Kent Bridge
ALL THAT REMAINS;
Joane the second Daughter of Walter Harfleet of Beakesbourne Esq. The First Wife of Sir Arnold Braems Knt. flic.kr/p/3NvmfD departed this Life ye 26th (27th) Day of July 1635 and lieth buried in ye Parish Church of St. Maries In Dovor, in ye West Isle, where there is a Monument erected to her Everlasting Memory. Elizabeth the Second Daughter of Sir Dudley Digges of Chilham Castle, Knt. Master of ye Roles; Second Wife of Sr. Arnold Braems Knt. departed this Life the 17th Day of May 1643. And lieth Buried in the Middle of this Chancell, where her Name is engraven, and for Whom this Monument is erected".
- (1757 visit by Rev Faussett " On an Handsome Black and White Marble Altar Tomb, fixt to ye North Wall, is the Following Coat and Inscription. [Sa. on a chief arg. a demi-lion rampt. issuant gu. Braems impaling Digges + arg. 5 spreadeagles .]. "
Braems was a merchant and supporter of Charles l who keeping quiet in Cromwell's time, emerging at the 1660 Restoration to become an MP. He bought up land all along the front at Dover and so manipulated the harbour rights that he made a vast fortune which he spent on building a great house here which ruined him. (its remains are now part of the stables in Bourne Park behind the village street) He entertained the portrait painter Cornelius Jansen. (Arthur Mee)
Kent Bridge
ALL THAT REMAINS;
Joane the second Daughter of Walter Harfleet of Beakesbourne Esq. The First Wife of Sir Arnold Braems Knt. flic.kr/p/3NvmfD departed this Life ye 26th (27th) Day of July 1635 and lieth buried in ye Parish Church of St. Maries In Dovor, in ye West Isle, where there is a Monument erected to her Everlasting Memory. Elizabeth the Second Daughter of Sir Dudley Digges of Chilham Castle, Knt. Master of ye Roles; Second Wife of Sr. Arnold Braems Knt. departed this Life the 17th Day of May 1643. And lieth Buried in the Middle of this Chancell, where her Name is engraven, and for Whom this Monument is erected".
- (1757 visit by Rev Faussett " On an Handsome Black and White Marble Altar Tomb, fixt to ye North Wall, is the Following Coat and Inscription. [Sa. on a chief arg. a demi-lion rampt. issuant gu. Braems impaling Digges + arg. 5 spreadeagles .]. "
Braems was a merchant and supporter of Charles l who keeping quiet in Cromwell's time, emerging at the 1660 Restoration to become an MP. He bought up land all along the front at Dover and so manipulated the harbour rights that he made a vast fortune which he spent on building a great house here which ruined him. (its remains are now part of the stables in Bourne Park behind the village street) He entertained the portrait painter Cornelius Jansen. (Arthur Mee)