor with a guide to the Church 
 which will indicate and explain its chief points of interest. I also 
 earnestly hope (Herne Church being so well and widely known), by 
 calling attention to the deplorable condition of the North Aisle — 
 the only part now in need of repair — to obtain some assistance 
 towards a new roof. 
 
 I am indebted to Hasted’s account of Herne, in his “ History 
 of Kent,’’ Buncombe’s “ History of Herne and Reculver ” (pub- 
 lished in Nichol’s Bibliotheca Topographica Britannica), and a 
 miscellaneous collection by the late Charles Devon (Public 
 Record Office), kindly lent me by Mr. Edward White, of Herne 
 Bay, for much valuable information. 
 
 My thanks are due, and are here gratefully tendered, to the 
 following gentlemen for advice and assistance : W. de Gray Birch, 
 F.S.A., and G. K. Fortescue (British Museum), James Gairdner 
 (Public Record Office), J. Challoner Smith (Somerset House), 
 S. W. Kershaw, F.S.A. (Lambeth Palace Library), and Charles 
 Welch (Guildhall Library). I am sure if the clergy knew the 
 willingness of the learned in high places to help amateur authors, 
 who have a good object in view, there would be many more and 
 better parochial histories written. 
 
 Mr. Kershaw has for some years been collecting information of 
 
11 
 
 FJiEFACE. 
 
 every kind relating to Kent, and as there is no fund for that 
 purpose, he is glad to receive any gratuitous additions to his store. 
 
 I also beg to thank Dr. Sheppard of Canterbury, for pointing 
 out some very interesting particulars, and translating some, to me, 
 difficult ancient manuscripts ; Francis Butler, architect, for the 
 beautiful plates which embellish the work ; and Henry Grey, 
 churchwarden, for assistance in translating the inscriptions on the 
 Brasses, and careful revision for the press. 
 
 And lastly, I beg most sincerely to thank the Lord Mayor, Sir 
 Reginald Hanson, Bart., F.S.A., Alderman Sir John Staples, 
 F.S.A., Deputy East, James Judd, and Major G. Lambert, F.S. A., 
 for their kind and generous acknowledgment of the distinct claim 
 which Herne Church undoubtedly has upon the citizens of 
 London. 
 
CONTENTS. 
 
 CHAPTER I. 
 
 Reculver 
 
 Its antiquity and destruction. 
 
 CHAPTER H. 
 
 Parish of Herne ... 
 
 Places of note. 
 
 CHAPTER HI. 
 
 Church of Herne 
 
 Tower — Porch — Baptistery — Font — North Aisle — Nave— South 
 Aisle — South Chantry Chapel — Chancel — East Window — 
 Monument of Sir W. Thornhurst — North Chantry Chapel — 
 Brasses — Account of St. Martin. 
 
 CHAPTER IV. 
 
 Vicars of Herne and Chantry Priests... 
 
 Parish Registers 
 
 CHAPTER V. 
 
 Extracts from Churchwardens’ Accounts. 
 
 Tithes and Fees 
 
 CHAPTER VI. 
 
 CHAPTER VII. 
 
 Old Wills 
 
 Robert Somersal — John Younge — Thomas Bysmer — William 
 Philip— Sir Matthew Philip — Sir John Fyneux — Rev. John 
 Warren — Lady Elizabeth Fyneux — Edward Monyngs— Wil- 
 liam Fyneux — Thomas Terrye — John Church — Richard 
 Terry — Sir William Sedley — George Hawlet or Howlet — 
 Christopher Milles — Thomas Knowler. 
 
 PAGE 
 
 8 
 
 17 
 
 46 
 
 52 
 
 57 
 
 60 
 
 Index 
 
 .. 68 
 
ILLUSTRATIONS 
 
 PAGE 
 
 View of Church from Village... ... ... ... ... Frontispiece 
 
 Reculver Church Towers ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 2 
 
 Reculver Church, 1751, and Ground Plan 6 
 
 View of the Village of Herne ... ... ... ... ... ... 8 
 
 Parish Church of Herne ... .. ... ... ... ... 16 
 
 Tower, and Ground Plan 18 
 
 Baptistery 19 
 
 North Chantry Chapel 20 
 
 ,, ,, showing proposed alteration 21 
 
 Ground Plan ... ... ... ... ... ... ... 22 
 
 Old Screen ... 25 
 
 Picturesque Arch ... 26 
 
 Mural Monument of Robert Knowler ... ... ... 28 
 
 Chancel ... ... ... .. ... ... ... ... 30 
 
 Monument of Sir William Thornhurst 31 
 
 North Chantry Chapel, showing Hagioscope, Aumbry, 
 
 Screen, &c — ... ... ... ... ... ... 34 
 
 Brasses — i. Sir Peter Halle and Wife ... 36 
 
 2. John Darley ... ... ... ... ... 38 
 
 3. Christina Philip ... ... ... ... ... 39 
 
 4. Elizabeth, Lady Fyneux 41 
 
 5. John Sea and his Wives ... 
 
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MEMORIALS OF HERNE, KENT. 
 
 CHAPTER I. 
 
 JSteculbcr. 
 
 8 EEPLY interesting as the Church at Herne undoubtedly is, 
 it must be acknowledged at the outset that it yields place 
 in most things to the Mother Church of Reculver, to which it has 
 ever been, and is now, tributary. The two Churches are so 
 intimately connected that, without some preliminary account oi 
 Reculver, the history of Herne would be incomplete and even 
 unintelligible. 
 
 Reculver is famous, not only for its Early Christian Church, 
 but also for its ancient Roman Camp, said to have been erected in 
 the third century by the Emperor Septimius Severus.^' 
 
 Among the time-worn ruins of the ancient castle is a fig-tree 
 i^ficus carica) of Italian origin, which according to the traditions 
 of the neighbourhood, was planted by the Romans, and must 
 therefore be between 1385 and 1888 years old.f 
 
 In Leland’s time (1530 — 7), the village of Reculver stood 
 “ withyn a quarter of a myle or a little more of the se syde.”]; 
 
 It is called by the Venerable Bede “ Raculfcestre, and Raculi- 
 menstre.Ӥ 
 
 * Roach Smith’s Antiquities of Reculver, p. 193. 
 t Albion, 1833. + Bin. 3rd Ed. p. i. 0. 
 
 $ Bede Eccles. Hist., i, 5, 9. 
 
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 MEMORIALS OF HERNE, KENT. 
 
 While the earliest record of Herne Church dates only from 
 A.D. 1236, that of Reculver, dedicated to St Mary, goes as far 
 back as A.D. 669, when Egbert, King of Kent, “gave to one 
 Basse, formerly one of his noblemen, now a priest, some land, 
 “ whereupon to build a monastery dedicated to the Blessed Virgin 
 “ Mary.”:^ 
 
 “Berhtwald,” eighth Archbishop of Canterbury (A.D. 693), 
 “was abbot of Reculver.” 
 
 RECULVER CHURCH TOWERS. 
 
 In A.D. 949 the Church of Reculver was annexed to Christ 
 Church, Canterbury, by grant of King Edredf 
 
 This grant is of considerable local importance, for appended to 
 it is an enumeration of lands in the immediate neighbourhood 
 and their boundaries, which in many instances have been identi- 
 fied. It is also of historical interest, being prepared by the 
 
 * Tanner’s Notitia, Kent, Ixviii. 
 t Brit. Museum, MS. (Cotton, Aug. ii, Art. 57.) 
 
RECULVER. 
 
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 celebrated Dunstan, Abbot of Glastonbury, afterwards Archbishop 
 of Canterbury, who subscribes himself “ Indignus Abbas.” Although 
 now in the Hundred of Blengate, Reculver, at the time of the 
 Conquest, was a Hundred by itself, and in a flourishing condition.'^' 
 Reculver was of old the Mother Church of Hoath, Herne, and 
 (in Thanet) St. Nicholas, and All Saints. Upon these three last, 
 “ in signum subjectionis ” (/.^., in token of subjection), an annual 
 pension was imposed.f By the same decree it was enacted “ that 
 “ the vicars of these parishes, together with their clergy and 
 “ parishioners, should attend the customary processions, and 
 “ office of the Mass, at Whitsuntide and Christmas, and that 
 “ they should pay to the Vicar of Reculver, ‘ Obsequium con- 
 veniens cum reverentia et honore ’ (suitable deference, with 
 “ reverence and honour).” 
 
 The Rev. Francis Green, a former vicar of Reculver, in a 
 letter without date, but between 1695 and 1715, thus writes: — 
 “ It is certain the Church of Reculver is one of the most ancient 
 in Kent, and (if any credit is to be given to an inscription 
 “ in the south-east part of the church) King Ethelbert was 
 “ buried there. The Church of Reculver is lofty and well 
 “ built ; it has two steeples in front, one of which contains 
 “ four bells. It has two stately pillars to support its entrance, 
 “ and a curious ascent to the Altar, J so that it is exceeded 
 “ by few in Kent.” Further on he writes, “ My church, by 
 'The ill neighbourhood of the sea, and being too indulgent a 
 ‘‘ mother in giving large portions to her two daughters, Herne 
 “and St. Nicholas, is now the poorest of the three.”§ 
 
 But although Reculver was without doubt (as Mr. Green states) 
 “an indulgent mother,” it is humiliating for the Vicar of Herne 
 to have to confess that his Parish was a very ungrateful and 
 refractory daughter. Trifling and inadequate as were the imposts 
 levied, both parson and people continually tried to evade them. 
 
 In 1334 there was a dispute about the burial of the Archbishop’s 
 tenants “in capite,” in which the decision was in favour of 
 Reculver.il Twice, in 1335, the parishioners of Herne were 
 
 * Domesday, i, 3, 6. 
 
 t Reg. Winchelsey, f. 30. The Vicar of Herne still pays the pension 
 imposed, “quadraginta solidos ” (40s.), the churchwardens 5s. 
 
 + For full description, see Leland’s Itin. vii., 137. 
 
 § Notitia Parochialis, No. 1,616, Lambeth Lib. 
 
 II Reg. Stratford (Lambeth) Feb. 1334. 
 
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 MEMORIALS OF HERNE, KENT. 
 
 threatened with excommunication because they refused to bear 
 their proportion of the repairs of the Mother Church,^' and in 1637 
 Archbishop Laud was directed to proceed with all expedition “ in 
 “ a cause pending between the inhabitants of Reculver and Herne, 
 “ touching the repair of the Church and Steeple of Reculver.” f 
 
 In the year 1809, under the pretext of the impossibility of 
 resisting the encroachments of the sea, this Church was shame- 
 fully destroyed by those who were its appointed guardians, and a 
 miserable building erected in its place at Hillborough, so badly 
 constructed that it only lasted 65 years. 
 
 Mr. C. Roach Smith thus eloquently writes concerning its 
 destruction : 
 
 “This Church had special claims for preservation. 
 
 “ The Roman architecture gave it a distinctive feature of remote 
 “ antiquity, of which it would be difficult to find another example 
 “ in this country. It stood as a monument of the downfall of 
 “ Paganism and the triumph of Christianity ; upwards of a 
 “thousand years our forefathers had preserved, endowed, and 
 “ repaired it ; generation after generation had called it theirs, and 
 “ within its walls had ratified the obligations of social life ; they 
 “ had died, and were buried about it. Tradition hallowed it as 
 “ the burial-place of Ethelbert, who received and protected 
 “ Augustine. Monuments of rich and influential families, whose 
 “ near relatives lay there interred, stood within and around its 
 “ walls. 
 
 “ The Church, at the commencement of the present century, 
 “ though it had been neglected and was dilapidated, might have 
 “ been easily repaired, but the gentry and clergy abandoned it to 
 “ jobbers and speculators, who seized upon the venerable pile, 
 “ tore it to pieces, and divided the spoil ; and old people, who 
 “ remember the circumstances, tell how the bells fell to the share 
 “ of one, the lead to another, recount the prices at which the 
 “materials were sold, and relate how, ere long, the curse of 
 “ Heaven fell on all the destroyers of the Church ; that nothing 
 “ prospered with them, and that, at last, they and their families 
 “ came to misery and ruin.” J 
 
 Those who are inclined to go into the repulsive details of this 
 shameful destruction should consult the “ Gentleman’s Magazine ” 
 
 * Reg. Stratford (Lambeth) March, 1335- 
 
 t Reg. Laud, p. i., fob 286 a. b. i Antiq. of Reculver, p. 200 
 
RECULVER. 
 
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 for the years 1808 — 1810 ; one contributor to which writes, “ Time 
 “was, when a man was famous as he assisted in adorning the 
 “ House of God ; but now they break down the carved work with 
 “axes and hammers,” and another, “ Some beautiful brasses have 
 “ been stolen within these two months ; ” and another (accompany- 
 ing his remark by an illustration), “ The old vicarage house has 
 “ been converted into a gin and beer shop, and christened ‘ The 
 u Hoy.’”’^ 
 
 These statements are further corroborated by the testimony of 
 the Parish Clerk (in his own handwriting) : “ 1805, Reculver 
 “ Church and Village stood in safetey; 1806, the sea begun to 
 “make a little incroach on the willage; 1807, the farmers begun 
 “ take up the seaside stonework, and sold it to the Margate 
 “ Pier Compney for a foundation for the new peir, and the 
 “ timber by action [auction], as it was good oak fit for their 
 “hbame use, and than the willage became a total rack to the 
 “ mercy of the sea. 
 
 “Oct. 13th, 1802. — The Chapel house fell down [here some 
 “ connecting remarks are wanting]. This being all dun and 
 “ spread abroad, the people come from all parts to see the mines 
 “ of village and the church. Mr. C. C. nailor been Vicar of the 
 “ parish, his mother fancied the church was keep for a poppet 
 “ show, and she persuaded har son to take it down, so he took 
 “ it in consideration, and named it to the farmers in the parish 
 “ about taking it down ; sum was for it and sum against it; than 
 “ Mr. nailor wrote to the Bishop to know if he might have the 
 “ church took down, and is answer was, it must be dun by a ma- 
 “ jority of the people in the parish, so hafter a long time he got 
 “the majority of one, so down come the Church. 
 
 “ for it, Mr. Nailor, vicker, Mr. Tom denne, Reculver, Mr. 
 
 “W. Staines, Brooke, Mr. Tom Fix, hilbrow : — Against it, Mr. 
 
 “Wm. Brown, Reculver, Mr. Step. Sayer, Bishopstone, Mr. 
 
 “ Brett, Clark to the old church 40 years. 
 
 “ The last tax [text] that Mr. nailor took was these words. Let 
 “your ways be the ways of rightness, and your path the peace, 
 “ and down come the church, and whot wos is thoats about is 
 “ flock that day no one knows.” f 
 
 * “The Hoy and Anchor,” according to the late Mr. Frank Buckland, who 
 states that he discovered the old signboard and saved it from destruction, 
 Oct. 3rd, iS 6 ^. —Land and Water, May, 1871. 
 
 t“ Reculver Church,” by George Dowker, p. 10. 
 
6 
 
 MEMORIALS OF HERNE, KENT. 
 
 Of this church, it is sad to record, little now is left from the 
 hands of the destroyer. The towers, west doorway, with wall 
 and gable above, a portion of the walls of the chancel, and little 
 more than the foundations of the nave and aisles, are all that 
 remain, in situ., of this ancient and interesting structure. For the 
 preservation of these ruins even as they are, the country (for the in- 
 terest is national) is indebted to the Corporation of Trinity House. 
 
 In 1809 the Brethren arranged to expend ;£^5oo upon groynes 
 “ to preserve the towers of the ancient church, as the most 
 “ distinguishing landmark for that part of the coast.” 
 
 In 1811 they purchased of the Vicar (Rev. C. Naylor) and the 
 Churchwardens the towers V. C. for ;^ioo ; and in 1866, “to 
 “ prevent the further fall of the cliff and the depredations of 
 “ persons taking away the bones jutting thereupon ” [the writer has 
 seen full-length skeletons, very long, exposed to view, probably 
 ihose of the Danes or Jutes who perished in predatory incur- 
 sions], “ covered the entire hill with granite.” 
 
 But besides the ruins of Reculver, already described, and far 
 exceeding them in archaeological (I should rather say national) 
 interest, are the two Roman columns of the chancel arch (see 
 
RECULVER. 
 
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 plate), part of the old Basilica, happily discovered uninjured by that 
 distinguished labourer in the cause of science, Dr. Sheppard, 
 which are now safely preserved in the precincts of Canterbury 
 Cathedral.-^' 
 
 Is it not to be regretted that these remarkable relics — I believe 
 absolutely unique — are not restored to Reculver, and replaced 
 upon their own foundations, which yet remain ? 
 
 Arch. Cant., vol. iii., p. 135-6. 
 
CHAPTER II. 
 
 f arisfj of ©erne. 
 
 SfeERNE, or Hearn, is situated in the north part of Kent. The 
 church, which is in the centre of the parish, is six miles north 
 of Canterbury, on the high road, and two miles south of Herne Bay 
 
 VIEW OF VILLAGE FROM CHURCH TORCH. 
 
 It is also written in ancient documents “ Hierne,” “ Hyerne,” 
 Huerne,” “ Heron,” “ Heren,” and “ Henn.” 
 
 Hasted and Ireland f derive it from the Saxon Hyrne or 
 Hurne, a corner ; Philpot “ from the breeding of Hernes J there.” 
 
 * Vol. hi., p. 617. t Vol. ., p. 410. 
 
 Villare Cantianum, Index, p. 397. 
 
PARISH OF HERNE. 
 
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 It has an area of 4,829 acres, and a population of 4,259. Besides 
 the Parish Church, there is another, Christ Church, with an 
 ecclesiastical district assigned to it — the well-known and now 
 rapidly improving and increasing watering place, Her 7 ie Bay. 
 
 There is no doubt that in former times, when families of wealth 
 and influence occupied the different mansions that then existed, 
 the parish was both populous and flourishing. 
 
 Archbishop Islip (1352) obtained a grant of a market and fair; 
 “ the market to be held w'eekly, on a Monday, and a fair yearly, 
 on the feast of St. Martin and the day afterwards.”^ Bishop 
 Ridley, in his farewell to Herne, addresses it as “ thou worshipful 
 and wealthy parish.” 
 
 It is usually divided into five boroughs — “ Hampton,” “ Thorn- 
 den,” “ Stroud,” “ Hawe,” and “ Beltinge associated, some of 
 them, with the names of distinguished families, of which nothing 
 now remains but memory. But besides these, there were other 
 places of note, now almost forgotten. 
 
 PLACES OF NOTE. 
 
 Hawe . — The manor house of Hawe, or Haghe, situated in a 
 valley, about a third of a mile east of the church, was one of the 
 most remarkable. It was surrounded by a moat, which still 
 exists. In the reign of Richard II. (1337 — 99) it was held by Sir 
 William Waleys, whose only daughter Elizabeth carried it by 
 marriage to Sir Peter Halle (See Brass, No. i) “ whose grandson, 
 Matthew sold his interest to Sir John Fineux, who rebuilded the 
 mansion and afterwards retired to it.” f 
 
 “ Matthew Philip, Citizen, Goldsmith, and Mayor of the City 
 of London,” also possessed it, together with the Manor of Under- 
 down. (See Brass HI., and Old Wills.) 
 
 The reason asigned by Leland for the selection of this spot by 
 Sir John Fineux as his dwelling-place is interesting, and must be 
 very- gratifying to the parishioners at the present time, as it 
 corroborates the favourable testimony which the Registrar General 
 has repeatedly given as to the healthiness of the locality. ‘‘ Olde 
 “ Finioux buildid his faire house on purchasid ground for the 
 comodite of preservinge his healthe, so that afore the physicians 
 “ concludid that it was an exceeding helthful quarter.” J 
 
 * Pat. Anno 25 Edw. III., N. 31. 
 t Hasted, vol. iii., 617. f Itin., vol. vi., p. 8. 
 
10 
 
 MEMORIALS OF HERNE, KENT. 
 
 Of this manor nothing now remains but the moat, some out- 
 buildings of interesting fifteenth century brickwork, and some 
 pieces of a moulded doorway of the Tudor period, which, in all 
 probability, belonged to the “ faire house ” of Sir John Fineux."^ 
 
 Stroud, or Strode (formerly Seas or Atte-Seas Court) is situated 
 in the park close by the church. Philpot, in his description of 
 this manor (a.d. 1559), tells us that “for some ages it owned the 
 “ name and interest of At Sea, till fate and time, that are the 
 “ common sepulchre of families, by sale gave up the fee simple, an 
 “ age or two since, to Knowler.”f The Knowlers were a family of 
 great distinction, who ultimately became possessed of large estates, 
 not only in Herne, but also in Hoath and Chislet. 
 
 The family of “ Churche ” was also connected with this borough. 
 “ James a Churche made a grant of sixteen pence a year at Le 
 “ Platts, in Strode burgh, to the Hospital of Harbledown, 1 3th 
 March, 1492,”! and on the 23rd of the same month and year, 
 another bequest of “ eightpence yearly out of a messuage and 
 “ 3 acres of land in Strode borough in Herne.”§ 
 
 A view of the old house ( “ the seat of Gilbert Knowler, Esq.”) 
 will be found in Buncombe’s “ History of Herne.” |1 
 
 Uiiderdown (at Eddington) is a manor of ancient date. “ In 1 335 
 “James Bate granted to Nicholas de Underdowne i acre 3 roods 
 “ at Gateheye, in Herne.”^ 
 
 It was at one time in the possession of the Sea, or At-Sea, 
 family. “ John Atte Sea died possessed of it in the year 1458, as 
 “did his descendant, William, in 1545.”^'^ 
 
 His descendant John Sea (see Brass No. 5), dying in 1604, 
 devised his manor of Underdown to his eldest son Edward, who 
 afterwards disposed of it to Robert Knowler, whose family had 
 been resident in this parish as early as King Henry the Seventh’s 
 reign. Robert Knowler died, possessed of it, in 1635, and was 
 buried in the Chantry Chapel of this church {j)ide Plate, p. 28), and 
 his descendants continued to reside at it down to Gilbert Knowler, 
 who resided at Stroud. It afterwards became the property of the 
 
 * These now form a bridge over a dyke between Hawe and Broomfield, 
 across the fields. 
 
 t Villare Cantianum, p. 185. % Harbledown Private Deeds, No. 92. 
 
 Harbledown Private Deeds, No. 93. 
 
 II Bib. Top. Brit, xviii., p. 98. H Harbledown Private Deeds, No. 80. 
 
 ** Hasted, vol. iii., p. 617. 
 
PARISH OF HERNE. 11 
 
 Oxendens (a very ancient family), one of whom (Sir George) 
 rebuilt the house. 
 
 In the several wills of this family in the Consistorial Court at 
 Canterbury, the name of Sea is never mentioned, but will be 
 found under the heading “ Manor of Underdown/’ 
 
 Lotiinge, also written Loutmg, was formerly a small manor 
 situated in the north-west part of the parish, belonging to the 
 family of Greenshield, the last of whom, Henry, died without 
 issue, and the property was sold in accordance with his will, to 
 John Quekes, of Birchington. 
 
 Makenbrooke . — The Manor of Makenbrooke (now almost for- 
 gotten) was situated in the north-west part of the parish. It was 
 formerly part of the ancient possessions of the See of Canterbury, 
 and was held “by Knyte’s fee.” In the reign of William the 
 Conqueror, “ Vitalis de Canterbury held 12 acres (agros) and half 
 “ a suling in Macebroc of the Archbishop,”"^' after which it came 
 into the possession of a family who assumed their name from it ; 
 in A.D. 1290, Archbishop Peckham received homage from Hamo 
 de Makenbroke. t 
 
 “ In the year 1 544 Anthony See died seized (possessed) of it, 
 held of the Archbishop by Knight’s Service.” 
 
 Ridgway, situated on a ridge a little to the south-east of the 
 church, was also a place of some importance. “ Edward Monins, 
 “ of Waldershire, by his will, proved 1553, devised to his son 
 “ Richard, and Catherine his wife, his manor, or messuage, called 
 “ Reggeway.”J The family of Monins is very ancient, and intimately 
 connected with Herne. Sir Simon de Monins came over with the 
 Conqueror, and their arms (three crescents) are sculptured on one 
 of the shields of the Font (wrongly ascribed in Simpson’s “ Series 
 of Ancient Fonts ” to Holowe),§ and also, together with those of 
 Stephen Knowler, on a stone slab in the nave. This Manor now 
 belongs to the Bering family, also very ancient and distinguished. 
 
 Thornden, situated about two miles and a half west of the 
 Church, is a very ancient place, although there are no remains 
 or records, except a few grants, of the families who lived there. 
 
 * MS. cited by Somner, appendix p. 45, as Domesday Book. 
 
 t Hasted, vol. iii. 619. f Hasted iii. 620. 
 
 § Perpendicular Period. Herne Church Font. 
 
12 
 
 MEMORIALS OF HERNE, KENT. 
 
 In 1332, “ Richard Atte Brooke granted to Henry de Suthreye 
 ‘‘ and Christian his wife, one acre of land in the Parish of Herne 
 “and Burgh of Thorndenne.”^' 
 
 In 1338, “Walter Bayli granted to Henry, son of Richard de 
 “Suthreye, and his wife, two acres in Thorndenne Borough.” f 
 
 In 1429, “John a Churche gave 8d. yearly and two acres 
 “ and a-half at Stockgrove, in Thornden, in Herne, to the Prior 
 “of Harbledown.”+ 
 
 Beltinge . — Although very little is known about Beltinge, there is 
 no doubt that its history, if it could be discovered, would be far 
 more ancient and interesting than that of any other place in the 
 parish. 
 
 The name alone bespeaks its Pagan origin, being evidently 
 derived from Bel, or Baal (the deity whose name is found in the 
 composition of so many Tyrian and Carthaginian names. Sc. Baal- 
 Bek.) and “ting,” or “thing,” an assembly, from the old Norse 
 “tinga,” to speak, and allied with the English word “think.” 
 The first syllable is found elsewhere, as in “ Waldershire,” 
 (Baldershire, from the cognate Balder), and “ Balham.” The 
 Northmen, according to Taylor, introduced the word “ ting ” into 
 England, and it still exists among us, as in “ Hastings ” — 
 “ House-things.”§ 
 
 Mr. W. de Gray Birch thinks that “ some of the barrows, or 
 other likely places, should be opened,” and believes that “careful 
 investigation would lead to interesting results.” 
 
 Rectory House “The Old Rectory” (according to Hasted), 
 “ stood in the hamlet of Eddington, opposite to Underdown. It 
 was once a place of considerable importance, in the form of a 
 quadrangle, one side of which only remains.”l| The Milles family 
 (now Earl Sondes) resided in it for several generations. They 
 were, for a great many years, the Impropriators of the great tithes, 
 and large benefactors to the church and parish.^ 
 
 Ford House (the site of the oldest manor belonging to the See 
 of Canterbury) is not in Herne, but in Hoath, being separated by 
 the highway, which divides the two parishes. It is, however, such 
 
 * Harbledown Private Deeds, No. 77. f Harbledown Private Deeds, No. 79. 
 
 j Harbledown Private Deeds, No. 94. 
 
 § Words and Places, p. 199. || Hasted, vol. iii. p. 623. 
 
 % A view of the Old Vicarage House is in Duncombe’s Hist, of Herne. 
 Bib. Top. Brit, xviii., p. 98. 
 
FAJUSH OF HERNE. 
 
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 an ancient and remarkable place^ and so intimately connected with 
 Herne, that a brief description cannot fail to be interesting. “ It 
 consisted of about eight acres,” given by Ethelbert, King of Kent, 
 upon which a spacious edifice was built, surrounded by a moat. 
 “There was a park belonging to the manor, of i66 acres, and 
 also two free commons,” “Hunter’s Borstal” (now Forstall) 
 and “ Belting Green. It appears from the register-book 
 of Reculver (why Reculver and not Hoath, does not appear) 
 that the archbishop had a chapel at Ford, “ Francis, sonne of Sir 
 Thomas Perryn, knight,” being baptized there Sept. 28th, i62o.f 
 
 Another proof of this is furnished by the following entry in the 
 register book of Herne : “ Thomas, son of John Knowler, baptized 
 at Ford, 26 April, 1607.” 
 
 The difference between the opinions of some of the archbishops, 
 as to the healthiness of Ford, is very amusing. Morton and Parker 
 considered it “low and unhealthy,” and the latter “petitioned to 
 “ have it pulled down.” Cranmer evidently thought otherwise, as 
 he frequently resided there, and was often visited by his friend 
 Ridley, Vicar of Herne. In 1537, when the Plague raged at 
 Lambeth, he spent a good deal of his time there, during which the 
 Bible was first printed in English. In 1552 he was there again, 
 and it is very remarkable that, although suffering from ague in the 
 summer of that year, he removed to Ford in October. Whitgift also 
 liked the place, and is said to have enjoyed hunting in the park.J 
 
 Ford is further celebrated as having been visited by Royalty. 
 In one of his excursions to the continent. King Henry VIII. went 
 in his barge to Gravesend, landed there, and proceeded on horse- 
 back to Ford, where he remained the night with the Archbishop 
 (Cranmer), and continued his journey the next day to Dover, 
 whence he embarked. § 
 
 The place was demolished about the year 1658,11 and some 
 idea of its grandeur may be formed from the fact that the bricks, 
 timber, and other materials, which were sold to any purchaser, 
 were valued at ;£84o.^ Some of the stones of the old house may^ 1 
 think., be still seen in the garde 7 i hji^nediately opposite. 
 
 Legends and stories concerning the springs (one in the old 
 
 * Chartce Miscellanese MS. Lib. Lambeth. Vol. i. 31. 
 
 t Appointed keeper of the manor and palace by Archbishop Abbot. 
 
 X Bib. Top. Brit., xviii. 112. § Ibid. 
 
 II Harris’s “ Hist, of Kent,” p, 157. II Parliamentary Survey of 1647. 
 
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 MEMORIALS OF HERNE, KENT. 
 
 palace grounds, and another, ‘‘St. Ethelburga’s,” in a meadow 
 behind the house opposite), the Vineyard, and the Fishpond, still 
 linger in the neighbourhood. The visitor, besides enjoying a 
 pleasant walk, will be amply repaid by a sight of the objects which 
 still remain, the interest of which is increased by the halo of 
 antiquity which surrounds them. 
 
 Blean Union . — The Blean Union must certainly be classed with 
 places of note. “ It was built by lease of charity lands, 24th June, 
 “ 1791, the contracting parties being the Rev. Joseph Price, vicar, 
 “ and eighteen parishioners, on the one part, and Thomas Reynolds 
 “ — the highest bidder at a public auction — on the other. Mr. 
 “Reynolds gave ^240 for the lease of ten acres of good land for 
 “102 years, at the yearly rental of £2. 2s. 
 
 The Charity Commissioners, in their report (26th June, 1836), 
 urged that compensation should be made to the poor for the 
 injury which this transaction effected, and the money invested in 
 the funds on their behalf, and with this view they certified the case 
 to the Attorney-General.^' 
 
 A worse case of wrong could scarcely be found ; and this is 
 only one among many ! At the last Inspection (1873), 
 Commissioner expressed a fear that through the neglect of the 
 authorities (vicars, churchwardens, and overseers), the value of 
 the benefactions on behalf of the church and poor had dwindled 
 down into a mere rent charge. (See Old Wills.) 
 
 It ought further to be stated that the poor were not only 
 defrauded of money, but also of light, for the Blean Union, as at 
 first built, was absolutely without a window in the outside walls. 
 
 In Queen Elizabeth’s reign a beacon was fixed in this parish 
 on the hill where the Windmill now stands, as appears by a chart 
 of the beacons in Lambard’s Perambulation, drawn by the 
 direction of Sir William Brook, Lord Cobham, Lord Lieutenant 
 of the county, t 
 
 The parishioners of Herne, both gentle and simple, have ever 
 been fond of sports and pastimes. It has been already stated 
 that even an archbishop (Whitgift) enjoyed hunting, of which the 
 parishioners are to this day very fond. In the middle ages 
 archery was evidently practised. J Sometimes these pastimes 
 
 *A. Kent, Herne Charities. t Bib. Top. Brit., xviii., 109. 
 
 I See Parish Register 1572. 
 
PARISH OF HERNE. 
 
 15 
 
 were of an intellectual, and even dramatic character. Canon 
 Scott Robertson, in his “ Passion Play and Interludes,” writes : 
 ‘‘Few records in Kent give us so plain a proof of the 
 “general prevalence, even in small parishes, of these Passion 
 “ Plays, or Mysteries, as do the Archives of Romney and Lydd. 
 “ . . . The distance of the parish of Herne did not prevent its 
 “players from making their way to Romney and Lydd, where they 
 “ knew that appreciative audiences would be found, and where 
 “ the municipal authorities would not only pay the customary fee 
 “ of 6s. 8d., but would be liberal in their distribution of wine, 
 “ bread, beer, and other refreshments.”’^ 
 
 The parishioners of Herne were equally disposed to acknow- 
 ledge and remunerate the services of other actors, for in the 
 records of the corporation of New Romney there is an item : — 
 “ 7, 8 Hen. vi. (1429-30), Given to certain persons coming to 
 “ Hyerne with a certain play, los. 8d.”t 
 
 Three hundred years afterwards it would appear from the 
 following advertisement that popular taste had somewhat de- 
 generated : — 
 
 “ To all Gentlemen of Diversion, &c. At Daniel Dering’s, at 
 “the sign of ‘the Rose and Man of War,’ Hearn, on Thursday 
 “ next, there will be a Hog dressed whole (barbecued) and given 
 “ away ; with cock-fighting and other entertainments.’’^; 
 
 The love of sport stills exists in the parish, but it is happily 
 improved, owing, no doubt, to the benign influence of education. 
 
 In 1866, in the face of great difficulties and discouragements. 
 National Schools were built for the numerous children running 
 about wild; and, as sympathetic, generous, and encouraging 
 promoters, three names deserve to be recorded — William Richards, 
 and Charles Jacomb, of Upper Clapton, and George John, Lord 
 Sondes, all now no more. “ They rest from their labours, and 
 their works do follow them.” 
 
 * Arch. Cant., vol. xiii., p. 225. 
 
 t Hist. MS. Comm., vol. v.,p. 437. J Kentish Rost, July 15th, 1747. 
 
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 MEMORIALS OF HERNE, KENT. 
 
 THE PARISH CHURCH, HERNF, KENT. 
 
CHAPTER III. 
 
 ®f)e C&urcJj of ®erne. 
 
 * HE church, “ dedicated to St. Martin of Tours” (see p. i6), 
 consists of nave, north and south aisles, chancel, north and 
 south chantry chapels, and tower at the north-west angle. It is 
 in the Hundred of Blean, the Deanery of Westbere, and the 
 Diocese of Canterbury. The Archbishop is patron, and it is 
 exempt from the archdeacon’s jurisdiction. Its. value, in the king’s 
 books, is -£20 i6s. 3d., and yearly tenths £^2 is. yfd.”'^' 
 
 There was, without doubt, a much older church than that now 
 existing, and some of its stones of Norman date, moulded and 
 carved, may be seen in the walls of the porch and west front of 
 the present nave. 
 
 Besides the evidence afforded by deeds of gift of thirteenth 
 century date, still extant, relating to church and churchyard, 
 further proof of the existence of an earlier church is, I think, 
 furnished by “ an archdeacon’s memoranda of offences and 
 deficiencies in the churches of Herne, St. Nicholas, and All 
 Saints, in the thirteenth century,” at least a century before any 
 portion of the present church could have existed. The extract 
 (indexed Herne) is very remarkable, and the severity of the arch- 
 deacon’s rebuke has the ring of the prophet Isaiah ; with the 
 exception of the last clause, which tends rather to justify the 
 sarcasm of Erasmus, “a death-bed was a friar’s harvest.”! 
 
 “ Books are deficient, chancels out of repair, executors remiss, 
 “ and Agnes Curteys is a standing temptation to sin. One 
 '•’‘parishioner has been allowed to die intestatei^% 
 
 Bacon’s Liber Regis, p. 52. f Blunt’s “ Reformation,” p. 42. 
 X Hist. MS. Commiss. v. 437. 
 
 C 
 
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 MEMORIALS OF HERNE, KENT. 
 
 As the date of the present church cannot be earlier than the 
 middle of the fifteenth century, the archdeacon must evidently be 
 alluding to a much older church. 
 
 The Tower , — One of the most imposing features of this church 
 is its massive tower, of stone and faced flint, the oldest part now 
 remaining. Its staircase is considered by Brandon “ very elegant 
 
 Plate I.— TOWER, SHOWING CRACKS AND FISSURES. 
 
 it, however, very greatly diminishes the strength of the tower, being 
 built inside, and therefore taking the place of the two north-east 
 angle buttresses, one of which is further weakened by a doorway 
 being cut through it, leading from the staircase to the roof of the 
 north aisle. (See plate i.) This is quite clear, from the threatening 
 
 *Anal. of Gothic Archi., p. 15. 
 
THE CHURCH OF HERNE. 
 
 19 
 
 cracks and fissures in the north and east faces of the Tower, and 
 the consequent subsidence has caused the crushing of some of 
 the mouldings in one of the baptistery arches, also in the cills of the 
 
 Plate 2. — THE BAPTISTERY. \See page 
 
 staircase doorway, and windows. So ominous have these fissures 
 and crushings at length become, that the architect has advised 
 that the staircase doorway, and the short gallery leading into the 
 
 c 2 
 
20 
 
 MEMORIALS OF HERNE, KENT. 
 
 Plate 3. — NORTH CHANTRY CHAPEL (PART OF THE NORTH AISLE, SHOWING PRESENT STATE OF ROOF). [See page 23. 
 
 Sir Matthew Philip and his wife Christina are here buried. 
 
THE CHURCH OF HERNE. 
 
 21 
 
 ringing chamber should be blocked up solidly with masonry, and 
 the pier of one of the windows in the ringing chamber rebuilt, 
 and that, until this has been done, the bells should not be rung. 
 
 Porch . — The Porch, which we will next describe, contains two 
 stoups for Holy Water, built into the wall, one on each side of the 
 entrance ; and besides the Norman stones (the remains of the older 
 church referred to) it has a piece of the old porch cross built into 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Plate 4. — NORTH CHANTRY CHAPEL (PART OF NORTH AISLe), SHOWING 
 PROPOSED ALTERATION. 
 
 the front wall, just above the entrance doorway. Notice, that 
 instead of being at right angles to the church, as is usual, and as 
 all illustrations up to the present time describe it, this porch 
 inclines greatly to the right, thus accommodating itself to the 
 pathway leading to the village, which probably existed in the time 
 of the Norman church. (See Ground Plan, p. 22.) 
 
 Baptistery . — The Baptistery, which is formed by the lower stage 
 
22 
 
 MEMORIALS OF HERNE, KENT. 
 
THE CHURCH OF HERNE. 
 
 23 
 
 of the tower, open to the church, is full of architectural beauty and 
 interest. The groined roof — the characteristic corbel heads* — the 
 large west window of Early Decorated work (described in Brandon) 
 — the north window (remarkable as having double cuspings in the 
 tracery), — the arches, with their fine mouldings and clustered 
 shafts, — and last, but not least, the Font itself, are all worthy of 
 particular notice. (See plate 2, p. 19.) 
 
 Font . — This Font formerly stood at the west end of the nave, 
 and is of corresponding date ; it is octagonal in form, with panel- 
 ling and shields round the bowl, and its pedestal is enriched by 
 delicate tracery. It was selected by Simpson (in his “ Series of 
 Ancient Fonts ”) as a very fine and complete specimen of the 
 Perpendicular period. 
 
 The I St shield bears the arms of Henry IV., quarterly — i, 4, 
 France (modern) \ 2, 3, England. 
 
 The 2nd, the arms of the Monins family, three crescents. 
 
 The 3rd, Saxton. Three wings erect. 
 
 The 4th, Pelham. Three pelicans vulning themselves. 
 
 The 5th, Loveryk (almost obliterated) on a chevron, three f 
 leopards’ heads t 
 
 The 6th, Halle. Barry of 6 pieces, 3 escutcheons, 2 and i. J 
 
 The 7th, Archbishop Arundel. Per pale, dexter. See of 
 Canterbury, sinister chequey, i.e., Arundel. 
 
 The 8th, symbols of the Passion. Fabulous arms, ascribed 
 by the heralds to our Lord Jesus Christ. 
 
 By means of the first and seventh of these shields, we are 
 enabled to fix the precise date of the font as between 1396 and 1414- 
 
 North Aisle . — The North Aisle, immediately adjoining the bap- 
 tistery, is the only part of the church not restored. The visitor has 
 only to look up at the ceiling to see the pressing need of a new roof, 
 in place of the present unsightly lean-to one of lath and plaster, 
 through which the rain drips at every shower. (See plate 3, p. 20.) 
 Two mural slabs of white marble on the tower buttress, in memory 
 of Helen Grace Loughman (nee Brown) and Florence Gray (nee 
 Lee), cousins, tell a sad tale of the frailty of human life. The two 
 windows, deeply set, and splayed with heads like those in the 
 
 * The head-dress of the one in the north-east angle closely resembles that of 
 the wife of Sir Peter Halle. (See Brass No. I.) 
 
 t See “ Brasses,” No. VII., Anthony Loveryk, p. 43. 
 
 X See Brass No. I, Sir Peter Halle. 
 
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 MEMORIALS OF HERNE, KENT. 
 
 baptistery, are filled with stained glass ; one is in memory of 
 Rosalind Aglaia Leaf, the other (by Clayton and Bell, and the best 
 in the church), in memory of Eliza Pegg.'^ William Rogers (died 
 1773) and John Wood (died 1831), former vicars, are buried in 
 this aisle. 
 
 The chief point of interest in this part of the church is the fine 
 old screen which separates the north aisle from the north chantry, 
 or Milles’s Chapel. (See plate 5, p. 25.) 
 
 Canon Scott Robertson, in a very interesting paper on Kentish 
 Rood Screens, pronounces it to be a screen of remarkably good 
 “ design, the top of which bears indubitable traces of a rood-loft.” 
 “ We know,” he adds, “ that there were such rood-lofts in the side 
 “aisles of some churches.”! 
 
 This is undoubtedly true, but in this case I think he is mistaken. 
 I am of opinion, after due consideration and consultation, that 
 this is the original Rood-Screen which occupied the place of the 
 modern Chancel-Screen, and the measurements and facts generally 
 tend to prove it. 
 
 Nave . — We now come to the Nave. This is very wide, and, 
 together with the north and south aisles, forms an exact square. 
 
 It has on the north side four pointed arches, including that of 
 the tower ; and five on the south. 
 
 The octagonal pillars, of Bethersden marble, are very light and 
 graceful. The mouldings on the arches of the south arcade are 
 different from those of the north. 
 
 If the visitor will here notice a peculiar, but very picturesque, 
 arch above the tower arch of the baptistery, opening into the 
 west end of the nave, he will have another very clear proof of the 
 existence of a church anterior to the present one. (See plate 6, 
 p. 26.) The nave and north aisle are evidently built up to, and even 
 carefully fitted to, the tower ; the difficulty with regard to the 
 westernmost arch of the nave arcade (north side) being cleverly 
 overcome in the manner described. 
 
 There was, in all probability, first a Norman church, of which 
 
 * The quality and design of the coloured glass throughout is much to be 
 regretted in this as in so many other churches. Within the last fifty years, 
 millions of money have been thrown away on glass of this kind, a great deal 
 of which is now being replaced. The visitor has only to compare the Window 
 of Clayton and Bell with some of the others, to see the truth of this. 
 
 t Arch. Cant., XIV., 371. 
 
THE CHURCH OF HERNE. 
 
 25 
 
 the stones already alluded to formed a part. To this the present 
 tower was added about a.d. 1350, and subsequently, when the old 
 Norman church was pulled down, leaving the tower standing, the 
 
 Plate 5. — OLD SCREEN. \See page 24. 
 
 present church was built ; the date of which may be put as early 
 in the 15th century. 
 
 Brandon, Rickman, and Sir Stephen Glynne, are all incorrect 
 
26 
 
 MEMORIALS OF HERNE, KENT. 
 
 Plate 6. — PICTURESQUE ARCPI 
 
 [See page 24. 
 
THE CHURCH OF HERNE. 
 
 27 
 
 in describing certain portions of the church as “ Early English.” 
 As the late Mr. Street remarked in a paper read some years ago 
 at the Royal Institute of British Architects,^' “ Mediaeval archi- 
 “ tects occasionally closely imitated the styles of previous periods 
 “ of architecture, chiefly the Early English or lancet styles.” 
 
 The lancet windows in the tower and chancel and other parts 
 certainly resemble Early English, but Early English they are not. 
 At the western end of the nave there is a very large window, with 
 five lights, known to archaeologists as Perpendicular, or third pointed. 
 
 At the east end is a handsome modern Chancel Screen, boldly 
 carved. The opening in the wall at the south-east corner of the 
 nave was anciently the means of access to the old rood-loft; 
 the narrow passage way behind, still bears, shoulder high on the 
 plaster, work, the impress of those who passed through it more 
 than 300 years ago. Three oak steps yet remain in the passage, 
 and form a part of the old approach from below. 
 
 Memorial stones with inscriptions and arms mark the vaults 
 beneath of the ancient families of “ Knowler,” “ Monins, ”f 
 “ Conyers,” and “ Fagg.” 
 
 South Aisle . — The South Aisle contains a modern 3-light 
 window at the west end, and along the side three ancient 2-light 
 windows, similar to those in the north aisle, but of plainer 
 character. These are filled with stained glass, one in memory of 
 Edward Reynolds Collard, and two in memory of William 
 Newton (a former Churchwarden, who took an active interest in 
 the church), his wife, and two children. 
 
 There are also mural tablets in memory of the families of 
 “ May,” “Collard,” and “ Belsey,” and a stone statue of Bishop 
 Ridley, “ some time vicar,” occupies a Gothic niche in the centre 
 of the south wall. 
 
 An old and very interesting Piscina (place for cleansing the Holy 
 Vessels) formerly blocked up, will be noticed in the wall near the 
 vestry door. It has a Tudor Rose carved in the bowl. 
 
 Soicth Chantry Chapel . — The South Chantry Chapel (commonly 
 called the “Knowler Chapel ”) is divided from the nave by an arch 
 of simple but good proportions ; it has a Perpendicular, or third 
 pointed, window of four lights on the east side, and two of two lights, 
 of the same period, on the south. The old oak roof still remains. 
 
 * 29th Nov., 1869. t With arms, three crescents, same as on font. 
 
28 
 
 MEMORIALS OF HERNE, KENT, 
 
 This chapel literally teems with monuments of the Knowlers, 
 and also of the Pembrooks and Fairmans, with whom they are 
 connected by marriage. The following are a few of the most 
 important : — 
 
 1. In the south-east corner, a very handsome Jacobean mural 
 monument, in memory of Robert Knowler of Herne (died 1635), 
 and Susan, his wife (died 1631). (See plate.) 
 
 2. Under the organ, a black marble slab, in memory of Thomas, 
 
 son of the above, a bachelor, 
 who died 1658. He was a great 
 benefactor. (See Old Wills.) 
 On his gravestone it is written 
 that “he gave £\o to buy a 
 pulpit cloth marked “T. K., 
 “ and the communion table 
 “cloth, and to be dis- 
 
 “ tributed upon the day of his 
 “ burial, unto the poor, and £,2 
 “ per annum for ever to repair 
 “ the isle in which he lay, and 
 “ ;^5 per annum for ever to 
 “ clothe the poor of this parish, 
 “ out of his farm at Belting, in 
 “this parish. ‘The righteous 
 “shall be held in everlasting 
 “ remembrance.’ ” 
 
 3. Also under the organ, J ohn 
 Knowler, another son (died 
 1655), Robert, son of John 
 (died 1693), and Elizabeth his 
 wife (died 1693), also of 
 Catherine, their daughter (died 1708), and of Elizabeth, another 
 daughter (died 1724). The epitaph is still visible. 
 
 “ All must to their cold graves ; 
 
 But the religious actions of the just 
 
 Smell sweet in death, and blossom in the dust.” 
 
 4. On a black marble slab in the centre is an inscription in 
 memory of Gilbert Knowler, of Stroud in Herne, Knight (great 
 grandson of the first), and his three wives — Elizabeth, daughter of 
 
 MURAL MONUMENT. 
 
 In memory of Robert Knowler, died 1635, 
 and Susanna, died 1631. 
 
THE CHURCH OF HERNE. 
 
 29 
 
 Elias Juxon; Honey wood, daughter of Vincent Denne, and 
 Susanna, daughter of Martin Lister. The arms of all the families 
 are duly incised. 
 
 5. In the north-west corner is a mural monument of sienna 
 marble of Gilbert Knowler, son of last (died 1737), and Mary his 
 wife (died 1735). 
 
 On a flat stone, under the organ, is the following curious 
 epitaph : — 
 
 C “Here lies a piece of Christ, a star in dust, 
 
 A vein of gold, a china dish which must 
 i. Be used in heaven, when God shall feed the just.* 
 
 Approved by all, and loved so well, 
 
 Though young, like fruit that’s ripe he fell.” 
 
 The fine organ (built by Mr. T. C. Lewis in 1870, by collec- 
 tions and contributions) has been recently enlarged, remodelled, 
 and re-voiced, by Messrs. Michell and Thynne, at the expense of 
 Mrs. Pegg, in memory of her daughter Eliza. 
 
 Chancel . — The Chancel in 1869 was quite bare, and open to 
 the nave and north chantry chapel. The ancient choir stalls, 
 called “ Miserere,” very fine, and beautifully carved, were 
 scattered about the church, and the sedilia, or seats for the 
 celebrant and his assistants, were completely defaced and blocked 
 up by the large pyramidal monument in memory of Samuel Milles 
 (died 1727). 
 
 The end of the Subsellia (east of south side, see plate 7, page 
 30) struck the keynote of the restoration. By placing this in its 
 present position, the architect, Mr. William White, was enabled to 
 replace the other parts in their proper places, and what was missing 
 was made good. 
 
 The monument of Samuel Milles was removed (by kind per- 
 mission, and at the expense of the late Lord Sondes) to the 
 Milles chapel (see plates 3 and 4) ; and the seats of the sedilia, 
 when restored, gave the levels of ascent (seven in number) from 
 the nave to the Altar. The Chancel was repaved with encaustic 
 tiles, and, in addition to the new Choir stalls, a new Altar, bishop’s 
 chair, and lectern of carved oak, were provided by collection 
 
 * The first three lines are copied from an epitaph for a godly man’s tomb in 
 Wild’s Iter Boreale, &:c., p. 46. The following is the counterpart, for a 
 wicked man’s tomb : — 
 
 “ Here lies the carcase of a cursed sinner, 
 
 Doomed to be roused for the devil’s dinner.” 
 
30 
 
 MEMORIALS OF HERNE, KENT. 
 
 and contribution. Miss Mary Baskerville gave a very handsome 
 corona, in memory of her sister Jane ; the Ecclesiastical Commis- 
 sioners thoroughly restored the roof ; and Mrs. Frances Louisa 
 
 Plate 7. — CHANCEL. 
 
 Smith, of Herne Bay, crowned the whole by the munificent gifts of 
 Reredos, stained glass East window, Chancel Screen, separating 
 Chancel from North Chantry Chapel, two large brass candelabra. 
 
THE CHURCH OF HERNE. 
 
 31 
 
 one on each side of the Altar, and the stained glass windows and 
 new oak benches in the porch, at the cost of nearly a thousand 
 pounds. The architects for Mrs. Smith’s gift were Messrs. Goldie 
 and Child ; the sculptor, Mr. Earp ; and the artist in glass, Mr. 
 Wailes. 
 
 East Window . — The East Window, of five lights, is noticeable 
 for its cluster of circles in the upper part, which at first seems to 
 
 be Early English, or first pointed 
 work. It is, however, of the same 
 date as the rest of the church (except 
 the tower), viz., third pointed, or 
 Perpendicular. 
 
 The two other windows, of single 
 lights (also resembling Early English) 
 are both filled with stained glass, 
 well executed; the North (“The 
 Resurrection”) in memory of William 
 Wood; the South (“The Ascen- 
 sion ”) in memory of the Rev. John 
 Wood, Vicar (died 1831, the father 
 of the former), and Catherine Eliza- 
 beth, his wife. 
 
 The Sedilia (seats for the clergy) 
 and Piscina (place for cleansing the 
 holy vessels) are very interesting, 
 and worthy of careful notice. 
 
 MONUMENT OF SIR WILLIAM 
 THORNHURST. 
 
 Monume 7 it of Sir W. Thorfihurst. 
 — The visitor cannot fail to observe 
 an old monument, representing a 
 warrior in armour kneeling on a 
 cushion at a table, with gilded hel- 
 met and crest (there was formerly 
 also a banner) above. See plate. 
 
 The following is the inscription : — 
 
 “ Here lieth buried the body of Sir William Thornhurst Knight sonne and 
 heire to Sir Stephen Thornhurst of Foorde in this countie, Knight, 
 which Sir William married Ann daughter unto the Right Honourable 
 Thomas Lord Howard Viscount Howard of Bindon and by her had issue one 
 sonne named Gifford Thornhurst and two daughters named Frances and 
 Grace. He dyed the 24th dayeofjuly 1606 and in the 31st year of his age.” 
 
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 MEMORIALS OF HERNE, KENT. 
 
 This monument is most beautifully executed in marble alabaster, 
 coloured with gold, vermilion, and blue. It is otherwise very 
 interesting. Sir William, as well as his father, was keeper of the 
 Archbishop’s Palace at Ford (already described), and his great- 
 granddaughter was the celebrated Duchess of Marlborough, who 
 figured so long and prominently in the reign of Queen Anne. 
 
 The following is the Pedigree : — 
 
 Sir William Thornhurst, of Herne =f=Ann, daughter of Thomas, Lord 
 
 I Howard of Bindon. 
 
 I ' 
 
 Sir Gifford Thornhurst, of 01d=pSusanna, daughter of Sir Alexander 
 
 Romney, Bart. | Temple, Knight of Chadwell. 
 
 I ' 
 
 Frances Thornhurst =f=Richard Jenyns, of S. Albans, 
 
 I Herts. 
 
 I J 
 
 Sarah Jenyns =f=John Churchill, first Duke of 
 
 AMarlborough. 
 
 The perforation in the wall beneath this monument is a 
 Hagioscope (commonly called a squint) probably to enable the 
 worshippers in the North Chantry Chapel to have a view of the 
 High Altar. 
 
 Table Tomb . — The Table Tomb of stone, let into the north wall, 
 is an object of special interest, and from the peculiarity of its 
 position as well as the absence of any inscription, cannot fail to 
 arrest the visitor’s attention. 
 
 Brandon says it is the Tomb of some distinguished person, 
 probably the Founder. 
 
 The three shields, bearing arms incised, and until recently 
 covered with whitewash, seem to me clearly to indicate Sir John 
 Fineux, who lived and died at Hawe (the “ olde Fineux ” already 
 alluded to) as its owner. Sir John, whose arms are in the centre 
 (a chevron between three eagles) married twice, and the arms of 
 both his wives are incised on the same tomb. 
 
 His first wife was Elizabeth, daughter of William Apuldrefield 
 (a very ancient family), of Lynstead, Kent, whose arms are a cross 
 voided, and his second wife, Elizabeth, widow of William Clere, 
 and daughter of “Sir John Paston the younger, of Paston, Nor- 
 folk,”^" whose arms are six fleur de lys a chief indented. It is true 
 that Sir John devised to be buried in Canterbury Cathedral (see 
 Old Wills), and that Somner declares that Sir John Fineux and his 
 
 * Blomefield's Norfolk, vol. vi., p. 293 , note 4 . 
 
THE CHURCH OF HERNE. 
 
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 second wife are there buried,"^ but people were not always buried 
 according to their wills {e.g.. Sir Matthew Philip, see Old Wills). 
 
 Gough tells us that local historians are often inaccurate. f 
 
 I believe this to be the tomb of Sir John Fineux, and certainly 
 of Elizabeth (Apuldrefield) his wife, who devised, by her will, to 
 be buried in the “ high quyre in the church at Herne ” (see Old 
 Wills), and in whose memory a very beautiful brass still remains. 
 (See Brass IV.) 
 
 North Chantry, or Milks Chapel. — The North Chantry, or 
 Milles Chapel, is also called the “ Lady Chapel,”^ and ‘‘ Chapel 
 of St. John the Baptist.Ӥ This, I think, admits of very easy 
 explanation. 
 
 It is evident from a mere glance at the north and south 
 walls that there were two Altars, and therefore two Chapels ; 
 one dedicated to St. John the Baptist, the other to the Blessed 
 Virgin Mary. The present position of the Brasses (in the centre) 
 is no proof to the contrary. At the first restoration of the church, 
 in 1850, when the church was repewed, the west gallery removed, 
 and a new roof put on the Nave and South Aisle, this Chapel was 
 repaved, and I think it very likely that the positions of some of 
 the Brasses were then altered. We know that Brasses have been 
 removed, through ignorance or caprice, because, in the eyes of so- 
 called restorers, they did not harmonise with the bright new tiles. 
 Sometimes they are not even replaced. Some of the Brasses 
 mentioned by Weever, Hasted, and Greenwood, as existing in this 
 church cannot now be found. Not many months ago I myself 
 discovered one of these — a very important one — and rescued it 
 from the ignominious use to which it was being put. 
 
 It was in a wind w, and on the back of it was written in chalk, 
 “ Key of sandpit ai Mr. Rootd si' 
 
 Some of the most distinguished ancestors of the Milles family 
 are buried in this chapel. The following are the most important : 
 
 * Antiq. of Canterbury, Appendix, xxii. 
 
 t ‘‘Sepulchral Monuments,” vol. i., p. 7. “So inattentive are the resident 
 describers of our monuments that Archdeacon Batteley mistook for Archbishop 
 Islip’s in the nave of Canterbury Cathedral, an altar tomb or slab robbed of its 
 brasses, which represented a man and wife.” Gostling, p. 205. 
 
 X A chantry in honour of the Blessed Virgin Mary was founded in this church 
 by Thomas Newe, Vicar of Reculver (“ Vir vere insigiiis.") He resigned a.d. 
 1356. Reg. Islip, fol. 237 a. 
 
 Peter Halleland William Philip both devised, by will, to be buried in 
 \ the Chapel of St. John the Baptist, Herne. Hasted, vol. iii. p. 617 — 619. 
 
 D 
 
34 
 
 MEMORIALS OF HERNE, KENT. 
 
 VIEW IN NORTH CHANTRY CHAPEL, SHOWING HAGIOSCOPE, AUMBRY, 
 SCREEN, <S:C. 
 
THE CHURCH OF HERNE. 
 
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 1. — A black marble slab (on the floor the north side) “ In 
 “ memory of Christopher Milles, Knight, Clarke of Queen Anne’s 
 “robes, and King James’ and King Charles’ privy chamber” 
 (died 1638). In this vault are also buried; Mary, his second 
 wife (died 1631), Edward (his eldest son, died 1627), Christopher 
 (another son, died 1638,) and his two wives, Alicia and Sara 
 (died 1664 and 1675, respectively). 
 
 2. — A black and white marble pyramidal monument (removed 
 from the Sedilia), in memory of Samuel Milles, Knight."^ He 
 married Anna, sister of Sir Thomas Hales, Bart. He was Steward 
 of the temporal courts of the Archbishop, the Dean and Chapter, 
 and the Monastery of S. Augustine’s, Canterbury. He died 1727. 
 
 3. On the North Wall is a very handsome marble monument, 
 with a long and laudatory Latin epitaph of the period, in memory 
 of Christopher Milles (grandson of the former), who died 1706, 
 and his four wives : — 
 
 Alice, daughter of Robert Saunders, of Maidstone, Esq. ; 
 Sara, daughter of Samuel Disborough, of Maidstone, Esq. ; 
 Margeret, daughter of John Boys, of Betteshanger, Esq. ; Eliza- 
 beth, daughter of Sir Cheney Colepepper, Knight, of Leeds 
 Castle. 
 
 There are memorial stones on the floor in memory of William 
 Foche, Vicar (died 1713), and Elizabeth, wife of John Stephens, 
 of Canterbury, and daughter of Richard Gillow, of Woodnes- 
 borough (died 1743). 
 
 There are also mural slabs, one in memory of the Palmer 
 family, and the other “in remembrance of Rev. John Wood, 
 B.D., thirty-seven years vicar ” (died 1831), “one of the best of 
 fathers, by his two affectionate children.” 
 
 BRASSES. 
 
 We will now describe the brasses, five in number, with effigies and 
 four inscriptions only. For particulars of dress I am indebted to 
 Messrs. Waller, Boutell, and Haines, and also to Mr. George 
 Capes, jun. . 
 
 I. ^ Peter Hall^ and wife (in the Chantry Chapel). — The 
 knight is in a complete suit of plate armour, a gusset only of mail 
 being visible behind the fan-shaped elbow-piece of the extended 
 
 * Ife also was a benefactor, and gave a beautiful alms dish to fhe church. 
 
 D 2 
 
36 
 
 MEMORIALS OF HERNE, KENT. 
 
 Brass I.— SIR peter halle and wife. 
 
THE CHURCH OF HERNE. 
 
 37 
 
 arm. His feet, which have guarded spurs (indicating, I believe, a 
 Court appointment) rest upon a dog. His right hand is joined to 
 his wife’s (the usual attitude is one of prayer). A portion only 
 of the sword remains. 
 
 Out of his mouth issues a label with an inscription (in Latin), 
 
 “ Have mercy upon me, O God.” ^ 
 
 The lady’s dress is remarkable and interesting. She wears a 
 sideless cotehardie and mantle. Her head-dressf consists of a 
 richly worked caul, spreading out laterally, over which is a veil 
 which falls in folds. Out of her mouth issue the words (in Latin), 
 
 “ Mother of God, remember me.” 
 
 The following is the Latin inscription : — 
 
 Hie iacet Petrus Halle Armig’ et Elyzabeth vxor eius filia dni Willi Waleys 
 Militis et dfie Margarete vx’is ei’ filie dni Johls Seynclere Militisquor’ aiabs et 
 alabs filior’ et filiar’ pdcor petri et Elizabeth ppiciet’ de’ ame. 
 
 The following is the inscription (in English) : — 
 
 “ Here lieth Peter Halle, Knight, and Elizabeth his wife, daughter of Sir 
 William Waleys, Knight, and Dame Margeret his wife, daughter of Sir John 
 Seynclere, Knight, for whose soul and the souls of the sons and daughters of 
 the aforesaid Peter and Elizabeth may God be propitiated. Amen. 
 
 The date is circa a.d. 1420.^ 
 
 11 . John Barley (in the chancel). — This is the figure of a 
 former Vicar of Herne, in the costume of a Bachelor of Divinity, 
 viz.. Cassock, Tippet, Hood and Gown, with armholes lined with 
 fur. The head has the tonsure. At his feet is a lion, very un- 
 common with ecclesiastics, civilians, and ladies. There are only 
 two other instances of ecclesiastics, one at G f ^veney^ Kent, the 
 other at ^litd re y y^^ orke . hrnttfA ^ t 
 
 Around the verge of the stone was the following inscription (the 
 words wanting are filled in from other sources) : — 
 
 “ Here lieth Master John Darley, Bachelor in Sacred Theology, formerly 
 vicar, age 81.” 
 
 At each corner was an Evangelistic Emblem ; only one now 
 remains. 
 
 * The knight’s arms inscribed on this brass are also on the font, and are 
 there described. They are here impaled with a fess for Waleys and the Sun 
 resplendent for Seynclere. 
 
 t Similar to that of the Corbel head in north-eastern angle of baptistery. 
 (See plate 2, page 19.) 
 
 X Vide Waller, Part VII. Boutell, p. 62. 
 
 
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 MEMORIALS OF HERNE, KENT. 
 
 The Epitaph, in quaint Latin verse, runs as follows : — 
 
 “Siste gradum, videas corpus jacet ecce Johannis 
 Darley, qui multis fuit hie Curatus in annis ; 
 
 Iste pater morum fuit, et flos philosophorum, 
 
 Dux, via, norma gregis, patriae lux anchora legis ; 
 
 Pagina sacra cui dedit inceptoris honorem 
 
 Mine memor esto tui precibus sibi dando favorem.” 
 
 I give this inscription in Latin, not only for the benefit 
 of scholars, as the verses are very peculiar, but also in 
 order to justify the advice given rne by two very kind 
 friends (VV. de Gray Birch and Major Heales), not to 
 trust to references, but. always to test 
 them. In this present instance I find that 
 Dr. Buncombe (Vicar of Herne and the 
 best historian of the parish) has made no 
 less than five mistakes, besides leaving out 
 the last line : e.g., for curatus he has 
 “ miratus ” ; for Iste, “ Ille ” ; for Dux, 
 “ qui ” ; for Norma, “ Norina ” ; for legis, 
 “ gregis.”^' 
 
 But more remarkable still, Mr. George 
 Capes, jun., in a very elaborate description 
 of the Herne Brasses, apparently follows 
 suit, for he makes four out of the five 
 same mistakes. He, however, gives the 
 last line with two mistakes, viz., for hinc, 
 “huic,” and for tui, “ huic.^f 
 
 It is scarcely necessary to remark that, 
 misquoting the Latin, Mr. Capes is some- 
 what puzzled with the English. 
 
 As the inscription is in Latin verse, Mr. 
 Henry Grey (churchwarden) has kindly 
 Brass II.— JOHN darley. translated it into English verse. 
 
 “ Stay, see John Barley’s body lieth here, 
 
 Curate he was of Herne for many a year ; 
 
 Of morals, law, philosophy the pride. 
 
 His people’s teacher, rule of life, and guide ; 
 
 His honoured task t’unfold the sacred scroll ; 
 
 Think of thy sins in praying for his soul.” 
 
 Messrs. Waller assign a.d. i 480 as the date of this brass ; Haines 
 
 * Bib. Top. Brit, xviii. 
 
 t Brit. Arch. Ass. Journal, xii. 80. 
 
THE CHURCHOF HERNE. 
 
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 (^in my opinion with greater accuracy) about 1450. John Darley 
 was collated on May 5th, 1432, by Archbishop Chichele"^'; and 
 on August 1 2th, 1446 (when his successor, John Bedale, was 
 collated), a pension of a year for life from the proceeds 
 
 of the benefice was settled upon John Darley,t who then 
 resigned. 
 
 III. Christina Phelip (or Philip), (in the North Chantry 
 Chapel). — This is what is called a Goldsmith’s Brass, according 
 
 to Haines, “ of superior work- 
 manship and delicate tracery.” 
 The lady is habited in a very 
 long gown, bound with a broad 
 band, and open at the breast, 
 showing a small portion of the 
 bodice, which, according to 
 Planch6, was introduced about 
 this time.]; It is observable 
 that the waist is much shorter 
 than that worn fifty years be- 
 fore by the wife of Sir Peter 
 Halle, whose effigy is on the 
 first brass. The rosary has no 
 cross attached to it. She wears 
 the horned, or forked head- 
 dress of the previous reign. 
 Over the dress is a long 
 mantle trimmed with fur, and 
 fastened with cords and bands. 
 
 The hands are opened out- 
 wards, not joined in prayer, 
 as is usual. Above her head, 
 on a scroll, are the words (of 
 
 Brass ni.-cHRisTiNA PHIUP. ‘hose in parentheses are 
 
 wanting) : 
 
 “ Have mercy upon me, O God, according to (Thy) great (mercy).” 
 There are ancient as well as modern mistakes, “ magnam ” 
 (great) being spelt “ mangnam.” 
 
 * Chichele Reg. f. 193b. t Staff Reg. f. 90. 
 
 X Hist, of Brit. Costume (Temp. Edward IV.) 
 
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 MEMORIALS OE HERlSfE, KENT. 
 
 The following is the Latin inscription : — 
 
 Orate specialit’ p Ala Dne xpine dudu vxoris Mathei Phelip ciuis et 
 Aurifabri ac quonda maioris ciuitatis londln que migrauit ab hac valle miserie 
 xxv*^ die maii K dni milifno cccc^lxx^ cuius Ale ppiciet’ de’ Ame. 
 
 The Inscription (in English) is as follows : — 
 
 “Pray specially for the soul of Christina, formerly the wife of Matthew 
 Phelip, citizen and goldsmith, and formerly Mayor of the City of London, who 
 migrated from this vale of misery the 25th day of May in the year of our Lord 
 1470, on whose soul may God have mercy. Amen.” 
 
 On a shield are the arms of Philip. Semee of fleurs de lis 
 impaled with five lozenges in bend. This brass is of great historic 
 interest. 
 
 Sir Mathew Philip (who is also buried here) was, according to 
 Stowe, the son of Arnold Philip, of Norwich, but I think the 
 statement incorrect. Sir Mathew Philip was without doubt a 
 very remarkable man. He was in all probability the son of 
 William Philip of Herne (died 1458) and to his own son William 
 of Herne (upon the death of his third wife, Beatrice) he 
 bequeathed his estates in Herne. See Old Wills. 
 
 Weever states that “ he was made Knight of the Bath at the 
 “ Coronation of Elizabeth, wife of Edward the 4th, and, after that, 
 “ was knighted on the field in 1471.”! 
 
 Other historians furnish us with full particulars, which are very 
 interesting, of these two knightings. 
 
 Fabyan tells us that “ the nyght before Elizabeth was crowned 
 “ at Westmynstre with great solempnytie, Matthew Philip and 
 “ others were than and there [at the Tower] made Knyghtes of the 
 “ Bath.'t 
 
 Orridge gives us the reason. It was on account of the valiant 
 defence made by the citizens of London against the assaults of 
 Lord Scales and the bastard Falconbridge.§ 
 
 Metcalfe gives us the exact date and occasion of the second 
 knighting (knight Banneret). “ It was on the 20th May, 1471, on 
 “the King’s retourne from the field of Tewkesbury,”!! andStowe,^ 
 “ the exact place, “ one mile without the citie, to wit, between 
 “ Iseldon ” (Islington) “and Sorse-ditch” (Shoreditch). Sir 
 Matthew was otherwise eminent in business. He was evidently 
 the King’s goldsmith ; — e. g. 
 
 ♦Survey of London, vol. ii., p. 122. f Funeral Monuments, Herne, p. 3. 
 
 f Chronicle, p. 655 § Citizens and their Rulers, p. 25. 
 
 j| “ Book of Knights,” p. 4. H Annales, p. 698. 
 
THE CHURCH OF HERNE. 
 
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 “ On the 30th January, 1448, there was a warrant (Henry VI.) 
 “to John Merston, Treasurer of Chamber and Keeper of Jewels, 
 “to deliver to John Paddesly and Matthew Phelip, goldsmiths, 
 “ as pledges for ;£’3,i5o, due to them for jewels,” the following : — 
 (Here follows a full description of the articles of plate, amongst 
 which is) — “ Unum spyce plate auri coopertum cum petris et 
 “perulis garnizatum vocatum le riche spyce plate.” 
 
 And another: — “Unum discum magnum eleemosynarum, de 
 “ Argento et de aurato factum ad modum cujusdam navis cum 
 “ hominibus ad arma circumstantibus, ponderantia, de pondere 
 “Trojani, sexagintaet septem libras et novem uncias.”^' 
 
 There is also another warrant : — 
 
 “ 15th September, 1455, the King (Henry VI.) paid Matthew 
 “ Philip, Citizen and Goldsmith of London, in part payment for 
 “the garter of gold garnissed withe stones and pearls (Order of 
 “ the Garter) for the King of Portugal.”! 
 
 Chaffers states that “ Sir Matthew Philip was Mayor of London 
 “in 1463-4, Warden of the Goldsmiths’ Company in 1474, and 
 “ that he subscribed 6s. 8d. towards St. Dunstan’s feast, which 
 “ amounted altogether to ^^15 5s. 2d.”! 
 
 IV. Elizabeth Fyneux. 
 — (This is also a gold- 
 smith’s brass, in the Chan- 
 cel). The lady is habited 
 in a low dress with slashed 
 sleeves, bound round the 
 waist with a broad girdle, 
 in the centre of which is a 
 large ornament, and, pen- 
 dant,(the pomander). From 
 the waist the gown is open 
 showing the petticoat or 
 kirtle; above the dress is 
 seen the habit shirt, which 
 was introduced in this 
 reign. Her dress is beauti- 
 
 * Hardy’s Syllabus of Rymer’s Foedera, vol ii., 678. 
 
 t “ Chronicles and Memorials of Great Britain during the Middle Ages, 
 xxii. Part ii., 504-5. 
 
 X Gilda Aurifabrorum, p. 57. 
 
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 MEMORIALS OF HERNE, KENT. 
 
 fully embroidered. The cap is very plain, and has somewhat the 
 appearance of a widow’s cap of our own times. From the in- 
 scription it would also appear that this lady was a widow.^ The 
 inscription, which is very remarkable, is as follows : — 
 
 “ The xxij daye of the moneth auguste/the yere after the Incarnacyon 
 Of owr lord god to reken Juste/A thowsand hue hundreth forty saue one 
 Dyed this lady whych vnder thys stone/lyeth here buryed Elyzabeth by name 
 The wyfe of s'- John ffyneux late gone/The whych in thys world had eu^- good 
 Fam Whose soil I pi’ye Jhu thro wgh hys grace/In heuen maye haue a restyng place. ’ ' 
 
 She was the daughter of Sir of Lynsted, 
 
 Kent, and, being the only child, brought large possessions to her 
 husband. (See Old Wills.) 
 
 Sir John Fineux was Chief Justice of the Court of King’s 
 Bench (Hen. VII. and Hen. VIIL). He died 1525. (See Old 
 Wills.) 
 
 They had two daughters, Jane, who married John Roper,t of 
 Eltham ; and Mildred, who married James Diggs, of Barham. 
 
 V. John Sea and 
 his two wives (in the 
 Chantry Chapel). — 
 John Sea, oratte Sea, 
 belonged to a very 
 ancient family which 
 for many years were 
 possessors of the 
 manor of At Sea (or 
 Strode), which at one 
 time included the 
 manor of Under- 
 down, where he died. 
 The following is the 
 inscription : — 
 
 “ Here lieth interred 
 John Sea of Underdown 
 in the parish of Herne, 
 Esquire, who tooke to 
 wife Martha Hamond 
 daughter of Tho Ham, of 
 
 Brass V.— john sea and his wives. 
 
 r,,. “Kent Fines,” 26 Hen. VIIL (1535), mention is made of “Lady 
 Llizabeth Fenyeux, of Herne,” evidently the same person. 
 
 + His great grandson was created Baron Teynham in 1616. 
 
THE CHURCH OF HERNE. 
 
 43 
 
 St. Alban’s in East Kent Esquire, by whom he had issue 6 sonnes and 3 
 daughters ; after her decease he married Sara Boys, eldest daughter unto 
 Thomas Boys of Barfreston, gent, by whom he had one sonne, and one 
 daughter and lived and died in peace. Obiit 23rd February 1604.” 
 
 Four shields occupy the corners of the stone, i. The Arms of 
 Sea, a fish hauriant between flanches, charged with bars nebulae, 
 impaled with those of Hamond, on a chevron between three 
 rondels, each charged with a martlet, as many escallop shells 
 within a bordure engrailed. 2. Missing. 3. Arms of Sea impaled 
 with a griffin rampant within a bordure, for Boys. 4. Same as i . 
 
 The visitor cannot fail to notice the exact identity, line for 
 line, in the stiff formal dresses of the ladies, which, compared 
 with the elaborate costumes of those of the preceding, are very 
 uninteresting. 
 
 Mr. Capes, to judge by his humorous description, seems to 
 have been particularly struck with this fact. 
 
 “ It would appear,’' says he, that “ the second wife (to use 
 “ a familiar expression) not only stepped into the first wife’s shoes, 
 “ but, being probably of an economical turn, might have appro- 
 “priated to her own use the entire wardrobe of the deceased 
 “ partner of her husband's affections.”'^ 
 
 The following have Inscriptions only : 
 
 VI. William Bysmare (in North Chantry Chapel, not fixed, 
 lately recovered). 
 
 “Here lieth William Bysmare, formerly citizen and goldsmith of London, 
 who died a.d. 1456, and Elizabeth, Agnes, and Margaret, his wives.” 
 
 VII. Antony Loverick and Wife (in North Chantry Chapel). 
 
 “ Here lies Antony Loverick and Constantia his wife, who died 10 October, 
 
 1511.” 
 
 His arms (almost obliterated), three leopards’ heads, are carved 
 on one of the shields of the Font. 
 
 VIII. John Fyneux (in North Chantry Chapel, not fixed). This 
 is the brass fortunately recovered. (See p. 33.) 
 
 “ Here lieth John Fyneux late of this Pish of Hearne Esquierand Margaret 
 his wife Daughter of Thomas Mor(ley) sometyme of Glyne in the Countie of 
 Sussex Esquier w^*^ Margaret deceassed the nynth day of December 159 it and 
 
 * Journal of Brit. Arch. Ass. — XH. 80. 
 t This lady in the register is buried the same day. 
 
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 MEMORIALS OF HERNE, KENT. 
 
 in the fewer and thirtith yere of the reigne of our sovaigne Ladie Queene Eliz. ; 
 and the said John Fyneux departed this life y® last day of July following 1592 
 in the said xxxiiii^^ yere of the Queene’s matie leaving Behind them one only 
 daughter and heir named Elizabeth who maried John Smith Esquier sone and 
 heir of Thomas Smith late of Ostenhanger in this countie of Rente,” 
 
 IX. At the foot of the Benefaction Tables in the South 
 Chantry Chapel is a small Brass with the following curious Inscrip- 
 tion : — 
 
 ‘‘ Hie chorus indecorus fuerat, nunc valde decorus, 
 
 An dicas istum qui decoravit eum.” 
 
 Thus freely translated by Mr. Henry Grey (churchwarden) : — 
 
 “ Here a bad choir was once, but now a good one, 
 
 One would not call the change a bad one, would one.” 
 
 Before quitting this subject, let me direct the attention of the 
 visitor to two other objects of interest in the churchyard. 
 
 One, the oldest gravestone known, opposite the centre buttress 
 of North Chantry Chapel. It is marked gq, and bears the date of 
 1652. 
 
 The other, the gravestone of John Fergusson Moultrie (against 
 the West Railings, towards the South), on which are inscribed the 
 following beautiful lines, by the Rev. John Moultrie, late vicar 
 of Rugby. I give them because the late Dean of Westminster 
 told me he thought no history of Herne Church would be complete 
 without them. 
 
 “ Sweet babe, from griefs and dangers 
 Rest here, for ever free ; 
 
 We leave thy dust to strangers, 
 
 But, oh, we leave not thee ! 
 
 “ Thy mortal sweetness, smitten 
 To scourge our souls from sin, 
 
 Is on our memory written. 
 
 And treasured deep within ; 
 
 “ While that which is immortal 
 Fond hope doth still retain ; 
 
 And saith, ‘ At heaven’s bright portal 
 Ye all shall meet again.’ ” 
 
THE CHURCH OF HERNE. 
 
 45 
 
 Brief aiccount of .St. iilarttn. 
 
 St. Martin, Bishop of Tours, was born a.d. 320, at Sabaria, in 
 Pannonia (Steinamargen). His father and mother were heathens ; 
 he was at first a Roman soldier when fifteen years of age, and bap- 
 tised at eighteen. His corps was situated at Ambianum (Amiens). 
 
 The legend runs that on one bitter winter day, as he was 
 passing the gate of the city, he saw a poor beggar nearly naked, 
 so utterly ragged were his clothes ; Martin, filled with pity, cut his 
 mantle in two and gave half to the beggar. Next night as he 
 slept, he saw Jesus Christ seated on His throne surrounded by 
 the host of Heaven, wearing the half mantle of Martin over His 
 shoulders. “ See,” he heard the Saviour say, “ this is the mantle 
 which Martin, yet a catechumen, gave Me.” 
 
 In A.D. 358, in the midst of the war with the Franks and 
 Allemanni, when the Emperor Julian was at Worms, Martin (then 
 a tribune) made an untimely claim to be released from military 
 duty. Julian was indignant, a battle being imminent, and he 
 scornfully refused the petition, saying Martin was a coward. The 
 young tribune answered : Put me in the fore-front of the army, 
 without weapons or armour, but I will not draw sword again, I am 
 become the soldier of Christ.” He was immediately put in irons, 
 but was afterwards released. On leaving the army Martin went 
 to Poictiers, and put himself under Hilary, who afterwards 
 ordained him an exorcist. 
 
 In A.D. 371 he became Bishop of Tours, but remained a monk, 
 living in a cell. Being wearied with the number of visitors 
 attracted by his sanctity, he removed to the place where after- 
 wards stood the Abbey of Marmontier, on the Loire. He had 
 eighty disciples, who dressed in skins, ate but once a day, and 
 drank no wine. 
 
 When at the end of his career (eighty years of age) and eager to 
 receive his celestial reward, he yielded to the tears of his disciples 
 and consented to ask from God the prolongation of his days, 
 “ Lord,” said he, “ if I am still necessary to Thy people, I will not 
 draw back from the work,” ^Homine non recuso lahorem.^^ Noble 
 words ! — words which ought to be the motto of every Christian. 
 
 He died November 9th, a.d. 401. 
 
 In Art, St. Martin is represented as a young Tribune on horse- 
 back, dividing his cloak and giving half to a beggar. 
 
CHAPTER IV. 
 
 U tears 
 
 of f^erne ano Cljantrg priests. 
 
 
 VICARS OF HERNE. 
 
 
 Date of 
 Appointment. 
 
 Names. 
 
 Register. 
 
 1310 
 
 Hugh de Godynestre 
 
 Winchelsey, f. 30. 
 
 This Vicar is named in the endowment, but it is not certain that 
 
 he was collated. 
 
 
 
 1321 
 
 Henry Rouhall 
 
 Reynolds, f. 29. 
 
 1350 
 
 Richard Medebourne 
 
 Islip, f. 255a. 
 
 1357 
 
 William Kac, or Koc 
 
 Ibid. f. 279a. 
 
 f 
 
 John Hawe 
 
 
 1376 July 9th 
 
 Nicholas de Farneham 
 
 Sudbury, f. 114a. 
 
 „ / Oct. 28th 
 
 Roger Sutton, by exchange 
 with Farneham 
 
 Ibid. f. 119a. 
 
 „ ( Oct. 28th 
 
 John Chert, by exchange 
 with Sutton 
 
 „ f. 119a. 
 
 „ Dec. 31st 
 
 \ 
 
 William Graunt, by exchange Bouchier and 
 with Chert Courteney, f. 216b. 
 
 1393 
 
 William Gosse Courteney 
 
 in Morton Dene. 
 
 1431 
 
 Henry Basset Chicheley, p. i, f. 194a. 
 
 1432 
 
 John Darley 
 
 Ibid. f. 195b. 
 
 See brass No II. He resigned in 1446, through age and in- 
 firmity, and Archbishop Stafford granted him a pension of ^10 
 per annum for life, out of the proceeds of the benefice (Stafford 
 Reg. f. 90a). We have here a precedent for retiring pensions. 
 
 1446 
 
 John Bedale 
 
 Stafford, f. 90. 
 
 1464 
 
 Christopher Warinyngton 
 Richard Bonaventure 
 
 (Bouchier, f. 89b.) 
 
 1489 
 
 John Caton Morton, Dene, Bouchier, and 
 
 Courteney, f. 146a. 
 
VICAJ^S OF HERNE. 
 
 47 
 
 Date of 
 Appointment. 
 
 Names. 
 
 Register. 
 
 Warham, f. 342a. 
 
 1511 
 
 1531 
 
 Andrew Benstede 
 John Warren 
 
 Ibid. f. 405b. 
 
 (See Old Wills.) 
 
 1538 
 
 Nicholas Ridley 
 
 Cranmer, 364b. 
 
 The chief interest of Herne, in the minds of most people, 
 centres in the person of Bishop Ridley, on account of his learning 
 and eloquence, and the prominent part he took in the Reforma- 
 tion, which cost him his life. 
 
 Nicholas Ridley was born at Tyneside, in Northumberland, 
 of an ancient family. He entered Pembroke Hall, Cam- 
 bridge, in 1518, and afterwards studied at Paris and Louvain. 
 Plis great reputation as a preacher and intimate acquaint- 
 ance with the Holy Scriptures and the Fathers, induced 
 Archbishop Cranmer to make him his chaplain, and the firm and 
 intimate friendship which was then formed between them was 
 life-long. 
 
 In 1540 he was made Master of Pembroke Hall. 
 
 In 1541, “Articles were exhibited against him for preaching at 
 “ Stephens against Auricular Confession, and directing iheTe Deiwi 
 “ to be sung in English in Herne Church.”'^ 
 
 In 1545 he was appointed Bishop of Rochester, and in 1547, 
 Nov. 1 6th, “License was given to Nicholas Ridley, Bishop of 
 “ Rochester, to hold the Vicarages of Herne (Canterbury), Soham, 
 “ Norwich, and also two prebends at Canterbury and West- 
 “ minster.”! 
 
 In 1549, by a Commission consisting of Archbishop Cranmer, 
 Bishop Ridley, the Dean of St. Paul’s (Dr. May), and two Secre- 
 taries of State, Bonner, Bishop of London, was deprived, and 
 Bishop Ridley elected in his place, the first three giving sentence 
 of deprivation.! 
 
 It is but fair to state that “ Bishop Bonner had hitherto complied 
 “with the ecclesiastical changes made by Henry VIIL,”§ and that 
 he had not yet committed any of those cruel acts which afterwards 
 earned him the name of persecutor. 
 
 On the same day that he was appointed Bishop of London 
 (Oct. I St), Bishop Ridley surrendered four valuable manors belong- 
 
 * Chalmer’s Biog. Diet., xxvi. 210. f Syll. of Rymer’s Foedera, iii. 78. 
 
 I Burnet’s Hist, of Ref., vol. ii., p. 220. § Blunt’s Hist, of Ref., p. 119. 
 
48 
 
 MEMORIALS OF HERNE, KENT. 
 
 ing to that see,^ nominally to the King, but in reality to his 
 courtiers, Sir Richard Rich (Lord Chancellor), Sir Thomas 
 Darcy, and Herbert (Lord Wentworth, K.G., Master of the King’s 
 horses), by whom the warrant was signed on behalf of the King, 
 to whom, “ after the immodest interval of four days, by a second 
 “ instrument they were re-conveyed. ’’f 
 
 In 1550, at his visitation. Bishop Ridley issued his Injunctions 
 ordering the removal of Stone Altars, J which order undoubtedly 
 paved the way for the removal of church goods and effects 
 generally which followed shortly afterwards.§ 
 
 In 1553 Bishop Ridley preached before the King (Edward VI.), 
 then languishing under decline, on Charity, with such effect that 
 those noble institutions, Christ’s, St. Bartholomew’s, Bridewell, 
 and St. Thomas’s Hospitals were either founded or incorporated 
 anew and endowed. || 
 
 Upon the death of Edward VI., Bishop Ridley joined in the 
 futile attempt to set Lady Jane Grey on the throne. Upon the 
 same day that the edict went forth from the Council declaring her 
 Queen (9th July, 1553), “ Preched the Byshoppe of London, 
 “ Nicolas Reddesle, at Paul’s Cross, and there called both the sayc 
 “ ladys (Mary and Elizabeth) bastarddes that alle the pepull 
 “ was sore anoyd with his worddes soo uncharytabulle spokyne 
 “by hym in so opyne an awdiens.”lf 
 
 The attempt being unsuccessful, Bishop Ridley went to Queen 
 Mary to do homage and submit himself to her clemency, but 
 was committed to the Tower, although treated with less rigour 
 than Cranmer and Latimer. After eight months imprisonment 
 he was conveyed to Oxford, where, on the ist October, 1555, 
 he was condemned for heresy, and on the 15th suffered martyr- 
 dom by fire for his opinions, together with Bishop Latimer. His 
 farewell address is known to most people who are familiar with 
 his history. I give that portion of it relating to Herne. 
 
 * Braintree, South Minster, Stepney, and Hackney. The warrant is 
 ominously headed, “The late possessions of the Busshopricke of London.” — 
 Public Rec. Office, Augmentation, Deeds of Purchase and Exchange, G. 25. 
 t Dixon’s Church of England, Vol. III., pp. 197-8. 
 
 X Brit. Mus. t. 775-11. 
 
 § “In the beginning of May was tane owt of all the churches of London 
 and aboute (all the) platte and qw5me (coin) that was in theyr boxys in every 
 church for the Kinge’s grace ? and vestments and copes, wyche drew unto 
 a grett substans besyde the coyne.” — Nicholl’s Grey Friars Chron. p. 77. 
 
 II Chalmer’s Biograph. Die. xxxvi., p. 217. 
 
 II Grey Friars Chron. (Nichols), p. 78. 
 
VICARS OF HERNE. 
 
 49 
 
 “ From Cambridge I was called into Kent by the Archbishop of 
 “ Canterbury, Thomas Cranmer, that most reverend father and 
 “ man of God, and of him by and by sent to be Vicar of Herne, 
 “in East Kent. Wherefore, farewell Herne, thou worshipful and 
 “ wealthy parish, the first cure whereunto I was called to minister 
 “ God’s Word. Thou hast heard of my mouth oftentimes the 
 “Word of God preached, not after the Popish trade but after 
 “ the Christ’s Gospel. Oh, that the fruit had answered to the 
 “ seed ! And yet I must acknowledge thee to be my debtor for 
 “ the doctrine of the Lord’s Supper, which I acknowledge at that 
 “ time God had not revealed unto me. But I bless God in all that 
 “ Godly virtue and zeal of God’s Word, which the Lord, by 
 “preaching of His Word, did kindle manifestly both in the 
 “ heart and in the life and works of that godly woman there, my 
 “ Lady Fiennes.'^' The Lord grant that His Word took like 
 “ effect there in many other more.”t 
 
 In reading the different accounts of Bishop Ridley, it is very 
 difficult to arrive at a just conclusion. The rancour of religious 
 prejudice is so great that people of note are, for the most part, 
 depicted by historians either as angels or devils. The judgment 
 thus formed is by no means fixed or lasting, and it is not at all an 
 uncommon thing for the verdict of one age to be reversed by 
 another. But “at length,” as the late Dean Stanley remarks, 
 when describing a character which fully corroborates this state- 
 ment (Becket), “ the pendulum which has been violently swung to 
 and fro, settles into its proper place.”| On the one hand, it is 
 impossible to justify acts which were undoubtedly unlawful and 
 unjust. On the other, we ought to make due allowance for the 
 times in which Bishop Ridley lived, and for the indisputable 
 sincerity of his convictions with regard to the Reformed Church, 
 the fate of which was at that time trembling in the balance. 
 
 Let us judge Bishop Ridley neither as an angel nor a devil, but 
 as a man. Let us judge him as we ourselves would be judged, 
 with “charity ” which “ is kind ” — and which “ thinketh no evil.” 
 
 Date of 
 Appointment. 
 
 1549 
 
 1562 
 
 Thomas Broke 
 Thomas Brydges 
 
 Names. 
 
 Cranmer, f. 410. 
 Parker, 358b. 
 
 Register. 
 
50 
 
 MEMORIALS OF HERNE, KENT. 
 
 Date of T.T 
 
 Appointment. ^ ames. 
 
 Register. 
 
 1590 
 
 Richard Colfe 
 
 Whittift, f. 488b. 
 
 1613 
 
 Isaac Colfe... 
 
 Abbot, f. 396b. 
 
 1616 
 
 Jacob Colfe 
 
 Ibid. f. 420. 
 
 1617 
 
 Thomas Harward ... 
 
 Ibid. f. 429 b. 
 
 1620 
 
 Alexander Chapman 
 
 Ibid. p. II, f. 326a. 
 
 1629 
 
 Francis Ketelby 
 
 Ibid. p. Ill, f. 185a. 
 
 1634 
 
 John Reader 
 
 Laud, p. I, f. 310a. 
 
 
 John Webb 
 
 '■ 
 
 1689 
 
 William Foche 
 
 Sancroft, f. 41b. 
 
 He 
 
 was appointed during Sancroft’s 
 
 5 suspension and is buried 
 
 in the North Chantry Chapel. 
 
 
 1713 
 
 John Ramsey 
 
 Tenison,p. ii,f.2i9a. 
 
 1724 
 
 Henry Archer 
 
 Wake, p. I, f. 333a. 
 
 1726 
 
 William Squire 
 
 Ibid. p. II, f. 235a. 
 
 1739 
 
 Robert Gascoyne ... 
 
 Potter, f. 267a. 
 
 1752 
 
 Henry Hall 
 
 Herring,!. 294b. 
 
 1756 
 
 William Rogers 
 
 Ibid. 
 
 1773 
 
 John Buncombe ... 
 
 Cornwallis. 
 
 Dr. 
 
 Buncombe was a very learned 
 
 man and author of several 
 
 works, amongst them a ‘‘ History of Herne and Reculver.” He 
 was a great Pluralist, being not only Vicar of Herne, but also 
 Rector of St. Andrew’s and St. Mary Bredman’s, Canterbury, 
 
 Master of Harbledown and St. John’s 
 Six Preachers in the Cathedral. 
 
 Hospitals, and one of the 
 
 1786 
 
 Joseph Price 
 
 Moore. 
 
 1794 
 
 John Wood... 
 
 ,, 
 
 1831 
 
 James Six May 
 
 Howley. 
 
 1866 
 
 James Robert Buchanan 
 
 Longley. 
 
 CHANTRY PRIESTS. 
 
 There was a chantry founded in this church in honour of the 
 Virgin Mary, by Thomas Newe, Cl., sometime Vicar of Reculver, 
 to provide for the perpetual celebration of the Mass."^" This 
 foundation, like many others of the same nature, was suppressed 
 in the 2nd year of Edward VI., the revenues of it being at that 
 
 * Hasted, vol. in., 623. 
 
MEMORIALS OF HERNE, KENT. 
 
 51 
 
 time of the yearly value of ^£’6 5s. id., and sold by the King’s 
 Commissioners to William Twysden and John Brown."^ 
 
 JL/clLC U1 
 
 Appointment. 
 
 Names. 
 
 Register. 
 
 1354 
 
 William Burke 
 
 Islip, f. 104a. 
 
 1377 
 
 John Kyngg, on the resigna- 
 
 
 
 tion of Burke 
 
 Sudbury, f. 123b. 
 
 1385 
 
 Nich Crek, presb. 
 
 John Robyn 
 
 Courtney, f. 259a. 
 
 1440 
 
 Thomas Curteyse, on the 
 
 
 
 resignation of Robyn 
 
 Stafford, f. 76b. 
 
 1460 
 
 Richard Wyreham ... 
 
 Bouchier, f. 78a. 
 
 1489 
 
 John Caton, on the resigna- 
 
 
 
 tion of Wyreham 
 
 Morton. 
 
 
 Richard ap Gryffythe 
 
 Warham. 
 
 1506 
 
 Will Mychill, on the resig- 
 
 
 
 nation of Gryffythe 
 
 Warham f. 328b. 
 
 * Survey and Sale of Chantry Lands, in Augmentation Office. 
 
 E 'r, 
 
 h’NiVERSlTY Of 
 ILLINOIS LIBRARY 
 rtf ORBANm-CHAMPAIGN 
 
CHAPTER V. 
 
 ^artsl) JS^egtsters. 
 
 * HE Parish Registers commence November 1558, the first year 
 of Queen Elizabeth. The early portions are beautifully 
 written, and are transcriptions on parchment, according to the 
 stringent mandate to that effect, ordered in 1597. 
 
 The following are very curious : — 
 
 1564. Joane Nottyngha buryed 16 ejusdem (July) dead in travell 
 and her child. 
 
 1564. Valentyne Church a woeman baptized and buryed at home 
 26 ejusdem (December). 
 
 1565. John Jarvys had two women children twynes baptized at 
 home joyned togeather in the belly and havynge each the 
 one of theyr armes lyinge at one of theyr owne shoulders 
 and in all other pts well pportioned chilldren buryed 
 Auguste 29. 
 
 1565. Robert Nicholson maryner and forayner buryed 23 ejusdem 
 (January) this Robert lay in John Dodd’s house from 
 Wednes Day untill Sunday w*‘*out any succour. 
 
 1566. Stephanus Sawyer vir piae memoriae annos natus 92 martii 
 30 vita sua finiit cu 30 annos continuos pura chi religione 
 contra Romanam tyrannidem professus fuisset. 
 
 1567. Quid Arnold a chrysomer"^' buryed 8 ejusdem (February). 
 
 (See also Tithes and Fees, p. 59.) 
 
 1567. Wyllyam Lawson had an infant christyand by the woemen 
 buryed 21 ejusdem (Martii). 
 
 * ~Mr. William Boys, F.S. A., of Sandwich (a well known writer), thought 
 chrysomer meant an unbaptized child — Rev, Samuel Deane thought it meant a 
 christened child that died within the month. — Bib. Top. Brit., xviii., 186-7. 
 The chrysom was the white cloth put on the new baptized child. — Johnson’s 
 Canons of Eccles. Law, 1720. 
 
PARISH REGISTERS. 
 
 53 
 
 1567. Richard ffowler a walkynge man buryed 25 ejusdem (April). 
 
 1568. A walkynge woeman buryed 27 Martii. 
 
 1572. A wayfayringe woeman delivered in the fieldes by the buttes 
 and harboured in Barbonnes Wydowes house whose childe 
 was baptized Septembris 14 and called Marke. 
 
 1573. Thomas an infant fathered upon Mason the butcher the 
 mother’s confessyon in her travayle baptized Augusti 24. 
 
 1576. Randall Wood puer laqueo se ipsu strangulans buryed 
 Novembris 20. 
 
 1577. Clement Austen smitten with thund^’ and blasted with 
 lightninge in his house whereof he dyed ymmediately buryed 
 Augusti 3. 
 
 1577. John ffrench a straung^ by misfortune killed with a gunn 
 in the Westbleane buryed Novembris 4. 
 
 1589. Robert Ball the miller taken away in thund" buryed 16 July. 
 
 1590. John Ewell an excomunicate pson buryed 28 ejusdem 
 (February). 
 
 1596. Mother Allyn wid. 100 years buryed July 2. 
 
 1597. ffortune a bastard the daughter of the Wid Attyoe be- 
 gotten by Willyam Twyman of Byrchington in the yle of 
 Thanett baptized Marty 19. 
 
 1601. Stephen Crump clerk of this pish drowned in a dyke 
 betwene Broad Oke and CanTbury the 21 of Aprill and 
 buryed here at Herne Aprill 2 2^1 
 
 1601. Willyam Tailor a boy of Robert Stacy musityon of Canter- 
 bury who came unto this pysh to play at a dauncing on a 
 Sabaoth day here sickned and dyed the day followinge 
 buryed July 27. 
 
 1609. Mychaell filius Johannis Hunt curati natus die Sabbati 
 January 27 circa hora nona ante meridiana {sic) 1609 
 baptizatus die solis February quarto. 
 
 1697. A waygoing man whose name I knew not buryed Mar® 
 20 *^- 
 
 1704. Elizabeth daughter of William Foche vicar Elizabeth his 
 wife born and baptized Nov y 17^’'- 
 I had another daughter of this name 1 1 years. 
 
 1706. Mary son {sic) of Henry Skinner by its mother the Widow 
 Rowe confession bapt Ap : y 21®* 
 
 17 1 1. Frances daughter of Isaiah Lee by Dinah his wife, being y® 
 child of a waygoing woman, was for want of Godfathers, and 
 
54 
 
 MEMORIALS OF HERNE, KENT. 
 
 Godmothers, being almost at y® point of death as it seemed to 
 me, baptized w^^'in my house private baptism Oct 
 1711. Frances (daughter of Isaiah Lee) traveller Bur. Oct 
 
 EXTRACTS FROM CHURCHWARDENS’ ACCOUNTS. 
 
 1370. The Account of John Foring (?), Chapman, now Keeper 
 of the Goods of Herne Church in the Year of Our 
 Lord one thousand three hundred and seventy from the 
 feast of St. Michael the Archangel to the same feast 
 (following). 
 
 Arrears . — He accounts for 100 shillings and ten pence 
 halfpenny of arrears. 
 
 Rents of Assize . — Also he is answerable for fifteen 
 shillings and sixpence halfpenny for Michaelmass, of 
 the rents (due) at that term. And for nineteen pence 
 halfpenny of the rents due at the feast of Our Lord’s 
 Nativity. And for fifteen shillings and eight of rent 
 due at the feast of Easter. And for eighteen pence of 
 rent due at the feast of S. John Baptist. 
 
 Swn . — 
 
 -Thirty four shillings and four pence, 
 
 
 
 
 &c. &c. 
 
 &c. 
 
 
 IS SO. It. of Henry Oxenden Gent for his farme of six acres of 
 
 lande as is aforesaid 
 
 vi® 
 
 „ It. paide for iij hunderd of leade nayles at iv^ 
 
 the 
 
 
 hundered 
 
 xiP 
 
 1656. Aug. 28. 
 
 Item, to John King about his good- 
 
 
 
 
 wife 
 
 00 II 
 
 0 
 
 
 „ to ffork her out of prisson ! ... 
 
 00 10 
 
 0 
 
 1702. May 29. 
 
 for three Roag Hoges (Hedgehogs) 
 
 00 I 
 
 0 
 
 1705. Ap*^ 23. 
 
 Given to famelys that were driven 
 
 
 
 
 from House and habitation by y® 
 
 
 
 
 sea... 
 
 00 2 
 
 0 
 
 1704. Mar. 25. 
 
 For 2 Poullcatts (Polecats) and 3 
 
 
 
 
 Hedghoggs 
 
 00 2 
 
 0 
 
 j> 5 ? 
 
 Given to Travellers taken by the 
 
 
 
 
 French 
 
 00 I 
 
 6 
 
 )> 5> 
 
 Given to the Ringers on the Day of 
 
 
 
 
 Ringing for the Great Victory . . . 
 
 00 6 
 
 0 
 
 1706 17 day 
 
 For Writing in the Register, p'^ Oath 
 
 
 
 of Aprill. 
 
 and to Mr. Lock for his Dinnor and 
 
 
 
 
 keeping y*^ Rigister 
 
 00 10 
 
 0 
 
PARISH REGISTERS. 
 
 55 
 
 1706 17 day Spent at ye Vizitation. at y'' 
 
 of April. Parambleation. P'^ for ringing and 
 
 other small things... ... ... 03 9 o 
 
 „ P^^ for 2 foxe’s heads. P'* 10 Dussun 
 
 of Sparrows’ Heads. P'^ 6 bottells 
 of Wine for y® Communion ... 01 9 6 
 
 „ ,, P*^ for buring of 3 men by the Sea 
 
 Side ... ... 00 6 o 
 
 „ ,, P*^ To Bushell his yeare’s Dogwhip- 
 ping ... ... ... ... 00 I o o 
 
 „ „ P'^ To the Owld Churchwarden, that 
 
 were out of yure sight at y® Parish 
 Meeting ... ... ... ... 00 5 5 
 
 and 3 dusson of Sparrows heads ... 68 
 
 1707. May 22. P"^ to gode wofe when hir husband 
 
 was gone ... ... ... ... i 6 
 
 „ „ Memorandum that the Churchwardens 
 
 £ 8 d 
 
 of Hearn pay the sum of 00. 05. o. 
 to Church- warden of Reculver with- 
 in the ^‘No^’th Po'^rch” of the said 
 Church every Whitsun Munday. 
 
 1708. Ap. 20. Paid Mrs. Stevens for ile (oil) and half 
 
 
 a bushel of Coles ... 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 0 
 
 roj 
 
 1710. May 10. 
 
 Paid for several dousson of Sparrows, 
 Four hedg Hoggs ... 
 
 00 
 
 04 
 
 03 
 
 1720. Sept.30. 
 
 Gave a travelling woman, big with 
 child, to depart y® place 
 
 00 
 
 01 
 
 0 
 
 5 ) 
 
 Tho® Tanner for 2 doz sparrowes ... 
 
 00 
 
 00 
 
 4 
 
 • 
 
 Paid Jo" Smith y® dog Whipper, his 
 half yeares Wagges 
 
 00 
 
 05 
 
 0 
 
 
 Will’" Rothop for Drink for y® Ringers 
 had on Coronation Day ... 
 
 00 
 
 05 
 
 0 
 
 JJ 11 
 
 For a form of Prayer for y® fast day 
 
 00 
 
 01 
 
 6 
 
 11 11 
 
 P’^ to Richard Mather for catching 
 a fox 
 
 00 
 
 00 
 
 6 
 
 11 11 
 
 Gave three Travellers in want 
 
 00 
 
 00 
 
 6 
 
 11 11 
 
 Gave to Company of Slaves 
 
 00 
 
 00 
 
 5 
 
 11 11 
 
 P’^ for 1 Graye’s Head (Badger)... 
 
 00 
 
 02 
 
 0 
 
 11 11 
 
 Gave 2 aged Slaves ... 
 
 00 
 
 02 
 
 0 
 
 11 11 
 
 Paid for 3 hegg hogs ... 
 
 00 
 
 OT 
 
 0 
 
 11 11 
 
 Gave Ringers for Gunpowder Trea- 
 son ... 
 
 00 
 
 05 
 
 0 
 
56 
 
 MEMOJ^IALS OF HERNE, KENT. 
 
 1720. Sept. 30. 
 
 P^ Richard Mather, his wife, for a fox 
 
 
 
 
 h^^ & a Grays h^ 
 
 00 04 
 
 0 
 
 n ’) 
 
 Smuggler’s Money. Totall... 
 
 07 2 
 
 6 
 
 May „ 
 
 P*^ Contribution money at Reculver... 
 
 00 05 
 
 0 
 
 }• )) 
 
 Spent there 
 
 00 03 
 
 0 
 
 5J JJ 
 
 Gave to 13 men Turkey Slaves 
 
 00 05 
 
 0 
 
 1727. May 26. 
 
 P*^ to Reculver Churchwardens 
 
 00 05 
 
 0 
 
 
 Spent at the same time 
 
 00 06 
 
 0 
 
 ?> -5 
 
 Gave the Ringers at Proclaiming the 
 
 
 
 
 King 
 
 0 1 00 
 
 06 
 
 Oct. 16. 
 
 Gave the Ringers at the Coronation 
 
 00 10 
 
 00 
 
 xA-pril I. 
 
 Paid Jaurice Dadsman for a Bagor’s 
 
 
 
 
 (Badger’s) head. ... 
 
 00 02 
 
 00 
 
 „ 20. 
 
 P'^ Fran® Young for burying two men 
 
 
 
 
 taken up by the sea 
 
 00 04 
 
 00 
 
 }) 
 
 Spent at y® bounds of the Parish 
 
 03 03 
 
 0 
 
 1721. For carrying a poor Rashed Travailor 
 
 in my cart to y® Pox (Small Pox) 
 
 Officer, viz., to Mr. Ewells 2®, 
 and I® I gave her to gett up my 
 
 cart... ... ... ... ... 00 03 00 
 
 “ Form of the Receit for the payment of the five shillings at 
 “ Reculver on Whitson Munday is as followeth : ” 
 
 “May y® 28, 1705. Received then of John Kemp and 
 “ Edward Webb, Churchwardens of the Parish of Hearne y® sume 
 “ of five shillings which by an antient composition is yearely pay- 
 “ able by y® Churchwardens of Herne above p^ to Y Church- 
 “ wardens of Reculver upon this day being Munday in Whitson 
 “ Weeke. Received in full for y® a bove said composition. 
 
 s. d. by us J (3 f Church 
 
 “ o 5 o R W ( Wardens.” 
 
CHAPTER VI. 
 
 EitW ant( jfm. 
 
 letter written by the Rev. John Hunte, curate of Herne, 
 dated August loth, 1621, showing “the manner of paying 
 “ the small tithes, and certain customs with regard to “ church 
 fees,” is very interesting and amusing.*. 
 
 Mr. Hunte declares this to be “ the ancient custom beyond 
 “ the memory of man.” He had the books of Mr. Brydges 
 (Vicar 1562), who had them of Mr. Johnson (1549). This letter 
 throws light upon the words or the original Institution of the 
 Vicarage.”! The vicar shall have tenths of hay, flax, wool, milk, 
 honey, lambs, produce of gardens and meadows.”. . . “ Omnes que 
 “ minutas decimas quae ad altaragium spectare dicuntur,J i.e., 
 “ and all the small tithes which are said to belong to the altar.” 
 
 It . 2^- for the milk of every cowe. 
 
 Tt. The calfe, if it be sold, the vicar’s due is the tenth penny ; as, 
 if it be sold for lo®- the vicar hath out of that due to him 
 i2‘^' If the owner of the calfe kill it in his house, the vicar 
 hath due the left shoulder thereof. 
 
 It. For every 12 monthling bullocke, be it either heifor or steere, 
 to be paid at Easter ; for every two yearing, 2"* ; for every 
 three yearing, 3‘*-, if the heifore be not with calfe, for in this 
 case shee is titheable as a cowe ; and if the steere hath 
 usually wrought, he is thereby freed ; the like manner is 
 observed for coultes. 
 
 It. Wooll is due the tenth pound, or tenth quarter. 
 
 * Lambeth Library, MS. Lewis, p. 226. 
 
 t Reg. Winchelsea, f. 30 Lambeth Lib. 
 
 i “ The word ‘ altaragium ’ signifies all tithes offerings belonging to the 
 minister for officiating at the altar, and comprehends every titheable matter 
 not expressly mentioned in the endowment.” — Bateman on Agistment Tithes. 
 
58 
 
 MEMORIALS OF HERNE, KENT. 
 
 It, Grasse hath usually been taken in grasse cockes, unlesse in 
 curtesse the parishioners will make it good. 
 
 It. Hempe, the tenth shote of thistle and seed hempe immediately 
 when it is drawn. 
 
 It. Of bees, the tenth measure of honey, and the tenth quantity 
 of wax. 
 
 It. Eggs, as the vicar and parishioners can agree, but if he will 
 have eggs (the antient custom, as hath been reported), two 
 eggs for every hen, and three for every cocke. The like for 
 ducks and drakes. 
 
 It. Geese and turkeys are to be taken for tith at such times as they 
 may be made fitt for food. 
 
 It. In gardens, onions, rootes, artichokes, and such, are paid the 
 tenth, or tenth measure ; but for herebes and flowers, as the 
 vicar and parishioners can agree, 3'^’ 4*^ or for the whole 
 yeare (payed usually at Easter). 
 
 It. Ffruits (as apples, pears, nutts, wardens, (walnuts ?) plumes, 
 &c.), the tenth measure as they are gathered. 
 
 It. Out of dove houses the tenth pigeon. 
 
 It. For titheing of every deepware (fishery) 2®- ; of every landware, 
 For theyr mullet netts I have compounded (and others 
 before me) for 3® 4^^ ’ sometimes 5® ’ sometimes VP- S'*’ for the 
 year.^' 
 
 It. Tith of mill according to ancient custome is due to the 
 vicar. The Finneauxes themselves who were farmers to the 
 personage yet they have paid a composition to the vicar in 
 particular. 
 
 FEES. 
 
 It. For a marriage cum licentia 2®- 6, sine licentia iS'*’ for a 
 certificate of the banns ijs, (but the ancient duty was but i® vi., 
 accordinge to the proverbef “the price of a goose.”) 
 
 It. For a chrystning at the mother’s churchinge, if the childe then 
 be living, half an ell of linen cloth ; and a penny if the child 
 
 * This is very interesting, and throws light upon a statement which Leland 
 makes, “ Yt (Heron) stondeth dim 2 myle fro the mayne shore, and ther is 
 good pitching of nettes for mullettes.” — Itin. vol. vii., p. 144. 
 t “ The price of a wife is the price of a goose.” 
 
TITHES AND FEES. 
 
 59 
 
 be departed ; i^' only at the mother’s comeing to give thanks 
 But the antient duty for chrystning was a crysome (or the 
 face cloth that covered the child at its baptisme), if it lived ; 
 but, if the child died, the minister was to have ij. for the 
 baptizing, and was to loose the face cloth (for that was 
 to wind the child in). 
 
 It For burialls nothing. 
 
CHAPTER VIL 
 
 ©in Wtlfe. 
 
 Robert Somersal, 1541. 
 
 Robert Somersal by his Will (Consistorial Court of Canterbury, 
 1541 ) directed “ his body to be buried in the Parish Church of St. 
 Martin Herne, next the sepulchre of John Maycott, being before 
 John’s Altar in the said Church.” He gave “towards the 
 buying of a Canopy, to bear over the Sacrament going a pro- 
 cession, 20 shillings,” and “ towards the Cloth to lay over the 
 Brides when they are married, 40 shillings.” “ To Sir William 
 Michell Janntire (Chantry) Priest of Herne, 20 shillings.” He 
 appointed William Fyneux Esq., and William Oxenden Gentle”’*’" 
 Executors, and Lady Fyneux overseers, of his Will. 
 
 John Younge, 1458. 
 
 John Younge of Herne by his Will (Consistorial Court, Can- 
 terbury, 1458) directed his “ body to be buried at Herne,” and 
 “gave twelve pence to the High Altar of the Church,” and “10 
 marks towards making the seats called pwynge.” 
 
 Thomas Bysmer, 1466. 
 
 Thomas Bysmer of Herne by his Will (Consistorial Court, Canter- 
 bury, 1466) directed his “ body to be buried at Herne,” and gave 
 “ 8d. to the High Altar of the Church,” “ 26s. 8d. for one Peace- 
 Kiss of Silver, for the use of the Church on high days,” and 
 13s. 4d. for a pyx to place the Sacrament on the Altar.” 
 
 William Philip, 1458. 
 
 William Philip of Herne, by his Will (Consistorial Court, 
 Canterbury 1458) directed his “ body to be buried in the Chapel 
 of St. John the Baptist Herne,” and left “ 3s. 4d. to each of the 
 Parishes of Herne, Swalecliffe, and Whitstable.” 
 
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 Sir Matthew Philip, 1475. 
 
 Sir Matthew Philip,^' by his will (Prerogative Court, London, 
 1475), directed his body to be buried in the church of St. Vedast, 
 London, “ that is, to witt, under the tomb there where as the body 
 of Joan my wife lyeth buried, if it happen me to deceass in 
 London.” He died at Herne, and is buried in the same vault as 
 his wife, Christine. 
 
 Among the bequests made is one “to the Wardens and Conaltie 
 of the said Crafte of Goldsmythes for poor Almss people of the 
 saide Crafte, £ioS 
 
 And another of “33s. 4d. to the same crafte for an Obite or 
 Anniversary to be kept yerely for evermore in the Church of Saint 
 Vedast upon the day in which it shall fortune me to deceass, 
 solemnly by note, for my soule, and for the soule of Joan, late my 
 wife, and for all Christian Soules, one placebo and dirige on the 
 Even, and Masse of requiem on the Morrow.” 
 
 // would appear, from the words which follow, that the convi- 
 viality which characterises the City Guilds is of very ancient date. 
 
 “And I wolle that, at the saide yerely Obite, there be spente and 
 paide, of the fore saide, 33s. qd., in a potacion, or recreacion, to 
 be made at Goldesmythe’s Hall of London, for the Wardens, and 
 men of the Lyvery of the same Crafte and for priestes, clerkes, of 
 the saide Pish, such as will cum to the saide Obite and potacion 
 in the saide Hall, 13s. qd.” 
 
 Sir Matthew died possessed of the Manors of “Hawe” and 
 “Underdowne” (Herne), which he left in trust to John Younge, 
 Knight, Citizen and Alderman of London, Master John Tapton, 
 Clerk, William Hussey, Esq., Thomas Frowyk, Esq., Robert Martyn, 
 “ Esq., John Roper, Esq., Roger Brent, and John Andrews, for his 
 wife {third wife) Beatrice, and at her death, to his son William.” 
 
 Sir John Fyneux, 1525-6. 
 
 Sir John Fyneux (Prerogative Court, London, by his will 1525), 
 bequeathed “ to the Church Works of Hyrne, loo®- . . . and to 
 every of the Vicars of Hyrne, Lynsted, and Sainte Dunstan, 40®-, 
 to be prayed for.” 
 
 “ Itejn. I bequethe to William my sonne my Coler of Golde to 
 be delivered to him at his age of 24 ... ” 
 
 think, son of the last, William, and not, as Stowe records, “son of 
 Arnold Philip, of Norwich.” — Survey of London, vol. ii., p. 122. 
 
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 MEMORIALS OF HERNE, KENT. 
 
 “ Iteni. I will that my household be kept holy (wholly) an hole 
 (whole) yeare next after my death to the intente that my family 
 may provide in that meane tyme for theyr further lyving as they 
 shall think best ...” 
 
 “ Ite 7 n. I wille my saide wife have two basyns, and two ewers, 
 two standyng cuppes, two saltes, and all my spoons, a powder 
 box, a boll gilte, a pece of silver covered, and that pece of the 
 best, at her own choyse ” . . “ And I give and bequethe to 
 William Fyneux my sonne, and to every of my daughters nowe 
 being on lyve and out of religion, to either of them a basyn and a 
 ewer of silver.” 
 
 He bequeathed to his wife his Manor of Hawe, and appointed 
 the Prior of Christ Church (Sir John Morton), Lady Fyneux, John 
 Hales (Baron), James Digge (his brother), and John Colman, 
 Executors. 
 
 Rev. John Warren, 1538. 
 
 Rev. John Warren Vicar (Prerogative Court, London, 1538). 
 “ Yf it shall chaunce me to dye in Herne, then I wille my body 
 to be buried without the church porche of the north side of the 
 said Parish Churche, as nygh unto the porche as conveniently 
 may.” 
 
 The very first step from the Porch into the Church is upon a 
 very remarkable old coffin-shaped stone ! 
 
 Lady Elizabeth Fyneux, 1539. 
 
 Lady Elizabeth Fyneux by her Will (Consistorial Court 
 of Canterbury, 1539) desired to be buried “in the high 
 quyre on the south side of the high altar in the Church 
 of Herne,” She gave “ one hundred marks to be disposed 
 of at her burial and for the keeping of the months day in 
 masses and money fyninge to poor people and other chari- 
 table deeds ; ” and “ at her twelve months mind twenty marks ” 
 — “to the poor of the parish of Herne, — “to the Vicar 
 
 of Herne, Master Nicholas Ridley four marks.” “To her son 
 William, one of her chalyses, one Mass book, one vestment of 
 crymsyn damask whereupon be sette hers and her husbands arms, 
 with an altar cloth of crymsyn damask and grene, — 13 silver 
 spoons, whereof one beareth the pretense of Christe, and the other 
 of the Apostles,” — to “Sir Richard Tyndell, her chaplain, the 
 feather bed that he lyeth upon with all that belongeth to it, and 
 
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 26*- S^‘ so that he be continually in her service and with her at the 
 time of her decease, or else to have nothing,” She appointed as 
 her executors “Master John Hales (one of the Barons of the 
 King’s Exchequer), Henry Hubbert, Esq*'® ’ and Master James 
 Hales.” 
 
 Edward Monyngs, 1546.*^' 
 
 Edward Monyngs (also spelt Monins) of Waldershare by his 
 Will (Consistorial Court of Canterbury, 1546) devised to “ his Son 
 Richard Monyngs, and Katheryne his Wife,” his Manor or 
 Messuage “called Reggway (now Ridgway) in the Parish of 
 Herne, and all other and tenements in the said Parish of Herne.” 
 
 William Fyneux, 1557. 
 
 William Fyneux, the Elder, of Herne, Esq. (son and heir of Sir 
 John Fyneux, Consistorial Court of Canterbury, 1557), by his Will 
 directed “ his body to be buried in the next convenient place of 
 burial where it should please God he should decease.” He gave 
 “to the Curate for his painstaking in laying him in the earth 
 6*- 8'^-,” and to each of “ them who should bear him to his burial 
 20^- To the vicar of Herne if he should die there 6® 8'^-, and 
 to every clerk there 3®- 4^-” To his “ wife Frydeswide his 
 Manor House of House of Hawe. To his son John, his lands in 
 the Parishes of Herne, Chislet, Swingfield, Allkham, Lydden, 
 Denton and Wootton, and all the ground sometime belonging to 
 the Chauntry of Herne.” He also gave his lands at “St. Dunstan’s,- 
 Canterbury, Harbledown, Hackington, Sturry, and St. Cosmus 
 Blean, to his son Christopher Fyneux.” 
 
 Thomas Terrye, 1564. 
 
 Thomas Terrye, of Herne, Husbandman, by his will (Consistorial 
 Court of Canterbury, 1564), directed his body to be buried in the 
 Churchyard of Herne. He devised his lands in Herne to his son 
 John at 21 years of age, and if he should die without heirs of his 
 body, then he devised the same to Thomas Arnold of Herne 
 fishermen and his heirs, he paying out of the same ^^3 yearly to 
 the Churchwardens and four other substantial inhabitants, to be 
 distributed by them to the poor people of the Parish. 
 
 John Church, 1571. 
 
 John Church, of Herne, by his Will (Consistorial Court 01 
 Canterbury, 1571), directed “his body to be buried in the 
 
 * See p. II. 
 
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 MEMORIALS OF HERNE, KENT. 
 
 Churchyard of Herne.” He gave “ to the poor people of Herne 
 two semes of wheat to be distributed amongst them to every one 
 a bodye so far as it would amount.” 
 
 He devised “ his lands and houses to his son William in tail and 
 the remainder to his Nephew George in like manner. If both 
 died without issue, he gave to the poor folks of Herne one half of 
 the profits, and to the Parish Church the other half, to be paid at 
 two several times of the year, viz., at Christmas and Easter.” 
 
 Richard Terry, 1615. 
 
 Richard Terry, of Herne, Yeoman, by his Will (Consistorial 
 Court of Canterbury, 1615), devised “ if his two sons John and 
 Thomas should die without heirs male, to the Churchwardens and 
 Supervisors of the poor of this Parish, an annuity or yearly rent of 
 ;£‘io in fee simple, for ever, issuing out of all the lands and tene- 
 ments by him devised — the remainder to John Selby, the son of his 
 son-in-law John Selby, his Mansion House, and certain premises 
 • therein described in Sea Street in Herne, and in the borough of 
 Hampton, and his then dwelling-house at Eddington, and the lands 
 belonging to it, and his house and lands in the borough of Stroud, 
 the one half of which he devised towards the reparations of the 
 Parish Church, and the other half to the relief of the poor with 
 liberty of distraining! And he devised “ one other Annuity or 
 yearly rent of 30s. od. in fee simple for ever to be yearly paid on 
 the feast of John the Baptist with liberty of distraining.” 
 
 Sir William Sedley, 1617. 
 
 By indenture bearing date 17th September, 1627, between Sir 
 John Sedley, Bart., executor of Sir W. Sedley of the first part, 
 John Welby of the second part, and Robert Knowler and twelve 
 others of the third part, reciting that the said Sir W. Sedley, 
 by his Will bearing date 29th October, 1617, “ directed his execu- 
 tors to purchase to the use of the poor of the Parish of Herne an 
 annuity of ;£'3 6s. 8d., and that the said Sir John Sedley, party 
 thereof, had in lieu of the said annuity paid towards the 
 purchasing of the lands thereafter mentioned for the use of the 
 said poor, the said John Welby in consideration of £64, whereof 
 the said £^55 was part, and the residue was paid by Robert 
 Knowler and other parties of the third part, being part of a legacy 
 of f^2o, theretofore given by Sir John Smith to the use of the poor 
 
OLD WILLS. 
 
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 of the said parish, granted to the parties of the third part and their 
 heirs two pieces of land, theretofore one piece, containing by 
 estimation lo acres, in Chislet, butting on lands called Spittle 
 Land, North, East, and South, and to the highway West, on trust 
 that they and their heirs should see the rents and profits yearly be- 
 stowed on the poor of the parish, according to the Will of the said 
 Sir W. Sedley. 
 
 “ It appears from Table of Benefactions, /z// up before 1791, that 
 the lands in Chislet consisted of four closes., ccntaining ga. 2r. 29/. 
 (an old map framed in the Vestry corroborates this) with a tene- 
 ment and were let at ^7 a year.” — Charity Commissioners' 
 Report^ 26th Nov., 1836. 
 
 For particulars of the application of this Charity see Blean 
 Union, p. 14. 
 
 George Hawlet, 1625. 
 
 (also Howlet). 
 
 George Hawlet, of Herne, Yeoman, by his Will (Consistorial 
 Court of Canterbury), 1625, directed his “body to be buried in 
 the Churchyard of Herne near to the grave of his late wife 
 Thomasine.” He gave “ 40 shillings to be distributed amongst 
 the poor of Herne by the Churchwardens on the day of his 
 burial, and charged his house and lands at Greenhill in the parish 
 of Herne, with the payment of 3 a year towards the maintenance 
 and relief of the poor for ever of the Parish of Her nef'' 
 
 Of this bequest the Charity Commissioners report as follows: — 
 “ It is stated on the Table of Benefactions that there was payable 
 ;^3 yearly from the lands of Mr. Thomas Holbourn, at Green 
 Hill, in Hampton Borough, bequeathed by Mr. George Howlet, 
 9th April, 1624. 
 
 “ Search has been made for the Will of George Howlet without 
 success, but a farm called Greenhill, in Hampton Borough., was 
 purchased in 1835 of Henry Worrall, by William Wiggens, of 
 Bridge Street, Blackfriars, on which occasion it was discovered that 
 the premises were subject to this rent-charge, and compensation was 
 made to Mr. Wiggens by a deduction from the purchase money. 
 
 “ It does not appear from the Parish accounts up to what 
 period the rent charge was paid, or, how, when received, it was 
 disposed of. Mr. Wiggens has agreed to pay the amount for two 
 years, viz., 1835; when he purchased the land, and 1836.” — 
 Report, 2(ith Nov., 1836. 
 
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 MEMORIALS OF HERNE, KENT. 
 
 Christopher Milles, 1638] 
 
 Christopher Milles of Herne Esq. by his Will (Consistorial 
 Court of Canterbury, 1638) directed his ‘"‘body to be buried 
 under a tombstone in the Parsonage Chancel of Herne* between 
 the corpses of his late Wife and his Son Edward, with the less 
 solemnity that the more may be bestowed on my Children the Poor. 
 
 “ I will and bequeath to my children of Herne ;^3, of Reculver 
 ^4, of Hoath ;^2, of Westbere ^1 a year, in all £10,” to be 
 paid the last day of August every year, from year to year, after 
 my decease which was the day of my birth, — to continue as 
 long as it shall please his Grace and successors to continue the 
 lease of the parsonage of Reculver, Hoath, Herne, to any of 
 my surname that one after another shall succeed me in the 
 said parsonage and tytheries, and I pray the Vicars and minis- 
 ters of Reculver, Hoath and Herne and parsonage of Westbere 
 for the time being and the chief of every parish it concerns, 
 to be petitioners, as cause shall require to his Grace and suc- 
 cessors for the poor, in that behalf, as under the well doing of 
 their own children they shall leave here behind them, and 
 would not the guilt of miscience they else shall hence carry with 
 them for neglecting to gain the charity of the dead to7vards the 
 living poor so adopted my children P 
 
 Thomas Knowler, 1658. 
 
 “ Thomas Knowler, by his Will, 1658, gave land for the use of the 
 poor which is vested in Trustees the survivor unknown, and is of the 
 annual produce of;^i los. 5d., likewise other land vested in like man- 
 ner for the clothing of the poor the Annual produce of which is ^5.’' 
 
 If those who are interested (and every right-minded parishioner 
 ought to be interested) will carefully peruse the above extracts 
 from Old Wills, the Benefaction Tables (certified copies of the 
 old, taken and placed by the present vicar in the South Chantry 
 Chapel) and also the Reports of the Charity Commissioners, 1836 
 — 1873, they will find that these charities have been shamefully 
 neglected, disputed, and in the case of some, even lost That 
 they remain even in their present unsatisfactory condition, is, in 
 no small degree, owing to the energy and perseverance of Mr. J. 
 Knowler Pembrook, a former churchwarden. 
 
 * Commonly called the Milles Chapel, originally the “Lady Chapel” and 
 “Chapel of St. John the Baptist.” 
 
OLD WILLS. 
 
 07 
 
 And here I conclude with the translation of a Deed of Gift, 
 which proves the existence of a much older church than that now 
 existing. 
 
 I am conscious that as a history the work is incomplete ; the 
 registers, churchwardens’ accounts, &c., being representative only, 
 suited to the general reader. 
 
 If, however, it meets with success, it will, perhaps, be followed 
 by another, giving translations of deeds and documents of great 
 antiquity and interest, and an Account of some Her?ie Worthies. 
 
 Endorsed Josep xijd. 
 
 “ Know all men present and to come that I Edmund son of 
 Robert atter Halle of Herne have given and granted and by this 
 my present charter have confirmed twelve pence sterling of my 
 free and annual rent in pure and perpetual alms and for the 
 maintenance of the light before the altar of St. Mary in the chancel 
 of Herne which rent John surnamed Malyne has been used to pay, 
 namely at Easter, from three rods or virgates of land with its 
 appurtenances lying at Joseppeflode between the lands of the heirs 
 of Robert atte Halle on the East and the land of Nicholas the 
 Clerk on the West, heading towards the South to the high way, 
 and towards the North to the land of the heirs of Stephen Under- 
 down : To have and to Hold (for the healing of the souls of my- 
 self of my parents of my kinsfolk and of all my benefactors) for 
 the maintenance of the aforesaid light, freely entirely and peacably 
 by hereditary right for ever. And I the aforesaid Edmund and 
 my heirs will in all things warrant and acquit in all things and will 
 defend the aforesaid rent with its appurtenances against the chief 
 lords of the fee and against all men in the matter of all suits and 
 services due therefrom and accustomed to be paid year by year. 
 In witness and confirmation of which thing to this writing, lawfully 
 drawn up in the month of April in the 25th year of King Edward 
 of England (a.d. 1-05^, my seal is appended. These men being 
 witnesses Richard of the Haghe Robert and John his sons Hamo 
 of Mekymbroke*^' Nicholas the Clerk John Thomas Henry and 
 Robert of Strode Philip of North wode Jacob Laurent John atte 
 Weylete Thomas of Chylindenne Geoffrey of Chelde and others.” 
 
 .See p. II. 
 
INDEX. 
 
 Aisles of Herne Church ...23-24,27 
 
 All Saints, Thanet, Reculver Mother 
 
 church of 3 
 
 Allyn, Mother, died 100 years old. 53 
 
 Altar of St. Mary, Lights before 
 
 the 67 
 
 Altaragium, Meaning of 57 
 
 Andrews, John, trustee of Sir 
 
 Matthew Philip’s will 61 
 
 Apuldrefield, Sir William 42 
 
 Archer, Elenry, Vicar of Herne ... 5° 
 
 Archery at Herne 14 
 
 Arnold, Quid, buried 52 
 
 Arnold, Thomas ... .'. 63 
 
 Arundel, Abp., Arms on font ... 23 
 
 Atter Halle, Edmund, Deed of 
 
 Gift 67 
 
 At-Sea family and Stroud and 
 
 Underdown 10 
 
 Atte-Brooke, Richard, Grant of 
 
 land by II-I2 
 
 Atte-Sea, John 10 
 
 Brass of 42-43 
 
 Atte Weylete 67 
 
 Atte-Sea, William 10 
 
 Atte-Seas Court 10 
 
 Attyoe, Widow 53 
 
 Austen, Clement, killed by light- 
 ning 53 
 
 Badgers, Payments for 55 
 
 Ball, Robert, killed by thunder ... 53 
 
 Baptistery of Herne Church... 21-23 
 Baskerville, Miss Mary, gives Co- 
 rona to Church 30 
 
 Basse, a priest. Land given to ... 2 
 
 Basset, Henry, Vicar of Herne ... 46 
 
 Bate, James, Grant of land by ... 10 
 
 Bayli, Walter, Grant of land by... 12 
 
 Beacon fixed in the parish of Plerne 14 
 Bedale, John, Vicar of Herne ... 46 
 
 Bede, Venerable, refers to Re- 
 culver I 
 
 Belsey family. Mural tablet in 
 
 memory of 27 
 
 Belting Green 13 
 
 Beltinge 12 
 
 Benstede, Andrew, Vicar of Herne 47 
 Berhtwald, Abbot of Reculver ... 2 
 
 Birch, W. de Gray 38 
 
 Birch, W. de Gray, on the barrows 
 
 at Beltinge 
 
 12 
 
 Blean Union 
 
 . ... ... 14 
 
 Bonaventure, Richard, 
 
 Vicar of 
 
 Herne 
 
 46 
 
 Boys, John 
 
 35 
 
 Boys, Thomas 
 
 43 
 
 Boys, William, on the meaning of 
 
 Chrysomer 52 
 
 Brandon on the tower of Herne 
 
 Church 18 
 
 Brasses in Herne Church ...33, 35-44 
 
 Brasses stolen from Reculver 
 
 Church 5 
 
 Brent, Roger, trustee of Sir Mat- 
 thew Philip’s will 61 
 
 Brett, Parish Clerk, on destruction 
 
 of Reculver Church 5 
 
 Broke, Thomas, Vicar of Herne... 49 
 Brown, Wm., votes against de- 
 struction of Reculver Church ... 5 
 
 Brydges, Thomas, Vicar of Herne 49 
 Buchanan, James Robert, Vicar of 
 
 Herne 50 
 
 Buckland, Frank, finds signboard 
 of “ The Hoy & Anchor ” ... 5 
 
 Burke, William, Chantry priest ... 51 
 
 Bushell, dog whipper, Payments 
 
 to 54 
 
 Bysmare, William, Brass of 43 
 
 Bysmer, Thomas, Will of 60 
 
 Canterbury, Ford House oldest 
 
 Manor of the See of 12 
 
 Makenbrooke Manor 
 
 held by the See of 1 1 
 
 Canterbury Cathedral, Roman 
 
 columns from Reculver at 7 
 
 Capes, George, on the Brasses in 
 
 Herne Church 35. 38> 43 
 
 Caton, John, Vicar of Herne ... 46 
 
 Chantry priest 51 
 
 Chancel in Herne Church ... 29-31 
 
 Chancel screen in Plerne Church.. 27 
 Chantry chapels in Herne Church. 
 
 27-29- 33*35 
 
 Chantry priests 50-51. 
 
 Chapman, Alexander, Vicar of 
 
 Plerne 50 
 
 Chert, John, Vicar of Herne ... 46 
 
 F't- 
 
70 
 
 INDEX, 
 
 Christ Church, Canterbury, Grant 
 
 of Reculver Church to 2-3 
 
 Chrysomer, Meaning of 52 
 
 Church, John, Will of 63-64 
 
 Church, Valentyne, buried 52 
 
 Churche, James a, gifts to Ilarble- 
 
 down Hospital by 10 
 
 Churche, John a, gift to the Prior 
 
 of Harbledown by 12 
 
 Churche family and the borough 
 
 of Stroud 10 
 
 Churchwardens’ accounts, Extracts 
 
 from 54‘56 
 
 Clayton & Bell, Window made by 24 
 
 Cock-fighting at Herne 15 
 
 Coffin-shaped Stone in Herne 
 
 Church porch 62 
 
 Colepepper, Sir Cheney 35 
 
 Colfe, Isaac, Vicar of Herne ... 50 
 
 Colfe, Jacob, Vicar of Herne ... 50 
 
 Colfe, Richard, Vicar of Herne ... 50 
 
 Collard, Edward Reynolds, Win- 
 dow in memory of 27 
 
 Collard family. Mural tablet in 
 
 memory of 27 
 
 ‘Colman John, executor of Sir 
 
 John Fyneux’s will 62 
 
 Conyers family. Vault of 27 
 
 Cranmer, Abp., at Ford 13 
 
 Crek, Nich, Chantry priest ... 51 
 
 Crump, Stephen, Parish clerk, 
 
 drowned 53 
 
 Curteys, Agnes 17 
 
 Curteyse, Thomas, Chantry priest 51 
 
 Dadsman, Jaurice, Payment to ... 55 
 
 Darley, John, Vicar of Herne .. 46 
 
 Brass of 37*39 
 
 Deane, Rev. Samuel, on the mean- 
 
 of Chrysomer 52 
 
 Denne, Tom, votes for destruction 
 
 of Reculver Church 5 
 
 Dering, Daniel ... 15 
 
 Dering family and Ridgway Manor 1 1 
 Digge, James, executor of Sir 
 
 John Fyneux’s will 62 
 
 Diggs, James 42 
 
 Disborough, Samuel 35 
 
 Dodd, John 52 
 
 Dog whipping. Payments for 54*55 
 Dowker’s “ Reculver Church ” 
 
 quoted 5 
 
 Duncombe, John, Vicar of Herne 50 
 
 mistakes in his 
 
 “ History of Herne ” 38 
 
 Dunstan, Abbot of Glastonbury, 
 
 Grant prepared by 3 
 
 Farp, Mr., sculptor for Mrs. Smith’s 
 gift 31 
 
 Fast window in Herne Church ... 31 
 
 Ecclesiastical Commissioners restore 
 
 roof in Herne Church 30 
 
 Eddington 10 
 
 Rectory House 12 
 
 Edred, King, Grant of Reculver 
 
 Church by 2 
 
 Egbert, King, Grant of land at 
 
 Reculver by 2 
 
 Epitaph, Curious ... 29 
 
 Ethelbert, King, buried in Recul- 
 ver Church 3*4 
 
 gift of Ford House 
 
 Manor by 13 
 
 Ewell, John, buried 53 
 
 Fagg family. Vault of 27 
 
 Fair at Herne 9 
 
 Fairman family. Monuments of 28 
 
 Farneham, Nicholas de. Vicar of 
 
 Herne 46 
 
 Fees, Church 58-59 
 
 Ffowler, Richard, buried 53 
 
 Ffrench, John, Killed by a gun 
 
 accident 53 
 
 Fig-tree at Reculver i 
 
 Fineux, see Fyneux 
 
 Fishpond at Ford 14 
 
 Fix, Tom, votes for destruction of 
 
 Reculver Church 5 
 
 Foche Elizabeth, baptised 53 
 
 Foche, William, Vicar of Herne 50 
 
 Stone in memory 
 
 of 35 
 
 Font of Herne Church ... 23 
 
 Ford House 12-14 
 
 Forstall 13 
 
 Foxes, Payments for 54*55 
 
 Frowyk, Thomas, trustee of Sir 
 
 Matthew Philip’s will 61 
 
 Fyneux, Christopher, Bequest to 63 
 
 Fyneux, Elizabeth, Lady 49 
 
 Brass of 41 ‘42 
 
 OverseerofSomersarswili 60 
 
 Executrix of Sir John 
 
 Fyneux’s will 62 
 
 Will of 62-63 
 
 Fyneux, John, Brass of ... 43*44 
 
 Fyneux, Sir John 42 
 
 bought and rebuilt Hawe 
 
 Manor house 9 
 
 Probable tomb of ... 32*33 
 
 Will of 61-62 
 
 Fyneux, William, executor of 
 
 Somersal’s will 60 
 
 Bequests to 61-62 
 
 Will of 63 
 
 Gascoyne, Robert, Vicar of Herne 50 
 “ Gentleman’s Magazine ” on des- 
 truction of Reculver Church ... 4-5 
 Gillow, Ixichard 35 
 
INDEX. 
 
 71 
 
 Goclynestre, Hugh de, Vicar of 
 
 Herne 46 
 
 Goldie and Child, architects for 
 
 Mrs. Smith’s gift 31 
 
 Goldsmiths’ brasses 39? 41 
 
 Goldsmiths’ Company, Bequests 
 
 of Sir Matthew Philip to 61 
 
 Gosse, William, Vicar of Herne 46 
 Grauntj William, Vicar of Herne 46 
 Gray, Florence, Mural slab in 
 
 memory of 23 
 
 Green, Rev. Francis, on Reculver 
 
 Church 3 
 
 Greenshield, Henry 1 1 
 
 Greenshield family and Lottinge 
 
 Manor ii 
 
 Grey, Henry, Inscriptions trans- 
 lated by 38? 44 
 
 Gryffythe, Richard ap. Chantry 
 
 priest 51 
 
 Haghe, Richard of the, Robert 
 
 and John 67 
 
 Hagioscope in Herne Church ... 32 
 
 Hales, James, executor of Lady 
 
 P'yneux’s will 63 
 
 Hales, John (Baron), executor of 
 Sir J. and LadyFyneux’s wills 62, 63 
 
 Hales, Sir Thomas 35 
 
 Hall, Henry, Vicar of Herne ... 50 
 
 Halle, Lady Elizabeth, and Hawe 
 
 Manor 9 
 
 Halle, Matthew, sells Hawe 
 
 Manor-house 9 
 
 Halle, Sir Peter 9, 33 
 
 Brassof ... 35-17 
 
 Halle arms on font 23 
 
 Hamo de Makenbroke pays hom- 
 age Abp. Peckham 1 1 
 
 Hampton 9 
 
 Harbledown Hospital, Grant to... 10 
 
 Harward, Thomas, Vicar of Herne 50 
 Hasted on the derivation of Herne 8 
 Hawe, John, Vicar of Herne ... 46 
 
 Hawe Manor-house 9-10, 61, 62, 63 
 Hawlet (or Howlet), George, Will 
 
 of 65 
 
 Heales, Major 38 
 
 Hedgehogs, Payments for ... 54,55 
 
 Henry IV., Arms on font of ... 23 
 
 Henry VH I. at Ford 13 
 
 Herne, derivation and different 
 
 spellings of Parish of 815 
 
 Herne, Reculver Mother Church of i, 3 
 
 Inhabitants threatened with 
 
 excommunication 4 
 
 Herne Church 17-44 
 
 — ^ Earliest record of... 2 
 
 Hillborough Church 4 
 
 Hoath, Reculver Mother church of 3 
 
 Hog roasted and given away at 
 
 Herne 15 
 
 Holbourn, Thomas 65 
 
 Howlet (or Hawlet), George, Will 
 
 of 65 
 
 Hoy Tavern, Reculver 5 
 
 Hubbert, Henry, executor of Lady 
 
 Fyneux’s will 63 
 
 Human remains at Reculver ... 6 
 
 Hunt, Michael, baptized 53 
 
 Hunte, Rev. John, on the tithes... 57 
 
 Hunter’s Borstal 13 
 
 Hussey, William, trustee of Sir 
 Matthew Philip’s will 61 
 
 Ireland on the derivation of Herne 8 
 Islip, Abp., obtains grant of a mar- 
 ket and fair at Herne 9 
 
 Jacomb, Charles, promotes Herne 
 
 National Schools 15 
 
 Jarvys, John, twin children of ... 52 
 
 Jesus Christ, Arms on font ascribed 
 to 23 
 
 Kac, William, Vicar of Herne ... 46 
 
 Ketelby, Francis, Vicar of Herne 50 
 
 King, John, Payments to 54 
 
 Knowler, Gilbert 10 
 
 ■ Monument of 28-29 
 
 Knowler, John 13 
 
 Monument of ... 28 
 
 Knowler, Robert 10, 64 
 
 Monument of ... 28 
 
 Knowler, Stephen, Arms of ... ii 
 Knowler, Thomas, baptized at 
 
 Ford 13 
 
 Monument of 28 
 
 Will of 66 
 
 Knowler Chapel in Herne Church 27-29 
 Knowler family and Stroud and 
 
 Underdown Manors 10 
 
 Monuments of 28-29 
 
 Vault of 27 
 
 Kyngg, John, Chantry priest ... 51 
 
 Lady Chapel in Herne Church 33, 66 
 
 Laud, Abp., to proceed in cause 
 between Reculver and Herne ... 4 
 
 Lawson, Wyllyam, child of, chris- 
 tened 52 
 
 Leaf, Rosalind Aglaia, Window in 
 
 memory of 24 
 
 Lee, Isaiah 53 
 
 Leland’s description of Reculver i 
 
 Lewis, T. C., builds organ in 
 
 Herne Church 29 
 
 Lottinge Manor 1 1 
 
 Loughman, Helen Grace, Mural 
 
 slab in memory of 23 
 
 Loverick, Anthony, Brass of ... 43 
 
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 INDEX. 
 
 Loveryk arms on font 23 
 
 Lydd, Players from Herne visit 15 
 
 Mackenbrooke Manor ii 
 
 Hamo of ... 11-67 
 
 Margate Pier, Stones from Recul- 
 ver used for 5 
 
 Market at Herne 9 
 
 Marlborough, Sarah, Duchess of 32 
 Martyn, Robert, trustee of Sir 
 
 Matthew Philip’s will 61 
 
 Mason the butcher ... 53 
 
 Mather, Richard, Payments to ... 55 
 
 May, James Six, Vicar of Herne ... 50 
 
 May family, , Mural tablet in 
 
 memory of 27 
 
 Maycott, John, Sepulchre of ... 60 
 
 Medebourne, Richard, Vicar of 
 
 Herne 46 
 
 Michell and Thynne renovate 
 
 organ in Herne Church 29 
 
 Milles, Christopher, Will of ... 66 
 
 Milles, Samuel, Benefactions of ... 35 
 
 Monument of ... 29 
 
 Milles Chapel in Herne Church 33-35, 
 
 66 
 
 Milles family and Rectory House 12 
 
 — Monuments of ... 35 
 
 Moat at Hawe 9 
 
 Monins, Catherine ii, 63 
 
 Monins, Edward ii 
 
 Will of 
 
 Monins, Richard 
 
 Monins, Sir Simon de ... 
 Monins family, Vault of 
 Arms of 
 
 on font 
 
 Morton, Abp., on Ford 
 
 Morton, Sir John, executor of Sir 
 
 John Fyneux’s will 
 
 Moultrie, John Fergusson, grave- 
 
 63 
 
 63 
 
 27 
 
 23 
 
 13 
 
 62 
 
 stone of 44 
 
 Moultrie, Rev. John, Lines by ... 44 
 
 Mychill, Will, Chantry priest ... 51 
 
 Bequest to 60 
 
 National Schools built at Herne ... 15 
 
 Nave of Herne Church 24— 27 
 
 Naylor, Rev. C., destroys Recul- 
 ver Church 5 
 
 sells the Towers 
 
 to Trinity House 6 
 
 Newe, Thomas, Chantry founded 
 
 ^ by - 33, 50 
 
 Newton, William, Window in 
 
 memory of 27 
 
 Nicholas de Underdowne, Grant 
 
 of land to 10 
 
 Nicholas the Clerk 67 
 
 Nicholson, Robert, buried 52 
 
 North aisle of Herne Church 23-23 
 North Chantry Chapel in Herne 
 
 Church 
 
 • ... 33-35 
 
 Northwode, Philip of ... 
 
 67 
 
 Nottyngha Joane, buried 
 
 52 
 
 Old wills 
 
 60-66 
 
 Organ in Herne Church 
 
 ... ... 29 
 
 Oxenden, Sir George, 
 
 rebuilds 
 
 Underdown Manor-house 10 
 
 Oxenden, William, executor of 
 
 Somersal’s will 60 
 
 Oxenden family and Underdown 
 Manor 10 
 
 Palmer family. Mural slab in 
 
 memory of 35 
 
 Parish registers 52-54 
 
 Parker, Abp., on Ford 13 
 
 Passion plays at Herne 15 
 
 Passion .symbols on font 23 
 
 Pastimes at Herne 14-15 
 
 Paston, Sir John, Arms of 32 
 
 Peckham, Abp., receives homage 
 from Hamo de Makenbroke ... ii 
 Pegg, Eliza, Organ renovated in 
 
 memory of 29 
 
 Window in memory of 24 
 
 Pegg, Mrs., Organ renovated at 
 
 expense of 29 
 
 Pelham arms on font 23 
 
 Pembrook, J. Knowler, and the 
 
 charities 66 
 
 Pembrook family. Monuments of.. 28 
 Pensions paid to Reculver Church 3 
 Perryn, Francis, baptized at Ford. 13 
 
 Perryn, Sir Thomas 13 
 
 Philip, Christina, Brass of ... 39-40 
 
 Philip, Sir Matthew 33, 40-41 
 
 owned Hawe and Un- 
 derdown Manors 6, 61 
 
 Will of 61 
 
 Philip, William 33 
 
 Will of 60 
 
 Philpot on the derivation of Herne 8 
 
 description of Stroud 
 
 Manor 10 
 
 Piscina in Herne Church ... 27, 31 
 
 Polecats, Payments for 54 
 
 Porch of Herne Church 21 
 
 Coffin-shaped stone in... 62 
 
 Price, Rev. Joseph, Vicar of Herne 50 
 and Blean Union 14 
 
 Quekes, John, Lottinge manor sold 
 to II 
 
 Raculfcestre, ancient name of 
 
 Reculver i 
 
 Ramsey, John, Vicar of Herne ... 50 
 
INDEX. 
 
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 Reader, John, Vicar of Herne ... 50 
 
 Rectory House, Eddington 12 
 
 Reculver 1-7 
 
 Annual payment of 
 
 Churchwardens of Herne to 54, 55 
 
 form of receipt 66 
 
 Reculver Vicarage converted into a 
 
 Tavern 5 
 
 Registers of the parish of Herne 52-54 
 Reynolds, Thomas, and Blean 
 
 Union 14 
 
 Richards, William, promotes 
 
 Herne National Schools 15 
 
 Ridgway Manor iij 63 
 
 Ridley, Bishop Nicholas, Vicar of 
 
 Herne 47 
 
 Account of ... 47-49 
 
 Bequest of Lady 
 
 Fyneux to 92 
 
 Farewell to Herne 9, 49 
 
 Statue of 27 
 
 visits Cranmer at 
 
 Ford 13 
 
 Ringers, Payments to 54 > 55 
 
 Robertson, Canon Scott, on 
 
 Passion Plays 15 
 
 on 
 
 screen in Herne Church 24 
 
 Robyn, John, Chantry priest ... 51 
 
 Rogers, William, Vicar of Herne 50 
 
 buried in aisle 24 
 
 Roman Camp at Reculver i 
 
 Romney, Players from Herne visit 1 5 
 
 Roper, John 42 
 
 trustee of Sir 
 
 Matthew Philip’s will 61 
 
 Rose and Man of War, Herne ... 15 
 
 Rothop, William, Payment to ... 55 
 
 Rouhall, Henry, Vicar of Herne... 46 
 Rowe, Widow 53 
 
 St. Ethelburga’s spring 14 
 
 St. John the Baptist’s Chapel 33, 66 
 
 St. Martin, Account of 45 
 
 St. Nicholas, Thanet, Reculver 
 
 Mother Church of 3 
 
 St. Vedast’s Church, London ... 6i 1 
 
 Saunders, Robert 35 | 
 
 Sawyer, Stephen 52 
 
 Saxton arms on font 23 
 
 Sayer, Steph., votes against de- 
 struction of Reculver Church ... 5 
 
 Screen in Herne Church 24 f 
 
 Sea, Edward 10 j 
 
 Sea, John 10 I 
 
 Brass of 42-43 
 
 Sea family and Stroud and Under- 
 down Manors 10 
 
 Seas Court 10 ! 
 
 Sedilia in Herne Church ... 29,31 ! 
 
 Sedley, Sir John 64 
 
 Sedley, Sir William, Will of 64-65 
 See, Anthony, held Makenbrooke 
 
 Manor ii 
 
 Selby, John, Bequest to 64 
 
 Severus, Emperor, and Camp at 
 
 Reculver i 
 
 Seynclere, Sir John 37 
 
 Sheppard, Dr., discovers Roman 
 
 columns at Reculver 7 
 
 Simpson’s “ Series of ancient 
 
 fonts” ii» 23 
 
 Skinner, Henry 53 
 
 Slaves, Money given to 55 
 
 Small pox. Payment for a traveller 
 
 suffering from 55 
 
 Smith, C. Roach, on destruction 
 
 of Reculver Church 4 
 
 Smith, Mrs. Frances Elizabeth, 
 gifts to Herne Church ... 30-31 
 
 Smith, John, dog whipper, Pay- 
 ment to 55 
 
 Smith, Sir John 64 
 
 Smugglers’ money ... 55 
 
 Somersal. Robert, Will of 60 
 
 Sondes, Lord 12 
 
 promotes Herne 
 
 National Schools 15 
 
 removes the Milles 
 
 monument 29 
 
 South Aisle of Herne Church ... 27 
 
 Souih Chantry Chapel in Herne 
 
 Church 27 29 
 
 Sparrows, Payments for ... 54-55 
 
 Sports at Herne 14-15 
 
 Squire, William, Vicar of Herne 50 
 
 Stacy, Robert, a musician 53 
 
 Staines, W., votes for destruction 
 
 of Reculver Church 5 
 
 Stanley, Dean A. P., on epitaph 
 
 at Herne 44 
 
 on Becket ... 49 
 
 Stephens, Eiizabeth, Stone in 
 
 memory of 35 
 
 Stevens, Mrs., Payment to ... ., 55 
 
 Stroud Manor and house 10 
 
 ■ John, Tnomas, Hemy and 17 
 
 Robert of 67 
 
 Suthreye, Henry de. Grants of 
 
 land to 1 1 -12 
 
 Sutton, Roger, Vicar of Herne ... 46 
 
 Table tomb in Herne Church 32-33 
 
 Tailor, Willyam, a musician’s boy, 
 
 buried 53 
 
 Tanner, Thomas, payment to ... 55 
 
 Tapton, John, trustee of Sir Mat- 
 thew Philip’s will 61 
 
 Terry, Richard, Will of 64 
 
 Terrye, Thomas, Will of 63 
 
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 INDEX. 
 
 Teynham, Lord 
 
 42 
 
 Thornden 
 
 II 12 
 
 Thornhurst, Sir William, 
 
 Monu- 1 
 
 ment of 
 
 31-32 
 
 Pedigree of 
 
 32 
 
 Tithes .. 
 
 ••• 57-58 
 
 Tower of Herne Church 
 
 18-21 
 
 Trinity House, Reculver 
 
 Church 
 
 towers preserved by ... 
 
 6 
 
 Turkey slaves, Money given to ... 55 
 
 Twins baptized 
 
 52 1 
 
 Twyman, William 
 
 53 1 
 
 Tyndell, Richard, Bequest of Lady 
 
 Fyneux to 
 
 62 
 
 Underdown Manor 
 
 10, II, 61 
 
 Stephen 
 
 67 
 
 Vicars of Herne 
 
 46-50 
 
 Vineyard at P'ord 
 
 14 
 
 Vitalis de Canterbury holds Maken- 
 
 brooke Manor 
 
 II 
 
 Wailes. Mr., artist in glassforMrs. ' 
 
 Smith’s gift 31 i 
 
 Waleys, Sir William 37 ' 
 
 owned Hawe 
 
 Manor-house 9 
 
 Warinyngton, Christopher, Vicar 
 
 of Herne 46 
 
 Warren, John, Vicar of Herne ... 47 
 
 Will of 62 
 
 Webb, John, Vicar of Herne ... 50 
 
 Welby, John 64 
 
 White, William, restores chancel 
 
 of Herne Church 29 
 
 Whitgift, Abp., at Ford ... 13-14 
 
 Wiggens, William 65 
 
 Wild’s “Iter Boreale,” Epitaphs 
 
 in 29 
 
 Wills 60-66 
 
 Windows in Herne Church 23-24,27,31 
 Wood, John, Vicar of Herne ... 50 
 
 buried in aisle ... 24 
 
 Window in memory 
 
 of 31 
 
 Wood, Randall, buried 53 
 
 Wood, William, Window in 
 
 memory of 31 
 
 Worrall, Henry 65 
 
 Wyreham, Richard, Chantry priest 51 
 
 Young, Francis, payment to ... 55 
 
 Younge, John, Will of 60 
 
 Younge, Old Sir John, trustee of 
 vSir Matthew Philip’s will 61 
 
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