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Once a very regular sight, Greater Anglia-branded 90010 Bressingham Steam & Gardens accelerates away from Trowse shortly after departing Norwich with the 1530 to Liverpool Street. The Class 90s and Mk3 stock have now been replaced by 12-car Stadler Flirt EMUs, while this location has changed dramatically with the sidings in the background now restored and electrified.
66542 accelerates away with Cement for Walsall a bonus shot as this is booked via the main line and was running nearly an hour early
As the Second Greco-Roman War dragged on, the resources at the NGRF's disposal continued to dwindle. This was accelerated by the URE's capture of the Macedonian construction yards, effectively cutting the Federation's manufacturing output in half. No longer able to produce Hastati IIs at an acceptable rate, they fell back on bolstering their forces with Decurions.
The Decurion began its development cycle as an early prototype for the Hastati. Based largely off of tech from the Gremlin, the original design was updated with modern armor and features to become the System we see today. Its performance falls short of the URE's Aardwolf III, but it makes up for that in sheer versatility. It specializes in ground combat but the B-type equipment adds a number of propellant tanks and thrusters to allow for limited use in outer space. This equipment has also been used for dropping Decurions into combat zones from the air, a tactic that has proved somewhat effective for surprising URE forces.
The Decurion's standard armament is a 100mm machine gun but it is also capable of wielding the "Pilum" heavy beam bazooka. Optional equipment includes "System Buster" warheads that can be mounted on the waist and missile pods that fit over the shoulders.
Geez that description took a lot out of me. I make most of it up on the fly and have to scour through all my old descriptions to properly reference stuff and make sure I don't contradict anything.
Anyway I wanted to do a build inspired by Dipo Muh's work, especially his Zaku redesigns. I put a lot of effort into the weapons as well, and really like how the flip-out stock on the rifle turned out as well as how all the parts on the bazooka mesh together. The backpack looks pretty heavy but it stands up pretty well. Only weight issues I've had is with holding the bazooka, where the shoulder guard is kinda necessary.
Night shot of the upper and lower decks. Taken from I-35 and 38th 1/2
Been wanting to take this shot for a while now. This is a five image HDR. -2, -1, 0, +1, +2, processed in Photomatix Pro and then CS5. I've been following a fellow flickr member's tutorials/advice and used some of the techniques he posted to process this. After initially processing the 5 images, I processed a single image with the best light trails using similar settings. Then masked the light trails in to get rid of the ghosting. It worked out well...I think. I think I need more practice, but overall, I'm happy with it. Oh! and my levitation skills are sick!...Check out Neil's tutorials here, if you're interested.
ScotRail 385024 leads a friend quickly away from Prestonpans forming 2Y20 Edinburgh - North Berwick.
Europhoenix Class 37s 37608 "Andromeda" and 37611 "Pegasus" accelerate through Northfield with the 09:14 Tyseley L.M.D. to Bristol High Level Siding test train.
I hope you like the panning here. It's not very sharp, because I'm still learning. This photo is taken with 1/50 exposure. Is it enough, or should I take 1/25 or even more? Mercedes SLS AMG. Maximilianstraße. 16.07.2011
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Zenit 12xp
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Hoya HMC K2 + Kenko Realpro ND64
The POV Ray renderings are not quite as realistic as the photo-realistic renderings of earlier models but it works well for images in space where there is often only one light source.
Three Star Destroyers of Admiral Thrawn’s fleet, the “Adamant,” “Judicator,” and “Nemesis,” accelerates past a moon in pursuit of separatist forces.
47443 "North Eastern" accelerates away from Keighley with 1M61 14:46 Leeds to Carlisle. 10th September 1989.
An eastbound Wheeling & Lake Erie train accelerates as it moves onto the CSX Greenwich Subdivision in Greenwich, Ohio. (Scanned from a slide)
55006 'The Fife & Forfar Yeomanry' accelerates a northbound train past Manors, Newcastle, on 6th July 1975
69007 accelerates out of Bootle Docks taking 6E10 to Tuebrook Sdgs where 60076 takes over, as 66724 waits at the stop board out of sight with late running 6M34
3/2/24
The Grisha-class small anti-submarine ship (Project 1124 Albatros malyy protivolodochnyy korabl or MPK in Soviet terms) was designed in the mid-1960s to search for and destroy enemy submarines found in Soviet coastal areas.
In 1991 the Russian Navy operated over 70 Grishas but that number had dwindled to 28 by 2004. This was due in large part to the difficulty in replacing the ship's turbines (which I think may have been built in Ukraine).
The first series of Grishas was built from 1968-74, but successive improvements to the design led to four discrete versions, three for the Soviet Navy and one sub-class for the KGB's coastal patrols. The Grishas pack a heavy anti-submarine armament (anti-submrine rocket launchers, torpedo tubes for heavy wire-guided torpedoes and depth charges) into a relatively small hull. Combined with a respectable anti-aircraft armament (SA-N-4 surface-to-air missiles, the twin 57mm gun aft and the AK-630 30mm automatic cannon), this makes the Grishas much more effective than the profusion of older escort vessels that were retired in the late 1980s.
Grishas were 71.6m in length, had a beam of 9.8m and a draught of 3.7m. With a diesel engine powering each of the two outboard propeller shafts, the ships could reach 22 knots. Add the gas turbine on the centre shaft, in a CODAG arrangement, and they could make 35 knots. However, all that machinery must have made them very cramped for their 60-strong crews. They were limited in range to about 7,400 km and only operated in coastal waters.
The Grisha III variants (Project 1124M) began appearing in the late 1970s and 34 were built by the mid-1980s when construction of this variant ended.
The vessel seen above was operating in the Baltic off Liepaya, which was then in the Soviet Union but is now in Latvia. It was attempting to shepherd us away from a torpedo-firing exercise being conducted by other Soviet ships which we were watching.
This is a rework of an earlier image in my stream.
The 04:55 Sikar Junction to Jaipur Junction MG Passenger 02082 accerates away from Nindhar Benar in the care of YDM-4 6738.
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Accelerating Evil.
Agnitus fortunae ponitur quaestio vehementer urgentur,
besitzen Verständnis Leidenschaften wünscht mechanische Morde,
утверждающий основные предположения предрассудки до сих пор не доверяя,
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Les décisions trompeur procédure de magnanimité dissimulation lésés,
противречи догматска слагалице независност раскошне затвор судбина,
consciences dáimhe unconditioned ludicrously drochuair enchained,
Obblighi prelibatezze future concezioni lontananza torture,
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cunoștințe formule probabil epuizat disperat adâncimi rele instruiți,
ellentétes episztemológiai felfogások képtelen fellebbezések csodálkozni,
énigmes nécessaires compromettante stupidité des sacrifices injustice ascètes,
bewerkelijkheid aristocratische luiheid opvattingen diepgaand,
διαφοροποιημένη παρουσία συναρπαστική ύβρεις δυσανεξία διατηρεί ακαθαρσία,
uforenlige verdivurderinger umoralske enigmatically instinkter vises,
取り除か手恐ろしい骨死.
Steve.D.Hammond.
G536, X44 and X41 power towards Arcadia as a late running 9347 grain train from Geelong bound for Tocumwal, on the Southern border of NSW.
Thursday 9th March 2017
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Breeders' Cup Classic winner Accelerate at Lane's End where he stands at stud.
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A westbound NS manifest freight on the Huntington District accelerates in Butler, Indiana. The train had waited for a westbound stack train to clear on the NS Chicago Line before getting a clear signal.
Early running put 6C52 ahead of the Seaforth - Mossend for its run up the WCML.
Not a lot of room for error here and one more flask would've kyboshed this shot!
On Thursday, October 6, 2011, at about 10:10 a.m., Livonia Avon and Lakeville (LAL) 428 and 425 leave their smoke behind as they accelerate near Howletts Farms, NY.
LAL 428 (the Sergeant W. Wise) is an ALCo C425. Reportedly: it was built in 1966, builders number 3461-01, SP&S 320.
Reporting marks and numbers said to be associated with this locomotive include: Seminole Gulf Railroad 550, Bay Colony 2501, Shoreline Locomotives 2556, Mass. Central 4258, Arkansas & Missouri 4258, Kyle 4258, BN 4258, SP&S 320.
Around 11:45 a.m. on Tuesday, July 2, 2019, Western New York and Pennsylvania (WNYP) 685, 630, 643, the Driftwood Turn, leaves behind Turtlepoint, PA and picks up speed bound for Driftwood, PA.
WNYP 685 is a MLW M636. Reportedly: it was built in 1975 as QCM 85, builders number M6085-0. Numbers and reporting marks reported as assigned to this locomotive include: NYSW 3674, QCM 85, RRPX 85, WNYP 685.
NS3 (Cedar Hill-Selkirk)
accelerates north from Hartford CT after making his pick up at FRY .
Often times I liked to try and capture a scene that was more about the whole environment than just the train itself This wintry afternoon was every bit as cold and damp as it looks , and the weak sunset light was barely adequate to the task..
The ex EL GE's joined their PC and Reading cousins in the Selkirk pool and former EL units began leading trains as soon as their radios were retrofitted with former PC/PRR road channels one and two (160.800 161.070).
Forced into CR at the last minute , it seemed to those of us on the "outside" that the new carrier deliberately wasted very little time in trying to erase the EL logo and corporate identity..
Wilson Ave Wilson CT Hartford Line CR
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Well... here I was thinking I'd never see and hear another Volvo B7TL on the 63 ever again. I was wrong!
I spotted this at the Elephant last Wednesday. After getting off a 453 I heard the unmistakable singing of a Voith B7TL. I looked around assuming it was an Abellio Gemini. When I saw the 63 blind I did a double take and my jaw dropped!
I didn't have anything important to do, so I took off after it. It pulled away from the stop, sailed through the traffic lights on New Kent Road, without stopping at the next stop, and I couldn't believe my luck!
I spent practically the whole afternoon chasing it, with nothing but rotten luck. I finally managed to pin it down at Peckham Rye, and I have to say it was worth the trouble!
If you like loud, whiny 3 speed Voiths, you'll love this. It accelerates well and sounds lovely, with no strange rattles or cooling fan.
I'm not sure how long it'll be at Peckham, though I hope it might make itself known on the 363, 37 and perhaps even 36 before it does leave.
Unlike WHV13 it does have proper blinds installed in the front, but nothing in the back and side.
Video of it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=x60D6n0zGHw
NS train 12R accelerates from the siding at Allison on the B-line after meeting hotshot train 211. I find it odd to say, but I was happy to shoot this Dash 8 leader as they are becoming hard to find on the Class 1s these days. Nov 2017.
"therefore, since we are surrounded by such a great cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every encumberance and the sin which so easily entangles us, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, fixing our eyes on Jesus"
hebrews 12 v 1,2
this is a macro of one of our living room light shades....its been awhile since I posted a light shot, one of my favourite subjects
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Our family friend, John, has what he calls his funeral suit. I suppose we are now reaching the point where I need one too. In fact, I have lost several friends, former colleagues from The Mob, something that will accelerate as the years pass.
Last week, I noticed that a friend of mine on Flickr, Günter, had not commented on any shots for a few weeks. He used to leave funny one sentence comments that almost always brought a smile.
The lastest shot on his photostream was of a fresh grave.
His.
Sadly, Günter passed away on New Year's Day, and his family posted this last shot to let the world know. Or his friends, anyway.
We had visited his and his wife in Bonn, and he had come to stay with us too, we share interests in railways, photography and beer.
It came quite a shock I can tell you.
Online, people come and go, mostly without fanfare or announcement. One day they are there, and then they're not. Did they just get fed up, or something more terminal?
Most of the time, we'll never know.
I am lucky in that I have met many online friends in real life, sometimes here in Kent, but also in the US too, so know they are more than screen names and photos, but real people with lives, who are pretty much as wonderful as thei online presence would have you believe.
Life goes on, of course, but I will miss Günter, and sad for the fact we will not raise beers in a friendly toast to each other.
We woke at half six, I went to the bathroom and looked out the window. Still too early for birds, but there wasn't a breath of wind either, nor any cars to be seen moving. So it looked like someone had paused time.
Cleo is perpetual motion, however, and coming downstairs revealed her to be always on the move until her food is placed just where she wants it.
I went to Tesco by myself, with a list as long as a long thing, while Jools stayed behind and fed the hungry washing machine two loads of dirty laundry. Good news is that Tesco was fully stocked with fresh produce, including rapsberries from Spain. We like them for breakfast at weekends, its a hard habit to break.
Back home to unload and makaid breakfast; fruit and yogurt followed by warmed croissants.
Jools said she had been sitting all week, so would not come with me to go churchcrawling, so I go on me tood, driving up the M20 to Maidstone, to revisit All Saints church, where I had not been for over 12 years. I had checked Google, and it said the church would be open from 10:00.
I timed it to arrive dead on ten. I parked the car opposite, and didged traffic to get over the main road, I went to the first door only to find it locked. But a sign suggested there were two more possible ways in, so walked round, checked the north door, and that was locked too. That only left the west door, under the tower, to try. That was ajar, so my hopes lifted. Only to find the inner door locked.
Maybe I was too early?
A lady came in, I asked about the church. She said she was a bellringer, and disappeared up the steps to the ringing loft, where sounds of poorly rung bells could be heard.
I went round the church one more time, ending back at the west door, and again all way in were locked.
Sigh.
But there was a runners up prize; a church on the edge of town, in what used to be a village, at Bearsted. THe sat nav told me it was just a ten minute drive away.
So, I drove across town, through the crazy one-ways system, out the other side and along to Bearsted, where there were ancient timber framed houses, so old they had settled over the centuries into strange angles, none of which were right ones.
I found church lane, which wound its way through a modern housing estate, parked outside the chuchyard, and I could see a nice "church open" sign before I got out.
Although it looked spendid from the outside, inside it had been reordered at least twice, so that any ancient features were well hidden indeed. Even the glass, usually a rescuing act for over restored churches, were either just average or poor here. But it was my first visit here, so another tick in the box.
I now had to get home, as Jools is joining the speaking ciruit, as a lady has asked Jools to lead classes in beaded jewellery making.
I hightailed it back to the motorway, and once on, settled down to cruise back down to Dover and home, getting back at half twelve, with an hour to spare before Jools had to leave for the class.
So, it was just me an the cats for a few hours. There was football to entertain me, so I sat beside Scully on the sofa and watched the Championship game while she dozed beside me.
At three, it was time to concentrate on Norwich away at Millwall, one of six teams above us, and a win here would put us back in the play-offs. It was an exciting game, Millwall took the lead, only for City to level before half time, and then score two more early in the 2nd half. Millwall plled one back in the last ten minutes, but we hung on to win 3-2.
Not perfect, but a win at the New Den where they had been unbeated since September. And then, along came Nodge.
Dinner was a rushed one of pizza and iced squash, as we were going out to a gig.
Lawrence was the singer in an indie band in the 80s called Felt. He then formed Denim, an ironic pop band for the 90s, which also stiffed. He now fronts Mozart Estate, which does a fine line in ironic pop. Still.
We drive over th Ramsgate, to a small venue called The Music Hall. We were early, but got in, and went to the bar where we chatted to a couple about our age about music. In fact, most folks were about "our age".
First up was a young female singer/songwriter, who strummed her guitar along to her 6th form poetry.
The hall, which was barley bigger than our living room was about 50% full, but comfortable. We went to find somewhere to sit, thinking that the bar would be empty, only to find it rammed with more people than when we left it half an hour before.
We went to get some air, and finding nowhere to sit, went to the car.
Jools was shattered and fell asleep, and I really did not feel like being rammed into that room unable to see the band, and not able to lean against a wall to rest my back.
I said we'd go home.
So we did.
I don't regret it.
We got back at ten, Jools went to bed, while I had a glass of sloe port.
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Holy Cross church stands to the south of the village green at the end of a cul de sac. Its noble tower is crowned with queer sculptures, slightly reminiscent of Alnwick Castle. The exterior has a nicely textured effect, but this leads to an unexpectedly clean interior - the result of much care and attention and recent reordering. Whilst it cannot pretend to be in the top league of Kent churches it offers a fine selection of 19th and 20th century glass and some fine wall tablets. West tower, nave, chancel, north aisle and chapel, south porch.
www.kentchurches.info/church.asp?p=Bearsted
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BERSTED.
BERSTED lies the next parish north-westward from Leeds. It was antiently written Bergestede, and most probably took its name from its situation, Berg, in Saxon, signifying a hill, and stede, a place or village.
THE PARISH lies mostly on what may be called high ground, a pleasant, and the greatest part of it a dry situation; the soil is in general a deep sand, though towards the south-west part it partakes of the quarry rock, and on the south side of the Lenham river a black moorish soil of fertile meadow ground. This river parts it towards the south from Osham, another smaller stream, which rises near Boxley, separates it on the western side from that parish and Maidstone, leaving within the bounds of it a part of the hamlet of Maginford. Besides the above, this parish is watered by two or three other smaller rivulets, which rise northward, and run here into the Lenham river, the easternmost of them separating it from Hollingborne and Leeds. The high road from Ashford and Lenham towards Maidstone, runs along the northern boundaries of it, passing over Bersted-green, the houses round which form the parish village, near it stands the church; besides this there are two other hamlets, called Ware and Roseacre-streets. In the south-east part of the parish is the seat of Milgate, pleasantly situated and wellcloathed with trees, at the back of which the ground descends to the river, and at a small distance that of Lower Milgate, so called from its lower situation still nearer the river.
A fair used to be held here on Holy Cross day, September 14, now by the alteration of the style, changed to Sept. 25, for pedlary, toys, &c.
The noble family of Bertie own this parish to have been their most antient habitation in this kingdom, for they are said to have possessed lands in it near the parsonage, at Strutton-street, and elsewhere in this neighbourhood, as early as the reign of king Henry II. and among the Harleian MSS. there is a grant of arms, anno 2 Henry VI. to Bartie, of Berested, in Kent; they continued here in king Henry the VIIth.'s reign, as appears by an antient rental of that time, and there are still lands, called Barty lands, in this parish and Thurnham; and from those of this name settled here, in a direct line was descended the dukes of Ancaster, now extinct, and from them the lady Willbughbye, of Eresbye; the earls of Abingdon, and other distinguished branches of this family claim their descent.
The manors of Leeds, Moathall, and Thurnham, extend over this parish, in which there is an estate belonging to the former of them, which has constantly passed through the same succession of owners, from the family of Crevequer, who were proprietors of it in the reign of William the Conqueror, to the Rev. Dr. Denny Martin Fairfax, of Leeds-castle, who is at present in the possession of it.
MILGATE is an eminent seat, situated in the southeast part of this parish, which was formerly esteemed a manor, though it has long since lost the reputation of ever having been one.
The family of Coloigne antiently possessed this estate; one of whom, Robert de Coloigne, died possessed of it in the 35th year of king Edward III. In process of time, his descendants came to be called Coluney; one of whom, Thomas Coluney, as appears by an old survey of Bersted, possessed it in the 14th year of Edward IV. Soon after which, that is, in the beginning of king Henry VII.'s reign, it was become the property of the family of Stonehouse, whose antient seat was at Haslewood, in Boughton Malherbe.
Robert Stonehouse, esq. was of Bersted, at the latter end of king Henry VIII.'s reign. His son, George Stonehouse, esq. was clerk of the green cloth to queen Elizabeth, and resided at West Peckham, where he died in 1575, whose eldest son William was created a baronet anno 4 Charles I. and Nicholas, the second, was of Boxley, in this county. He bore for his arms, Argent, on a fess sable, between three hawks volant, azure, a leopard's face, between two mullets, or. (fn. 1) In the beginning of the reign of queen Elizabeth he alienated this seat to Thomas Fludd, esq. afterwards knighted, who was son of John Fludd, esq. of Morton, in Shropshire, and bore for his arms, Vert, a chevron between three wolves heads, erased, argent; which coat, with his quarterings, was confirmed to him by Robert Cook, clarencieux, in 1572. He resided at Milgate, where he died in 1607, and was buried in this church, having considerably improved and augmented this seat. His son Thomas Fludd, esq. afterwards of Otham, succeeded him in this estate, which he alienated in 1624, to William Cage, of Farringdon, in Hampshire, barrister-at law, who resided here. He was bred at Lincoln's-inn, an utter barrister, and was descended from Richard Cage, of Packenham, in Suffolk. He bore for his arms, Per pale, gules and azure, a saltier, or, and a chief, ermine, which was an alteration from the antient arms of this family, viz. Azure and gules, over all a saltier, or; and, together with an addition to the crest, was granted to him by St. George, clarencieux, in 1624, (fn. 2) and in his descendants it continued down to Wm. Cage, esq. who was likewise of Milgate, and was sheriff in 1695, and represented the city of Rochester in several parliaments during queen Anne's reign. Of his sons, William died s. p. Lewis will be mentioned hereafter; and John was of Lower Milgate, esq. Lewis Cage, the second son, became at length possessed of Milgate, where he resided, and left one son Lewis, and a daughter Catherine, who married first, Mr. George Eastchurch, of Maidstone; and secondly Christopher Hull, esq. but died s. p. On his death, Lewis Cage, esq. his son, succeeded him in this seat, where he now resides.
He married Annetta, second daughter and coheir of Edward Coke, esq. of the White Friars, in Canterbury, by whom he had four sons; Lewis Cage, esq. of Lower Milgate, who married Fanny, eldest daughter of Sir Brook Bridges, bart. the Rev. Edward Cage, rector of Easling, who married Jane, second daughter of Charles Van, esq. of Monmouthshire; John, who died in the West-Indies unmarried in 1789, and the Rev. Charles Cage, of Cristmell, vicar of Bersted, who married Elizabeth, daughter of colonel Graham, and one daughter Catherine, as yet unmarried.
AT A SMALL DISTANCE westward from Milgate, there is a good house, called COMBES, alias LOWER MILGATE, which on the death of William Cage, esq. came to his youngest son John Cage, as before-mentioned, who died s. p. It is now the property of Mrs. Brander, the widow of Gustavus Brander, esq. and daughter of Francis Gulston, esq. by a daughter of William Cage, esq. Lewis Cage, esq. junior, at present resides in it.
MOAT-HALL is a manor in this parish, the mansion of which, from the materials with which it was built, was called Stonehouse. It antiently belonged to the neighbouring priory of Leeds, as appears by several old boundaries and papers, and was most probably part of those demesnes given to it at its first foundation, by Robert de Crevequer, in the reign of king Henry I. These demesnes appear by a rental of the time of king Henry VII. to have been held of the manor of Leeds, though they have been long since accounted parcel of this manor of Moat-hall.
On the dissolution of the priory in the reign of king Henry VIII. this manor, among the rest of the possessions of it, was surrendered into the king's hands, who afterwards, by his dotation-charter, in his 33d year, settled this manor, among other premises, on his new founded dean and chapter of Rochester, with whom it remains at this time.
The present lessee of it, under the dean and chapter, is Mr. William Usborne. There is a court baron held for this manor.
AT A SMALL DISTANCE southward from the church lies an estate called OTTERIDGE, formerly Oterashe, which in the reign of king Henry VIII. belonged to Simon Bertyn, one of the brethren of St. Bartholomew's hospital, beside Sandwich, who by will in 1530, devised it to Jeffry Merchant, of Rainham.
It afterwards came into the possession of the family of Munns, who continued possessors of it for several generations, till at length one of them sold it, with Aldington, in the adjoining parish of Thurnham, to William Sheldon, esq. whose descendant Richard Sheldon, esq. at his death, bequeathed it to his widow, and she re-marrying with William Jones, M. D. entitled him to it. He died in 1780, leaving by her two daughters; Mary, married to Lock Rollinson, esq. of Oxfordshire, and Anne, to Thomas Russell, esq. and they in right of their wives, are respectively entitled to it.
Charities.
SIMON BERTYN, one of the brethren of St. Bartholomew's hospital, near Sandwich, owner of Otteridge, in this parish, which he devised, together with his messuage called Buds, with its lands and appurtenances, in Allyngton, beside Thurnham, by his will in 1530, to Jeffry Marchant, ordered that the said Jeffry and his heirs male, should for ever yearly distribute, on the first Sunday of Lent, in the church of Berghsted, to the parish clerk there, and to other poor people, four bushels of green peas; that is to say, to every one of them, one peck.
EDWARD GODFREY, gent. of Thurnham, gave by his will in 1709, thirty shillings yearly out of lands in this parish, called Crouch field, for the schooling of poor children; half of them to be of this parish, and half of that of Thurnham. And he left 30s. yearly for the same use, to be paid out of an house called Rose acre, in this parish; the payment of which has been constantly refused, upon pretence, that he had no right to devise that charge on it.
The poor constantly relieved are about forty-five; casually twenty five.
BERSTED is within the ECCLESIASTICAL JURISDICTION of the diocese of Rochester, and deanry of Sutton.
The church is situated on high ground, at a small distance southward of Bersted-green. It is dedicated to the Holy Cross, and is a handsome building, consisting of two isles and two chancels, with a square beacon tower at the west end of it. On three corners of the summit of the tower, are the figures of three dogs, or bears sejant, for they are so defaced by great length of time, that they can but be guessed at. If they represent the latter, they might have been placed there in allusion to the name of this parish: if not, these figures might perhaps be the crest of the founder of the church. In this church in the Milgate chancel, are monuments for the Cage family, and for Robert Fludd, M. D. A memorial for William Godfrey, jun. in 1690; and for Elizabeth, daughter of Henry Bosvile, esq. of Bradburne, justice and clerk of the court of wards, married first to Edward Mabb, gent. of this parish; and secondly, to William Godfrey, of Bersted, yeoman, obt. 1614. In the porch, against the east wall, is a small monument for Stephen Mason, of Boxley, citizen and vintner of London, obt. 1560, arms, A thevron, between three tuns, or barrels.
There were some lands and tenements in this parish, given by several persons, who stiled themselves the fraternity of the Holy Cross of Bersted, for a priest to sing mass yearly for one quarter of a year, in this church.
The church of Bergnestede, with all its rights and appurtenances, was given in the reign of Henry I. by Robert de Crevequer, son of Hamo de Crevequer, junior, to the priory of Leeds, then founded by him; which gift was confirmed by Baldwin, archbishop of Canterbury, in the reign of Henry II. who then appropriated this church to the canons there, towards the finding of lights and ornaments in their church. Archbishops Theobald and Hubert confirmed it likewise, as did John, prior, and the convent of Christ-church, in 1278, by the description of the church of Berghestede, with the tithes of Strutton. King Edward III. likewise confirmed it by his charter of inspeximus in his 41st year.
This church, together with the advowson of the vicarage, remained part of the possessions of the priory of Leeds till the dissolution of it, in the reign of king Henry VIII. when it was surrendered up into the king's hands, among other estates belonging to it.
After which, the king, by his dotation charter, in his 33d year, settled both the parsonage and advowson of the vicarage of this church on his new-founded dean and chapter of Rochester, with whom they now remain.
¶On the intended dissolution of deans and chapters, after the death of king Charles I. the possessions of the dean and chapter of Rochester, in this parish, were surveyed in 1649, by order of the state; when it was returned, that the parsonage or rectory of Bersted consisted of a messuage, barns, &c. which, with the tithes and glebe land of forty acres, were of the improved rent of 46l. 8s. per annum, which were let anno 13 Charles I. at the yearly rent of 9l. 13s. 4d. and four bushels of malt, for the term of twenty-one years; and the lessee covenanted to discharge the pension of forty shillings to the vicar, and to repair the chancel of the church. Out of which lease was excepted, the advowson of the vicarage, and the portion of tithes called Vintners Portion.
The vicarage is a discharged living in the king's books, of the clear yearly certified value of thirty pounds, the yearly tenths of which are 12s. 9d.
In 1649, the vicarage was valued in the abovementioned survey at twenty pounds per annum.
The parsonage is leased out by the dean and chapter to Mr. John Packman, but the advowson of the vicarage they reserve in their own hands.
The vicarage is endowed with all manner of tithes, except grain, and the vicar now enjoys the abovementioned pension of forty shillings from the lessee of the dean and chapter.
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