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SOME ACCOUNT 
 
 MANOR OF APULDREFIELD, 
 
 IN THE 
 
 PARISH OF CUDHAM, KENT. 
 
 G. STEINMAN STEIKMAN, ESQ. F.S.A. 
 
 FROM THE "topographer AND GENEALOGIST," VOT,. HI. 
 
 LONDON : 
 J. b. NICHOLS AND SON, 25, PARLIAMENT STREET. 
 
 1851. 
 
LOAN STACK 
 

 SOME ACCOUNT 
 
 MANOR OF APULDREFIELD. 
 
 The manor of Apuldrefield in Cudham, a parish within the 
 hundred of Ruxley, lathe of Sutton at Hone, and county of 
 Kent, comprises at this time in demesne an estate of 496 acres, 
 1 rood, 5 perches. It is seventeen miles from London, and in- 
 tersected by the high road to the market town of Westerham. 
 
 The manor of Cudham, of which we have first to speak, was 
 one of the hundred and eighty-four manors in Kent, conferred 
 by the Conqueror upon his uterine brother the celebrated Odo, 
 Bishop of Bayeux in Normandy and Earl of this county, of 
 whom it was held at the time of the Domesday Survey, 1080- 
 1086, by another follower of William, Gilbert de Maminot. 
 In 19 William I. 1084-5, on the disgrace of the Bishop, the 
 manor was seised into the King's hands ; but immediately 
 re-granted to Maminot to be held of the King in capite as 
 two knight's fees and by the service of keeping ward at Dover 
 Castle. To this baron succeeded Hugh his son, who by 
 Maud (?) daughter of Hamo Peverell, sister of William Pe- 
 verell of Dover, was father of Walcheline de Maminot, Con- 
 stable of Dover Castle and Warden of the Cinque Ports in 
 4 Stephen, 1138-9, living in the eleventh year of that reign, 
 1145, when he gave the manor of West Greenwich to the abbey 
 of Bermondsey in Surrey. By a daughter of Robert de Fer- 
 rars, first Earl of Derby of that family, Walcheline had issue 
 a son and successor of his own name, who married Julian, 
 daughter of Alberic de Vere, Lord Great Chamberlain of Eng- 
 land, and widow of Hugh Bigod, Earl of Norfolk, Steward of the 
 
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 Household. This second Walcheline was living 18 Henry 11. 
 1171-2, in which year he answered for the scutage of Ireland;* 
 but was dead in 2 Richard I. 1190-1, when his heirs answered for 
 the scutage of Wales. ^ If, as Dugdale says, in 1 John 1199- 
 1200, Robert de Crevequer answered for the scutage of Wales, 
 as heir of the barony of Maminot, he must then have mar- 
 ried to his second wife a sister and coheir of Walcheline last 
 named, and by her have died s. p. — for it is certain that Alice, 
 sister and coheir of the said Walcheline, carried his great pos- 
 sessions in marriage to Geoffry de Say, who transmitted them 
 to his posterity. In 16 John^ 1214-15, Geoffry de Say, son of 
 Geoffry and Alice, had livery of the inheritance both of his 
 father and mother, and answered for the scutage of Poictou. 
 
 He was one of the celebrated twenty-five Barons appointed 
 to in force the observance of Magna Charta, and, being thus in 
 arms against the King, his estates were seized 17 John, 1215-16, 
 and granted to Peter de Crohun,c a younger son of Maurice Baron 
 de Crohun. He died in 5 Hen. III. 1221-2,^ but whether 
 seised of the numerous fees of De Say or not is no where told. 
 However this may be, they were certainly restored to their original 
 lord before 8 Henry III. 122S-4, as the said Geoffry in that year 
 answered for them to the scutage of Montgomery, and, being 
 so possessed, he died in attendance upon Henry HI, in 
 Gascony, on the Monday next preceding the feast of St. Bar- 
 tholomew (19 August), 1230, leaving by Alice, daughter of 
 John de Cheney, William his son and heir. William de Say, 
 here mentioned, died in 56 Henry III. 1271-2, holding the 
 manor of Cudham of the King per Baroniam : and of him in 
 the said manor, Sir Henry de Apelderefeld held one knight's 
 fee, William, by Sibilla daughter of John Marshall of Linton, 
 CO. Kent, his son and heir, being then aged 19years.e — A second 
 
 » MS. Lansd. 269, f. 101'' •> Ibid. f. 107. 
 
 « The grave stone of Peter de Crohun, formerly in the church of St. Mary within 
 Dover Castle, is now in the museum of the town. It bears the following inscrip- 
 tion in uncial letters : " Petrus de Creone et pro anima ejus." 
 
 d Fin. 5 Hen. III. m. 6. 
 
 ' On his death the following extent was made of the manor of Cudham : " Ex- 
 tent of the manor of Cudham made on the morrow of St. Matthew the Apostle 
 (22 Sept.) 56 Hen. III. before master Richard de Clifford, escheator of the King 
 beyond Trent, namely by the oathes of John le Venur, William Mannigg, William 
 atte Putte, Richard Deneman, Henry Ralph, William Kyde, William the reve, 
 Simon the bedell, Thomas le Noreys, Roger de EUemere, Nicholas atte Hok, 
 and Gilbert de Widemere, who say by their oathes that there are in the said 
 
IN CUDHAM, CO. KENT. 3 
 
 wife, Mary, survived him, and in 1 Edward I. 1272-3, remarried 
 Robert Lord Ufford. f 
 
 manor 200 acres of arable land, and worth 33#. 4 J. per annum, at 2d. per acre. 
 Item, there are there 104 acres of waste land, which are worth 8«. M. at \d. each 
 acre. Item, there are at Betrede, which belongs to the said manor, 164 acres of 
 arable land, which is worth 27*. Ad. per annum, at 2i. each acre. Of meadow 
 nothing. Item, there are in the park of Codham and wood of Bokehurst 100 acres 
 of pasture, and worth 25*. at 3rf. each acre. Item, there are in the park of Betred 
 30 acres, and the pasture is worth in the said park 10*. at Ad. each acre. Item, 
 there are there 200 acres of wood, of which there are there of underwood 150 acres, 
 which may be sold, and which is worth 7^ 10*. at \9,d. each acre. Item, the pan- 
 nage in the said wood is worth \2s. when it happens. Item, there are there of 
 rents of assize of the free tenants of Codham and Bertred 17/. per annum, viz. 
 8/. 10*. at the feast of St Michael (29 September), at the feast of St. Martin (11 
 November) 12rf. and at Easter 8/. 9*. Item, of rents of assize 14 ploughshares at 
 the feast of St. Martin 9*. Ad. at M. each ploughshare. Item, lib. of pepper at 
 the nativity of the Lord (25 December), price M. Item, half a pound of cumin 
 at the same feast, price \\d. Item, 1 pair of gilt spurs, price M. Item, each of 
 the ploughs of the tenants ought to plough and harrow 2 acres per annum, viz. I 
 acre for winter seed, and 1 acre for spring seed, and the lord ought to feed all the 
 partners of the ploughs, or at least six men for each plough ; wherefore, the cost 
 being computed, the said works are of no value. Item, they say that the pleas and 
 perquisites are worth per annum 20*. Item, of rents of assize at the feast of St. 
 Peter ad Vincula (1 August), one waggon, which is worth 2s. Item, they say that 
 Sir Henry de Apelderefeld holds in the said manor two knight's fees (an error for 
 one knight's fee), and his heirs owe for a relief 10/. (5/.), and Sir Nicholas Pessum 
 holds half a knight's fee of the said manor (i. e. the manor of Keston, now a sepa- 
 rate parish), and his heirs owe for a relief 50*. Item, they say that the issues of the 
 windmill are worth per annum 9 quarters of mastlin, which is worth 30*. at 3*. Ad. 
 each quarter ; and there are costs of the said mill per annum 6*. 8d., wherefore, the 
 costs being computed, the worth of the said mill is 23*. Ad. per annum. Item, a 
 court with garden, herbage, and other advantages, 2*. Item, they say that the 
 church of the said manor is worth per annum 20/. and its true patron is Sir William 
 de Say, and the rector of the said church is Laurence de Dunwich. Item, they say 
 that William de Say is son and heir of Sir William de Say, and was of the age of 
 19 years on the day of St. Edmund the King (20 Nov.) the year before said. Item, 
 they say that Sir William de Say held the said manor of the lord the King by barony. 
 
 "The sum of the extent of this manor 33/. 4*. Ad. besides reliefs." — Esc. 66 
 Hen. III. n. 37. 
 
 The manor of Cudham, it may be mentioned, passed by marriage from the family 
 of de Say to that of de Fiennes, and again by marriage to that of Lennard. Thomas 
 Lennard, Earl of Sussex, in 1707, conveyed the rents of assize, with a farm in the 
 parish, of 383 a. r. 35 p. known as Cudham Court, to Thomas Streatfeild, esq. 
 of Sevenoaks, and the said rents and farm are now the property of Thomas Light- 
 foot, esq. of Sevenoaks, in right of Catharine-Anne his wife, sister and heiress of 
 Henry Streatfeild, esq. only son of the said Thomas. The demesne lands of the 
 manor, with the manor house (?) called Cudham Lodge, were conveyed in 1717, by 
 the Earl's daughters and coheiresses, to James first Earl Stanhope, whose descend- 
 ant Philip-Henry Earl Stanhope at this time owns them. 
 
 f Dugdale's Baron, i. flf. 189, 190, 258, 412, 437, 311, 592, 619 ; ii. f. 47. Dug- 
 dale's Monas. iii. f. 522 ; vi. f. 913. 
 
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4 MANOR OF APULDREFIELU. 
 
 The service by which the manor of Apuldrefield was held of 
 the paramount manor seems to have been the annual payment 
 of 2s. '7d. and a pair of gilt spurs or 6d.s 
 
 As, previous even to the death of Geoffry de Say last-named, 
 the manor of Apuldrefield had been formed out of the mvanor of 
 Cudham, — for we shall hereafter find that a Henry de Apul- 
 drefield held it of a Geoffry de Say — we need not here follow the 
 descent of the latter any further. Of the family of Apuldre- 
 field, the first mention we have discovered is in 3 Ric. I. 
 :191, when Sir Henry de Apuldrefield and Sir Henry de Apul- 
 Irefield the son are found serving under Richard I. at Acre. ^ 
 A Sir Henry de Apuldrefeld, son doubtless of the last, was also 
 in Gascony with Henry HI. in 1230. i In 31 Henry HI. 
 1246-7, Henry de Apeltrefield, who may be considered his son, 
 with Beatrix his wife, occurs in a fine as plaintiff" with David 
 de Eatonbridge (de Ponte Edulmi) and Sabina his wife defend- 
 ants, of ten acres of land called Werlandwith their appurtenances 
 in Apeltrefeld. Judgment to Henry and Beatrice. '^ On 20 
 December, 38 Henry HI. 1253, the same Henry obtained a 
 grant of a market on the Tuesday of every week, and a fair on 
 the eve and day of the Assumption of the Virgin (14 and 15 
 August) in his manor of Apuldrefield.^ In 39 Henry 111. 
 1254-5, as Henry son of Henry (so called most probably 
 to distinguish him from the other Henry in the proceeding 
 named, who seems to have been son of William), he occurs 
 as plaintiff" in a fine with Henry de Appeltrefeld and Letitia 
 his wife defendants, of the third part of the manor of Sundrish 
 
 « Vide ** A rentall of the quit rents due to the Right Hono'ble Dorothy Lady 
 Dacre [Lady of the manor of Cudham] for one whole yeare, made 19 October 1684.'' 
 Streatfeild MSS. Chare's Edge, Westerham. 
 
 " Imprimis of the Right hono'ble the Countesse of Sheppy for her mannor of 
 Apuldreffeild, ii«. vjrf. 
 
 " Item, more of her for a payer of guilt spures 00*. vjrf." 
 
 ^ Philipott, Villare Cantianum, f. 223, " ex veteri Rot. penes Edo. Bering, mih 
 etbaronettum defunctum." 
 
 * Ibid, from "Roll of Gascony." 
 
 ^ Transcripts of Fin. Concord, in Kent, time of Hen. III. Lansd. MS. 267, f. 48. 
 In 39 Hen. III. 1254-5, William de Mares, lord of the manors of Ackmere and 
 Sentling, in St. Mary Cray, conceded to Richard his son lands in Apultrefeud and 
 Tattesfeud, called La Dune, and a moiety of a piece of land in Apletrefeud called 
 Henryeslond. Orig. Fin. Concord. Rec. Off. Carlton Ride, Westminster. 
 Cart. 38 Hen. III. pt. 1, m. 13. 
 
IN CUDHAM, CO. KENT. 5 
 
 with its appurtenances. Judgment to Henry son of Henry." 
 In42Henryni. 1257-8, in a fine between Nicholas deWinton and 
 Petronella his wife "plaintiffs" and Peter de la Mare defendant^ 
 he was called to warrant and did warrant to the said Peter 20s. 
 rent in Appeltrefeld. " In 43 Henry HI. 1 258-9, he occurs in a 
 fine as plaintiff with Bartholomew de Moriston and Matilda 
 his wife defendants of one messuage and sixty acres of land 
 with appurtenances in Sundrish. The said Bartholomew and 
 Matilda recognise and concede the said lands with their appur- 
 tenances, viz. whatever they first held in the same town as in 
 the lord's homage, services, freemen, woods, &c. &c. to the said 
 lands belonging, and whatever they first had in Chidingstone, to 
 be rightly the said Henry's: and besides they give the said 
 Henry the homage and all the services of Simon FitzAlain 
 of Sundrish^ and his heirs, of all lands with appurtenances 
 which the said Simon first held of the said Bartholomew and 
 Matilda in the same town for ever, paying per annum, &c. 
 And the same Henry concedes the said Bartholomew and 
 Matilda all the lands with appurtenances which the same Henry 
 first held in Tottington, Barfreston, and Hescenden, as in 
 homage, rents, and all appurtenances, for ever. In 3 Ed- 
 ward I. 1274-5, the jury of the hundred of Ruxley, appointed 
 by special commission dated 11 October 1274, to inquire into 
 the state of the royal demesnes and of the rights and revenues 
 of the crown, &c. returned that Sir Henry de Appeltruefeld 
 had subtracted himself from the services of the hundred for fif- 
 teen years, and they knew not by what right." On 28 February, 
 11 Edward I. 1283, he was? appointed assessor and collector 
 in the county of Kent of the thirteenth granted in the Conven- 
 tion at Northampton on the 20th January preceding, i On 20 
 November, 16 Edward I. 1287, he was appointed a commis- 
 sioner for viewing the banks and ditches upon the sen coast and 
 parts adjacent within the county of Kent, then broken in 
 divers places by the violence of the sea. ^ So also in the 17, 
 
 •» Lansd. MS. 267, f. 63. " Ibid. f. 324. • Rot. Hund. i. f. 236. 
 
 p Lansd. MS. 267, ff. 331-2. The manor of Tottington is in Aylesford ; the 
 manor of Hescenden in St. Margaret's Rochester. 
 
 1 Palgrave's Parliam. Writs (Alphabetical Digest), i. f. 429. 
 ■■ Pat. 16 Edw. I. m. i. in dorso. 
 
5 MANOR OF APULDREFIELD, 
 
 18, and 19 of the same reign.s in 18 Edward I. 1290, he 
 was returned M.P. for Kent, in the parliament which met at 
 Westminster on 15 July.* In 19 Edw. I. 1290-1, as "Henry 
 de Appelderefeld senior," he was defendant in a fine with Roland 
 de Okstede and Christiana his wife and Margery their daughter 
 plaintiffs, of one messuage, one carucate of land, six acres of mea- 
 dow, thirty-three acres of wood, and eight shillings rent, with 
 appurtenances, in Nettlested. Judgment to Margery. " In 25 
 Edward I. 1297, he was summoned to appear with horse and 
 arms at a military council to be held at Rochester before Edward 
 the King's son and Lieutenant in England ; on 8 September, ^ 
 and in the following year, he was summoned to perform military 
 service in person against the Scotch, the muster to be at York 
 on 25 May. y In the latter part of the same year he was sheriff 
 of the county, 2 as he was for the whole of the next." In 28 
 Edward I. 1299-1300, he was appointed a commissioner for 
 viewing the banks and ditches in Kent and Sussex.^ In 29 
 Edward I. 1301, he was returned M.P. for the countyj in the 
 parliament which met at Lincoln on 20 January, *= and again in 
 33 Edward I. 1305, in the parliament which met at Westmin- 
 ster on 28 February, ^ at which time, if we are right in his iden- 
 tity, he must have reached an advanced age, and it is not at all 
 improbable that he survived both his son and his grandson. 
 
 Of Sir Henry de Apuldrefield, son of Sir Henry above. — In 
 54 Henry III. 1270, described as here set out, he obtained a 
 grant of a chapel in his manor of Broxham in Westerham and 
 Eatonbridge. e In 55 Henry III. 1270-1, he occurs in a fine 
 as Henry son of Beatrice de Apeldrefeud, with his brothers John, 
 William, and Reginald, '^petentes," vers, Henry de Apeldre- 
 field, tenentem, of one messuage and half a carucate of land with 
 appurtenances in Preston and Selling. Judgment was given for 
 Henry son of Beatrice, John, William, and Reginald, and for 
 this recognition they concede to the said Henry de Apeldrefeud 
 the said messuage and lands with appurtenances for the term 
 
 » Pat. 17 Edw. I. m. 10 ; 18 Edw. I. m. 5 ; 19 Edw. I. m. 22. 
 
 » Pari. Writs, i. f. 429. 
 
 " Transcripts of Fin. Concord, in Kent, time Edward I. Lansd. MSS. 268, f. 100. 
 
 » Pari. Writs. y Ibid. ' Hasted, Kent, i. Ixxxii. 
 
 " Ibid. " Pat. 28 Edw. I. m. 25 dors. •= Pari. Writs, i. f. 429. •» Ibid. 
 
 • Transcripts of Petley Deeds at Chart's Edge, Westerham. 
 
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 of his life, SlcJ In 7 Edward I. 1278-9, he occurs as Henry 
 de Apeldrefield junior. S 
 
 In 23 Edward I. 1294-5, he recovered damages by a jury 10/. 
 and by another jury 30/. against Reginald de Cobham and W. 
 de Wygenden and others, for that they had chased as well harts 
 as hinds within his park at Broxham, and had taken the same 
 without, &c.h In 33 Edward I. 1304-5, he is mentioned in a 
 fine as plaintiff, with John de Helegh defendant, of one mes- 
 suage, two mills, two hundred and sixty acres of land, sixty and 
 ten acres of wood, fifteen acres of meadow, forty and six shil- 
 lings and eight pence rent, and a rent of ten and nine hens, and 
 four, twenty, and fifteen eggs, with their appurtenances, in Eaton- 
 bridge, Hever, Westerham, and Chidingstone {i. e. the manor of 
 Broxham). The property was declared to belong to John and 
 the heirs of the said Henry of his body by the service of the 
 whole life of the said Henry. And after his decease the whole 
 to remain with John Aleyn, of Ifeld, and Margery his wife, and 
 the heirs which the same John Aleyn of the body of the said 
 Margery might procreate. And if John died without, &c. then 
 the said lands with appurtenances wholly to remain with the 
 right heirs of the said Margery, holding of the chief lord by the 
 accustomed services for ever, &c. ^ 
 
 Of Henry, son of the last named Sir Henry. — In 25Edward I. 
 1296-7, he is recorded as Henry de Apuldrefield, son of Henry 
 de Apuldrefield junioris,^ and in 28 Edward I. 1299-1300, as 
 " Henry son of Henry son of Henry de Apeldrefeld," in a fine 
 between Ralph de St. Lawrence and Beatrice his wife plaintiff 
 and himself defendant of one messuage, one carucate of land, 
 twenty-two acres of meadow, and 20^. rent, in Hopland, in West- 
 bere, Chistlet, and Sturry. Judgment to Ralph and Beatrice, and 
 the heirs which the same Ralph of the body of Beatrice might 
 procreate, holding of the said Henry, and by the annual rent 
 of, &c. ; and if Ralph died without, &c. then, after the decease 
 of both Ralph and Beatrice, the said lands with their appurte- 
 nances wholly to revert to the said Henry and his heirs, holding 
 of the chief lord, &c. ^ He died s. p. and the manors of Apul- 
 
 f Lansd. MS. 267, f. 94. « Petley Deeds. 
 
 »> Plac. Abbrev. f. 253". * Lansd. MS. 268, f. 284. 
 
 " Petley Deeds. ' Lansd. MS. 268, f. 274. 
 
8 MANOR OF APULDREFIELD, 
 
 drefield, Broxham, and Sundrish, were carried by Margery, his 
 eldest sister, in marriage to Joiin Aleyn of Ifeld above men- 
 tioned. His other two sisters appear to have been Beatrice, who 
 married Ralph de St. Lawrence, of St. Lawrence in the Isle of 
 Thanet, both also above mentioned, and Elizabeth, as it would 
 seem, the wife of Ralph de Freningham. Of these matches 
 more particulars will be mentioned in the notes to the pedigree 
 of Apuldrefield hereafter given. 
 
 Sir John de Ifield, of Jfield in Sussex, for by such designation 
 was John Alyn of Ifield more generally known, as we have said, 
 succeeded to the manor of Apuldrefield and the other estates 
 belonging to his wife's family. In 29 Edward I. 1301, he was 
 manucaptor of Henry de Apuldrefield, knight of the shire re- 
 turned for Kent."* 
 
 In 34 Edward I. 1305-6, he again appears in a fine as John 
 Aleyn de Ifield.n On 28 November, 1 Edward II. 1307, he was 
 appointed an assessor and collector in the county of Sussex of 
 the 12th and 15th granted in the Parliament at Northam[)ton.o 
 On 18 December, 3 Edward II. 1309, he was appointed a jus- 
 tice in the same county, to receive complaints of prises taken 
 contrary to the statute, &c.P On 16 December, 6 Edward II. 
 1312, he was empowered with others to talliale the city of Lon- 
 don and the King's cities, burghs, &c. in Kent, Sussex, Surrey, 
 and Middlesex, q On 14 June, 9 Edward II. 1316, he was ap- 
 pointed a conservator of the peace in Kent. ^ In the same year 
 a commissioner of the marshes in Kent. ^ On 28 November, 
 
 11 Edward II. 1317, he was a justice assigned in the county of 
 Surrey for the purpose of suppressing illegal meetings, &c. * 
 On 14 March, 11 Edward II. 1318, again a conservator of 
 
 » Pari. Writs, i. f. 680. ° Lansd. MS. 268, f. 295. 
 
 ° Pari. Writs (Alphabetical digest), ii. div. 3, f. 1037. This, office was frequently 
 deputed to him, and in 8 and 13Edw. II. he was commissioned to collect in Kent the 
 scutage, at the respective dates considerably in arrear. p Ibid. 
 
 1 Pari. Writs. ■• Ibid. 
 
 * Pat. 9 Edw. II. pt. I, m. 5 dors. This office was also deputed to him in 10, 
 12, 16, 17, and 18 Edw. II. and 2 Edw. III. (Pat. 10 Edw. II. pt. 2, m. 21, dors. 
 
 12 Edw. II. pt. 2, m. 21. 16 Edw. II. pt. 2, m. 14. 17 Edw. II. pt. 2, m. 12. 
 Claus. 18 Edw. II. m. 38. Dugdale, Imbankm. 1772, f. 42.) In 11 Edw. II. he 
 was a commissioner of the marshes, &c. in Sussex (Pat. 11 Edw. II. pt. 1, m. 9 
 dors.), and in 14 Edw. II. of the marshes, &c. in Kent and Sussex (Pat. 14 Edw. II. 
 pt. 2, m. 5 dors.) 
 
 « Pari. Writs. 
 
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 the peace in Kent. " In this same year he obtained a grant 
 of free warren in his manor of Apuldrefield, — also in his 
 manors of Broxham, Sundrish, Ifield (in Sussex), and Chelsham 
 (in Surrey).'^ On 12 December, 15 Edward II. 1321, he was 
 appointed a conservator of the peace in Sussex, y On 25, 26, 
 and 30 March, 15 Edward II. 1322, as a justice he was empow- 
 ered and directed by letters patent and writs to pass sentence 
 upon Bartholomew de Badelesmere, which was done accordingly 
 at Canterbury, on 14 April. ^ On 16 May following he was 
 appointed a commissioner of array in Sussex, pursuant to the 
 grants made in the Parliament at York. « On 8 June same 
 year, a commissioner empowered to raise additional number of 
 troops in Surrey and Sussex.*' On 9 May, 17 Edward II. 1324, 
 being then a knight, he was summoned to attend the great 
 council to be held at Westminster on 30 May. ^ On 4 June 
 a commissioner to raise a detachment of archers in Kent, 
 Surrey, and Sussex. ^ On I August, 18 Edward II. 1324, a 
 commissioner of array in Sussex, with special powers.^ On 
 6 of the same month, a commissioner empowered to raise a 
 certain number of foot soldiers in Sussex (Chichester excepted).^ 
 On 18 March, 18 Edward II. 1325, he was appointed a conser- 
 vator of the peace in Essex, g 
 
 On 1 March, 1 Edward III. 1327, he was appointed, with 
 other justices itinerant, to make perambulation of Surrey. ^ In 
 1 and 3 Edward III. 1327-8—1329-30, he was again a conser- 
 vator of the peace for Kent. * In the following year he was M.P. 
 for the county, k as he also was in the next. ^ In the last 
 named year he was once more a conservator of the peace for 
 the county.™ We have now mention of his wife and of one of 
 his daughters. In 5 Edward III. 1331-2, Sir William de 
 Hanlee (of Ash, co. Surrey) grants to Sir John de Ifield and 
 Margery his wife all his lands and tenements in Titsey, Surrey, 
 to hold to said John and Margery, and their heirs male, re- 
 
 u Pari. Writs. ' Cart. 11 Edw. II. n. 84. 
 
 y Pari. Writs. '■ Ibid. » Ibid. ^ Ibid. "= Ibid. 
 
 ^ Pari. Writs. ' Ibid. ' Ibid. » Ibid. 
 
 ^ Manwood, on " the Lawes of the Forrist," 1598, tf. 143, 144. 
 
 > Pat. 1 Edw. 111. pt. 1, m. 7 dors, and Pat. 3 Edw. III. pt. 1, ni. IG dors. 
 
 " Hasted, i. cviii. ' Ibid. 
 
 >" Pat. 5 Edw. 111. pt. 1, m. 24 dors. 
 
10 
 
 mainder to Katharine their daughter, remainder to John son 
 of John Wakehurst, and the heirs of his body. >^ In 6 Ed- 
 ward III. 1333, he was returned for the last time M.P. for the 
 county,® and both he and his wife survived this year,P as on 8 
 April, 10 Edward III. 1336, it was found that John de Latimer 
 died seised of the manor of Norbrith in Godston, which he held 
 of John de Ifield and Margery his wife, as of the manor of Lag- 
 ham, which was the right of inheritance of John son and heir of 
 John de St. John of Lagham.q In 14 Edward II. 1320-1, the 
 said John and Margery had been enfeoffed in the manor of 
 Lagham by John Lord St. John the father for their joint lives, 
 remainder as above. '' It may be here mentioned that Sir John 
 de Ifield was lord also of the manor of Farningham in Kent, s 
 
 By his wife Margery de Apuldrefield, Sir John de Ifield ap- 
 pears to have left three daughters, Margaret, married to Sir 
 Stephen de Ashway ; Katharine, above-mentioned, who became 
 the wife of Sir Thomas de Foxle; and Joan. <^ In 20 Edward III. 
 1346-7, on the making of the Black Prince a knight, Stephen 
 de Asshewy, son of Sir Stephen, with his co-parceners, paid aid 
 for the manor of Apuldrefield, which Henry de Apuldrefeld had 
 formerly held of Geoffry de Say, 405." He seems to have been of a 
 city family, as Stephen de Ashway, before 3 Edward I. 1275, held 
 a house in Milk-street, Cheapside,'^ in which it is very probable 
 he resided, as he occurs Alderman of Cheap ward, in 13 Edw. I. 
 1285 ;y and Sir Stephen, who maybe considered his son, in 17 
 Edward II. 1323-4, released to John de Triple, citizen of Lon- 
 don, and to Sir GeofFry le Scrope, knight, and their heirs, the 
 whole of his right in ail the messuages, lands, rents, and tene- 
 ments, with their appurtenances, which they had of his feoffment 
 in the manor and parish of Stebenhith, except, &c. \^ and again in 
 
 " Claus. 5 Edw. III. part i. n. 4. " Hasted, i. cviii. 
 
 P In the church of Ifield, Sussex, are two monuments, the one with the eflSgy of 
 a cross-legged knight, the other of a lady, which have been absurdly assigned to Sir 
 John and Lady Ifield. They are engraved in Cartwright's Rape of Bramber, f. 384 ; 
 and the former also in Stothard's Monumental Effigies of Great Britain, f. 53. 
 
 1 Esc. 10 Edw. III. m. 15. ' Manning and Bray, Surrey, ii. f. 325. 
 
 « Lansd. MSS. 276, ff. 134'', 136. ' Vide Notes to Pedigree. 
 
 " Lansd. MSS. 276, f. 137. At the same time he paid IO5. aid for a quarter of 
 a fee, which Reginald Harleston had formerly held in Caldecote of Simon de Mont- 
 ford. Ibid. f. 137^ 
 
 "^ Rot. Hund. i. ff. 407, 430. y Chronique de London, ff. 19, 20. 
 
 » Abbreviatio Placitorum, f. 347. 
 
IN CUDHAM, CO, KENT. 1 1 
 
 10 Edward III. 1336-7, he conceded to the said Sir Geoffry all 
 that mansion and messuage, with houses, gardens, &c. which the 
 said Sir Geoffry held in Ladelane, in the parish of St. Lawrence 
 in the Jewry, London, for a term of years, on the demise of the 
 said Stephen.^ — Lady Margaret his wife was buried in the Grey 
 Friars, London.^ 
 
 Returning to the manor and to its now joint lord. — In 11 
 Edward III. 1337-8, Stephen de Ashway was M.P. for the 
 county,c and in 25 Edward III. 1351-2, he held the entirety of 
 the manor ; for he then, as son and heir of Sir Stephen de Ash- 
 way, conveyed to Richard de Essex, citizen and draper of Lon- 
 don, 10/. rent, to be received by him and his heirs out of his 
 manorsof Apuldrefeld and Northsted<* (the last hi Cudham and 
 Chelsfield), and in 37 Edward III. 1363-4, he obtained a grant 
 of free warren in these two manors, and also in his manor of 
 Keston.e In 41 Edward III. 1367-8, he obtained a licence to 
 inclose a park in his manor of Broxham,^ after which we find 
 no further mention of him, or indeed of the name. 
 
 On 26 August, 46 Edward III. 1372, the King, by his writ 
 under his privy seal, granted to John atte Welle and Robert 
 Williams licence to assign rent of the value of four marks issu- 
 ing out of certain tenements called Le Rye, in Otford, to Adam 
 Flemynge, chaplain, and his successors, celebrating divine ser- 
 vice daily in the chapel of Apuldrefelde for the good state of the 
 King whilst he lived, and for his soul afterwards, and the souls 
 of his ancestors, and his heirs, and of all faithful people deceased, 
 for ever, &c.g 
 
 It is unknown how the next possessor of the manor to Ashway 
 came by it. On 7 April, 48 Edward III. 1374, Thomas de St. 
 Alban's, very probably a citizen of London, was seised in fee of 
 it, which he demised for 30 years to William Foxle, son and heir 
 apparent of Sir John Foxle ^ (son of Sir Thomas Foxle by 
 Katharine de Ifield before-mentioned), to whom Robert de St. 
 Alban's, his cousin and heir, on 24 June, 49 Edward III. 1375, 
 released the fee ; Adam Haket, and the other feoffees of Thomas, 
 
 » Claus. 10 Edw. III. ra. 39. " Coll. Top. et Gen. v. f. 389. 
 
 «= Hasted, i. cviii. "^ Claus. 25 Edw. III. m. 12. 
 
 «= Pat. 37 Edw. III. n. 8. ' Pat. 41 Edw. III. pt. 1, m. 11). 
 
 « Pat. 46 Edw. III. pt. 2, m. 19. 
 
 ^ Oxonhothe Evidences. Transcripts made by Rev. Lambert Blackwell Larking, 
 A.M. vicar of Ryarsh, Kent, to whom, and to another equally accomplished friend, 
 the late Rev. Thomas Streatfeild, F. S. A, of Chart's pd^o, wcare obliged for their uj«e. 
 
12 MANOR OF APULDREFIELD, 
 
 confirming the release.^ It will presently be seen, that on 31 
 May, 50 Edward III. 1376, Alice, widow of Thomas de St. 
 Alban^s and then the wife of John Ychingham, released to Sir 
 John de Foxle her dower of the third part of the manor.'^ 
 
 Having brought the manor again into the possession of the 
 descendants of Apuldrefield, we have now to speak of Sir Tho- 
 mas de Foxle, the husband of Katharine, daughter and coheir 
 of Sir John de Ifield. He was the son and heir of Sir John de 
 Foxle of Foxle in Bray, co. Berks, appointed Baron of the 
 Exchequer 28 February, 2 Edward 11. 1309,1 by Constance his 
 wife; and upon his father's death, in 18 Edward II. 1222-3, was 
 aged 33 years."^ In 1 Edward III. 1327-8, Sir Thomas was 
 M.P. for Berks,n and again in 11 of tliis reign, 1337-8;° in 4 
 Edw.III. 1330-1, he was appointed Constable of Windsor Castle,P 
 which office he still held in 12 Edward III. 1338-9.q He married 
 a second wife Joan, widow of Sir .Tames de Woodstock, a puisne 
 judge of the Common Pleas,'^ who had died in 15 Edw.III. 1341-2,^ 
 and departed this life in 34 Edward III. 1360-1, leaving the 
 said Joan surviving, and, by his first wife. Sir John de Foxle 
 his son and heir, aged 30 years.t Sir John de Foxle was the first 
 Constable of Queenborough Castle, Kent, so appointed in 36 
 Edward III. 1362-3;" and he also held the constableship of 
 Southampton Castle, which he retained till his death in 1 Richard 
 
 II. 1377-8.^ In 38 Edward III. 1364-5, he was M.P. for Hants ;y 
 in 43 Edward III. 1370-1, M.P. for Berks ;^ and in 47 Edward 
 
 III. M.P. for both counties.^ By his first wife Matilda, daugh- 
 ter of Sir John Brocas of Beaurepaire, in Sherborne St. 
 John's, Hampshire, he had William Foxle, before mentioned, 
 Katharine, and Margery, and by Joan Martin his second 
 wife, John, Thomas, and Richard, all born before marriage. 
 William Foxle, son and heir apparent of Sir John, having 
 become seised of the estate in manner as above shewn, on 
 the feast of St. Edmund (13 October), 49 Edward III. 1375, en- 
 feoffed it to Kobert Echingham, John Stake, and others, for his 
 
 » Oxonhothe Evidences. 
 
 1 »» nil 
 
 ^ Ibid. 
 
 » Pari. Writs, ii. div. 3, f. 
 
 891. 
 
 "• Esc. 18 Edw. II. n. 38. 
 
 ° Prynne's Brev. Pari. f. 1 
 
 1. 
 
 ° Ibid. f. 11. P Orig. ii. f. 39. 
 
 1 Ibid. f. 128. 
 
 
 ■^ Pat. 14 Edw. III. pt. 1, m. 45. 
 
 « Esc. 15 Edw. III. n. 18. 
 
 
 ' Esc. 34 Edw. III. n. 55. 
 
 " Orig. ii. f. 319. 
 
 
 ^ Ibid. f. 34 ^ 
 
 > Brev. Pari. f. 81. 
 
 
 ' Ibid. f. 11. » Ibid. ff. 12,81. 
 
IN CUDHAM, CO. KENT. 13 
 
 Edward III. 1376, enfeoffed in it Joan his widow for life. This 
 lady, whose paternity is unknown, on 18 October following, de- 
 mised this her life-interest to Sir John de Foxle, her late hus- 
 band's father, who, on the 9th of the following month became 
 seised of the fee, which Echingham, Stake, and others, on that 
 day released to him. On 31 May previous, as we have said, 
 Alice, widow of Thomas de St. Alban's, and then the wife of 
 John Ychingham, had released to him her dower of the third 
 part therein. On . . . February, 1 Richard II. 1378, Sir John 
 enfeoffed the manor to Arnold Brocas clerk, John de Foxle 
 clerk, Robert de Loxle, and John de Weelton, who, on 6 Feb. 
 2 Richard II. 1379, by deed indented, dated at Apuldrefeld, 
 granted and confirmed " our manor of Apuldrefeld and the ad- 
 vowson of the free chapel there," to Joan his widow for life, 
 remainder in succession to her three bastard sons, before named, 
 and their respective lawful male issue in tail male ; remainder 
 to right heirs of Sir John their father. The witnesses to the 
 
 said deed are William , John Seint Dionysee, Bernard 
 
 de Xonyndon, John Whytelee, John Elys, Richard atte Doune, 
 Robert, William, and Simon Mannyng. On the same day, the 
 three last mentioned feoffees, by deed dated at London, appoint 
 master Arnold Brocas clerk and Stephen Doget their attorneys 
 to deliver seisin accordingly ; and, by another deed, of the same 
 date, the said Joan lady Foxle appoints William Chaundeler 
 and John Sangurst her attorneys to recover seisin in her name 
 of the manor of Apuldrefeld, and the advowson of the free 
 chapel there.* 
 
 Sir John de Foxle her husband had died . . November 1378, and 
 by his will, dated at BromeshuU on 5th of that month and year, 
 had directed his body to be buried in the chapel of All Saints in 
 the parish of Braye, near the tomb of his father and other ances- 
 tors. He ordered his own tomb to be made with images in metal 
 of himself and his two wives, the first on his right hand, and the 
 second, Johanna, on his left. He leaves small sums to the several 
 parish churches of Braye, Fynchamstede, Wokyngham, Evei*slee, 
 and BromeshuU, also to the church of Farnbergh near Leves- 
 ham and the chapel of Apuldrefeld. His bequest to the latter 
 is as follows : " Item lego fabrice capelle de Apuldrefeld xiij*. 
 iind. Item lego capelle de Apuldrefeld unum vesliinentuni 
 sacerdotale cum casula de panno serico rubro cum latis orphreys 
 » Oxonhothe Evidences. 
 
14 
 
 et aliis ad idem pertinent', et unum missale portatile de usu mo- 
 nialium coopertum coreo rubro." [Item, I leave to the fabric of the 
 chapel of Apuldrefield 13^. 4<d. Item, I leave to the chapel of 
 Apuldrefield one priest's vestment with a chasuble of cloth of red 
 silk, with wide orphreys, and other things to the same belonging, 
 and one portable missal as used by the nuns, covered with red 
 leather.] He speaks of his daughter Katharine, his daughter 
 Margaret, his sister Margaret de Foxle, his " nepos^^ (nephew?) 
 Thomas Paynel, his " nepos " John Feghelere, his " neptis " 
 (niece?) Johanna Hailleward (unmarried), *' Thomas fil. Johanne 
 consortis sue, Johanni fratri dicte Thome, Ricardo fratri dicto- 
 rum T. & I.'^ Executors of his will, Johanna his wife. Master 
 Arnold Brocas elk, John de Welton, Robert de Loxle, and John 
 de Foxle elk. Witnesses, William Chaundeler and Stephen 
 Doget. « 
 
 The grave-stone of Sir John de Foxle is yet extant in the 
 church of Bray, and the fine brass " images " of the knight and 
 his two ladies have recently been engraved for Waller's " Series 
 of Monumental Brasses from the thirteenth to the sixteenth 
 Century." They are represented as standing upon a bracket or 
 pedestal, at the base of which is a couchant fox. The knight, 
 who is armed cap-a-pie, stands on a lion ; and his head rests 
 upon a helmet adorned with his crest, a fox's head, whilst on 
 his surcoat are his arms, Gules, two bars argent. These arms 
 are also on the gown of the first lady, impaling Sable, a lion 
 rampant argent ; but on the gown of the last they stand alone, 
 significantly proclaiming that the concubine wife was not of 
 gentle lineage. So much of the epitaph as was remaining when 
 Ashmole visited the church in 1666, is here given; 
 
 jacet dns Johes de . . . . . 
 
 Novembris anno domini miitimo 
 
 Cujus a'le propitietur Deus. Amen. ^ 
 
 On 15 January, 12 Henry IV. 1411, lady Joan Foxle, with 
 Thomas Foxle, Esq. her second son, the eldest, Richard, being 
 therefore dead s. p., enfeoffed the manor to Richard Wyot, 
 
 * Probate was granted by the Bishop of Winchester, 1 December 1378, at South- 
 wark, to the three male executors, with power reserved to Johanna the widow. The 
 will is registered at Winchester. For the substance of it we are indebted to Albert 
 Way, esq. A.M. F.S.A. and to his friend the Rev. W. H. Gunner, A.M. chaplain 
 and tutor of Winchester college. 
 
 " MS. Coll. Arm. C. 12, 2.99. 
 
IN CUDHAM^ CO. KENT. 15 
 
 John Martyn, William Westynton, and John Crystemasse, 
 Witnesses to the deed, John More, Henry Norreys, Edmund 
 .... ewyn, Nicholas Ailleward, John Louchons, &c. On the 
 same day the said lady Joan and Thomas appoint Robert Bose- 
 worth their attorney to deliver seisin, and on 1 February fol- 
 lowing John Foxle esq. her third son, ratifies, approves, and 
 confirms the said grant.^ 
 
 On 2 April, 14 Henry VI. 1436, John Martyn, one of the 
 justices of our lord the King, gives, grants, and confirms to 
 Thomas Foxle, her second son, and Tibota his wife, the manor 
 of Apuldrefield which he lately had, with Richard Wyat, Wil- 
 liam Westynton, and John Crystemasse, all now deceased, of 
 the gift and feoffment of Joan, &c. Witnesses to the deed, 
 Thomas Appuldrefeld, esq., Richard Bamme, William Frogen- 
 hale, &c. On same day the judge appoints John Marchaunt 
 and Thomas Browne his attorneys, to deliver seisin accordingly, 
 and on 31 March, (?) 1436, the said Thomas and Tibota appoint 
 Robert Fowler their attorney to receive seisin.*^ 
 
 Thomas Foxle, eldest surviving son of lady Joan, did not 
 long survive the date of this conveyance. His death took place 
 on 2 November 1436, and he too was buried with his ancestors 
 at Bray, under a gravestone adorned with the brass effigies of 
 himself in armour, his feet resting upon a fox, between his two 
 wives. Above his head was a shield of the arms of Foxle, above 
 his first wife a shield of the like arms, impaling [Ermine ?] on a 
 chief indented [azure?], three coronets [or?] Lytton. Above 
 the second, a shield containing Barry nebulee of six, ermine 
 and [sable?], Marys. The epitaph, as preserved by Ashmole, 
 runs as follows : 
 
 " Hie jacet Thomas Foxley armiger, qui obiit secundo die 
 Novemb. an° D'ni 1436, et Margeria ac Theobalda uxores ejus, 
 quorum animabus propitietur Deus. Amen." 
 
 By his first wife Margery, daughter of ... . Lytton (?) by 
 Margaret daughter of , . . Rys, whose heiress she was, he had 
 Elizabeth his heir, one of the wives of Sir Thomas Uvedale of 
 Wickham, co. Hants. By his second, Theobalda — who was 
 apparently a daughter of John Marys of Harbelton in Harriets- 
 ham, CO. Kent, and wife afterwards of Humphry Evyas of East- 
 hall in Murston, same county — he left no issue. 
 
 «^ Oxonhothe Evidences. '' Ibid. 
 
16 MANOR OF APULDREFIELD, 
 
 On 19 September, 8 Henry VI. 1429, Margaret, widow of 
 John Hartington, and sole representative of Margery one of the 
 two lawful daughters and coheirs of Sir John de Foxle, having 
 released to the above Thomas Foxle her claim, and he having 
 since enfeoffed Henry cardinal Beaufort and others, they the said 
 feoffees, on 6 May, 15 Henry VI. 1437, in assigning the pur- 
 parts among the female heirs of Sir John de Foxle, allotted lands 
 and tenements in Sussex to lady Elizabeth Uvedale, daughter 
 and heir of the said Thomas Foxle, and the manor of Apuldre- 
 field to William V^^arbleton esq. in right of his grandmother 
 Katharine, the other of the two lawful daughters and coheirs 
 of Sir John.^ 
 
 About this time, as appears from a rental of the manor ^ under 
 date 18 Henry VI. 1439-40, the quit-rents due to it amounted 
 to the annual sum of bl. 19s. Id. and 34i hens and 263 J eggs, 
 exclusive of 21. \s. Q\d. due in quit-rents to the chapel. The 
 following is a verbatim list of the lands held of the last named 
 manor, of their then owners, and of their several rents : — 
 
 " Apuldrefeld — Redditus ptinens Capellae ib'm." 
 
 IJohn Haselwode&Hughpson— Combelond,&herr&rel. x^ 
 
 2 John Davy — Siredes & herr & rel. . ' iiijs iiijd 
 John Silvestre — a mess. 8i garden & feld called Rodeland iij^ 
 John Elyot for " le Rodelond " & herr & rel. . iijs 
 John Aunsell — Kempeheld, Lytill heysole & Berelond v^ 
 Jno. Beterden & Hugh pson tenent de tra pdca p ann 
 
 Sc her & rel. ..... x^ 
 
 Thomas Haymond — Bokerstisfeld, formerly Rd Studell, 
 
 Rd le Meche, whereof Jn« Colyer pays for Rd le 
 
 Meche p ann, & her & rel. . . • vjs 
 
 W"^ atte Barne — I croft, Vuredon wood in Westfeld, 
 
 formerly Walter Fromond, & her & rel. . . vj<J 
 
 Jno. Rowhede — a parcel of land, & her & rel. . yd 
 
 3 Thos. Fryth — a parcel of land, & her & rel. . ijs ixd 
 
 He also holds P'stes Grove and pays " de firma 
 
 pcell tr dfio" ..... iiij 
 
 Jno. Rundell — 3 acres near Southfeld, & her & rel. xvd 
 
 Jno. Bygge — Pettelee Croft, & her & rel. . . xiiijd 
 Thomas Northewode (olim Jotiis le pe) iiij acres called 
 
 Petteland, alias Pynchonesland, p ann, & her & rel. xiiijd 
 
 •* Oxonhothe Evidences. « Ibid. 
 
IN CUDHAM, CO. KENT. l7 
 
 He holds also a parcel of land called Sab}'neslond . xix^ 
 
 Jno. atte Welle — a garden at Byggynheld, p anfi & 
 
 her & rel. ...... iijd 
 
 Rd Bettesham — ^ an acre, late Jno. Lambard's, in 
 
 Apyldrefeld in Southlond, p ann ... ij^ 
 
 Jno. Janyn — a toft and croft adjoining, p anfi . j ob. 
 
 Thos Raymond — Strydelesden, p anfi . . iiij^ 
 
 4 Thos Haymond — Jno. Davy and Philip Rowhede 
 
 hold Wolffricheshagh, p anii . , . vjd 
 
 [2/. Is. Hd.] 
 Notes in a later hand, 
 
 1. vj" Rot. Cur. E. Danny an« vj^ H. 8. p aliefi terr* voc. 
 Combeland, xi^. Kempesheld iij acr. v^. a*^ xv. H. vj. Bere- 
 croft & Little Haysole x^., & Morehaysole x^. fact, p Joh'e 
 Haslwode, Henr Barnard, redd. xj^. viij<J. 
 
 2. Ph'us Gillot t3. 
 
 3. Voc' Godmannysland jacent' inter terr' Joh'is de Mares & 
 terr' pWis de Marlon in Apulderfeld olim Ade le Wallere ijs ix^ 
 — D' eod Ada p terr' ill' q' fuit Will'i le Carpenter in Bertrey 
 iiid qa. 
 
 4. Modo tenens Joh'es Rowhed. 
 
 Concerning the family of Warbleton now spoken of^ Thomas de 
 Warbleton of Warbleton in Sussex, and Sherfield in Hampshire, 
 by Christian his wife, (who remarried Henry de Shenefield, whose 
 wife she was in 28 Edward I. 1299-1300,) had Sir Thomas his 
 -heir.f Sir Thomas de Warbleton was Sheriff of Hants from 26 
 to 29 Edward I. 1297-8—1300-1, from 31 to 33 of the same 
 reign 1302-3—4-5, and again from 1 to 5 Edward U. 1307-8— 
 11-12.^ In 1 Edward II. 1307-8, and 4 Edward II. 1310-11, 
 he represented the county in Parliament,^ and in 10 Edward II. 
 1312-13, he died leaving by Alianore, who survived him, Sir 
 John his heir set. 30.i Sir John de Warbleton was M.P. for 
 Hants 19 Edward II. 1325-6, 1 Edward III. 1327-8, and 2 Ed- 
 ward III. 1328-9.k He married a lady named Margaret, who 
 survived him, and by whom he left on his death, 6 Edward HI. 
 
 f Manning and Bray, ii. f. 378, and Esc. 28 Edw. I. n. 129. 
 « Berry's County Genealogies, Pedigrees of Hampshire, f. vii. 
 »» Brev. Pari. f. 79. 
 
 » Esc. 10 Edw. II. n. 55, and Claus. 10 Edw. II. m. 11. " Brev. Pari. f. 80. 
 
 C 
 
18 MANOR OF APULDREFIELD, 
 
 1332-3, John his heir aged 15,^ memorable for his contest in 
 1347 with Theobald Russell respecting his right to bear for arms 
 Lozengy or and azure."' He died 13 February, 25 Edward III. 
 1351, leaving by Alice his wife, who survived till 26 Sept. 8 
 Richard I. 1384, John his heir, aged 6.^ This John married 
 Katharine Foxle, and his descendants will be found in the 
 pedigree of Apuldrefield before referred to. 
 
 On 11 Nov. 26 Henry VI. 1447, William Warbleton esq. 
 to whom the manor of Apuldrefield had been, as we have shewn, 
 assigned, having first enfeoffed William Brocas senior, Robert 
 Dyneley, John Gaynesford, esquires, Thomas Hannes, and John 
 Corker clerk, in his manor of Appuldrefelde, &c. with the ad- 
 vowson of the free chapel of the said manor, except the tenth 
 part of one acre of land called Ladylands, of the tenure of the 
 lord of the same, and the tenth part of one virgate of the tenure 
 of the lord of Sundrish, they the said feoff*ees did by indenture 
 quadripartite give and grant to the said William Warbleton 
 and Margery his wife, and the heirs of their bodies lawfully be- 
 gotten, the said manor and advowson ; remainder, in default of 
 issue of the same, and of issue of the body of the said William 
 W^arbleton, to Elizabeth Cyfrewast, aunt of the said William 
 Warbleton, for term of her life, and to Margaret Brekenok, 
 daughter of the said Elizabeth, and the heirs of the body 
 of the said Margaret lawfully begotten, remainder to Sibilla 
 Thorley and x\gnes ScuUe, sisters of the said Margaret Breck- 
 nok, and the heirs of their bodies lawfully begotten ; remainder 
 to the right heirs of said William. On 20 July, 35 Henry VI. 
 1457, the said William Warbleton with Margery his wife de- 
 mises the manor, with its appurtenances, in Kent, to William 
 Marys esquire and Theobalda Evyas widow, for the term of the 
 said Theobalda's life. Witnesses to the deed, which is dated 
 at Appuldrefeld, John Bigge, John Haymond, Thomas Fryth, 
 Henry Romeney, John Mountford, &c. On the same day they 
 appoint John Waleys and Roger Molyneux their attorneys to 
 deliver seisin ; and also on the same day, Marys and Evyas ap- 
 point Hugh Hasnap and Thomas Halley their attorneys to 
 receive the same.o 
 
 1 Esc. 6 Edw. III. pt. 1, n. 72. °» Dugdale's Baron, i. If. 785, 786. 
 
 » Esc. 25 Edw. III. m. 54, and Esc. 8 Ric. II. n. 40. 
 ° Oxonhoath Evidences. 
 
IN CUDHAM, CO. KENT. 19 
 
 Theobalda Evyas, whose second husband Humphry Evyas of 
 Easthall in Murston, Kent, died 32 Henry VI. 1453, leaving 
 (by a former wife?) John his son and heir, aged 19 years,? and 
 who was sister to William Marys above named, died very aged(?) 
 between 12 April 1478, on which day her will, wherein she is 
 described as of Feversham, and in which she mentioned her 
 " sister Apuldrefieid," is dated, and 8 April 1479, when it was 
 proved at Canterbury. 
 
 On Monday before the feast of St. George (19 April), 19 Edw. 
 IV. 1479, the lady Margaret Besyles, late wife of William 
 Warbleton, esq., there being no heirs of the bodies of the said 
 William and Margaret, or of the body of the said William, and 
 the before mentioned Elizabeth Cyfrewast being dead, surren- 
 dered her life-interest to Margaret Brecknoc and her heirs, who 
 on the same day enfeoffed in it Thomas Wode, Thomas Danvers, 
 William Fysher, and William Robbes. On 5 Feb. 4 Hen. VII. 
 1489, William Rykes, esq. son and heir of Sibilla Siferwast, re- 
 leases to Wode and the other feoffees, and in Michaelmas term 
 5 Hen. VII. 1489, recovers his mediety of the manor, and Wil- 
 liam Senile, son and heir of Agnes Siferwast, recovered his me- 
 diety against the said feoffees. On the morrow of St. Martin (12 
 Nov.) 5 Hen. VII. 1489, Thomas Danvers, by his writ of right, 
 recovers the entire manor against Skulle and Rykes, who 
 then by fine release it to the said Wode and others ; and the 
 said Thomas Danvers, described as gentleman, on 20 October, 
 10 Henry VII. 1494, sold the same to Edmund Denny, gen- 
 tleman, by the name of the manor of Appuldorefeld, alias 
 Appuldersfeld, alias Apperfeld, with all its appurtenances, in 
 Kent, and all his lands, tenements, rents, services, &c. &c. in 
 Apuldrefeld, Cudham, Sundrish, and Westerham, in Kent; the 
 sale being made to the said Edmund Denny and to such as he 
 shall name '* their heirs and assignes for ever; " and the pur- 
 chase money being 500 marks, — 96/. Ss. Sd. to be paid down, 
 and 40/. at Easter next, in full payment of the said 500 marks.** 
 
 On 1 1 November following, Thomas Wode and his co-feoffees 
 demise, enfeoff, and confirm to Henry Frowyk esq., Thomas 
 Frowyk, Thomas Kneseworth, citizen and fishmonger of London, 
 Edmund Denny, Ralph Legh, and Anthony Forde, tlie manor, 
 with the advowson of the free chapel there, and all lands, tene- 
 
 p Esc. 32 Hea. VI. n. 13. i Oxonhoath Evidences. 
 
 c 2 
 
20 
 
 ments, &c. (a twentieth part of an acre of meadow thereof in 
 Sundrish, of the fee of John Isley esq, alone excepted and re- 
 served,) to them and their heirs, to have and to hold the said 
 manor, &c. to the use of the said Henry, Thomas, Thomas, Ed- 
 mund, Ralph, and Anthony, to the use of the said Edmund Denny 
 and his heirs : and the said Thomas Wode and his co-feoffees 
 on 14 November following appoint John Radford and Walter 
 Stapyll their attorneys to deliver seisin. Witnesses to the deed, 
 Walter Wales, Robert a Lygh, John Williams, Richard Kem- 
 sett, Thomas Basset, &c. Witnesses to the seisin, Thomas 
 Drawer, farmer of the said manor, Thomas Norwode, one of the 
 tenants of the said manor, John Williams, Thomas Crowmer, 
 and John Smyth. Two days after, Thomas Danvers of Water- 
 stoke, co. Oxford, esq. remises, releases, and quit-claims to Henry 
 Frowyk, esq. and his co-feoffees, all his estate, title, claim, de- 
 mand, and interest in the said manor, 8cc. and in all lands, &c.&c. 
 which the said Edmund lately bought of him.^^ 
 
 Previously to this date, between 7 and 51 Edw. HI. 1337-4 — 
 1377, the manor of Bettred, another portion of de Maminot's 
 two fees in Cudham, had become annexed to the manor of Apul- 
 drefield ; for in the first-named year Geoffry lord Say claimed 
 before John de Stonor and other justices the right of holding a 
 yearly fair in his hamlet of Bettred in Cudham, on the day of 
 St. Lawrence, 10 August, s and on 20 June, 51 Edw. III. the 
 Prior and Convent of Rochester, to whom Hugh de Maminot 
 had given the tithes of it, * confirmed and approved of the ap- 
 propriation of the church of Cudham to the Prioress and Con- 
 vent of Kilburne, saving their right to the portion of the tithes 
 of five fields, viz. Brodefeld, Schidden, Blenchfelde, Plechlefelde, 
 and Chersebenefeld ; as also to the portion of the tithes of cer- 
 tain other small places, containing in the whole 221 acres, lying 
 dispersed within the bounds and limits of the parish of Cudham, 
 and due from the manor of Apurdelfeld. " 
 
 ' Oxonhoath Evidences. 
 
 * Philipott, f. 124. In 15 of this reign, 1341-2, he discharged Richard de 
 Chersholt from its reeveship. Ibid. 
 
 * Reg. RofF. f. 117. The gift was confirmed by his son Walkeline, who fur- 
 ther granted that if ever the lordship, wholly or in part, should be converted into 
 tillage, the tenths should yet remain entire as at first given. Ibid. f. 267. 
 
 « Reg. Roff. f. 264-266. On Monday the feast of the nativity of St. John the Bap- 
 
IN CUDHAM, CO. KENT. 21 
 
 The several fields of the manor of Bettred are thus more par- 
 ticularly set out in a MS. now or formerly penes the Dean and 
 Chapter of Rochester. ^ 
 
 " Nomina camporum decime de Bettrede in parochia de 
 Codham. 
 
 ** Nichcoliers croft continet ii acras, unde medietas pertinet 
 
 ad rectorem. 
 Brodefeilde continet l acras, unde decima tota ad camerarium. 
 Helde continet viii acras, decima tota ad camerarium. 
 Hardem croft continet ii acras. 
 Adlene croft continet iii acras. 
 Item Stite croft continet iii acras. 
 Glench vel Blench continet xvi acras. 
 Sparwhel in summitate ejusdem ii acras. 
 Cokkes croft continet iii acras. 
 Colewynes croft continet ii acras. 
 In Westfilde una acra ex parte una, et parum in fine illius 
 
 cam pi, residuum ad rectorem. 
 Herboun continet xii acras. 
 Netherestrenely continet vim acras. 
 Overes[t]ren[e]ly continet viii acras. 
 Plecheley continet xxiiii acras, de quo una coppa rectori." 
 
 A pedigree fully illustrating the descent of the manor until 
 its final separation from the blood of its original lord, is here 
 subjoined. 
 
 tist, 24 June, 5 Edw. III. 1331, the prior and convent of Rochester demised all 
 their tithes of sheaves accruing within the manor of Bettred for five years, at a yearly 
 rent, to sir Henry de Reddlyngton chaplain, Laurence de Sutton, and Robert de 
 Voyle. Reig. Roff. f. 352, 3. On Monday next after the feast of St. Michatl, 30 
 September, 10 Ric. II. 1386, they demised the same for seven years, at a yearly 
 rent, to John Stoke of Farnborough, and John Flemyng of Rochester. Ibid. f. 267. 
 Upon the suppression of Rochester Priory in 31 Hen. VIII. 153}).40, it would 
 seem the tithes of Bettred passed to the grantee of the rectory of Cudham, which 
 had fallen to the King on the suppression of Kilburne Priory in 27 of his reign 
 1535-6, as the great tithes of the parish have descended entire to the present Uj 
 rector, Charles Warde, esq. of Squerries in Westerham. 
 * Reg. Roflf. f. 268. 
 
 D 
 
22 
 
 PEDIGREE OF A PULDREFIELD OF APULDREFJEl.D, OF APULDREFIELD 
 CONTINUED THROUGH IFIELD, FOXLE, AND WARBLETON TO PUTTEN- 
 RYKES, AND SHEWING ALSO THE DESCENT OF ST. LAWRENCE, AND 
 APULDREFIELD. 
 
 Henry de Apuldrefield, living 2 Ric. I, 
 
 191 =r 
 
 Henry de Apuldrefield, living 2 Ric. I. 1191 
 
 Henry de Apuldrefield, of Apuldrefield in-p * * • 
 Cudham, before 14 Hen. III. 1230. | 
 
 Sir Henry de Apuldrefield, of=FBeatrice, 
 
 William de Apuldrefield, of Ottreply in 
 Challock, before 14 Hen. III. 1230. 
 
 Apuldrefield, M.P. for Kent, 18 
 Edw. I. 1290, sheriflf 26 Edw. I. 
 1297-8, 27 Edw. I. 1298-9, M.P. 
 29 Edw. 1. 1301, 33 Edw. 1. 1305, 
 
 dau. of 
 
 living 31 
 Hen.III 
 1246-7. 
 
 '=pWilliam 
 Delaware 
 of Dela- 
 ware in 
 Brasted. 
 
 ^ 
 
 Sir Henry de Johnde Apul- Sir William de Apuldrefield, 
 Apuldrefield, drefield, liv. of Horsted in Chatham and 
 ofBroxhamin 55 Hen. III. Rochester, 38 Hen. III. 
 Westerham, 1270-1, 1253-4. marr. before 7 Edw. 
 
 1270. =p.. Reginald, liv. I. 1278-9 ; died 12 Edw. I. 
 55 Hen. III. 1283-4. 
 
 Henry de A- =j=Lettice, 
 puldrefield, I dau. of 
 
 living 28 Hen. '. 
 
 III. 1243-4—: living 28 
 42 Hen. Ill, : H.III.— 
 1257-8. : 42 H.III. 
 
 L 
 
 Arayce, dau. and h,=^SirNicholas 
 
 T 
 
 of Sir Richard de 
 Tuite, of Marston 
 in Westmeath, 
 living 15 Edw. I. 
 1286-7. 
 
 deCarew,of 
 Molesford, 
 Devon, 1st 
 husband. 
 
 Henry de 
 Apuldre- 
 field, liv- 
 ing 25 
 Edw. I. 
 1296-7— 
 28 Ed. I. 
 1299- 
 1300. 
 
 Margery ,^Sir John de Bea- =^Ralph deSt. 
 
 marr. be- 
 fore 33 
 Edw. t. 
 1304-5, 
 living 5 
 Edw. III. 
 1331-2. 
 
 Ifield, of 
 field, Suss, 
 of Apuldre- 
 field, &c. 
 justice of 
 assize, M.P. 
 for Kent 
 4, 5, & 6 
 Edw. III. 
 1330-1,1-2, 
 2-3. 
 
 trice, 
 
 marr. 
 
 bef. 28 
 
 Edw.I. 
 
 1299- 
 
 1300. 
 
 Lawrence,of 
 St. Law- 
 rence, Isle 
 of Thanet, 
 justice of as- 
 size, sheriff of 
 Kent 19 Edw. 
 11.1325-6, 1. 
 Edw. III. 
 1327-8, 6 
 Edw.III. 1332-3 
 
 1 
 
 Elizabeth 
 
 marr. to 
 
 Ralph de 
 
 Frening- 
 
 ham. 
 
 ( 
 Gilbert 
 de Apul- 
 drefield, 
 son and 
 heir^ liv- 
 ing 25 
 Edw. I. 
 1296 7. 
 
 Stephen 
 de Apul- 
 drefield, 
 living 25 
 Edw. I. 
 1296-7— 
 34 Ed. I. 
 1305-6. 
 
 Mar- =^Sir Ste- Katha— j-Sir Thos. — Joan, 
 
 garet, 
 bur. in 
 Grey 
 Friars, 
 Lond 
 
 phen de 
 
 Ash way, 
 of 
 
 nne, 
 
 living 
 
 his wife 
 
 llEdw. 
 
 III. 
 
 1337-8. 
 
 de Foxle, dau. of 
 of Foxle in 
 Bray, 
 
 Berks, and sur- 
 of Brams- vived 
 hill in 
 Eversley, 
 
 Hampsh. 74.P. for 
 Berks 1 Edw. III. 
 1327-8,llEdw.III. 
 1337-8; died 1360: 
 bur. at Bray, Esc. 
 34 Edw. III. n. 55. 
 
 =Sir James de Joan. 
 Wodestock, 
 
 of Holshute, 
 
 Hampshire, 
 
 Puisne Judge 
 
 of Common 
 
 Pleas. 4 Feb. 
 
 14 Edw. III. 
 
 1340; M.P. for 
 
 Berks 10 Edw. III. 
 
 1336-7 ; d. 1341-2, 
 
 Esc. 15 Edw. 
 
 III. n. 18. 
 
 Thomas =pMatilda, 
 
 de St. 
 Lawrence, 
 died9Aug. 
 1348. Esc. 
 22 Edw. 
 III. 1. p. 
 n. 11. 
 
 Stephen de Matilda, -pSir John de Foxle, of Foxle,=pJoan Martin, Mar- 
 
 Ashway, of dau. of 
 
 Apuldre- 
 field and 
 Broxham, 
 M.P. for 
 Kent, 11 
 Edw. IIL 
 1337-8, 
 living 41 
 Edw. III. 
 1367-8. 
 
 Sir John 
 Brocas, 
 of Beau- 
 repare, in 
 Sher- 
 borne St. 
 John's, 
 Hamp- 
 shire. 
 
 S HadApuldre- 
 S field for life. 
 
 Bramshill, and of Apuldre 
 
 field, set. 30, 34 Edw. Ill 
 
 1360-1 ; M.P. for Hants 
 
 38 Edw. III. 1364-5, for 
 
 Berks 43 Edw. III. 
 
 1369-70, for Hants and 
 
 Berks 47 Edw.III. 1373-4; S Hen. VI 
 
 died Nov. 1378 ; will 5 S 1429. 
 
 Nov. 1378, proved at South- S 
 
 wark I Dec. fol ; bur. at ^ 
 
 Bray. \ 
 
 garet, 
 living 
 
 I 
 
 Thomas 
 de St. 
 Law- 
 
 dau. of 
 (Swal- 
 clyve of 
 Sway- 
 cliffe ?) 
 surviv- 
 ed. 
 
 John de= 
 St.Law- 
 
 S Diedbetw.15 5 Nov. rence of set. 24, 
 
 SJan. 9 Hen. 1378. 
 S IV. 1408 and 
 S 19 Sep. 8 
 
 died v.p. 
 
 I 
 
 22 Edw. 
 III. 
 1348-9, 
 d.1361-2, 
 s. p. Esc. 
 35 Edw. 
 III. 2. p. 
 n. 68. 
 
 c 
 
 26 V 
 
23 
 
 OF OTTREPLY, AND OF APULDREFIELD OF BADMANGORE, THE FORMER 
 HAM, AND THROUGH THE SAME AND SIFERWAST TO SCULLE AND 
 FRENINGHAM, AND ISLEY FROM FEMALE HEIRS OF APULDREFIELD OF 
 
 Joan. Held Ottreply-i-Henry de Apuldrefield, 
 
 in dower, living 55 
 Hen. III. 1270- 
 
 of Ottreply, living 21 
 Edw. I. 1292-3, dead 24 
 Edw. I. 1295-6. 
 
 =Isolda, dau. =Thomas Abelyn, of 
 of Mere Court, in Mur- 
 
 marr. 2ndly ston, 1st husband. 
 21 Edw. I. 
 died 1295-6. 
 Esc. 24 Ed. 
 I. n. 46. 
 
 John de Apuldre- 
 field, of Ottreply ; 
 living 17 Edw. II. 
 1324; dead 20 
 Edw. II. 1326-7. 
 
 -1 
 .. de= 
 
 Apuldrefield of Ottreply, 
 (vide p. 26). 
 
 =Joan, dau. of Henry de Apuldre- 
 field, Curate of Apul- 
 
 Had Ottreply Chatham and Ca- dre- 
 
 for life, 20 non of Leeds mo- field. 
 
 Edw. II. nastery,9Edw. II. 
 
 1326-7. 1315-6. Abbot of Apuldrefield of Badmangore in 
 ? Linsted (vide p. 27). 
 
 
 - 
 
 ! 
 
 \ 
 
 ^ 
 
 
 .. ...... ....-^ 
 
 =P Ralph de^ 
 
 — Lavinia, dau. John de =p Agnes, Ralph de Joan.=pJohn Isley, of 
 
 dau. of 
 
 St. Law- 
 
 of (de Hey of Frening- 
 
 dau. of Frening 
 
 
 Brook place. 
 
 (de Wil- 
 
 rence. 
 
 Eastry ?) died ham, of 
 
 Ed- ham,jun. 
 
 Sundrish. 
 
 ming- 
 
 
 1348-9, Es. 22 Farning- 
 
 mund Sheriff of 
 
 Will 23 July 
 
 ton of 
 
 
 Ed.III. n. 19. ham. 
 
 Lord Kent, 17 
 
 1375; pr'dS 
 
 Sel- 
 
 
 marr. Sir John Sheriff of 
 
 Staf- Edw. II 
 
 . 
 
 kal. (29) Aug. 
 
 lindge?) 
 
 
 atte Welle, of Kent, 22 
 
 ford. 1323-4, 
 
 
 following, bur. 
 
 
 
 Eastry, 2nd Edw. III. 
 
 s. p. 
 
 
 at Sundrish. 
 
 
 
 husband. 1348-9, 
 
 
 
 Marr. 2ndly, 
 
 
 
 Dead 6 Edw. Died 
 
 
 
 Sarah, dau. 
 
 
 
 III. 1332-3. 1349-50, 
 
 
 
 of 
 
 
 
 Esc. 23 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Edw.III. 
 
 
 
 survived 
 
 
 
 n. 145. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 Sarah, =Sir Richard 
 
 Sir Ralph de Fren-^Katharine, John de 
 
 1 
 
 John Is- mar. 
 
 dau. of de Ratling, 
 
 ingham of Farning- 
 
 dau. of Frening- 
 
 ley, of Sir Thomas 
 
 of Ratling 
 
 ham,8et.25. Sheriff 
 
 ham, had 
 
 Brook- Salman, of 
 
 in Non- 
 
 of Kent, 32 Edw. 
 
 W. Harm- 
 
 place, Burstow, 
 
 died ington, 
 
 III. 1358-9, M.P. 
 
 ing for life 
 
 married Surrey, 
 
 1386-7, d. 1049-50, 
 
 35 Edw. III. 
 
 23 Ed. III. 
 
 Margaret M.P. for 
 
 Esc. 10 Esc. 23 
 
 1361-2, d. 1364-5, 
 
 1349-50 ; 
 
 Brown (of Surr. 6 Rio. 
 
 Ric.II. Edw. III. 
 
 Esc.38Edw.III.n. 
 
 Bur. at died s.p. 
 
 Browns II. 1382-3, 
 
 n. 34. n. 12. 
 
 19; bur, atBoxley. 
 
 Boxley. 1353-4 ; 
 
 in Eaton- 7 Ric. IL 
 
 
 
 Esc. 25 
 
 bridge?) 1383-4 
 
 
 
 Edw.III. 
 
 =p (bisj,\9 
 
 
 
 n. 24. 
 
 
 Ric. 11. =F 
 
 
 r 
 
 '. 
 
 ( 
 
 1385-6. 4^ 
 
 
 
 r^ t 
 
 tc\ 
 
 
 /•« 
 
 on 
 
 ^ 
 
24 
 
 PEDIGREE OF FOXLE, 
 
 I 
 
 William 
 Foxle, of 
 Apuldre- 
 field, 
 died bet. 
 49 Edw. 
 III. 1375 
 -6 and 50 
 Edw.III. 
 1376-7. 
 
 :Joan, Katharine, died 7 Feb. 
 
 dau. of 1403, Esc. 5 Hen. V. n. 
 
 15, mar. John de War- 
 
 of A- bleton, of Warbleton, 
 
 puldre- Sussex, and of Sherfield 
 
 field on Lodon, Hants ; died 
 
 for 21 Sep. 1375, Esc. 49 
 
 Ufe. Edw. III. 2. p. n. 57. 
 
 Margery, 
 marr. to 
 Robert 
 Bullock. 
 
 Richard Margery, dau. of" 
 
 de Foxle, Lytton, 
 
 died bet. and heir of her mo- 
 2 Ric. II. ther Margaret 
 1378-9 & Westyngton, of 
 15 Jan. 9 Westyngton, in 
 Hen. IV Welwyn & Ayot 
 1408. Mount Fitchet, 
 
 Hertfordshire ; 
 
 bur. at Bray. 
 
 I 1 
 
 Thomas de War-=rJoan, dau. Margaret,=pWiUiam Put- 
 
 bleton, of Warble- 
 ton and of Sher- 
 field, set. 10 and 
 upwards 49 Edw. 
 III. 
 
 of Sir John dead 8 
 Hay. Edw. IV. 
 
 tenham, Esq. 
 of Putten- 
 ham, Hants, 
 andofPenne, 
 Bucks. 
 
 Elizabeth, =pJohn Siferwast, 
 
 living 26 
 Hen. VI. 
 1447-8; dead 
 8 Edw. IV. 
 1468-9. 
 
 of Cleware, 
 
 Berks, 
 
 d. l7Jun.l44L 
 
 Esc. 19 Hen. 
 
 VI. n. 32. 
 
 William de Warbleton, of Warbleton ,= 
 Sherfield, and of Apuldrefield, born 
 and bapt. at S. 6 April 1381 ; Sheriff 
 of Hants 12 Hen. IV. 1410-11 ; of 
 Surrey and Sussex 6 Hen. VI. 
 1427-8 ; M.P. for Hants 7 Hen. VI. 
 1428-9 ; and 29 Hen. VI. 1450-1 ; 
 Sheriff of Hants 29 Hen. VI. 1450-1 ; 
 died 4 Jan. 1469, s.p. Esc. 8 Edw. 
 IV. n. 44. Will 10 July 1461; 
 proved 5 Dec 1469 io P.C.C ; bur. at 
 Tandridge, Surrey. 
 
 -Margaret,' 
 dau. of 
 
 Hannys ; 
 had Apul- 
 drefield 
 for life. 
 Died 18 
 Mayl483, 
 Esc. 1 
 Ric. III. 
 n. 39. 
 Esc. 2 
 Ric. III. 
 n. 33. 
 
 =Sir Peter de 
 Besiles, of 
 Bessels- 
 Leigh, 
 Berks, 
 Sheriff of 
 Berks 10 
 Hen. IV. 
 1408-9; 1st 
 husb. Died 
 2 Mar. 1425, 
 s.p. Esc. 3 
 Hen. VI. n. 
 28. Esc. 15 
 Hen. VI. n. 
 42. 
 
 Henry Put-= 
 tenham, 
 Esq. of 
 Puttenham, 
 and Penne ; 
 ffit. 60 and 
 upwards 8 
 Edw. IV. 
 died 6 July 
 1473, Esc. 
 13 Edw. IV. 
 n. 6. 
 
 Marga- 
 ret, set. 
 44, and 
 upwards, 
 mar. v. p. 
 living 19 
 April, 19 
 Edw. IV. 
 1479,sold 
 Apuldre- 
 field, m. 
 David 
 Brek- 
 noke,esq. 
 
 William Puttenham, esq. of Sherfield and Warbleton,= 
 set. 30 and upwards 1473 ; set. 40 and upwards 1 Ric. 
 III. ; will 10 July 1492, proved 23 July following ; bur. 
 in Lady Chapel, Elsing Spital, Lond. 
 
 Anne, dau. of John Hampden, of 
 Hampden, Bucks, esq. Sheriff of 
 Bucks and Bedfordshire 29 Hen. 
 VI. 1450-1. 
 
 Sir George Puttenham, of Sher- 
 field and Warbleton. 
 
 (M.S. Karl. I5T4, ff. 20^, 21, and 
 1081, f. 42''.) 
 
 Edmund Puttenham, =p 
 of Puttenham. | 
 
 Elizabeth,= 
 dau. &hr. 
 
 .. .. Skipwith, of 
 Lincolnshire. 
 
 Nicholas Puttenham, gent, 
 of Penne, 3d son. 
 
 (MS. Harl. 1139,f. 79.) 
 
WARBLETON, PUTTENHAM^ ETC. 
 
 25 
 
 Thos. de Foxle, — Theobalda, dau.of John — Humphry Evyas of John de Foxle, of=pIsabell, 
 
 of Foxle, 
 Bramshill, and 
 of Apuldre- 
 field ; died 2 
 Nov. 1436 ; 
 bur. at Bray. 
 
 de Marys, of Harble- 
 ton, in Harrietsham ; 
 had Apuldrefield for 
 life ; will 12 Apr. 1478; 
 proved at Cant. 8 Apr. 
 1479 ; bur. in Mon. of 
 St. Saviour's, Fever- 
 sham. 
 
 Easthall in Murston 
 died 1453-4, Esc. 32 
 Hen. VI. n. 13. 
 
 I 
 
 Wyke in Rum- 
 hold's Wyke, Sus- 
 sex ; died 
 1419-20, Esc. 
 7 Hen. V. n. 36, 
 Esc. 3 Hen. VI. 
 n. 39. 
 
 dau. of 
 
 John 
 
 Fowle. 
 
 Margaret, living 
 a wid. 8 Hen. 
 VI. 1429-30; 
 marr. John 
 Hartington. 
 
 Elizabeth, - 
 
 mar. before 
 6 May 15 Hen. 
 VI. 1437, dead 
 14 Edw. IV. 
 1473. 
 
 :Sir Thomas Uvedale, of Wickham, Hamp- 
 shire, and of Titsey, Surrey ; Sheriff of Sur. 
 and Sussex 16 Hen. VI. 1437-8 ; M.P. for 
 Hants 33 Hen. VI. 1454-5 ; Sheriff of Sur. 
 and Sussex 5 Edw. IV. 1465-6 ; died 20 Feb. 
 1474. Esc. 14 Edw. IV. n. 26.=p 
 
 Agnes, set. 40, 
 and upwards, 
 m. V. p. living 
 11 Nov. 26 
 Hen. VI. 
 1447; dead 8 
 Edw. IV. m. 
 Milo Sculle, 
 esq. of Much- 
 Cowarne, 
 Hereford- 
 shire. =T= 
 
 SibiUa 
 set. 24 
 and up- 
 wards, 
 living 26 
 Hen. VI. 
 1447; 
 dead 4 
 Hen.VII. 
 1489, m. 
 Thomas 
 Rykes, 
 esq. 
 
 = John — Sir William 
 Thorley, Lakin, Jus- 
 
 esq. 
 second 
 husband ; 
 mar. be- 
 fore 19 
 Hen. VI. 
 1441; 
 died 
 1445; 
 buried at 
 Fulham. 
 
 tice of the 
 K, B. 
 third hus- 
 band ; died 
 6 Oct. 
 1475; bur. 
 at Bray. 
 
 ~i 
 
 Henry 
 Uvedale, 
 died 11 
 October, 
 1469, s. p. 
 Esc. 14 
 Edw. IV. 
 n. 26. 
 
 Elizabeth, 
 
 living 
 
 1436. 
 
 Alice, set. 
 5, 7 Hen. 
 V. died 
 1421-2, 
 Esc. 9 
 Hen. V. 
 n. 34. 
 
 Agnes, 
 
 living 
 
 1436. 
 
 I 
 
 William Sculle, esq. of Much-=f= dau. of Thomas 
 
 Cowarne, set. 30 and upwards, 
 8 Edw. IV. living 5 Feb. 4 Hen. 
 VII. 1489. 
 
 Walwyn, of Much-Marcle, 
 Herefordshire. 
 
 William Rykes, esq. living 
 5 Feb. 4 Hen. VII. 1489. 
 
 rn — 
 
 Frideswid. 
 Elizabeth. 
 
 1 
 
 Eleanor. 
 
 ^Richard Pigott, of Milksop, in 
 Aston-Rowaut, Oxon. 
 
 — -T-[ - 
 Bridget. 
 Agnes. 
 
 ^ 
 
 John Sculle, esq. of 
 Much-Cowarne. 
 
 Visitation of Hereford- 
 shire, 1569. 
 
26 
 
 PEDIGREE OF APULDREFIELD. 
 
 Continued from pp. 22 and 23.] 
 
 c 
 
 H 
 
 Thomas 
 deSt. 
 Law- 
 rence, 
 at. 3, 29 
 Sept. 
 1348. 
 
 John de Freningham of Farn — Alice, 
 ingham, set. 18,M.P. for Kent, dau. of 
 
 1 Ric. II. 1377-8; Sheriff 
 
 2 Ric. II 1389-9 ; M.P. 5 
 Ric. II. 1381-2; Sheriff 17 
 Ric. II. 1393-4; M.P. 1 
 Hen. IV. 1399-1400 ; She- 
 riff of London 3 Hen. IV. 
 1401-2. 
 
 Died 1410-11, s. p. Esc. 
 12 Hen. IV. n. 15 ; bur. at 
 Boxley. 
 
 — I 
 Nicho- 
 las de 
 [SirThos. Fren- 
 Uvedale, ing- 
 ofTitsey, ham, 
 Surrey ; set. 10. 
 M.P. for s. p. 
 Surrey 34 
 Edw.III. 
 1360-61, 
 39 Edw. 
 IIL 
 
 1365-6?] 
 bur. at 
 Boxley. 
 
 Alice, =pRoger Isley,- 
 
 William Apuldrefield of^=Katharine.=John de Preston, 
 Ottreply. Died 4 July second husband ; 
 
 1417. s. p. Esc. 7 Hen. married before 7 
 
 VI. n. 15. Hen. VI. 1428-9. 
 
 dau. of 
 John 
 Dry. 
 land, of 
 Cooks- 
 ditch, in 
 Fever- 
 sham ; 
 died 6 
 Oct. 
 1421, 
 Esc. 10 
 Hen. V. 
 n. 9. 
 
 of Brook - 
 place, set. 
 30 in 12 H. 
 IV.1410-11, 
 and heir to 
 John de 
 Frening- 
 ham ; 
 died 16 
 May 1429, 
 bur. at Sun - 
 drish. 
 
 Isley of Sundrish 
 (vide p. 40). 
 
 -Eliza- 
 beth, 
 dau. 
 of 
 
 Table shewing the Intermediate Descents and the Heirs of 
 Apuldrefield of Ottreply. 
 
 John de Apuldrefield of Ottreply .=p Joan. 
 T J 1 
 
 John de Apuldrefield, Henry de Apuldrefield,=p. • • • 
 living 20 Edw. II. of Ottreply, living 26 
 
 1326-7. Edw. III. 1352-3. | 
 
 . L. 
 
 Agnes. =pRichard Denne, of 
 
 Denne Hall, Kingston. 
 
 Henry de Apuldrefield, of-pJoan, living 47 
 Ottreply. Sheriff of Kent Edw. III. 
 51 Edw. III. 1377. 1373-4. 
 
 Isabella, living 44 -pJohn Idelegh, of Ash. 
 Edw. III. 1370-1. I near Wrotham, living 
 44 Edw. III. 
 
 William de Apuldrefield. — Katharine. — John de Preston. 
 
 John Idelegh. 
 
 William Idelegh, aet. 34 and 
 upwards 7 Hen. VI. 1428-9. 
 
 John Idelegh, set. 22 and 
 upwards in 7 Hen. VI. 
 
27 
 
 APULDREFIELD OF BADMANGORE IN LINSTED. 
 
 ... de Apuldrefield.=f=.. .. dau. of 
 
 Sir Heniy de Apuldre-=p.. .. dau. and coheir of John 
 field. I in Preston (near Feversham) a 
 
 i_ r 
 
 William de Apuldre-=Sibilla, dau. fi.=pRichard de Fro- 
 
 field of Badmangore, 
 in Linsted, sheriff of 
 Kent, '■21 Edw. III. 
 1353-4,28 Edw. III. 
 1354-5, 31 Edw. III. 
 1357-8, M.P. and 
 sheriff 34 Edw. III. 
 1360-l,sheriff 35Ed. 
 III. 1361-2, 36 Edw. 
 III. 1362-3,38 Edw. 
 III. 1364-5, and 44 
 Edw. III. 1370-1. 
 Died 24 April 1373. 
 Esc. 47 Edw.III.n.l. 
 
 heir of John 
 Bourne, of the 
 family of that 
 name at Shar- 
 sted in Dod- 
 dington, by 
 Margaret, dau. 
 and heir of 
 Richard Bara- 
 ker. 
 
 genhale of Frogen 
 hale, in Tenham, 
 and of Buckland ; 
 M.P. for Canter- 
 bury 13 Edw. III. 
 1339-40; living 1 
 March, 26 Edw. 
 III. 1352; dead 
 33 Edw. III. 1359- 
 60, when his widow 
 was the wife of W. 
 deA. 
 
 John, set. 26, 1373.^ 
 
 Perry of Perry Court, 
 id Selling. 
 
 SirThos. de Apuldre-=^ 
 field, M.P. for Kent 
 31 Edw. III. 1357-8, 
 34 Edw. III. 1360-1, 
 
 36 Edw. III. 1362-3, 
 
 37 Edw. III. 1363-4, 
 
 38 Edw. III. 1364-5, 
 43 Edw.III. 1369-70, 
 45 Edw. III. (twice) 
 1371-2. Living 5 
 Sept. 46 Edw. III. 
 1372. 
 
 Henry de Apuldrefield, of Badmangore,=f^ 
 set, 50, and upwards, 1373. Brother and ; 
 heir. ', 
 
 r - -' 
 
 William de =f=[Mary, dau. 
 Apuldrefield, ;of Henry 
 of Badman- : Evering, of 
 gore ? living ; Evering, in 
 2nd Oct. 39 :Alkham?] 
 Edw. III. • 
 1365. ! 
 
 I 
 
 John de 
 Apuldre- 
 field. 
 
 = [Margery, dau. 
 andheir of Hugh 
 le Kene ?] 
 
 Henry de=Joan, dau. and=pJolin Det 
 
 Apuldre- 
 field, jun. 
 living 2 
 Oct. 1365. 
 
 coheir of John 
 de Shelving, of 
 Shelving, in 
 Woodnesbo- 
 rough; dead 14 
 March 1412. ^ 
 
 ling, alias 
 Brampton, 
 of Det- 
 ling. 1st 
 husb. 
 
 1 
 
 Thomas '■ 
 de Apul- 
 drefield. 
 
 Thomas de Apuldrefield of Badmangore, living 26th Jan.= 
 8 Hen. IV. 1407. 
 
 Thomas de Apuldre- 
 field. 
 
 Thomas de Apuldrefield of Badmangore ? one of the=f= daughter of [Ralph de St. 
 
 principal gentlemen of Kent, 12 Hen. VI. 1433-4, : Leger, of Ulcombe, sheriff of Kent 
 son of Thomas 28 Hen. VI. 1449-50, cousin and heir : 9 Hen. VI. 1430-1 ?] 
 of H. de A. junior, 8 Dec. 34 Hen.VI. 1455. 
 I . 
 
 William de Apuldrefield of Bad-= 
 mangore. Will dated 24 Feb. 
 1487, proved at Canterbury lOth 
 April 1487. 
 
 Mildred, [dau. and eventu- 
 ally coheir of John de Ma- 
 rys, of Harbelton, in Har- 
 rietsham ?] survived. 
 
 Richard de Apuldrefield, of 
 Dadmans, in Linsted, 1487, 
 for life. 
 
 Eliza-=^Sir John Fyneux, of 
 beth. Hawe, in Heme, Ser- 
 jeant at law 1486, 
 justice of Com. Pleas 
 1494, lord chief jus- 
 tice of the King's B. 
 1496; died 1525; bur. 
 in Canterbury cathe- 
 >f^dral. 
 
 Anne.=f=Robt. Kempe, 
 of Spainshall, 
 in Pinching- 
 field, Essex ; 
 died 30 June 
 1524, bur. at 
 Fincliingfield. 
 
 , =FThomas 
 St. Nicho- 
 las, of the 
 Mote, in 
 Ash, near 
 Sandwich. 
 
 1 
 
 Joan, marr. to 
 Thos. Frogenhale, 
 of Frogen hale and 
 Buckland. Will 
 dat. 4 June 1505, 
 prov. at Canter- 
 bury 18 Dec. 
 1505. Buried at 
 Buckland. 
 
28 ARMS OF APULDREFIELD. 
 
 Arms of Apuldrefield. — The arms assigned by Philipott, ** in 
 his Visitation of the county of Kent, 1619, 20, '21, to the parent line 
 of Apuldrefield is, Ermine, a fesse vaire or and gules ; (vide Roper, 
 Smythe, and Norton families;) but, as no seal belonging to this branch 
 of the family has come down to us, the correctness of the appropriation 
 is open to considerable doubt. In 25 Edw. III. 1851-2, the seal 
 " Joh'is Isili " bears these arms ; ^ but his descendants — after, we may 
 reasonably suppose, his grandson became heir to " John de Fernnyng- 
 ham," — who in 49 Edw. III. 1375-6 used for arms, Ermine, a bend 
 gules, ^ replaced the fesse vaire by a fesse gules. There is nothing to 
 oppose the conjecture now hazarded, that the original coat of Apul- 
 drefield was, Ermine, a bend vaire or and gules, and the crest, On a 
 chapeau gules turned up ermine, a man's head in profile couped at the 
 neck proper, wearing a cap argent fringed front and back gules — as 
 most unquestionably were the blazons of Apuldrefield of Ottreply in 
 Challock ;^ whilst in support of it we have the fact that not only the 
 arms, as above shewn, but the crest of Frenyngham, viz. On a chapeau 
 gules turned up ermine, a man's head in profile couped at the shoulder 
 proper and wreathed round the temples, . . .^ are so nearly similar 
 as to warrant us in the assertion that the latter has been adopted from 
 the former. 
 
 The only known seal of Apuldrefield is that tricked by Philipott. It 
 bears on a heater-shaped shield. Ermine, a fesse vaire ; the crest. On a 
 wreath a man's head in profile, couped at the shoulder and wreathed round 
 
 ■ It would seem, upon the authority of the Roper family ; who being entitled to 
 quarter the arms of Apuldrefield of Badmangore, in Linsted, viz. Sable, a cross 
 voided or, through a daughter (but not coheir) of Fyneux, thought proper to quar- 
 ter the voided cross with the fesse vaire, as its parent blazon, although Fineux 
 had never done so. See arms on tomb of Thomas Roper, esq. of Heme, and of St. 
 Dunstan's, co. Kent, who died 1 January, 1597, in the church of the latter parish. 
 (Hasted's Kent, ii. f. 592.) The family of Roper placed this quartered coat of 
 Apuldrefield in the west window of Linsted church (Harl.. MSS. 3917, f. 32), and 
 a shield of Roper impaling quarterly Fyneux, and the fesse vaire only, in the upper 
 window of the body of Heme church. (Ibid. f. 35.) 
 
 •» Streatfeild's Excerpta Cantiana, f. 8. ^ Ibid. 
 
 •1 Addit. MSS. Brit. Mus. 5479. (Le Neve's Church Notes anno 1613), f. 127. 
 Le Neve has tricked another shield of these arms, without crest, &c. from a window 
 in the north aisle of Challock church, and also the arms of St. Lawrence and 
 Pashley. In Parson's Kentish Monuments and Painted Glass, f. 71, in addition to 
 the several coats tricked by Le Neve, there is mention of another shield of Apul- 
 drefield, surmounted by a mitre, and in place of Pashley the shield of Echingham. 
 Hasted, iii. f. 167, records only a quarterly shield, 1 and 4 Apuldrefield ; 2. Eching- 
 ham ; 3. Pashley, which has seemingly been made up of four several shields. 
 
 « Addit. MSS. Brit. Mus. 5479. f. 127. 
 
ARMS OF APULDREFIELD. 29 
 
 the temples ; and the legend is, " Sigillvm Thomae Apvldrefeld."^ 
 This is not unlikely to be the seal of Sir Thomas Apuldrefield, several 
 times M.P. for Kent, who by deed dated 23 Edw. III. 1349-50, gave 
 lands in Linsted and Doddington, co. Kent, to William de Linsted, as 
 stated by Weever, ^ on the authority of Glover, who doubtless made a 
 tricking of the seal appended to it, and thus enriched his brother herald's 
 Kentish collections.'^ 
 
 A shield containing the bend vaire, and inscribed below in uncial 
 letters, " Johanes de Apvlderfeld me dedit," was once in the east 
 window of Warhorne church * ; and the same shield, open to some ques- 
 tion it is true,J is to be seen on the roof of the cloisters of Canterbury 
 cathedral. According to Glover, Stephen de Apuldrefield, who was 
 living temp. Edw. I. bore. Or, on a fesse gules four lozenges argent. ^ 
 The family of St. Lawrence, it may be deserving of mention, did not 
 derive their arms from Apuldrefield ; they bore, Azure, a saltire argent 
 between four cross-crosslets or ; which coat was also formerly in a win- 
 dow of Challock church.^ 
 
 The arms of Apuldrefield of Badmangore, Sable, a cross voided or, 
 which evidently were derived from the coat of Crevequer, were as early 
 as the reign of Edward III. placed in the border of the lowest window 
 in the north aisle of the church of Lenham. They are no longer to be 
 found there, but Weever ™ saw them, and Philipott also, and it is to the 
 latter that we owe the means of proving their antiquity. From a drawing 
 which he has transmitted to us," we learn that, alternately with the arms 
 of Peyforer, Argent, six fleurs-de-lys, 2, 2, and 2, sable, and Handlo, 
 Gules, three crescents between seven cross-crosslets argent, they formed 
 the border of the window mentioned ; whilst the window next above the 
 door of the same aisle was composed of those of Brenlee, Gules, a 
 griffon segreant argent, Handlo, with a label of three points, and 
 Valoigns, Paly of six undee or and gules, all which may be thus appro- 
 priated : 1 . to William de Apuldrefield, purchaser of Badmangore time 
 Edward III. ; 2. to Fulke de Peyforer, lord of the manor of Syndall in 
 
 f Philipott's MSS. Coll. Armor. 24, f. 89. 
 
 s Weever's Fun. Mon. f. 278. 
 
 ^ In Harl. MS. 2230, f. 132, is a loose tricking of the same arms. The crest, 
 On a wreath a man's head in profile proper couped at the shoulder, wearing a round 
 cap gules, and vested of the last. 
 
 > Harl. MSS. 3917, f. 32. i Excerpta Cantiana, f. 8. 
 
 ^ Ordinary of Arms, penes J. Bowyer Nichols, esq. F.S. A. 
 
 J Addit. MSS. Brit. Mus. 5479, f. 127. 
 
 ■n Funeral Monuments, f. 279. " Harl. MS. 3917, f. 60. 
 
30 NOTES TO PEDIGREE 
 
 Leiihara in 23 Edw. IIL" ; 3. to Simon de Handlo, lord of the manor 
 of East Lenham in 20 Edw. III.i^ ; 4. to Sir Lawrence de Brenle of 
 Brenle in Boughton under Blean ; 5. to the eldest son of de Handlo ; 
 6. to Sir Stephen de Valoigns, a conservator of the peace in Kent 3 1 
 Edw. III. 1337-8q; M.P. for the county 47 Edw. III. 1373-4.r Sir 
 Lawrence and Sir Stephen, who were both living time of Edw. III., 
 will occur in the Notes to the Pedigree of this branch of the family. 
 
 For other proofs of the arms of Apuldrefield of Badmangore, vide 
 Harl. MS. 1366, f. I8.s Addit. MS. Brit. Mus. 3479, f. 9 ; t and 
 Harl. MS. 3917, ff. 34^,33." Ibid. ff. 63,^ 74.^ 
 
 NOTES TO PEDIGREE. 
 
 Henry de Apuldrefield the Third and his, presumed, brother William 
 de Apuldrefield. — In 20 Edw. III. 1346-7, the then lords of Apuldre- 
 field and Ottreply paid aid for their respective manors, the first as one 
 knight's fee which Henry de Apuldrefield had formerly held of Geofi'ry 
 de Say, the latter as the eighth part of a fee which William de Apul- 
 drefield had formerly held of the same. As in the earliest escheat upon 
 the death of a Say extant, viz. that of William, who died in 36 Hen, 
 III. 1271-2, the first named manor, as we have said, is mentioned as 
 held by Henry de Apuldrefield, and the latter finds no mention at all, 
 there is every reason to believe that they were originally held either of 
 Geoffry the father or of Geoffry the grandfather of the said William. It 
 is true that a Henry de Apuldrefield could have held Apuldrefield of 
 Geoffry grandson of William, but then Ottreply could not have been 
 held of him, to say nothing of its absence from the several Say es- 
 cheats, by a William de Apuldrefield, as the time would range only be- 
 tween 1294 and 1322, when John de Apuldrefield was lord of Ottreply. 
 
 William de la Warr.— In MS. Harl. 807, f. 114 b. (one of Glover's 
 MSS.) William de la Warr of la Warr in Brasted, is said in a 
 
 «> Hasted, ii. f. 450. p Hasted, ii. f. 444. 
 
 1 Pat. 31 Edw. III. pt. 1. m. 17 dors. ' Hasted, I. cix. 
 
 » Tomb of Sir John Fyneux and of Elizabeth daughter of Sir John Paston of 
 Paston, Norfolk, his second wife, formerly in Canterbury Cathedral. 
 
 * Arms of St. Nicholas and Apuldrefield, quarterly, on an uninscribed tomb in 
 Ash church. 
 
 " Arms of Fyneux impaling Apuldrefield on two uninscribed monuments in 
 Heme Church, also (formerly) in the upper window of the body of the church. 
 
 ^ Arms of Frogenhale impaling Apuldrefield, formerly in the west window of 
 Graveney Church. 
 
 y Arms of Apuldrefield impaling St. Leger, formerly in a window of Ulcomb 
 Church. 
 
OF APULDREFIELD. 31 
 
 pedigree drawn up by -Cooke, Clarenceux, anno 1578, to have 
 married a daughter of Sir Henry Appuldrefeld of Cudham knight, by 
 whom he had issue William and Aurelyn, who both married and had 
 issue. By a fine passed 24 Henry HI. 1239-40, it is seen that Walter 
 his father was then dead and Maud his mother living. Lansd. MSS. 
 269, f. 37. 
 
 Henry de Apuldrefield andLettice his wife.— In 28 Hen. III. 1243-4, 
 a fine passed between Lawrence de St. Martin, Bishop of Rochester, 
 plaintifi^, and Henry and Lettice, defendants, of 50 acres of land 
 and 7*. rent in Kekeleston (Cookstone). Lansd. MSS. 267, f. 303. 
 In 39 Henry III. 1254-5, they were in a fine, as already stated in the 
 text. In 41 Hen. HI. 1256-7, a fine passed between Master Richard 
 de Wepstide, plaintiff, and Henry and Lettice, defendants, of half an 
 acre of land in Bromley. Lansd. MSS. 267, ff. 315, 316. In 42 Hen. 
 III. 1257-8, Henry de Apeldriffeud and Lettice his wife gave the 
 King half a mark for an assize of novel assize. Roberts, Excerpta e 
 Rot. Fin. ii. f. 284. 
 
 Sir William de Apuldrefield. — The youngest son of Sir Henry and 
 Beatrice seems to have been that Sir William who married the heir of 
 Tuite, and to whom the following notices evidently relate. In 38 Hen. 
 HI. 1253-4, W. de A. obtained a grant of free warren in his manor of 
 Horsted, in Chatham and Rochester, and in his manors of Morton and 
 East Hemelsworth, co. Dorset. (Cart. 38 Hen. HI. pt. 2, m. 6, 42.) 
 In or before 50 Hen. III. 1265-6, Sir W. de A. conveyed lands in Chalk, 
 Kent, to the Prior and Convent of Bermondsey. Brayley's Surrey, iii. f. 
 175. In 1 Edw. I. 1272-3, the sheriff of Surrey was ordered to take into 
 the King's hands the manor of Bansted, Surrey, which John de Burgh 
 senior, without the licence and will of the King, had sold to W. de A . Rot. 
 Originalium, i. f. 20. The same year the sheriff was ordered to deliver 
 the said manor to W. de A. that he might hold it in the King's name 
 until the King's return to England. Ibid. f. 21. In 2 Edw. I. 1273-4, 
 W. de A. remitted and quit-claimed for himself and his heirs the manor 
 of Bansted to the King and his heirs. Ibid. f. 23. In the octaves 
 of St. Michael, 2 Edw. I. 1274, the justices at Westminster dis- 
 missed W. de A. and others in a cause respecting two parts of the 
 manor of Great Cotes, Lincolnshire. Abbreviatio Placitorum, f. 264. 
 In 3 Edw. I. 1274-5, William de Apeldresfeld " ponatur in respectu 
 p. certis debitis Judeis, &c." Claus. 3 Edw. I. m. 24. In the same year 
 the jury of the hundred of Winfrith, Dorset, returned, under com- 
 mission in the text cited, that the homage service of W. de A. at 
 Morton and Gaulton had been subtracted from the said hundred by him 
 W. for eight years, and that for six years he had not paid to the King 
 
32 NOTES TO PEDIGREE 
 
 for one virgate of land which he held in the same hundred, the annual 
 rent of 6s. 8d. Rot. Hund. i. f. 103. In 7 Edw. I. 127^-9, W. 
 de A. and Amicia his wife were defendants in a fine with Ralph 
 de Badelesmere, plaintiff, of one messuage, 24 acres of land, 5 acres of 
 wood, and 5*. rent, in Shoreham, Lullyngstone, Lullyngestan, and Lange- 
 strode. Judgment to Ralph and his heirs for ever. Lansd. MSS. 268, 
 f. 62. In 8 Edw. I. 1279 80, W. de A. had the rent of a mill by 
 the river Friskeney, Lincolnshire. Dugdale, Embankments, f. Io4. In 
 11 Edw. I. 1282-3, W. de A. and Amicia his wife were plaintiffs, in a 
 fine with Robert Weston and others, defendants, of lands in Estellwoorth, 
 Abbotsbury, Dorset. Judgment to the former. Abbrev. Plac. f. 205. 
 On 28 Feb. 11 Edw. I. 1283, W. de A. was appointed assessor and 
 collector in the county of Dorset. Pari. Writs, i. f. 429. In 12 Edw. I. 
 1283-4, W. de A. was dead, when the escheator this side of Trent was 
 directed to take into his hands the lands which were his. Rot. Orig. i. 
 f. 47. For the marriage of Sir Wm. de Apuldrefield see Vincent's MSS. 
 Coll. Armor. JJ, f. 22. MS. Coll. Armor. Z, f. 75. Burke's Peerage and 
 Baronetage, under Tuite. In 15 Edw. I. 1286-7, Amicia, who was the wife 
 of W. de A., was claimant in a fine with Gregory de Rokesle, tenant, 
 of one messuage and one acre of land with their appurtenances in Lulling- 
 stone, Lullingstane, Langstrode, and Shoreham. Judgment to Gregory, 
 Lansd. MSS. 268, f. 89. In the Lambeth MS. 606, f. 12, is the fol- 
 lowing without date : " Omnibus, &c. D'ni Ri'ci de Tuyt, iunioris," 
 confirms to "D'no Will'mo de Apeldorfeld militi, pro homagio et ser- 
 vicio suo, et d'nae Amiciae uxori suae, Ballemaleth, et de Gorbali, &c. 
 et haered' ipsius Will'mi. Et si forte continget, quod eadem Amicia su- 
 pradict' W™ virum suum supervixerit, habeat et teneat ad totam vitam 
 suam, &c. Et post ipsius Amiciae decessum, tota praedict' terra, &c. hae- 
 red' praed' W"', &c. Test. D'no Joha'ne de Tuyt filio n'ro, &c. &c." 
 
 The following memorandum may relate to this William de Apuldre- 
 field, although dead at the time mentioned : — 
 
 In 18 Edw. I. 1289-90, in Easter term, before certain Justices of 
 the Bench in Dublin, one Simon le Large called to warrant 34 acres of 
 land in Rathwylde, W. de A. who having no land or tenements in Ire- 
 land, the said service was ordered to follow the King's writ in England. 
 Abb. Plac. f. 221. 
 
 Henry de Apuldrefield, supposed of Ottreply. — In 55 Hen. III. 
 1270-1, a fine was levied between Henry de Appeltrefeld, claimant, and 
 Joan de Appeltrefeld, tenent, of one messuage, and half a carucate of 
 land with its appurtenances in Challock and Eastwell, L e. the manor of 
 Ottreply, when the said Joan acknowleged the same messuage, &c. to be 
 rightly his, Henry's, and for this recognition Henry conceded to the 
 
OF APULDREFIELD. 33 
 
 said Joan the said messuage, &c. for the whole life of her, Joan, &c. 
 (Lansd. MSS. 267, f. 93.) In Easter Term, beginning on 13 April, 
 Edw. I. 1293, he was on several jurys sitting at Canterbury before John 
 de Berewyck and other Justices. (Placita de quo Warranto, f. 354 ; see 
 also Ibid. fF. 355, 7, 8, 9.) The same year, having married Isolda, widow 
 of Thomas Abelyn of Murston and Milsted, without the King's licence, 
 he paid his fine, and had possession of his wife's lands. (Harris's Hist, of 
 Kent, f. 213.) Isolda, who was the wife of Henry de Apeldrefeld, died 
 24 Edw. I. 1295-6, holding Murston for life. (Esc. 24 Edw. I. n. 46.) 
 Marriage of Margery de Apuldrefield and Sir John de Ifield. — V: le 
 Vincent's MSS. in Coll. Armor. 10, f. 8, and MS. Coll. Arm. H. 2, 
 ff. 36, 36^ 
 
 Marriage of Beatrice de Apuldrefield and Ralph de St. Lawrence. — 
 Vide ibid. Of the family of St. Lawrence mention will be made here- 
 after. 
 
 Marriage of EHzabeth de Apuldrefield and Ralph de Frenyngham. 
 (Of whom, and of his immediate descendants, particulars will be here- 
 after given.) — Vide ibid. 
 
 Gilbert de Apuldrefield. — The following is from the Lambeth MS. 
 606, f. 13. '' Notum est omnibus, &c. quod ego Gilbertus, filius et 
 haeres D'ni W"" Apledorfeild, Joha'ni filio d'ni Nicholai de Carewe, Bal- 
 lemalethin et Gorbali, quae terr' et ten't' diet' d'nus Will'mus de Apledor- 
 field pater mens quondam h'uit de dono Ric'i de Tuyt." In 25 Edw. 
 I. 1296-7, Stephen de Apeltrefeld recovered the manor of Duneport, 
 Hants, against Gilbert de Apeltrefeld. (Orig. i. f. 102.) 
 
 Stephen de Apuldrefield. — The first mention of Stephen de Apuldre- 
 field occurs in 25 Edw. I. 1296-7, as above stated. Before 6 Edw. II. 
 1312-13, he had enfeoffed John de Berewick in the manor of Hege- 
 court, Godstone, Surrey, and had levied a fine accordingly. (Esc. 
 7 Edw. II. n. 28.) In 34 Edw. I. 1305-6, he recovered his seisin 
 against Thomas de Foxcotes and John de Cormailles and Roese his 
 wife, of one messuage and one virgate of land in Thorkleston, Hants. 
 (Orig. i. f. 151, 2.) 
 
 John de Apuldrefield. — In 6 Edw. II. 1312-13, a fine passed between 
 John de Apoldrefeld and Joan his wife, plaintiffs, and Robert de Wen- 
 derton, defendant, of one messuage, 120 acres of land, 25 acres of wood, 
 with their appurtenances, in Eastwell and Challock, i. e. the manor of Ot- 
 treply. Robert concedes the same to them John and Joan " in feodo 
 bulliate." Orig. Finales Concord. Rec. Office, Carlton Ride, Westmin- 
 ster. On 20 June, 15 Edw. II. 1322, John de Aperdefeld was returned by 
 the sheriff of Kent, as summoned from that county to perform military 
 service in person against the Scots ; the muster to be at Newcastle-upon- 
 Tyne on 24 July. ( Pari. Writs, ii. div. 3, f. 439.) On 9 May, 17 Edw. 
 
34 NOTES TO PEDIGREE 
 
 II. 1324, as a man of arms he was returned by the same sheriff as sum- 
 moned by general proclamation to attend the great council at Westmin- 
 ster on 30 May. (Ibid.) He was dead in 20 Edw. II. 1326-7, when 
 John his son released to Joan, who was his wife, and Henry her son 
 and his heirs, all right in Ottreply, set out as above, and also in lands 
 bought by said John of Sir Henry le Wite of Feversham, formerly 
 rector of Warehorn, in the parish of Westwell, near Wichling, and in 
 20 acres of land which he had purchased of William de la Haye, 
 senior, in the fee of Beamonston in Westwell, in consideration of the 
 sum of 100 marks sterling paid to him by the said Joan and Henry. 
 Addit. MSS. Brit. Mus. 3481-2, ff. 57^, 58. 
 
 Henry de Apuldrefield. — Another Henry de Apeldrefelde occurs as 
 canon of Leeds Priory, Kent, and curate of Chatham, on id. Feb. 1315, 
 and 11 kal. Dec. 1316. Thorpe, Reg. Roff. f. 214, 15, 16. As the 
 arms of Apuldrefield, Ermine, a bend vaire or and gules, surmounted 
 by a mitre, were foraierly in a window of Challock church — vide Par- 
 son's Mon. and Painted Glass, f. 7 1 — he very probably attained the 
 dignity of Abbot. 
 
 Marriage of Margaret de Ifield and Sir Stephen de Ashway. — The 
 fact that Stephen, the son and heir of Sir Stephen, held the manor of 
 Apuldrefield in 29 Edw. III. 1346-7 in coparcenory, sufficiently proves 
 this marriage. 
 
 Marriage of Katharine de Ifield and Sir Thomas de Foxle. — Vide 
 Vincent's MSS. in Coll. Armor. 10, f. 141. In II Edw. III. 1337-8, 
 John, son of Richard atte Okland, of the parish of Stratfield-Turgis, 
 CO. Hants, released to Thomas de Foxle and Katharine his wife all his 
 right in all his lands and tenements in the town of Stratfield-Turgis. 
 Claus. 11 Edw. III. pt. 1. dors. The second wife of this knight is 
 found in the Inquest on his death. 
 
 Joan de Ifield.— Vide Vincent's MSS.10,f. 141, and MS. Coll. Armor. 
 H. 2, f. 36, 36b. 
 
 Matilda lady Foxle.— The MS. H. 2, Coll. Armor, says, that Sir 
 
 John married " d. of John Brocas." Her Christian name has 
 
 been derived from an ancient pedigree of Foxle and Warbleton, set out 
 on the back of the terrier of the manor before mentioned in p. 16. 
 
 John de Warbleton. — In 44 Edw. III. 1370-1 he was appointed 
 coroner of the Marshalsea and clerk of the King's Merchants' house, 
 "Coronatoris Mareschalcie necnon officium cl'ici mercati hospicii R." 
 Orig. ii. f. 312. Where no authority is given, the pedigree of Warble- 
 ton has been derived from the escheats cited. 
 
 Margery de Foxle. — For her marriage vide Pedigree above referred 
 to. She was wife very probably of Robert Bullock of Arberfield, 
 CO. Berks, sheriff of the co. 8 Ric. II. 1384-5, and 15 Ric. II. 1391-2. 
 
OF APULDREFIELD. 35 
 
 Margery, first wife of Thomas de Foxle. — By an inquest taken at 
 Stevenage, Hertfordshire, 28 October, 14 Edw. IV. on the death of Sir 
 Thomas de Uvedale, it was found that Sir Thomas Uvedale, knight, and 
 Henry Uvedale, son of said Thomas, and son and heir of Elizabeth late 
 wife of said Thomas, who was daughter and heir of Thomas Foxle and 
 Margery his wife, who was daughter and heir of Margaret Westynton 
 late wife of Thomas Galyon, were seised of the manor of Westynton with 
 its appurtenances in Welwyn and Ayot Mountfitchet, with the advow- 
 son of the church of Mountfitchet, in their demesne as of fee, and 
 being so seised granted the same to John Say knight, Thomas Pounde, 
 William Uvedale son of the said Thomas Uvedale, William Elys clerk, 
 John Wayte, Edmund Puryent, and Thomas Berwyk, to hold in fee and 
 perform the last will of the said Thomas Uvedale and Henry Uvedale, 
 and of the survivor of them; that Henry Uvedale died on 11 October 
 1469, Thomas Uvedale surviving ; that the said manor was held of 
 John Duke of Norfolk by the service of one red rose yearly ; that Tho- 
 mas Uvedale died on 20 February then last, and that William Uvedale 
 was son and next heir of the said Thomas Uvedale knight, and of the 
 age of 19 years and upwards. 
 
 Besides the wife mentioned in this escheat, Sir Thomas Uvedale mar- 
 ried two others, Agnes, daughter of Guy Paulet, mother of Thomas, 
 Reginald (who both died v. p.), and Sir William his heir; and Eliza- 
 beth, daughter of Sir Henry Norbury, of Stoke D'Abernon, Surrey, 
 who died 21 June, 1488, and was buried in the church of the Grey 
 Friars, London. (See the Collectanea Topog. et Geneal. vol. v. p. 388.) 
 She had first married William Sydney, esq. of Loseley, Guildford, who 
 died 22 October, 1463, leaving by her two daughters, of whom Agnes 
 married Sir William Uvedale. The wills of Sir Thomas Uvedale, and 
 of his widow, were proved in the P. C. C. 
 
 On 30 July, 1402, Nicholas Rys, clerk, presented to the rectory of 
 Little Ayot, by gift of Margaret Galien, his sister, late wife of Thomas 
 Galien. On 31 July, 1419, William Westyngton presented ; on 17 No- 
 vember, 1433, Margaret Westyngton ; and on 22 June, 1446, Thomas 
 Uvedale, esq. (Clutterbuck's Herts, ii. f. 264.) On 6 July, 1436, the 
 will of Margaret Westington, dated 12 May preceding, was proved in 
 the P. C. C. 
 
 From the arms on the grave-stone of Thomas Foxle it appears that 
 Margery his first wife was the wife also of one Lytton ; and it may be 
 noticed that William of Wykeham, Bishop of Winchester, in a codicil 
 to his will, dated 24 July, 1403, leaves legacies of 10/. to John Lytton, 
 William Westyngton, and also to John Foxle. 
 
 Theobalda, second wife of Thomas de Foxle. — William Marys, the 
 
36 NOTES TO PEDIGREE 
 
 presumed brother of the said Theobalda, was esquire of the body to 
 Henry V. and after to Henry Cardinal Chicheley. He served the office 
 of Sheriff of Kent, 21 Henry VI. 1442-3, and dying 31 August, 1459, 
 lies buried in Preston church, near Feversham. His first wife was 
 Johanna, daughter of William Langley, of Knolton, co. Kent, sheriff of 
 the county 4 Henry V. 1416-17, who died 31 October, 1431, and lies 
 buried in Sheldwick church. His second wife was Johanna, daughter of 
 Bartholomew Bourne, of Sharsted in Doddington, widow of Thomas 
 Braumston, gent, of Makenade in Preston, who by will dated 4 March, 
 1464, and proved 4 June, 1465, at Knowie, directed her body to be 
 buried by the side of that of her first husband in the cemetery of Pres- 
 ton church. William Marys in his will, dated 20 and 28 July, 1457, 
 and proved 20 September, 1459, at Lambeth, mentions besides his wife 
 
 then living, " lately the wife of John Marys, my father," and 
 
 Thomas Marys, cl. " my brother and heir," which Thomas was rector 
 of Stourmouth, Kent, and dying 15 December, 1475, lies buried in his 
 church. The grave-stones, inlaid with brass, of William Marys, 
 Johanna his first wife, and Thomas his brother, are yet extant. That 
 his second wife was a Bourne is evident from MS. Harl. 3917, f. 46t». 
 The same authority shews us that a lady of the house of Marys mar- 
 ried a de Soles, of Soles in Nonington, Kent, probably John de Soles, 
 who died in 1375-6. Esc. 49 Edw. HI. n. 40. 
 
 John de Foxle. — He had by gift of his father the manor of Rum- 
 bold's Wyke in Sussex, and other lands in the same co. In 6 Edw. II. 
 1312-13, Walter de Wyke remitted to Sir John de Foxle knight (his 
 grandfather) all the right and claim which he had in all the lands and 
 tenements which to him, by right of inheritance, descended after the death 
 of Walter de Wyke his father, in Rumbold's Wyke near Chichester. 
 Claus. 6 Edw. II. m. 26, dors. The inquests upon his daughter's death 
 confirm his bastardy. In the first her heir is found in John Fowle, 
 aged 50, son of Thomas brother of Godfrey father of John father of 
 Isabella, her mother ; the second finds Thomas Foxle to be heir of her 
 father by virtue of gift. 
 
 Burial of John Thorley, Esq.— Vide Lansd. MSS. 874, f. 84. 
 
 Family of St. Lawrence. — Of Ralph de St. Lawrence the following 
 particulars have been found. On 16 February, 11 Edw. II. 1318, he 
 was appointed a conservator of the peace in Isle of Thanet. Pari. W>its, 
 ii. div. 3, f. 1383. The same year he obtained the grant of a ferry at 
 Sandwich for life. Hasted, iv. f. 250. On 8 June, 12 Edw. II. 1319, 
 and 5 June, 13 Edw. II. 1320, he is mentioned as a Justice of Assize. 
 Pari. Writs, ii. div. 3, f. 1383. In 16 Edw. II. 1322, as a man of arms, 
 he was returned by the sheriff of Kent as summoned to perform military 
 
OF APUI.DREFIKLD. 37 
 
 service in person against the Scots. Ibid. On 17 Edw. II. 1324, as a 
 man at arms, he was summoned to attend the great council on 30 May, 
 Ibid. On 3 Jan. 19 Kdw. II. 1326, he was appointed, with others, to 
 blockade the sea coast of the Isle of Thanet and ports of Margate and 
 Ramsgate against emissaries of France. Ibid. For the years of his 
 shrievalty, vide Hasted, I. Ixxxiii. and Pari. Writs, as above. He seems 
 to have alienated his place at St. Lawrence, called Upper Court, for in 
 20 Edw. III. Sir John de Cryell paid aid for it as one knight's fee, 
 which Ralph de St. Lawrence had formerly held. Lansd. MSS. 276, 
 f. 102. 
 
 Thomas de St. Lawrence. — He held at his death, with Matilda 
 his wife, half a fee in Swaleclyve (SwaycliiFe) and no other lands in 
 capite. 
 
 Thomas de St. Lawrence, son of Thomas. — He was dead in 20 Edw. 
 III. when his heirs paid aid for the manors of Hersing and Hopland in 
 Westbere, &c. Lansd. MSS. 276, f. 108^ which, it thus appears, he 
 had by gift of his father. 
 
 Katharine de St. Lawrence. — Hasted, iii. f. 609, (whose statements, 
 however, are of very little value when no authority is given,) says, that 
 Katharine, only daughter and heir of Thomas de St. Lawrence, carried 
 the manors of Hersing and Hopland in marriage to Sir William de Apul- 
 drefield. As William de Apuldrefield of Ottreply possessed these ma- 
 nors at his death, and left a widow named Katharine, it is very probable 
 that the marriage, as stated in the pedigree, took place. 
 
 Ralph de St. Lawrence the Second. — In the reign of Edw. II. 1 307 — 
 27, with Lavinia his wife, he paid 50*. relief for the manor of Street in 
 Limne. (Lansd. MSS. 276, f. 148^.) On the death of Lavinia, who 
 married secondly Sir John atte Welle, it was found that John, son of 
 John de Hey, was her nearest heir, and that John de St. Lawrence was 
 son and heir of her first husband. Sir John atte Welle was dead 6 
 Edw. II. Hasted, iv. f . 223. 
 
 John de St. Lawrence. — In 20 Edw. III. he was a co-parcenor of the 
 manor of Street, in Limne, and the same of the manor of Great Wilming- 
 ton in Sellinge, and paid his proportion of aid accordingly. (Lansd. 
 MSS. 276, fi". IIP.) We may conclude, therefore, that his mother was 
 a coheir of de Wilmington by an heir or coheir of Trystram. He died 
 s. p. as John de Lexham, aged 30, was found to be his heir. His widow 
 at her death held a moiety of Street and the entirety of Wilmington and 
 Somerfield. 
 
 Family of De Frenyngham. — The first of this name seems to have 
 been Ralph de Frenyngham, appointed Prebendary of Reculver in St. 
 Paul's cathedral in 54 Hen. III. 1269-70. (Pat. 54 Hen. III. m. 6.) 
 In the following year he obtained the grant of a market, fair, and free 
 
 £ 
 
38 NOTES TO PEDIGREE 
 
 warren at Farniiigham, and free warren at Hollenden in Lyghe, Swanton 
 in Mereworth, Eynsford, Chimbham in Farningham, Kingsdown, 
 Biwindle (?) in (?) and Loose. (Cart. 55 Hen. III. pt. i. m. 12.) On 
 3 Sept. 3 Edw. I. 1275, he occurs as a Puisne Judge of the Common 
 Pleas- (Dugdale, Orig. Jud. Chron. series, f. 24), and on 25 Aug. 15 
 Edw. I. 1287, he was dead when the escheator this side Trent was 
 ordered to take his lands into the King's hands. (Orig. i. f. 54, and Fin. 
 15 Edw. I. m. 15. Teste 25 Aug) For more of him, vide Rot. Hund. 
 i. ff. 236, 406, 407, 408, 410. Lansd. MSS. 268, f. 15. Pari. Writs, 
 i. f. 623. 
 
 Sir John de Frenyngham, who next occurs, was doubtless his heir, 
 He served the office of sheriff of Kent part 11 Edw. II. 1317-18, part 
 12, 1318-19, and the whole of the 16, 1322-3. Hasted, i. Ixxxiii. In 
 17 Edw. II. 1324, he was, as Sir John de Frenynham, knight, returned 
 by the sheriff of Kent, as summoned to attend the great council at West- 
 minster on 30 May. Pari. Writs, ii. div. 3. f. 895. In 18 Edw. II. 
 1324-5, he was again sheriff, so also for part of the following year. Has- 
 ted, I. Ixxxiii. He seems to have died s. p. 
 
 John de Frenyngham, called son of Ralph, is next heard of. — His 
 mother was most likely Elizabeth de Apuldrefield, who, in MS. H. 2, 
 Coll. Armor, ff. 36, 36^, and Vine. 1 0, f. 8, is said to have married this 
 John, improperly called a knight. He had two parts of the manor of 
 West Barming by purchase and by licence of the King. Esc. 6 Edw. III. 
 2. n. n. 32, and Rot. Orig. ii. f. 74, which he paid aid for in 20 Edw. 
 HI. Lansd. MSS. 276, f. 131. In 22 Edw III. he occurs as escheator 
 of Kent, Rot. Orig. ii. f. 194. In 17 Edw. II. 1324, as a man at arms, 
 he was returned by the sheriff of Kent as summoned to attend the great 
 council at Westminster. Pari. Writs, ii. div. 3, f. 895. For the year 
 of his shrievalty, vide Hasted, i. Ixxxiv. He is styled "John son of 
 Ralph," in the escheat upon his death, and according to Hasted, i. f.301, 
 he married " Agnes Stafford." The arms of Frenyngham were in 
 Cudham church when Nicholas Charles visited it on 7 July 1611. 
 Lansd. MSS. 874, f. 43. It is probable that the ancient altar tomb 
 in the south aile of Yalding church, on which is the arms of Fren- 
 yngham, was erected to his memory. 
 
 Ralph de Frenyngham, junior. — Vide Orig. i. f. 279. 
 
 Sir Ralph de Frenyngham, called son of John. — In 20 Edw. HI. under 
 this designation he paid aid for one fee in Sundrish, formerly held by 
 Henry de Apuldrefield, for a quarter of a fee in Farningham, formerly 
 held by John de Ifield, and three parts of a fee in the same formerly held 
 by the same. Lansd. MSS. 276, ff. 138, 136, 134". For his shrievalty 
 vide Hasted, i. Ixxxiv. In 34 Edw. III. 1360-1, he was a conservator 
 of the peace in Kent. Ibid. ci. and in 36 Edw. HI. 1362-3, M.P. for 
 
OF APULDREFIELD. 39 
 
 the county. Ibid. cix. For more of him, vide Rymer, iii. pt. 1, ff. 339, 
 416. The MS. H. 2, Coll. Armor, says that his wife was " Katharine, 
 sister of Thomas Earl of Stafford," which Katharine is known to have 
 married Michael de la Pole, second Earl of Suffolk, and to have died in 
 1419-20. Esc. 7 Hen. V. n 62. 
 
 John de Frenyngham, son of John. — In 23 Edw. III. he was enfeoffed 
 in West Barming by his brother, remainder to himself. Esc. 23 Edw. 
 III. pt. 2, n. 5. 
 
 John de Frenyngham. — In 1 Ric. I. 1377-8, he was a conservator of 
 the peace in Kent. Pat. 1 Ric. II. pt. i. m. 20 dors. He was twice she- 
 riff, and three times M.P. for the county, vide Hasted, I. Ixxxv. cix. ex. 
 Sheriff of London, 3 Hen. IV. See of him in Rymer, iii. pt. 2, f. 844. 
 By his will, he directed a chaplain to be found to celebrate divine ser- 
 vice in the chapel of the Virgin in the church of East Farleigh for the 
 space of 24 years, for the souls of him, John, and Alice his wife, and of 
 Sir Ralph and the lady Katharine, his father and mother, and John 
 father of Sir Ralph, and Agnes his wife, and for the souls of Hugh and 
 Thomas Earls of Stafford, and of Ralph brother of Earl Thomas, &c. 
 He also directed his body to be buried at Boxle, where his wife and fa- 
 ther and mother had been burled. Of his several manors, Sundrish, Fam- 
 ingham, Chimbham in Farningham, and Half Yoke in Maidstone, alone 
 seem to have been inherited by his next heir Roger Isle, viz. son of 
 John son of Joan sister of John de Frenyngham, father of Sir Ralph 
 father of himself. The rest of his estates he left to John son of Regi- 
 nald Pimpe, of Pimpe's Court, in East Farleigh, and his heirs male, 
 remainder to the above Roger and his heirs male ; remainder to Tho- 
 mas, son of Sir Thomas Salmon, knight, and his heirs male ; remainder 
 to Ralph his brother, &c. Addit. MSS. Brit. Mus. 5481-2, ff. 391^—41. 
 
 John Isley, husband of Joane de Frenyngham — He was of Brook- 
 place, Sundrish, and by will dated Sundrish, on Monday next after the 
 feast of St. Mary Magdalen, 23 July, 1475, directed his body to be 
 buried in the church of that parish. He mentions Sara his wife sur- 
 viving, and Thomas Salmon " filius mens.'' The will was proved at 
 Otford, 4 kal. Aug. 1375. Reg. Sudbury, at Lambeth. Sarah wife 
 of John Isley bore for arms, according to Philipott, Gules, a chief 
 ermine, which is the coat of Norburgh of Norburgh, in Norfolk. It 
 is not unlikely that Philipott has incorrectly described the field, and 
 that Sarah Isley was a Seyliard of Hever. Harl. MSS. 3917, f. 73. 
 
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 arms. Azure, a fesse ermine between six lozenges or. Harl. MSS. 3917, 
 f. 73. The date of his death and burial are also derived from this MS. 
 
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NOTES TO PEDIGREE OF ISLEY. 41 
 
 The following is from MS. Harl. (Philipott's MS.) 3917, f. 73 : 
 
 [In Sundrish Church.] 
 
 " John Isley and " Wm. Isley and Isa- " Roger Isley and 
 
 Sara his wife." -bell his wife." Alice his wife." 
 
 A tricking of the arms A tricking of the A tricking of the same 
 
 of Isley & Frenyngham same arms, impaling arms, impaling Az. a 
 
 quarterly, impaling Gu. Arg. a chev. gu. fesse erm. betw. six 
 
 [az?] a chief erm. betw. three mullets lozenges or. [ ]. 
 
 [Seyliard?] sa. [Warner.] 
 
 " One a fair tombe in ye chancell. 
 
 " John Isley, sonne of John Isley, cosin and heire of Wm. Isley, and 
 John Fremingham, Esq'" et Annis, late his wife do: of Nic« Morley, of 
 Sussex, who deceased y® 8 of Janu. 1484." 
 
 [This tomb now stands against the east wall of the north aisle. It 
 bears neither arms nor inscription.] 
 
 " Thomas Isley and Elizabeth Guildeford, buried in y® chancell, 
 1515." [1518] 
 
 [The grave-stone of Thomas Isley bears the brass effigies of a man 
 in armour, his wife, ten sons, and three daughters. The inscription is 
 gone, and so also is the first of the four shields which were placed at 
 the four corners of the stone. The second contains Isley and Frening- 
 ham quarterly, impaling Guldeford and Halden quarterly ; the third the 
 same arms ; the fourth Isley and Freningham quarterly.] 
 
 " Roger Isley buried in y^ chancell, 1429." 
 
 [The-grave stone of Roger Isley is intact. Beneath the brass figure 
 of a man in armour, with a lion at his feet, is the following inscription: 
 
 " hie jacet Rogerus Isly quond'm dn's de Sondresshe et Frenyngh'm 
 qui obiit xvj° die mensis Maij Anno D'ni Mill'mo ccccxxix, cuj' a'i'e 
 p'p'ciet' deus." 
 
 [Above the figure are two shields, the first containing the arms of Isley, 
 the second Isley impaling Freningham.] 
 
 " W'm's Isley legis peritus buried in y® north chancell, 1453," 
 [1463.] 
 
 [The grave-stone of William Isley is not now to be found.] 
 
 ** In a window of y*^ same chancell." 
 
 " Isley in pale w*^ Royton of Royton." 
 
 [Gu. a chev. betw. three wheat-sheaves arg. and as many crosslets 
 fitchey or.] 
 
 [The four shields of Isley, with their respective impalements, have 
 been removed from the church ; but in the east window of the south aisle 
 
42 MANOR OF APULDKEFIELD, 
 
 is a shield, twice repeated, of Freningham impaling Uvedale, and in the 
 chancel window a shield of Isley and Freningham quarterly.] 
 
 Acts of Parliament. 
 
 4 January, 3 Edw. VI. 1550. For the restoration in blood of Tho- 
 mas Isleye. 
 
 3 April, 5 Eliz. 1563. For the restoration in blood of the 
 
 heirs of Thomas Isleye, Esquire. 
 
 6 „ „ „ For the restoration in blood of Wil- 
 
 liam Isley and Edward Isley, 
 Esquires. 
 
 29 February 18 Eliz., 1576. For the true payment of the debts of 
 
 William Isleye, Esquire. 
 Journals of Parliament, i. ff. 376, 613, 614, 738. 
 
 Authorities for Pedigree. 
 
 Harl. MSS. 4028, f. 128, 129, 130, 131, 283, 287; 1548, flF. 94^ 
 97; 1484, f. 4; 1544, f. 23 ; Cole's Escheats, i. f. 363; Addit. MS. 
 5507, f. 79 ; H. 2 Coll. Arm. f. 37''; Hasted's Kent, ii. f. 425, 467, 
 iii. f. 109 ; Diary of Henry Machyn, ff. 248, 258 ; the Chronicle 
 of Queen Jane, &c. f. 66 ; Topographer, i. f. 572 ; ii. f 268 ; Reg. 
 Roff. f. 833. 
 
 Apuldrefield of Ottreply. Henry de Apuldrefield the Third. 
 — In 20 Edw. III. 1346-7, with Lady Gacelin, who was Alianor 
 widow successively of John de Criol and Edmund de Gacelin, and who 
 held the manor of Eastwell for life, he paid aid for half a quarter of a 
 fee which William de Appoldrefeld formerly held in Ottreply of Geoffry 
 de Say ; and at the same time he also paid aid for half a fee in Barfres- 
 ton, which he himself held of William de Say. Lansd. MS. 276, 
 ff 106, 116. On 24 May, 26 Edw. III. 1352, he was, with others, 
 nominated to muster archers in Kent Rymer, iii. 1 . f. 243. 
 
 Richard Denne and Agnes de Apuldrefield. — Vide pedigree of Denne, 
 Vis. of Kent, 1619,20,21. 
 
 Henry de Apuldrefield the Fourth— In 47 Edw. III. 1373-4, Henry 
 son of Henry de A. concedes to John Pays all his lands, tenements, &c. 
 in Davington, Ore, Luddingham, Stone near Ospringe, Ospringe, Fevers- 
 ham, and Preston near Feversham, which he had on the demise of Roger 
 Digge and others. Claus. 47 Edw. III. m. 14. The same year Tho- 
 mas de Garwynton concedes to the same person and his heirs for the 
 term of the life of Joan wife of Henry de A. one annual rent of 201. 
 
43 
 
 arising from all the lands and tenements in Stourmouth lately the 
 said Henry's. Ibid. In 48 Edw. III. 1374-5, Henry de A. concedes 
 to the same one annual rent of 201, arising from all lands and tenements 
 in Stourmouth, in Chilham, and Oterply in Challoke. Claus. 48 Edw. 
 III. m. 13. In 51 Edw. III. 1377, he served the office of sheriff of 
 Kent. Hasted, I. Ixxxiv. 
 
 William de Apuldrefield.— In 3 Hen. V. 1415-6, William Appuldur- 
 feld, esq. gave, &c. to William Halle and Adam Baron, clerk, his ma- 
 nors of Esture and Oterplay, and 50 acres of land, and 50 acres of 
 marsh in Stourmouth and Preston near Wingham, and all lands belong- 
 ing to him in Westbere, Sturry, Chislet, i. e. the manors of Hersing and 
 Hopland, and lands in the parish of Godmersham, &c. (Claus. 3 Hen. V. 
 m. 14, 15, 10.) He held at his death the manor of Easture in Chil- 
 ham, 60 acres of land in Waltham, 16 acres in Godmersham, 44 in 
 Chilham and Molash, the manor of Stourmouth, the moiety of 60 acres 
 of land in Westbere and Chistelet, the manor of Oterpleye in Challok, 
 Bocton-Olluph, Eastwell, Westwell, Great Chart, and Hothefeld ; — whence 
 the site of the manor — and 24 acres of land in Challok, held of the Lord 
 de Say by military service ; and the jury further returned that he died 
 *' quarto die Julij anno regni Regis Henr' qui'nti qui'nto et q'd Will. Idle 
 et Joh'es Idle sunt consang' et heredes p'd'ci Will' de Apuldrefeld, videl't 
 filij Job's fir Isabelle sororis Henr' p'ris p'd'ci Will'i, videl't p'dic'us 
 Will's Idle p'pinquior heres p'd'ci Will'i de Apuldrefeld quoad p'd'ca 
 man'ia et ten' ten't' p' s'uicium militar,' et idem Will' Idle et Joh'es Idle 
 heredes ipsius Will' de Apuldrefeld speciales quoad p'd'ca ten'ta in gauel- 
 kinde ; et q'd p'd'cus Will' Idle est etatis viginti et quatuor annor* et 
 amplius et p'd'cus Joh'es Idle etatis viginti et duor' annor' et amplius, 
 et q'd Kat'ina quae fuit vx' p'd'c' Will' de Apuldrefeld post mortem 
 eiusdem' Will' cepit exitus et p'ficua man'ior' t'rar' et ten' p'd'cor' 
 dum sola fuit, et post sponsalia int' quendam Joh'm de Preston et p'd'c'am 
 Kath'nam celebrata idem Joh'es et Kat'rina exitus et p'ficua eor'dem 
 man'ior' t'rar' et ten' &c." Esc. 7 Hen. VI. n. 18. 
 
 The following sketch of pedigree is in Philipott MS. 16, 102*. Coll. 
 Arm. f. 51.— 
 
 Henry Apuldrefield, esq.=P' • • • 
 
 I ' 1 
 
 Henry Apuldrefield, esq.=f=' • • • Isabella.^John Edelegh. 
 
 I ' I ' 
 
 William, qui habuit exitum et delude John Edelegh. 
 
 obijt sine haerede de corpore suo. 
 
 John de Idelegh, who married Isabella de Apuldrefield, was of Ash 
 near Meopham. Vide deed dated 4 July, 43 Edw. III. 1369, Addit. 
 
 They are both mentioned in a fine levied 
 
44 
 
 in Easter Term, 44 Edw. III. 1370, respecting a manor in Cobhain 
 Orig. Charters Brit. Mus. 32, B. 3. 
 
 The pedigrees of Chicheley marry Sir Robert Chicheley, Lord Mayor 
 of London in 1411 and 1421, who married three wives, Elizabeth, 
 Agnes, and Agnes, and whose will Is dated 17 December 1438, to "... 
 daughter and heir of . . Apuldrefield," and impale his arms with — 
 Sable, a cross voided or ; and Buckler in his " Stemmata Chicheliana," 
 f. ix. supplies the hiatus thus : " Agnes the daughter of William Apul- 
 derfield, a gentleman of an ancient family long seated at _Otterpley^ in 
 the parish of Challock, in Kent." It is as the descendants from this 
 match that the Viscounts Strangford have been allowed by the Heralds 
 to quarter at first the voided cross, vide Tomb of Thomas Smythe, esq. 
 of Westenhanger, who died 7 June, 1591, in Ashford church — and subse- 
 quently, by Philipott, both that coat and the fesse vaire. Vide Visit, of 
 Kent 1619, 20, 21. 
 
 Apuldrefield of Badmangore. — William de Apuldrefield. — In 
 20 Edw. III. 1346-7, with his coparcenors, viz., the heirs of John de 
 Barrett, Elizabeth wife of Sir Ralph de Saunzaver, and the heirs of 
 Robert de Okmanton, he paid aid for Perry Court in Preston near 
 Feversham. Lansd. MS. 276, f. 120, and Hasted, ii. ff. 809, 10, iii. f. 
 216. On 1 October, 23 Edw. 111. 1350, by deed dated at Bobbing Sir 
 Arnold Sauuage and Sir Stephen de Valoigns, knights, grant and confirm 
 all their right, &c. to lands which they had of Thomas de Malemayns, of 
 Lyndestide, in the hundred of Tenham, to William de Apuldrefelde. 
 Witnesses, " Rog'o deNorthwode, Johane de Northwode, Thoma Chiche 
 militib3, D'no Laurencio de Brenleemilite, Steph no Euerard, Ric'ode Fro- 
 genhale. Thorn' atte Berghe, Joh'nne fr'e eius, Joh'nne Alurich, Will'mo 
 Spicer, Joh'e Boteler, Rob'to de Lech cl'ico et aliis." Orig. Charters, Brit. 
 Mus. 80, c. 32. Seals, 1. On a heater-shaped shield. Argent, six lions 
 rampant sable 3, 2, 1 . ; legend sigillvm .... 2. On a like shield. Paly of 
 six undee argent and gules. On 1 March 26 Edw. III. 1353, by deed 
 dated at Sidyngbourne, Adam son of Adam Taverner of that place, grants, 
 remits, and quit-claims, lands, &c., in the hundred of Tenham, which he 
 had of Clement de Lenham and Alianore his late wife, to William de Apol- 
 drefelde. Witnesses, " D'nis Arnoldo Sauuage, Rob'o de Cheny milit', 
 Joh'ne de Septvanes, Jacobo Lapyn, Ric'o de Frogenhale, Steph'o Lapyn, 
 Joh'ne de Merston, Henr' atte Tor', Joh'ne Douer, Ric'o Hamon', Petro 
 Hadland, Ed« Luccr' & aliis." (Orig. Charters, Brit. Mus. 80, f.44.) The 
 first-named grant in all probability conveyed the manor of Badmangore 
 which William de Cheney died seised of in 8 Edw. III. 1334-5 (Esc. 
 8 Edw. III. m. 58), and which passed from his son Sir Robert before 27 
 of that reign, 1353-4, when William de Apuldrefield kept his first 
 
IN CUDHAM, CO. KENT. 45 
 
 shrievalty for the county there. (Hasted, i. Ixxxiv.) In the following 
 year he is mentioned as the King's escheator for the county. (Orig. ii. f. 
 231.) On 16 November, 33 Edw. III. 1359, he was appointed with other 
 gentlemen of Kent to muster men for the safety of the kingdom in the 
 absence of the King. (Rymer, iii. 1. f. 456.) And the same year, with 
 Sibilla his wife, he enfeoffed John de Shereburne in the manor of Buck- 
 land. (Esc. 33 Edw. III. 2 n. n. 29.) In the following year he paid the 
 King 20 marks for licence to acquire the manor and advowson of Buck- 
 land, which she held in dower of her first husband. (Orig. ii. f. 262, and 
 Esc. 34 Edw. III. 2 n. n. 37.) In 38 Edw. III. 1364-5, he gave Robert 
 de Charwekton, parson of the church of Ivychurch, a moiety of one acre 
 of land there to enlarge his mansion. (Cal. Rot. Cart. f. 335.) On 10 
 May, 42 Edw. III. 1368, he was a feoffee of the manor of Cudham. 
 (Oxonhoath Evidences.) On 29 November the same year he was directed 
 with others to send archers to Calais. (Rymer, iii. 2, f. 853.) On 26 
 September, 43 Edw. III. 1369, he was a witness to a deed, dated at 
 Cobham, in which Sir Thomas de Lodelowe, knight, and others, grant 
 to the master and chaplain of the chauntry of Cobham. (Orig. Charters, 
 Brit. Mus. 53, a. 45.) On 6 July, 44 Edw. III. 1370, he was directed 
 to equip ships for service against France. (Ibid. f. 896.) On 15 July, 
 46 Edw. III. 1372, he was directed to keep the maritime lands of Kent. 
 Ibid. f. 952. For the dates of his shrievalties, vide Hasted, I. Ixxxiv. 
 
 For the paternity of his wife, vide Philipott MS. 26, 27, pt. 2, Coll. 
 Arm. f. 51. 
 
 Henry de Apuldrefield the Second.— On 19 May, 23 Edw. III. 
 1348, he was a witness, with Sirs Roger de Northwood, Thomas Chiche> 
 Lawrence le Brenlee, knights, and William de Apuldrefeld, to a deed 
 dated at Pluckley, whereby William de Tunyforde remits, &c. to Joan, 
 Agnes, Scolastica, Isabella, and Katherine, daughters of William de 
 Pluckly, &c. Addit. MSS. Brit. Mus. 5481, f. 30. On Monday next 
 after the feast of St. Michael (2 Oct.), 39 Edw. III. 1365, by deed 
 dated at Cobham, Sir Lawrence de Brenlee, knight, of the county of 
 Kent, remits, releases, and for ever quit-claims all his right, &c. in lands 
 in Norfolk to Henry de Apoldrefeld senior, William de Apoldrefeld, 
 Henry de Apoldrefeld junior, and John Kyng, chaplain. Witnesses, 
 " Rad'o Spyg'nol, Joh'e Kyriel, Steph'o de Valoyns, Ric'o atte Lese, 
 Thom' de Apolderefeld militib3, Joh'e Colpeper tunc Vic. Kane. Will'o 
 de Pympe, Rog'o Digge, WiU'o Topclyve, et alijs." Seal, On a 
 heater-shaped shield. Gules, a griffin segreant or. Crest, On a helmet 
 a demi-griffin. Legend s. lavrenc de [bren]lee. . . Orig. 
 Charters, Brit. Mus. 47, B. 32. 
 
 The following is derived from one of Glover's MSS. in the Brit. Mus. 
 
46 MANOR OF APULDREFIELD, 
 
 " Ego Henricus de Apuldrefeld remisi Willm'o de Makenhade totum jus 
 quod liabui in omnibus illis terris quae nuper fuerunt Willm' filij D'ni 
 Henrici de Apuldrefeld, militis, in villa de Preston juxta Faversham. 
 Dat. anno 2 R. 2." (1378.) Harl. MS. 245 (Glover's MS.) f. 52^. 
 
 William de Apuldrefield and Mary Evering. — Vide ped. of Evering in 
 Visit, of Kent, 1619, 20,21. 
 
 Henry de Apuldrefield the Third. — The following is from Philipott MS. 
 26, 27. Coll. Arm. f. 43 ** : " In quadam Inquisitione facta p' Archidia- 
 conum Cantuariensem de jure Patronatus ecclesiae parochialis de Bocton 
 Malherbe inter alia sic dicitur — Dixit insuperinquisitio p'fata q'd Steph'us 
 Betenham .... ecclesiae p'ochialis de Bocton Malherbe p'dict' hac 
 vice verus est patronus ratione Benedictae uxoris ejusdem Stephani 
 ad quam manerium de Throughley cum quodam redditu xl*. in eadem 
 p'ochia una cum alternativa advocatione eccl'iae de Bocton Malherbe 
 memoratae post decessum Joh'ae de Apulderfeld matris eiusdem Bene- 
 dictae jure haereditario pertinet in presenti, veluti ex quibusdam mmii- 
 mentis in medium deductis, de et super divisione maneriorum de 
 Throughly, Bocton Malherbe et Wormesall inter p'fatam Joh'ani matrem 
 dictae Benedictae ac Elizabetham et Benedictam sorores ejusdem facta 
 manifesto liquet et pendatur; quodq' vltimo presentavit ad eandem 
 ecclesiam de Bocton dictum d'n'm Joh'em Drew vltime defunctum Rober- 
 tus Corby, alterna vice sua ratione manerij de Bocton Malherbe, cui ma- 
 nerio jus alterna vice p'sentandi pertinet. Facta est hec inquisitio 14 
 die Marcij anno 1412." 
 
 As the said Benedicta de Betenham was certainly first married to 
 Thomas at Towne of Towne Place in Throwley (vide her will, Dering 
 Evidences), and as Benedicta, wife of the said at Towne, is well known 
 to have been the daughter and heir of John Detling alias Brampton of 
 Detling, the paternity of the said Joan, mother of the said Benedicta, 
 is clearly made out. In the Addit. MS. 5509, f. 59, Brit. Mus. a shield 
 of the Dering quarterings, accompanying an elaborate pedigree, numbers, 
 after the coat of Betenham, which is a true quarter, those of Apuldre- 
 field of Badmangore, of Apuldrefield with the fesse vaire, Denne and 
 Gatton, an absurd congregation of quarters to which Dering could have 
 no right. See also MS. Harl. 1432, f. Ill, 2230, f. 124. Of Joan's 
 second husband presently. 
 
 Thomas de Apuldrefield the First. — On the Sunday next before the 
 feast of the Purification of the Holy Virgin (26 January), 8 Hen. IV. 
 1407, William de Makenade, Thomas de Appuldrefeld, Richard Steward, 
 John Quaderynge, and others, witnessed an indenture dated at Tenham, 
 and made between JefFery de Maughfelde and John Dreylonde junior, 
 of Fevershara, on the one part, and John de Frogenhale, of Tenham, 
 
IN CUDHAM, CO. KENT. 47 
 
 and Joan his wife, of the other part, relating to lands in Tenham, Lin- 
 sted, Tong, and Bakchilde. (Orig. Charters, Brit. Mus. 79, c. 16.) 
 
 Thomas de Apuldrefield the Second. — As he was returned among the 
 principal gentlemen of Kent in 12 Hen. VI. 1433-4, Fuller, Worthies, 
 1811, ii. f. 313, it is almost certain that he was of Badmangore. 
 Apuldrefield of Ottreply had been then in the male line some time extinct, 
 and the line said to be descended from Sir Thomas de Apuldrefield, 
 hereafter mentioned, seem never to have acquired any importance. On 
 2 April, 14 Hen. VI. 1436, as we have seen, Thomas Appuldrefeld, 
 esq. with Richard Bamme, esq. of the Grange in Gillingham, son-in- 
 law of the grantor, and William Frogenhale, esq. of Frogenhale and 
 Buckland, was a witness to a deed executed by Judge Martyn of 
 Graveney. In 28 Hen. VI. 1449-50, Thome fil. Thome Apuldrefeld 
 releases to John Scott, of Braborne, esq. and his heirs all his right in 
 the manor of Tatenham in the marsh of Romney. (Claus. 28 Hen. VI. 
 m. 16 dors.) The manor of Tatenham, according to Hasted, iii. f. 451, 
 comprises 360 acres in Sellinge and Dimchurch, in the level of Romney 
 Marsh, and 252 acres in Blackmanstone in the same level ; and on the 
 feast of the Conception of the Virgin (8 December) 34 Hen. VI. 1455, 
 Thomas Apulderfeld, cousin and heir of Henry Apulderfeld junior, 
 releases to William Sondes and Elizabeth his wife all his right in the 
 manor of Throughly, and 40*. rent in Frithenden, of the tenure of the 
 court of Shortwode in Throughly, and a moiety of the church of Bocton 
 Malherbe. Witnesses, Jacobo Drylond arm.. Will. Norton, Joh. Cherche, 
 Th. Amys, Nich. Dane, &c. (Claus. 34 Hen. VI. m. 9 dors.) Of these 
 witnesses James Dryland, esq. was of Davington, and William Norton 
 of Sheldwich, both parishes in the neighbourhood of Linsted, Buckland, 
 and Graveney. 
 
 The MS. Coll. Armor. Z. f. 75, marries William de Apuldrefield of 
 Badmangore, who is there made the son of another William, by " a 
 daughter of Hallow of Kent," but who seems to have been the son of 
 this Thomas, to Florence daughter of John St. Leger. As this lady, 
 who married first John Clifford, and secondly John Brokeman, esq. of 
 Witham in Essex, died 18 March, 1500, and as the said William left 
 Mildred his wife surviving, this could not be the fact. That a match 
 between Apuldrefield of Badmangore and St. Leger of Ulcombe occurred 
 is certain, as the arms of the first impaling the last were formerly in 
 the church of Ulcombe. Harl. MS. 3917, f. 74. 
 
 William de Apuldrefield.— On 25 August, 28 Hen. VI. 1450, an 
 order was given to the treasurer of the Exchequer to pay 40^ forfeited 
 by John Cade, and given by the King to the bjiilifi^s and citizens of 
 Rochester towards making the east gate of the city, into the hands of 
 
48 MANOR OF APULDREFIELD, 
 
 William Appuldurfeld for the said bailiflFs and citizens. (Nicolas, Pro- 
 ceedings and Ordinances of the Privy Council, VI. f. 101.) He left 
 by will his lands in Linsted, Doddington, Kingsdowne, and Norton 
 (the manor of Stuppington) to his wife, her heirs and assigns ; and 
 Dedmans in Linsted to his brother Richard for his life, remainder to 
 Ellen Brayn and the heirs of her body. 
 
 The following, obligingly communicated to us by Charles Sandys, 
 Esq. F.S.A. is a verbatim copy of 
 
 " The Testament and Will of William Appultrefield, respectively dated 
 24th February, 1482, and proved in the Consistory Court of Can- 
 terbury, 10th April, 1487. Reg. 3, 181. 
 
 The Testament. — " In Dei nomine amen. The xxiiijth daye of 
 February, the yere of oure Lord God Mcccclxxxij, I William Appul- 
 trefeld, hoU of mynde and of remembraunce, dredynge the unknowen 
 tyme of deth, make my testament in forme foloyng : First, I bequeth 
 my soule to God Almyghtie, to our lady his moder, and to alle seints of 
 Heven, and my bodie to be buryed where God shall dispose it. And I 
 bequeth to the vicarye of Lyenstede, in satisfaction of all my forgoten 
 tythes to him, vj*. viijc?. To thefrerys of Aylesford for the same entent, 
 lxvJ5. viijc?. To the monkes of Boxle for the same entent, Ixvj*. viijc?. 
 To the wydowe of Stephen Wolff, late of London, fyshmonger, xli. 
 To the wydowe of Harpdens, late of London, pulter (i. e. poulterer). 
 Also I wille that Mildrede my wyff do amend the botraces of the stone 
 walle in the chirche-yerd of the seid chirch of Lyenstede on the east 
 syde therof ; and also that she shall do shengle the chapell of our ladye 
 in the said chirche. 
 
 " The residue of all my godes, my dettys first paide, I geve to the 
 seyd Myldrede my wiff, whom I make by these presentes myn executrice, 
 trustyng that she will do and dispose for me as she shall seme most 
 expedient for my soule." 
 
 The Will. — " This is the last wille of me William Appultrefeld of 
 Feversham, made the xxiiij daye of February, the xxij yere of the 
 reigne of Kyng Edward the Fourth. I wille that, immediately after my 
 decese, Myldrede my wyf shall have alle suyche landes and tenements, 
 rentis and services, withinne the parisshes of Lyenstede, Dodyngton, 
 Kyngesdowne, and Norton, in the counte of Kent, as I have, or any 
 other persone or persones hath, to my use the daye aforewryten ; to 
 have to the seid Mildrede and to her assignes and heirs for evermore. 
 Also I wille that the seid Mildrede shalle have also, immediatlye aftyr 
 my decesse, alle othir landes and tenements, rents and services, withinne 
 the counte of Kent, and withinne the cite of London, wiche I have, or 
 
IN CUDHAM, CO. KENT. 49 
 
 any persone or persones hath to myn use ; to have to the seid Myldrede 
 terme of her lyf withoute woluntarie wast in anye partie thereof to 
 be doonj for the wiche I wille the seid Myldrede shall fynde an able 
 prest to do devine service, and to praye for me, myn auncestors and 
 frendes, thre yeris aftir my decesse, the fyrst yere to be next aftir my 
 decesse in the chirch of Lyenstede, the other two yere where and whenne 
 the said Myldrede shall assigne. Also I will that every lenten tyme, 
 durying v lentens next aftir my discece, the seid Myldrede shall dele 
 and distribute a barell of heryng a monge the pore parysheners of 
 Lyensted to praye for me. Also I will, that in towe yerys next aftir my 
 discease, the said Myldrede shall do carye and do leye in the high weye 
 ledyng fro Lyenstede to Sydyngborn, c. lodys of stone where most nede 
 shalbe. Also she shall do carye of stone and gravell for the mendyng 
 of the foule veye atte Conyer. Also the seid Myldrede shall do make 
 the botraces of the chirch walle of Lyenstede, and the chirch walle from 
 that oon gate to that other gate. Also I will that Richarde Appyl- 
 trefeld, my brother, have a tenemente called Dedmannys, with the 
 londys that longith ther to, and a feld called Fowles Felde, the terme of 
 his lyfe. And aftir the decesse of the forseide Richarde I wille the for seid 
 tenemente, with the londys that longyth ther to, remayne to Elyn Brayn, 
 and to her eyrys of hir body, and for lakkyng of eyrys of the forseyid 
 Elyn, to remayn to myn eyrys. Vretyn with my owne hande." 
 
 Sir John Fyneux. — By Elizabeth Apuldrefield, who was his first wife, 
 he left issue three daughters coheirs of their mother — Joane, married to 
 John Roper, esq. of Wellhall in Eltham, Attorney-general and Protho- 
 notary of the King's Bench, a quo Roper, Lord Teynham ; Mildred, 
 the wife of James Digges, esq. of Outelmeston, alias Diggs Court in 
 Barham, for whose descendants vide Hasted, iii. f. 756 ; and Sarah, the 
 wife of John Crispe. (Harl. MS. 2109, f. 5L) In 1522 the brothers 
 of the convent of White Friars at Canterbury bound themselves to 
 provide a chaplain to celebrate mass in the chapel of the Virgin there 
 daily for ever, for the souls of Sir John Fyneux, Elizabeth his wife, 
 William Apuldorfeld and Mildred his wife, and others named. (Sumner's 
 Canterbury by Battely, Appendix, f. 18.) The second wife of Sir John 
 Fyneux was Elizabeth, daughter of Sir John Paston of Paston, Norfolk, 
 and widow of William, eldest son of Sir Robert Clere of Ormsby, same 
 CO. She died 22 August, 1539, and was buried in Heme church, Kent. 
 Robert Kempe, Esq. — According to the visitation of Essex, 1634, he 
 married a "■ daughter and coheir of Apuldrefield of Kent," and his de- 
 scendants are there allowed to quarter the fesse vaire and the voided 
 cross, Morant supplies the lady's Christian name, and carries on the 
 line, vide Essex, ii. flF. 363, 4. 
 
50 MANOR OF APULDREFIELD^ 
 
 Thomas St. Nicholas. — For his marriage with a daughter and coheir 
 of Apuldrefield, vide PhiHpott, MS. 26, 27, part 3, f. 3. Coll. Armor, 
 and Glover MS. Harl. MSS. 807, f. 125. According to these autho- 
 rities he had issue a son John ; and it is probable that Thomas St. 
 Nicholas, who commences the pedigree of this name in Visitation of 
 Kent 1519, 20, 21, was another son. By the will of John St= Nicholas, 
 esq. of Ash, father of Thomas, proved at Canterbury in 1 462, it ap- 
 pears that the latter was then under age. There are illustrations of the 
 pedigree of St. Nicholas of Ash to be found in Hasted, iii. ff. 682, 
 691, 692. 
 
 Thomas Frogenhale. — Thomas Frogenhale, who proved his age in 
 1453-4, Esc. 32 Hen. VI. n. 47, son of William, by Margaret his wife, 
 son of John son of John by Joan his wife, who re-married Nicholas de 
 Tye, Esc. 21 Hen. VI. n. 24 ; 3 Edw. IV. n. 6 ; 1 Hen. IV. n. 38 ; 12 
 Hen. IV. n. 11 ; 7 Hen. V. n, 67 ; 49 Edw. III. n. 49 ; 8 Ric. II. n. 
 17 ; 15 Ric. II. n. 62 ; son of Richard and Sibiila,both before described, 
 is said to have married Joan daughter and coheir of William de Apul- 
 drefield, Philipott MS. 26, 27, pt. 2, f. 51. Coll. Armor. ; but this does 
 not seem to be the fact, as, if it had been so, and if he had lived to 1524 
 or 1525, when the husbands of two of his sisters-in-law died, he would 
 have reached the age of 92 or 93. It is much more likely that he left 
 a son of his name, who married as stated, and who dying at an early age 
 in 1505 and s. p., by will charged his estates with the sum of 40/. to be 
 paid yearly to Joan his wife, for term of her life, and appointed with her 
 Edward Haute and Edmund Martyn, executors to the same. This last 
 Thomas would then be brother to the coheirs of his family — Anne, who 
 married Thomas Quadring of Fredville in Nonnington ; Elizabeth, who 
 married Edward Godding ; Joan, who married Edmund Martyn of 
 Graveney ; and Isabella, who married Edward Haute. Vide Philipott 
 MS. 26, 27, pt. 2, f. 51 Coll. Armor, and Addit. MS. Brit. Mus. 5509, 
 f. 66, 67. By Anne de Frogenhale Thomas Quadring left issue an only 
 child Joan, heir to her mother, the first wife of Richard Dryland of Cook's 
 Ditch, Feversham, mayor of that city in 1513, 24, 31, 2, 3, 4, 41 (Jacob's 
 Feversham, ff. 119, 20,) by whom she had issue John, mayor of Fever- 
 sham 1553, 5, (Ibid. f. 123.) Henry, Joan, Anne, and Katharine. 
 Harl. MS. 1484, f. 64. This Katharine, as daughter and heir of 
 her mother — and it is to be remarked that her father by his second wife 
 Dorothy, daughter of John Mydelton, alias Sampson, left only a daugh- 
 ter Elizabeth — has been most absurdly married to Reginald Norton, 
 eldest son of William Norton, esq. of Lees Court, Sheldwich, Harl. MS. 
 1548, f. 16, which William died 27 April 1468, leaving a second son, 
 and eventually heir, Richard, who died 10 December 1500, leaving a 
 
51 
 
 son Sir John, who married Joan, daughter and coheir of John North- 
 wood of North wood in Milton, by, as it is said, Elizabeth, daughter and 
 coheir of John Frogenhale, (Hasted, ii. fF. 625, 681,) and died 8 February 
 1534, which Sir John has been made the son of Reginald above ! and 
 so has been allowed to bring into his shield before the Northwood quar- 
 terings the coat of Quadring, and after the said quarterings Frogenhale, 
 Apuldrefeld with the fesse vaire, Apuldrefield of Badmangore, and 
 Bourne. Visit, of Kent 1619, 20, 21. Harl. MS. 1106, f. 16. In the 
 shield annexed to a pedigree of Fane or Vane in Harl. MS. 1548, f. 60, 
 (John Fane of Hilden in Tunbridge married Joan, daughter and coheir 
 of Edward and Isabella Haute above-named,) after the quarterings of 
 Haute (Shelving, the first, being supplied by Stocket of Brasted,) are 
 to be found the coats of Frogenhale, the two coats of Apuldrefield above 
 described, quarterly, and Bourne. 
 
 Sir Thomas de Apuldrefield.— On 24 March, 18 Edw. III. 1344, 
 he accompanied Richard Earl of Arundel to France. (Rymer, iii. pt. 1. 
 f. 10.) In 23 Edw. III. 1349, 50, he gave, as before mentioned, lands 
 and tenements in Linsted and Doddington to William de Linsted. On 
 2 October, 39 Edw. III. 1365 he witnessed, as before said, a charter at 
 Cobham, being then a knight. On 19 January, 40 Edw. III. 1367, he 
 was at Luppam juxta Parisios. (Rymer, iii. pt. 2, ff. 815, 16.) On 5 
 September, 46 Edw. III. 1372, he was directed with others to muster 
 men in the Isle of Sheppy. (Ibid. f. 962.) For the dates of his several 
 returns to Parliament, vide Hasted, i. cix. 
 
 John de Apuldrefield. — According to Vincent, MS. 10, f. 8. Coll. 
 Armor, he was son of Sir Thomas, and had issue Thomas, father of 
 Thomas. In Philipott MS. 24, f. 89. Coll. Armor, it is said that a 
 John de Apulderfeld married " Margerie filia et heres Hugonis le Kene 
 22 Ed. S\ [filii] Rad'i le Kene." 
 
 Edmund, subsequently Sir Edmund, Denny, the purchaser 
 of the manor from Margaret Breknoke, in 20 Hen. VII. 1504-5, 
 became Clerk of the Exchequer and King's Remembrancer, and 
 on 6 May, 6 Hen. VIII. 1514, he was constituted fourth Baron 
 of the Exchequer.a He was of Cheshunt, Hertfordshire, antl 
 dying 22 December 1520, was buried in the chmxh of St. Ben- 
 
 • Pat. 5 Hen. VIII. n. 1. 
 
52 MANOR OF APULDREFIELD, 
 
 net, Paul's Wharf, London. He married three wives; the first, 
 Margaret daughter of Ralph Leigh, esq. of Stockwell, Surrey, 
 M. P. for the county 38 Hen. VIH. 1459-60, who died 10 Sept. 
 1487, leaving no surviving issue ; the second, Mary, daughter and 
 heir of Robert Troutbeck, esq. of Bridge TrafFord, Plemonstail, 
 CO. Chester, who died 29 June 1507, by whom he had Thomas his 
 heir. Sir Anthony Denny of Cheshunt, King's Remembrancer, 
 Privy Councillor, and Groom of the Stole to Henry VIII., an- 
 cestor of the Earls of Norwich of this name and of the present 
 Sir Edward Denny Bart, of Tralee Castle, co. Kerry ; and seve- 
 ral daughters (of whom Joyce by her first husband William, 
 third son of Sir James Walsingham of Scadbury, Kent, was 
 mother of the celebrated Sir Francis Walsingham) ; and the 
 third, Jane, who also died before him without issue. 
 
 In pursuance of his will dated 20 July 1519, and proved 3 
 June 1520,^ the trustees of Sir Edmund on 10 November, 18 
 Hen. VIII. 1526, enfeoffed in the manor of Apuldrefield Tho- 
 mas his said son and heir f and he, who was of Cheshunt, died 
 seised of it in 1527 (his will is dated 10 May, and was proved 
 on 17 July this year), leaving by Elizabeth his wife, daughter of 
 George Mannock, esq. of GifFord's Hall, Stoke juxta Newland, 
 Suffolk, John his heir, who was of Howe, Norfolk, Gentleman 
 of the Privy Chamber, and several daughters.^ The said Eli- 
 zabeth survived, and remarried Robert Dacres, esq. of Cheshunt, 
 Privy Councillor and Master of the Requests to Henry VIII. 
 (son of Henry Dacres, esq. of Mayfield, Staffordshire, citizen. 
 Merchant Taylor, and Alderman of London, who with Eliza- 
 beth his wife lies buried in the church of St. Dunstan in the 
 
 "> It is evident that Sir Edmund Denny made Apuldrefield one of his residences, 
 for he leaves all his household stuff and goods moveable at " Apultrefelde" to Tho- 
 mas his eldest son. It may here also be mentioned, that, although he leaves 12^. to 
 the high altar of " Codeham" church, and a priest's vestment to the church, he 
 makes no allusion to the free chapel of Apuldrefield, which had been conveyed to 
 him with the manor, and therefore it may reasonably be concluded that he had suf- 
 fered it to fall into disuse and consequently into decay. After 20 Hen. VII. we 
 meet with no mention of the chapel, and its name does not occur in the Roll of 
 Free Chapels, &c. made in the reign of Edward VI. or in any other document con- 
 tained in the Augmentation Office. Inf. Rev. Joseph Hunter, F.S.A. 
 
 •= Oxonhoath Evidences. 
 
 d For pedigrees of Denny, vide Clutterbuck's Herts, ii. f. 107. Chauncy's 
 Herts, 1700, f. 298. MS. Harl. 5229, f. 113»>. They all, however, require exami- 
 nation. 
 
IN CUDHAM, CO. KENT. 53 
 
 West),e which Robert died 20 November, 1543. By her he 
 had George Dacres, esq. of Cheshunt, his heir, and a daughter 
 Dorothy wife to Fitz Ralph Chaniberlaine, esq. of Gedding, in 
 Suffolk. Immediately upon the death of Robert Dacres, viz. in 
 35 Hen. VIII. 1543-4, an exchange was confirmed by act of 
 parliament ^ between the King, George Dacres, esq. and John 
 Denny, esq. both above mentioned, for some of their respective 
 manors, whereby the said Denny received certain manors, &,c. 
 in Hertfordshire, belonging to the King, who received Dacres' 
 manors, &c. in Essex, and the manor of Apuldrefield was con- 
 firmed to the said Dacres, subject to a fee-farm rent of 3/. I is. 
 in lieu of service at Dover Castle ; this last named gentleman on 
 13 June, 4 Elizabeth 1562, conveyed the manor, charged with 
 the dower of Elizabeth his wife, daughter of Sir Wymond Carew 
 of East Anthony, Cornwall, Knight,^ to John Lennard, esq. of 
 Chevening, Kent, to whom, in Trinity term 8 Elizabeth, 1566, 
 he levied a fine.'^ 
 
 The following pedigree of Denny, drawn up with considerable 
 care, may be inserted here, in illustration of the foregoing nar- 
 rative : 
 
 = Alderman Dacres, of Fleet Street, married two wives, Elizabeth, who died 26 
 April, 1530 (M. I.), and Alice, who survived him. In his will, dated 15 January, 
 1536-7, and proved 14 June, 1539, he directs his body to be buried in the church of 
 St. Dunstan's in the West London. See his epitaph printed in the Collectanea 
 Topographica et Genealogica, vol. iv. p. 98. He left issue Robert, above mentioned ; 
 Ann, who married Sir John Packington, of Hampton Lovett,co. Worcester (MS. Harl. 
 1566, f. 95''), Chirographer in the Court of Common Pleas, &c. knighted 37 Hen. 
 VIII. 1545-6 (Cott. MS. Claud. C. iii. f. 144), who was dead 11 November, 1552, 
 and lies buried at Hampton Lovett (M.) by whom she left issue. She died 22 Aug. 
 1563, and lies buried at St. Botolph's, Aldersgate (Esc. 6 Eliz. n. 196, and M. I.). 
 Ellenor, second wife of George RoUe, of London, merchant, and of Stevenstone, in 
 St. Giles's, CO. Devon (a quo the Lords RoUe), whose will is dated 11 November, 
 1552, and proved 9 February, 1552-3; and Alice, married to Robt. Cheeseman, esq. 
 of Dormanswell, Norwood, co. Middlesex, who died 13 July, 1547 (Esc. 1 Edw. VI. 
 2dpt. n. l.),and lies buried at Norwood (M). The arms of Dacres are, Argent, a 
 chevron gules between three pellets, on each an escallop of the first. Crest, A dove 
 argent charged on the breast with an escallop or, between two oak branches vert, 
 fructed of the second. 
 
 ^ This act of parliament has neither been enrolled upon the roll of Parliament 
 in Chancery or printed ; vide Statutes of the Realm, iii. f. xiv. 
 
 ' For pedigrees of Dacres, vide Clutterbuck, ii. f. 101-2. Chauncy, f. 301, and 
 MS. Harl. 1546 (Visitation of Herts, with Additions), f. 48^ 
 
 ^ Oxonhoath Evidences. 
 
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IN CITDHAM, CO. KENT. 55 
 
 John Lennard mentioned above was of Lincoln's Inn, Barris- 
 ter-at-law, Prothonotary of Wales, Clerk of the Crown, Pro- 
 thonotary of the Common Pleas (37 Hen. VIII. 1545-6) and 
 Custos Brevium of the Common Pleas (4 Elizabeth 1553-4). 
 He was also a Justice of the Peace (34 Hen. VIII. 1542-3), 
 and in 12 Elizabeth 1561-2, he served the office of High Sheriff 
 of the county. He married Elizabeth, daughter of William 
 Harman, esq. of Elham in Crayford, who died 26 October 
 1585; and he himself dying 12 March 1590-1, at the great 
 age of 81, was laid, with his wife, in Chevening church, under a 
 sumptuous tomb of alabaster, on which are the effigies of himself 
 in armour and his lady. On the front of the tomb are two shields 
 of arms; the dexter containing, quarterly: 1 and 4, Lennard; 
 2, Bird; 3, Bickworth ; impaling quarterly Harman and. . .;' 
 the sinister, quarterly as before, impaling quarterly of fourteen, 
 l^Fyenes; 2, Say; 3,Dacre; 4, Multon; 5, Gillesland; 6, Morvill; 
 7, Bowett; 8, FitzHugh ; 9, Staveley; 10, Furneaux ; 11, Gray; 
 12, Marmion; 13, St. Quintin; 14,Gernagan. A shield on the west 
 side contains Lennard quarterly as before, with helmet and crest. 
 
 The following inscription is to be read upon a panel placed 
 between the two shields on the front of the tomb : — 
 
 " Hue secessit Johannes Lennard armiger una cum Eliza- 
 betha uxore sua. Heec mortem obiit 26 Octobris, 1585. Ille 
 quatuor principum diplomatibus ad varia reipublicae munera 
 designatus, quum in illis exequendis summam diligentiam, pa- 
 reraque prudentiam fidemque diu praestitisset : tandem octo- 
 gesimo secundo aetatis anno ineunte moritur Custos Brevium de 
 Banco: relictis duobus filiis et quinque filiabus, 12 Martii 1590." 
 
 He was succeeded in this manor,which he appears to have let 
 to one Thomas Whyffyn,'^ and in his other more considerable 
 estates by Sampson Lennard, esq. his eldest son, who in his 
 father's lifetime married Margaret, daughter of Thomas Fyenes 
 ninth Lord Dacre, the particulars of whose early and unhappy 
 death is only one of a numerous series of blood-stained records 
 furnished us by the iron rule of our eighth Henry, and sister and 
 sole heiress of Gregory tenth Lord Dacre. On the death of 
 her brother 25 September, 1594, s. p. she inherited his ancient 
 
 ' Sable, three leopard's heads aflfrontde and erased argent, crowned or. 
 
 ^ Among the Oxonhoath Evidences is the copy of an information dated Term 
 Pasch. 12 Elizabeth 1570, for 26 years arrears of the fee-farm rent of 71s. charged 
 upon the manor, and due from John Lennard, esq. and the said Whyffyn. 
 
 F 2 
 
56 
 
 barony, which in 2 James I. 1604-5 was allowed to her and her 
 issue by the Lords Commissioners for executing the office of Earl 
 Marshal. In 33 Elizabeth 1590-1, he served the office of High 
 Sheriff of the county; and on 2 April, 1611, he had granted to 
 him the precedence of the eldest son of a baron. His death 
 occurred on the 20th of September, 1615, at the age of 71 
 years; and his remains, with those of his wife, who died 10 
 March, 1611-12, repose also in Chevening church under a mag- 
 nificent tomb of alabaster, on which are seen beneath a canopy 
 his figure in complete armour lying by the side of his lady. On 
 the north side of the tomb are the kneeling figures in armour of 
 his three sons, Henry, Gregory, and Thomas, and on the south 
 side those of his five daughters. 
 
 The arms on this tomb are as follows : — North side. — Centre 
 shield, Lennard quarterly, with helmet and crest ; dexter shield, 
 gone; sinister shield, Fyenes quarterly of eighteen — 1, Fyenes; 
 2, Boloigne ; 3, Say ; 4, Mandevill ; 5, Dacre ; 6, Multon ; 
 7, Gillesland; 8, Ufford; 9, Clavering; 10, Merley; 11, Fitz- 
 Hugh; 12, Grey; 13, Odingsells ; 14, Warren; 15, Marmion; 
 16, Lisle; 17, FitzGerold; 18, Tyes. South side. — Centre shield, 
 Fyenes quarterly of eighteen, helmet, crest, and supporters ; 
 dexter and sinister shields, Lennard impaling Fyenes. Shield 
 on the west side of the tomb, the same. 
 
 The two following inscriptions run along the north and south 
 friezes of the altar, the latter being continued in the panel which 
 separates it in the middle : — 
 
 " Gloriosum Dni nostri Jesu Christi adventum expectans, hie 
 requiescit Samson Lennard armiger una cum charissima conjuge 
 Margareta Baronissa Dacre (sorore et proxima hserede Gregorii 
 Fienes militis, Baronis Dacre de le South), cui quadraginta 
 septem annos, quatuor menses, et supernumerarios aliquot dies 
 conjugali vinculo ligatus suaviter et beate vixit ; suscepitque ex 
 eadem septem filios, Henricum Baronem Dacre, Gregorium, et 
 Thomam superstites, reliquis quatuor in infantia extinctis; et 
 sex filias, quarum una perijt infantula, quinque supersunt; Pie- 
 tatis, comitatis, hospital itatis laude Celebris, et in commune 
 bonus ; prepropera nobilissimae uxoris morte ampliorem Regis 
 gratiam anticipante : honore primogeniti filij Baronis Dacre de 
 le South, diplomate illustrissimi Regis Jacobi decoratus; Anno 
 itatis septuagesimo primo, ineunte salutis 1615, Septembris 
 vicesimo, ex hac vita migravit." 
 
IN CUUHAM, CO. KENT. 57 
 
 " Margaretee Fienes Baronissee Dacre, filiae Tliomae Baronis 
 Dacre, filij Thomae Fienes militis, filij Thomae Baronis Dacre, 
 et Annae uxoris ejus, filiee Humfridi Bourchier militis, filij Jo- 
 hannis Baronis Bourchier de Berners, filij Gulielmi Bourchier 
 Comitis Essex et Ewe^ et Annse uxoris ejus, filiae Thomae de 
 Woodstock Ducis de Glocestrise. Et ex materna stirpe filiae 
 Marige, filiae Georgij Nevile Baronis de Bergevenny, filij Ed- 
 wardi Nevile Baronis de Bergevenny, filii Radulphi Nevile Co- 
 mitis Westmerlandiee, et Johannae uxoris ejus, filiae Johannis de 
 Gaunt Ducis Lancastriae : amoris et honoris ergo posuit cha- 
 rissimus idemque moestissimus conjux, Quem cum felice prole 
 beasset, exemplarque pietatis in Deum, obsequij in maritum, 
 charitatis in pauperes, humanitatis in omnes, supra sexum ex- 
 hibuisset, tandem die Marcij decimo, Anno salutis millesimo 
 sexcentesimo undecimo, aetatis septuagesimo, cum summo bono- 
 rura omnium desiderio, supremum spiritum libens lubensque 
 Patri spirituum exhalavit/' ^ 
 
 On his death, the Honourable Gregory Lennard, his second 
 son, by virtue of a settlement inherited the manor of Apuldre- 
 field, which his elder brother, Henry Lord Dacre, seems to have 
 enjoyed vita patris, as on 14 April, 1615, he held a court baron 
 for the same. The said Gregory married Matilda, " sister^s 
 daughter of Margaret Lady Hawkins, widow,^'™ and died s. p. at 
 Apuldrefield on 28 February, 17 James L 1618-9, when upon 
 inquisition taken at East Greenwich 22 October 1619, the jury 
 found that Sampson Lennard his father, before the death of the 
 said Gregory, was seised in demesne as in fee of and in the manor 
 of Apulderfeild, alias Aperfeild, alias Applederfeild, and that he 
 in Trinity term, 12 James L 1614, levied a fine thereof to 
 
 ' The monuments of John and Sampson Lennard were engraved for Hasted's 
 History of Kent, vol. i. p. 361. 
 
 •" Oxonhoath Evidences. Margaret, daughter of Charles Vaughan, esq. of Her- 
 gest Court, Kington, co. Hereford, by his first wife Elizabeth, daughter of Sir 
 Francis Baskerville, knight, of Eardisley Castle, co. Hereford, was the second wife 
 of the celebrated admiral Sir John Hawkins. She had two sisters, Eleanor, married 
 to John Price, of Kymerton, . . . co. Salop ? and Sibill, married to Richard 
 Llewellin. Vide Harl. MS. 1159, ff. 76, 88'', and will of Lady Hawkins, dated 23 
 April, 1619, and proved 4 January, 1620-1, in which she bequeaths to her niece 
 Maude Lennard 200/. Lady Hawkins was an 
 
 "Attendant on the chambre and the bed of England's queen Elizabeth." 
 
 Strype's Stowe, i. book ii. ff. 44, 45. 
 
58 
 
 Margaret Hawkins, widow, and Tliomas Trevor, esq. by tlie 
 name of the manor of Appuldorefeld, alias Aperfeld, with its ap- 
 purtenances, and of three messuages, five tofts, three gardens, 
 three orchards, three hundred acres of land, ten acres of meadow, 
 three hundred acres of pasture, one hundred and sixty acres of 
 wood, one hundred shillings rent, and free warren in Apuldre- 
 feld, Codam, Sundrishe, and Westerham, to the use of himself 
 for life, remainder to Gregory his son and Matilda his wife, and 
 to the heirs of the body of the said Gregory, and for the jointure 
 of the said Matilda, remainder to himself, his heirs and assigns; 
 that the value of the manor per annum in all issues beyond re- 
 prises was 20/. and ihat the tenure of it was of the King in capite 
 as of his castle of Dover, and held at a rent of 71*. ^' ad war- 
 dum castri p'dict." The jury also found that Gregory Lennard 
 died s. p., that Matilda his widow was in possession, the rever- 
 sion after her death descending unto Richard then Lord Dacre, 
 who was eldest son of Henry late Lord Dacre, which Henry 
 was the eldest son of the said Sampson Lennard. They found 
 further that the said Sampson died seised of the said manor at 
 Apuldrefield, the last of August," 13 JamesL 1615; that the said 
 Gregory died also there the last of February last ; and that 
 Richard Lord Dacre was 23 years old and upwards. 
 
 Sampson Lennard appears to have let the manor before 24 
 November 1603,o probably in 1597, to Christopher Knight; to 
 whom, or to his son of the same name, " Maud Lennard" 
 on 11th of May, 16 James I. 1618, made a lease of it for 21 
 years, except timber trees and three rooms in the manor- 
 house, viz. the great chamber with the old parlour under it, and 
 the chamber called Duffield's chamber, and the use of the 
 kitchen. She also reserved liberty to keep courts in the said 
 manor-house, to hunt and hawk, and excepted all wayfes, strayes, 
 relieffs, herryotts, perquisites, and profits of courts, and all 
 other royalties of the said manor. The rent to be for the first 
 14 years 123/. 12*. per annum, the remaining 7 years 133/. 12s. 
 per annum ; the lessee to supply the lessor weekly with three 
 couple of the best and fattest coneys at the rate of one shilling 
 
 " The inquest held after his death says that he died at Chevening on 20th Sep- 
 tember, 1615, which date agrees with that upon his monument. 
 
 ° Baptised at Down 24 November, 160.3, " Briget, the daughter of Christopher 
 Knight, borne at Aperfeild." 
 
IN CUDHAM, CO. KENT. 59 
 
 per couple.P Christopher Knight, the first above mentioned, 
 died in 1625, at which time his son was apparently living at 
 Apuldrefield.^i The latter, during the Great Rebellion, found 
 means to purchase the manors of East and West Ewehurst in 
 Speldhurst, and the manor of Rendesley in Penshurst, which 
 descended to his son Michael, apparently born in this manor 
 house, who, being then of Westerham, on 20 February 1662, 
 obtained a grant of arms from Sir Edward Bysshe.' 
 
 On 7 September, 17 Charles 1. 1641, Francis Lord Dacre made 
 a lease of the manor to John Hay ward of Cudham, yeoman, for a 
 like term of years, at a rent of 661. and sixty sacks of coals or 
 3/. to be delivered in London, and twelve coneys or 6s,^ 
 
 The year of Matilda's death is 1635^ Henry Lord Dacre, 
 her husband's elder brother, before mentioned, died 8 August, 
 14 James I. 1616, leaving by Grisogan his wife, daughter of Sir 
 Richard Baker, knight, of Sissinghurst in Cranbrooke, Richard 
 Lord Dacre, also before mentioned, his heir ; who married first 
 Elizabeth, daughter and coheir of Sir Arthur Throgmorton, 
 knight, of Paulers Fury, Northamptonshire ; and secondly, Do- 
 rothy, daughter of Dudley third Lord North, who remarried 
 Challoner Chute, esq. of The Vine, Sherborne St. John, co. 
 Hants, Speaker of Richard Cromwell's parliament. He died 
 20 August 1630, leaving by his first lady Francis Lord Dacre 
 his heir, who inherited the manor of Apuldrefield upon the death 
 of Matilda Lennard. 
 
 This nobleman, on his marriage with Elizabeth eldest daugh- 
 ter of Paul first Viscount Bayning, and sister and coheir of Paul 
 the second Viscount, by deed and fine 1649, settled the 
 
 manor of Apuldrefield upon her in jointure." He died 12 
 May 1662, and lies interred at Chevening.^ Elizabeth his 
 wife survived, and took for her second husband David Walter, 
 esq. of Godstow in Woolvercott, co Oxon, Lieutenant-general 
 of the Ordnance and Groom of the Bed-chamber to Charles II. 
 and having been, on 6 September, 1680, created Countess of 
 Sheppy for life, died .... 1690. Upon her death the 
 
 P Oxonhoath Evidences. 
 
 1 Buried at Dowa 20 May, 1625, '• Christopher Knight." Baptized at Down 
 13 April, 1625, " Michaell, the son of Xtopher Knight." 
 
 ' Hasted, vol. i. pp. 416, 429. ' Oxonhoath Evidences. 
 
 ' Cole's Escheats, viii. f. 237. " Hasted, i. p. 123. « Ibid. 
 
60 
 
 manor came to Thomas Lord Dacre, eldest son of Francis, 
 who on 5 October 1674 had been created Earl of Sussex, 
 and he by deed enrolled 10 June, 2 William and Mary 1690, 
 and fine levied in Trinity term following, settled it to the use 
 of himself and his heirs for ever.i With the Earl this manor 
 remained till by deed enrolled 16 July, 6 Anne 1707, and by 
 fine levied in Michaelmas term following, with Anne his Coun- 
 tess, who was the eldest child of the celebrated courtezan 
 Barbara Duchess of Cleveland, by either Charles II. or her 
 husband Roger Palmer Earl of Castlemaine — for both laid claim 
 to her paternity — he conveyed it, in consideration of 3,050/. to 
 Thomas Knowe, gentleman, of Downe.^ 
 
 In June 1706, Mary, widow of the Honourable Henry Len- 
 nard, who died in 1703, the Earl's third and youngest brother, 
 had exhibited a bill in Chancery against the said Earl, demand- 
 ing a third part of the manor of Apuldrefield and the other 
 estates in Kent, which he had by inheritance of his father or 
 grandfather, according to the custom of gavel-kind, in behalf of 
 her three infant daughters, Margaret, Ann, and Catherine ; when 
 the Earl put in his answer, wherein he proved that the said lands 
 were held of the King by knight's service. In Trinity term 
 1709, the said Mary being dead, and so also the Honourable 
 Francis Lennard, the Earl's second brother, without issue, the 
 said three above-named infants, by their guardian, laid claim to 
 one half of the said lands on the same plea, whereupon a trial 
 was had in the Court of Queen's Bench in Michaelmas term 
 following, and a verdict pronounced in favour of the Earl of 
 Sussex.^ 
 
 The pedigree of Lennard has been so often and so fully gone 
 into by our genealogical authorities — by Collins,* Edmondson,^ 
 Banks,^ and Kimber^ — that we will in this place set out only so 
 much of it (supplied with numerous additional dates) as may 
 serve to illustrate the descent of the manor whilst it continued 
 in the name — a period extending over very nearly a century and 
 a half. 
 
 1 Hasted, i. p. 123. ' Ibid. » Ibid. 
 
 * Peerage by Brydges, vi. pp. 558-90. 
 
 " Baronagium Genealogicum, iv. pp. 335-8. 
 
 ^ Extinct Peerage, ii. pp. 136-8. ^ Baronetage, v. pp. 461- 
 
IN CUDHAM, CO. KENT. 
 
 61 
 
 PEDIGREE OF LENNARD. 
 
 Arms : Or, on a fesse gules three fleurs-de-lys of the field. 
 Crest : Out of a ducal coronet or a tiger's head argent. 
 
 John Lennard, Esq. of Chevening, Kent, lord of^Elizabeth 
 the manor of Apuldrefield. Sheriff of the co. 12 
 Eliz. 1561-2. Died 12 Mar. 1590, set. 82. (M. I.) 
 Bur. at C. 12 Mar. Esc. 33 Eliz. pt. 1, n. 143. 
 
 , dau. of William Har- 
 man, esq. of Elham in Crayford, 
 Kent. Died 26 Oct. 1585. (M. I.) 
 Bur. at C. 27 Oct. 
 
 Hon. Sampson Lennard, of Chevening.= 
 Lord of the manor of Apuldrefield. 
 ^t. 46 and up. Sheriff of the county 33 
 Eliz. 1590-1. Had precedence of the eldest 
 son of a Baron 2 April, 1611. Died 20 
 Sep. 1615, set. 71. (M. I.) Bur. at C. 
 21 Sept. Esc. 13 Jac. I. pt. 1, n. 158. 
 
 -Honble. Margaret, daughter of Thomas 
 Fyenes, ninth Lord Dacre, and sister and 
 heir of Gregory tenth lord. Married in 
 1564. Allowed the Barony of Dacre in 
 1604-5. Died 10 March, 1611, «t. 70. 
 (M. I.) Bur. at C. 10 March. 
 
 Henry Lennard Ld.=f=Grisogan, dau. of 
 
 Dacre. Bap. at C. 
 25 March, 1569-70. 
 Knighted at Cadiz 
 by the Earl of Es- 
 sex, 22 June, 1596. 
 Died 8 Aug. 1616. 
 Bur. at C. 9. Aug. 
 Es. 14 Jac.Lpt.3, 
 n. 140. 
 
 Sir Richard Baker, 
 knight, of Sissing- 
 hurst, in Cran- 
 brooke, Kent. 
 Marr. 1689; por- 
 tion 2,200/. Bur. 
 ate. 30 Sept. 1616. 
 
 Hon. Gregory Len-= 
 nard, 2d son. Bap. 
 at C. 25 Oct. 1573, 
 lord of the manor 
 of Apuldrefield. 
 Died 28 Feb. 1618- 
 19, s. p. Bur. at 
 Cudham ? Esc. 17 
 Jac.Lpt. 2,n. 157. 
 
 ^Matilda, dau. of 
 [John Price, esq. 
 of Kymerton ? ] 
 Lady of the manor 
 of Apuldrefield. 
 Died 1635. 
 
 Bur. at Cudham ?y 
 
 Richard Lennard ,=FElizabeth, da; 
 
 Lord Dacre, setat. 
 20y. 4m. 8d. 1616, 
 set. 23 and upwards 
 1618-9. Died 20 
 Aug. 1630. Buried 
 at Hurstmonceux, 
 Sussex, 21 August 
 Es.6C.pt.3,n.85. 
 
 & coh. of Sir 
 Arthur Throg- 
 morton, kt. of 
 Paulers-Pury, 
 co.Notts. Bur. 
 at C. 19 Feb. 
 1621-2. 
 
 Francis Lennard, Lord- 
 Dacre. -^t. 11 years, 
 3 months, and 8 days, 
 1630. Lord of the ma- 
 nor of Apuldrefield. Dd. 
 12 May, 1662. Bur. at 
 C. ? 
 
 :Hon. Dorothy, dau. of=Challoner Chute, 
 
 Dudley 3d Lord North. Esq. of The Vine, 
 
 Married, first, at St. Sherborne St. John, 
 
 Giles's Cripplegate, 4 Hants. M. P. for 
 
 Jan. 1624-5 ; secondly, Middlesex, 1656 & 
 
 at C. 28 Oct. 1650. 1658. Speaker 1658. 
 
 Had Chevening for life. Died 15 April, 1659. 
 
 Buried at C. 21 April, Bur. at C.?^=p 
 a698, set. 93. J^ 
 
 Hon. Elizabeth, dau. of Paul,=David Walter, esq. of God- 
 '^ * ' stow in Wool vercott, Oxon. 
 
 Lieut.-General of the Ord- 
 nance, and a Groom of the 
 Bed Chamber to Chas. IL 
 Died 22 April, 1679, set. 68, 
 s. p. (M.I.) Bur. at W. 
 30 April. 
 
 1st Viscount Bayning, and 
 sister and coh. of Paul 2nd 
 Viscount. Created Countess 
 of Sheppy for life 6 Sept. 
 1680. Lady of the manor of 
 
 Apuldrefield. Died 
 
 1690. 
 
 Thomas Lennard, -pLady Anne Palmer, 
 Lord Dacre. Cre- [ alias Fitzroy, eldest 
 
 ated Earl of Sus- 
 sex 5 Oct. 1674. 
 Lord of the Ma- 
 nor of Apuldre- 
 field. Dd. 30Oct. 
 1715. Bur. at C. 
 11 Nov. 
 
 child of Barbara, 
 Duchess of Cleve- 
 land. Died 16 May, 
 
 1722. 
 
 1 
 
 Hon. Fran- 
 cis Lennard. 
 Bp.atC. 11 
 Sept. 1657. 
 D. bet. 1706 
 and 1709. 
 
 Hon. Hen.: 
 Lennard, 
 posthumous 
 child. Died 
 1703. 
 
 daugh- 
 
 ^Mary, 
 ter of 
 Haddock. 
 Died 1709 
 
 ^ 
 
 Margaret. — Colonel 
 Lanoye. 
 
 Catherine. — Ann.^Jerome 
 
 Jones. TuUy. 
 
 y Gregory Lennard and his widow were in all probability buried at Cudham ; but 
 as the church register of the parish commences only in 1653 this fact cannot now be 
 determined. 
 
 ^ There are no burial entries in the register of Chevening church between 1G5I 
 and 1684. 
 
62 MANOR OF APULDREFIELD, 
 
 Thomas Knowe, who now became lord of the manor of Apul- 
 drefield, was of a family of yeomen who are known to have re- 
 sided for several generations at Down, an adjoining parish to 
 Cudham. At the time of his purchase the estate was in the oc- 
 cupation of Anne Brasier, widow, and in her possession it conti- 
 nued till her death, — Feb. 1726 -7.^ In the conveyance made to 
 Thomas Knowe by the Earl of Sussex, the whole of the demesne 
 lands of the manor were not included, but only so much as he had 
 leased to Brasier. Before 20 Dec. 1699,c he leased 67a. Or. Ip. 
 of the demesne to Thomas Farrant, and 39a. 3r. 17p. to John 
 Glover, and these two several portions of land are now united — 
 the first to Goddards in Tatsfield^d the second to Norwoods in 
 Cudham.^ According to the inquest held upon the death of 
 Gregory Lennardin 1619, there are still 166a. 3r. 17p. to be ac- 
 counted for ; and this portion of the demesne lands of the manor 
 was no doubt retained by the Earl, and conveyed by his daugh- 
 ters and heirs in 1717, with Cudham Lodge, to the first Earl 
 Stanhope. 
 
 Thomas Knowe died 3 Feb. 1728-9, aet. 70, intestate, leaving 
 by Mary his wife, the daughter of James Marsh, citizen and wine 
 cooper of London, who had died 9 April, 1723, aet. 62, Roger, 
 his only son and heir, who inherited the manor, and died un- 
 married, and also intestate, 25 Feb. 1736-7, aet. 40. They are 
 both buried at Down ; in the church of which parish, against the 
 north wall, a handsome monument of veined marble has been 
 placed to their memory, bearing the arms of Knowe, Argent, on 
 a bend engrailed gules three trefoils of the field, impaling. Gules, 
 a horse's head couped between three crosslets fitche argent. 
 
 Roger Knowe dying, as above stated, unmarried and intestate, 
 
 *» Buried at Cudham 4 March, 1726-7, " Anne Brasier, of Aperfield, widow.'' 
 
 « Vide " A Mapp of Apperfeild Court Lodge, vizt. such part thereof as is now in 
 the occupation of the Widdow Brasier," of this date, penes the present lord of the 
 manor. 
 
 ^ Viz. fields called in the map of the parish, Priests Field, Great Cudham Hill, 
 Middle Cudham Hill, Little Cudham Hill, Great South Field, and Little South 
 Field. On 28 March, 1746, they were the property of John Hay ward, who then 
 mortgaged them to William Staples. — Inf. William Champion Streatfeild, esq. of 
 Charts Edge, Westerham, owner of Goddards, from title deeds. 
 
 e Viz. fields called in the parish map. Great Hook, Middle Hook, Little Hook, 
 Kid Croft, and Sheets. — Inf. George Warde Norman, esq. of Bromley, Kent, owner 
 of Norwoods, from a map of Norwoods in his possession, dated 1729. 
 
IN CUDHAM, CO. KENT. 63 
 
 the manor by right of inheritance should have descended wholly 
 to Leonard Bartholomew, esq. of Oxonhoath, in West Peck- 
 ham, Kent, son of Philip Bartholomew, esq. of Oxonhoath, 
 deceased, by Mary his first wife, also deceased, only daughter and 
 heir of John Knowe of Ford, his father's elder brother ; but it 
 seems actually to have passed jointly to him and his younger 
 brother, John Knowe Bartholomew, esq. of Ford in Wrotham, 
 same county,^ under the erroneous impression that it was held by 
 the same tenure as the rest of the landed property of the de- 
 ceased, viz. by the custom of gavel-kind. Upon a division of 
 the estates of the said Roger this manor fell to the younger Bar- 
 tholomew,^ who, dying unmarried 29 September, 1747, by will 
 dated 14 February, 1743, and proved 26 October, 1747, devised 
 it to his elder brother; and he also dying unmarried 26 April, 
 1757, by will dated 14 May, 1755, and proved 2 June, 1757, 
 devised the same to William, second son (then unborn) of Ad- 
 miral Sir Francis Geary, Bart, of Polesden, in Great Bookham, 
 Surrey, who had married Mary, sister of the half blood and sole 
 heir of Leonard Bartholomew, esq. above named. 
 
 William Geary, devisee of the manor, succeeded his father in 
 the title — his elder brother, Cornet Francis Geary, having been 
 slain in America 13 December, 1776, s. p. — and, having repre- 
 sented the county in 1796 and 1802, died 6 August, 1825, set. 
 70. By Henrietta his wife, daughter of Richard Neville, esq. of 
 Furnace, co. Kildare, Ireland, and widow of Edward Bering, 
 esq. of Barham, Kent, eldest son of Sir Edward Bering, Bart, 
 of Surrenden Bering, in Pluckley, same county, he left, with 
 other issue, a son^ Sir William Richard Powlett Geary, Baronet, 
 M. P. for the county 1835 and 1838, who on 3 June, 1835, con- 
 veyed the manor of Apuldrefield, now more generally called 
 Aperfield, to John Christy, esq. of Hatcham Manor House, 
 New Cross, Surrey, its present lord.^ 
 
 There is a tablet to the memory of Sir William Geary, Bart, 
 in the church of West Peckham. 
 
 The following pedigrees of Knowe and Bartholomew, derived 
 wholly from original sources, are intitled to a place here: 
 
 ' On 15 October, 1742, the two brothers held a court baron for the manor. 
 « Hasted, i. f. 123. 
 
 ^ For pedigree of Christy, vide Burke's Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of 
 the Lauded Gentry, i. pp. 21.9, 220 ; Supplement, p. 346. 
 
64 
 
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66 MANOR OF APULDREFIELD. 
 
 The tenants of the manor of Apuldrefield hold of the lord by 
 fealty and suit of court from three weeks to three weeks, and, 
 being all freeholders, pay one whole year's rent for a relief both 
 upon death and alienation, and the best beast for a herriot upon 
 death, and if no beast then three shillings and six pence for a 
 dead herriot, and the same upon every alienation. The quit 
 rents payable annually from freeholders to the manor at the 
 making of the last terrier^ viz. 19 December, 1783, amounted to 
 51, Os. 7i^d., and were thus derived: 
 
 From Norwoods (part of), 1/. 6s. 6d.^; Great South Street, 
 155.^; Hillards, 135.6^.^; Lusted (part of), 12^.; Bombers 
 (part of), 95.106?.; Biggen Hill (part of), Ss.l^d.; Little 
 South Street, 6s.; Newburn (part of), 5^. \0d.; Halls, 2^. 2d.^; 
 Betsom's Hill (part of), 1 5.; Aliens, lOd.; Little Grays (part 
 of), 6d. ; Colliei-^s Water, 2d. ; a messuage now the *' Black 
 Horse " public house, 2d. 
 
 The following court rolls of the manor have been preserved: — 
 1590, April 9; 1591-2, March 8; 1603, April 29; 1604-5, 
 March 19; 1615, April 14; 1619, October 7; 1626, October 
 24;i 1712, October 24; 1723, May 10: 1731, October 15; 
 1742, August 9; 1753, October 31; 1766, October 13; 1783, 
 December 19; 1801, November 24 ; 1809, July 17; 1827, June 
 25; 1835, November 28; 1837, July 6; 1849, December 6. 
 
 When Mr. Christy purchased the estate, the manor house, 
 from having long been occupied by farmers, had become reduced 
 to a very mean residence. The remains of a moat which for- 
 merly surrounded it show that in earlier times it was a place of 
 some importance. The present manor house, called Apuldre- 
 field, or Aperfield, Court Lodge, was erected upon its site in 
 1835 and 1844. 
 
 Apuldrefieldi July 12, 1850. 
 
 « Enfranchised 13 May, 1836. 
 
 '' 35a. Ir. 20p. of this estate is in the parish of Westerham. 
 
 ' Now part of Norwoods, and enfranchished. 
 
 ^ Now part of Biggin Hill. 
 
 ' The first eight court rolls are at present among the Oxonhoath evidences. 
 
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