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Friends…lend me your ears

I come to…, not to praise him

Shakespeare, William (ca. 1599): Julius Caesar, Act III Scene II

Shakespeare might get a bit of a gig here today. It was from the very era when Julius Caesar and Hamlet were written that this piece from the salvage yard was hung at the front of the house of Sir Paul Pindar. And that is where it stayed, surviving the slum clearance of 1666, which you might know as the Great Fire of London and subsequent years of reuse and abuse, until 1890 when his house was demolished in the name of progress. Now, saved from the demolisher's it hangs among the bits and pieces you might have stashed in your shed but is actually the Victoria and Albert Museum.

Pindar's house was unwisely constructed on the Bishopgate Road, formerly the Roman's Ermine St and now the A10. Worse still, he put it right where the Liverpool Street Station was to be built. Such is the wisdom of hindsight! It was a skinny thing, deeper than broad with three jettied floors poking out into the road, each one overhanging the other. On the front was this elaborate glazed and carved oak façade.

No amount of patronage nor protest could save what was reputedly London's last house of its type. Progress and profit would inevitably take it down.

I'm not here to praise Pindar. In a common story, all of his wealth may not have been got fairly. But wealth he had! Reputedly, he invested it in political matters, including to support King Charles I, his wife and son. No amount of any of that could turn the head of the Parliament, nor keep Charles' head on its shoulders. The interregnum could have played out better for Pindar. Before Charles II was reinstated as the regent, Pindar's loans remained unpaid, and he died. Reputedly, his executor, was so overcome by his inability to unpick the web of Pindar's creditors that he killed himself.

To be or not to be: that is the question

Shakespeare, William (ca. 1600): Hamlet, Act III Scene I

There you have it! Pindar certainly didn't get his ROI, nor did his Estate.

Neither a borrower nor a lender be…

Shakespeare, William (ca. 1600): Hamlet, Act I Scene III

Chloe Dreaming by Ruth Raymond

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The We're Here! gang is visiting the group "Times are hard for dreamers" today. This is Chloe, who has had a few hard times lately. Her human passed away, and wasn't found for several days. Then Chloe spent two weeks in a kennel.

But then my neighbour Irene (Sasha's mom before he adopted me) was notified -- she is the executor -- and she went over to Vancouver Island to take care of affairs. One of those affairs was Chloe, who Irene has now adopted.

When Irene has to physically go in to the office, I go over and give Chloe some lap time so she doesn't feel abandoned (again). She is a sweet girl who loves cuddling up on my (or Fred's) lap or rolling for belly rubs, or coming in close for nose boops.

Way of the Cross, The Beauvoir Sanctuary, 675 Cote de Beauvoir, Brompton, Sherbrooke, Eastern Townships, Quebec by Snuffy

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Excerpt from histoiresainteducanada.ca/en/le-sanctuaire-du-sacre-coeur...:

Father Joseph-Arthur Laporte was born in Saint-Paul de Joliette on August 15, 1857, the feast of the Assumption. He entered the community of the Clerics of Saint-Viateur on August 25, 1879. The members of this community have a great devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, and it is through their contact that Father Laporte developed this devotion.

He left the community of the Clerics of Saint-Viateur on July 28, 1886 and requested his incardination to the Bishop of Sherbrooke. He was admitted to the number of priests of the diocese by Bishop Antoine Racine, and appointed pastor of the parish of Sainte-Praxède de Bromptonville (1891-1902) from where he discovered the “mountain” that he would later call “Beauvoir”.

Eight kilometers north of Sherbrooke, a small mountain of one hundred and fifteen meters, still unnamed, had long attracted the attention of this great lover of nature. After many approaches to Mr. Émile Lessard, a farmer, he bought two hectares of land from him in 1915. He gave the name “Beauvoir” (beautiful to see) to this corner of paradise whose panoramic view enchanted him. He decided to build a small cottage, a house of six meters on a side surrounded by a gallery. In 1916 and 1917, he bought more land to enlarge his small domain.

And in 1920, he founded the Sanctuary of the Sacred Heart of Beauvoir.

For years, Father Laporte has been fascinated by the devotion to the Sacred Heart of Jesus. He speaks of it tirelessly. So it is not surprising that the only decoration on the bare walls of his cottage is a lithograph, without much artistic pretension, of the Sacred Heart of Montmartre.

In 1916, Father Laporte still dreamed of making Beauvoir a place where people would come to pray and celebrate the Sacred Heart of Jesus, whose devotion was spreading more and more throughout the country. He therefore decided to erect, not far from his cottage, a statue of the Sacred Heart. Measuring two meters in height, this statue, with its arms wide open, stands on a pedestal of field stones that farmers have faithfully transported on their carts.

The parish priest now invites his parishioners to come and taste the happiness that is his at the Sacred Heart…

As early as 1918, pilgrims began “the ascent of the Rosary”, a devotional practice that would have its heyday in the 1930s. On Sunday afternoons, pilgrims, starting from the main road, climbed to Beauvoir while reciting the rosary.

In 1933, at the request of the pilgrims, Father Pierre-Achille Bégin had a cross erected in front of the road leading to the Shrine. It is from this cross, still visible, that the pilgrimages to Beauvoir started. Along the way, wooden boards were set up on which were written the fifteen mysteries of the rosary. For Beauvoir, the erection of this cross gives all its meaning to the ascent of the rosary: it is the beginning of the ascent, it is the cross of the rosary that the lips kiss before murmuring the “Aves”, the first links of this long chain that leads the pilgrims to the very Love that awaits them at the Shrine.

In 1920, during a Holy Hour, he asked for a special favor from the Sacred Heart, with the promise of building a small chapel in Beauvoir if he was granted it. With the help of some local craftsmen, he had the promised little chapel built.

It is an architectural jewel that Abbé Laporte had built on the hill of Beauvoir.

But the Sacred Heart, never defeated in generosity, knows how to reward his servant by giving to vile materials a stamp of rustic elegance, to a humble and poor building, a beauty that escapes no one. And all those who come to pray in this rustic chapel find there a calm, a peace that penetrates deep into their souls and leaves them pacified. One can almost feel the loving presence of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, which bends down with tenderness over those who come to visit it.

The exterior of this chapel is reminiscent in many ways of some of the country chapels of France. The rustic walls, the rudimentary furnishings and the few decorations are not likely to satisfy the connoisseur of expensive works of art. It is poverty, destitution. The only decoration is a statue, a frame, two statuettes, a few ex-votos testifying to the goodness of the Sacred Heart, lanterns and old images of the Way of the Cross. But, near the tabernacle, how one can taste with love and peace the divine presence of the Eucharistic Heart of Jesus!

On October 24, 1920, Bishop Larocque came to bless the little chapel. The next day, Father Laporte celebrated the first mass on Mount Beauvoir.

In the spring of 1921, his health inexorably deteriorated. Even though he was ill, he was taken to Beauvoir four or five more times. Then he had to give up returning to Beauvoir. He was hospitalized at the Saint-Vincent-de-Paul Hospital at the beginning of August. And on August 20, Father Laporte was finally able to meet face to face with the one who was the great love of his life.

The body of Father Laporte now rests in the crypt of the church of Saint-Jean-Baptiste of which he was parish priest. However, on the west wall of the little chapel in Beauvoir, a commemorative plaque recalls the man who founded the Shrine and who continues to watch over its work from above.

Father Laporte had bequeathed the Beauvoir property to the diocese on the condition that he pay the remaining $3,500 debt. The diocese refused this bequest. Beauvoir thus reverted to the universal legatee, Miss Euphémie Charest, Father Laporte’s former housekeeper. She sold Beauvoir in 1923 to the executor of Father Laporte’s will, the notary Gédéon Bégin, for the price of the debt. This wealthy businessman used Beauvoir Hill as a summer vacation spot for his family.

From 1923 to 1929, Beauvoir fell into almost complete abandonment. Only a few lovers of the Sacred Heart would go up there privately to pray at the foot of the Sacred Heart statue. But at the end of July 1929, Father Pierre Achille Bégin, a retired priest and brother of the owner, accompanied by a few members of the family, came to visit Beauvoir. Although the buildings had been quite damaged by thieves and the weeds had invaded the area, the group was charmed by the landscape and decided to settle there for two weeks.

From then on, the Bégin family would come to spend a few weeks in Beauvoir during the summer vacations.

Without looking for signs, the good abbot knows how to recognize an invitation. First of all, together with his family members, he decided to restore the place and to revive the project of Father Laporte. Every year in June, he invites the people of the area for the triduum in preparation for the feast of the Sacred Heart. This is the highlight of the year.

Throughout the summer months, Father Bégin, surrounded by nephews and nieces, ensures for the pilgrims the mass every morning and the prayer at the Sacred Heart every evening as well as a Holy Hour every Thursday evening. Father Bégin, after Father Laporte, sought to spread devotion to the Sacred Heart. It is in the small stone chapel that he spends most of his time in prayer and in welcoming the small groups of pilgrims who continue to climb the mountain. “All my desire is that in Beauvoir the Sacred Heart be particularly honored, praised and prayed to, and that He spread His greatest graces there.”

Vacances19_190162 by Joan

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Ucero, Soria, Castilla y León, España.

Ucero es una villa y también un municipio de la provincia de Soria, partido judicial de Burgo de Osma, comunidad autónoma de Castilla y León, en España.

Dista 63,2 kilómetros de la capital y se encuentra a una altitud de 964 metros en la carretera que conduce de El Burgo de Osma a San Leonardo.

Junto con Herrera de Soria y Nafría de Ucero regenta un condominio conocido como Comunidad de Herrera de Soria, Nafría de Ucero y Ucero, con una extensión superficial de 384,84 hectáreas.

El señorío de Ucero perteneció en el siglo XIII a Juan García de Ucero, esposo de María de Meneses, y a la muerte de aquel, su esposa lo heredó y se lo entregó a la hija ilegítima que tuvo con el rey Sancho IV de Castilla, Violante Sánchez de Castilla.

Y en un documento emitido el 13 de noviembre de 1325 en Aviñón, el papa Juan XXII encomendó al arzobispo de Toledo, Juan de Aragón, que siguiera la causa o pleito que mantenían Violante Sánchez y el obispo de Osma, Juan Pérez de Ascarón, por la posesión del señorío de Ucero, que pertenecía legalmente a ella por la herencia de su madre y había sido ocupado y retenido ilegalmente por dicho obispo, según ella, desde que aquel lo compró el 23 de mayo de 1302 por 300.000 maravedís, y junto con otras propiedades, a los albaceas de Juan García de Villamayor, según consta en la escritura de venta publicada en el tomo II de las Memorias de Fernando IV de Castilla. Pero a pesar de lo anterior, Violante continuó considerándose propietaria del señorío y en 1327 lo donó, junto con el resto de sus posesiones, a la Orden de Santiago, a pesar de que el señorío de Ucero perteneció desde 1302 definitivamente a los obispos de Osma.

En el Censo de 1879, ordenado por el Conde de Floridablanca, figuraba como villa cabecera del Partido de Ucero en la Intendencia de Soria, con jurisdicción de abadengo y bajo la autoridad del Alcalde Mayor de Señorío, nombrado por el Obispo de Osma. Contaba entonces con 232 habitantes.

A la caída del Antiguo Régimen la localidad de constituye en municipio constitucional en la región de Castilla la Vieja que en el censo de 1842 contaba con 38 hogares y 150 vecinos.

Ucero is a town and also a municipality in the province of Soria, judicial district of Burgo de Osma, autonomous community of Castilla y León, in Spain.

It is 63.2 kilometers from the capital and is located at an altitude of 964 meters on the road that leads from El Burgo de Osma to San Leonardo.

Together with Herrera de Soria and Nafría de Ucero he runs a condominium known as Comunidad de Herrera de Soria, Nafría de Ucero and Ucero, with a surface area of 384.84 hectares.

The lordship of Ucero belonged in the thirteenth century to Juan García de Ucero, husband of María de Meneses, and upon his death, his wife inherited it and gave it to the illegitimate daughter he had with King Sancho IV of Castile, Violante Sánchez of Castilla.

And in a document issued on November 13, 1325 in Avignon, Pope John XXII entrusted the Archbishop of Toledo, Juan de Aragón, to follow the cause or lawsuit maintained by Violante Sánchez and the Bishop of Osma, Juan Pérez de Ascarón, for the possession of the lordship of Ucero, which legally belonged to her by inheritance from her mother and had been illegally occupied and retained by said bishop, according to her, since he bought it on May 23, 1302 for 300,000 maravedís, and together with other properties, to the executors of Juan García de Villamayor, as recorded in the deed of sale published in Volume II of the Memoirs of Fernando IV of Castile. But despite the above, Violante continued to consider herself the owner of the manor and in 1327 He donated it, along with the rest of his possessions, to the Order of Santiago, despite the fact that the dominion of Ucero belonged definitively from 1302 to the bishops of Osma.

In the 1879 Census, ordered by the Count of Floridablanca, it appeared as the head town of the Ucero Party in the Municipality of Soria, with jurisdiction of abadengo and under the authority of the Mayor of Señorío, appointed by the Bishop of Osma. It then had 232 inhabitants.

At the fall of the Old Regime, the town of constitutes a constitutional municipality in the region of Castilla la Vieja, which in the 1842 census had 38 homes and 150 neighbors.

Merripen - Fairweathers by Celena & Martin

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Brishen & Calandra, executors of the Merripen - Fairweather Tradition.

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Rio de Janeiro - Cristo Redentor 82 anos - The Statue of the Chist of Redeemer 82 yrs - Brasil by .**rickipanema**.

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♫ Minha alma canta, Vejo o Rio de Janeiro

Estou morrendo de saudades

Rio, seu mar, Praia sem fim

Rio, você foi feito prá mim

Cristo Redentor, Braços abertos sobre a Guanabara...

My soul sings, I see Rio de Janeiro
I’m dying of longing
Rio, your sea, Beach without end
Rio, you were made for me

Christ the Redeemer, Open arms over Guanabara... ♫

No 12 de outubro de 1931 era inaugurado o Cristo Redentor, talvez o simbolo mais conhecido da cidade do Rio de Janeiro e do Brasil no Mundo.

A construção de um monumento religioso no local foi sugerida pela primeira vez em 1859, pelo padre lazarista Pedro Maria Boss, à Princesa Isabel. No entanto, apenas retomou-se efetivamente a ideia em 1921, quando se iniciavam os preparativos para as comemorações do centenário da Independência.

A pedra fundamental do monumento foi lançada em 4 de abril de 1922, mas as obras somente foram iniciadas em 1926. Dentre as pessoas que colaboraram para a realização, podem ser citados o engenheiro Heitor da Silva Costa (autor do projeto escolhido em 1923), o artista plástico Carlos Oswald (autor do desenho final do monumento) e o escultor francês de origem polonesa Paul Landowski (executor das mãos e do rosto da escultura).

Ainda hoje, algumas pessoas dizem que o monumento foi um presente da França para o Brasil , quando, na verdade, a obra foi erigida a partir de doações de fiéis de arquidioceses e paróquias por todo o país. mas principalmente da Cidade do Rio de Janeiro, com o projeto de autoria e chefia do engenheiro Heitor da Silva Costa. Da França, vieram, apenas uma réplica de quatro metros feita de pequenos moldes, assim como modelos das mãos feitos pelo Landowski, conforme o desenho de Heitor e Carlos Oswald (Wikipedia)

Foto tirada do Amanhecer no Corcovado durante a JMJ Rio 2013, onde tive a oportunidade de estar com esses talentosos jovens peregrinos que faziam parte do wilenszczyzna zespol piesni i tanca, um coral folclórico de dança e canto do Leste Europeu; Para ve-los e ouvi-los basta clicar AQUI

* Todas as fotos da sequencia estão ABERTAS, pois já foram publicadas anteriormente

Foto: Cristo Redentor - Amanhecer no Corcovado - Jornada Mundial da Juventude 2013 - Rio de Janeiro - Brasil

Video: ♪ Samba do Avião ♪ - Tom Jobim

According to Law 9.610/98, it is prohibited the partial or total commercial reproduction without the previous written authorization of the author (article 29). ® All rights are reserved.

Weapon X by Maximus Blankes

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1989 MG Montego 2.0i.

Last taxed in August 2019.

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"Chassis number: SAXXEYLU7BM502088

Supplied new by Holland Bros of Boston. In the same family ownership from new until transferred to the estate executors. Comes with the original book pack. The service book contains some early stamps and a further stamp in 2019. Stored off the road from some time in the late 1990's or early 2000's until recommissioned last year. 41,568 recorded miles."

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The monument is certainly not disappointing and commonplace. (Read the description below) by John K Thorne

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HENRY BRASSEY MONUMENT, 1891

"The Lord Watch Between Me and Thee,

When We are Absent One from Another"

TO THE GLORY OF GOD

AND IN LOVING MEMORY OF

HENRY ARTHUR BRASSEY

OF PRESTON HALL

1840 – 1891

AND OF HIS WIFE ANNA HARRIET

1844 – 1898

Henry Brassey, died 1891. "The Good Squire of Aylesford." Lived at Preston Hall, the 2nd son of Thomas Brassey, a leading Railway Contractor. Educated at Harrow and University College, Oxford. J.P. for Kent. Liberal Unionist M. P. for Sandwich 1868 – 1885. High Sheriff of Kent 1890 – 91. Captain of West Kent (Queen's Own) Yeomanry Cavalry.

Prize winning Cattle Breeder. He died of pneumonia, following the influenza epidemic of 1891. His Pall Bearers were some of his oldest workmen; Guard of Honour from the R. W. K. Y. C. Very large number of mourners attended funeral, a special train was laid on from Charing Cross.

The monument is rather disappointing and commonplace, it is a pity that the Brassys' taste did not match their wealth!

The Times published his will:

"MR. H. A. BRASSEY'S WILL. Probate duty has been paid on £1,042,611 0s 8d as the net value (thegross being £1, 075,913 15s 7d) of the personal estate of Mr HENRY ARTHUR BRASSEY, of Preston Hall, Ashford (sic), Kent, and Bath-house, Piccadilly, who died on the 13th of May last, aged 51 years, and of whose will, dated the 10th of August, 1883, with a codicil made the 20th of July 1887, the executors are his brothers, Thomas first Lord Brassey, of Bulkely, Chester, Mr Albert Brassey, of Heythrop, Oxford, and Mr Robert Mitchell Campbell, of Glaisnock, Old Cumnock. The testator bequeaths to his wife during her widow-hood an annuity (including the income provided for by her marriage settlement) of £8,000 and the use and enjoyment of the testator's town house and its furniture and of plate to the value of £1,000. In the event of Mrs Brassey's remarriage her annuity is to be reduced to £2,000 for the remainder of her life.

Mr. Brassey leaves in trust for each of his daughters £50,000. He bequeaths to the Bishop's of London's Fund and the Fever Hospital, Liverpool road, Islington, £1,000 each; to the Great Ormand Street Hospital for Sick Children, St. George's Hospital, the Royal Hospital for Incurables, the British Lying-in Hospital, Endell street, the Lock Hospital, the Royal National Hospital for Consumption, Ventnor, the Hospital for Consumption, Brompton, and the Infant Orphan Asylum at Wanstead, £500 each.

To the West Kent General Hospital the testator bequeaths £1,000 and to the Kent County Ophthalmic Hospital, the Royal Albert Orphan Asylum, Bagshot, the Academy for the Blind, the Central London Hospital for Diseases of the Throat and Ear. The Metropolitan Convalescent Institution , Walton on Thames, and the Orphan Working School, Haverstock hill, £500 each.

Mr Brassey bequeaths also £500 to the National Refuges for Homeless and Destitute Children, Great Queen Street to be primarily applied in aid of maintaining the boys in and upon and in keeping up the training ships Chichester and Arethusa. He devises the Preston hall estate to the use of his first son in priority, and all the contents of the hall to the use of the tenant for life of that estate."

2019-08-14 17H40 IASI: Biserica Barnovschi by Daniel ENGELVIN

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The Church of the Assumption of the Virgin Mary, Barnovschi is a Christian-Orthodox church in Iasi, whose construction began in 1627 at the request of the ruler of Moldova, Miron Barnovschi-Movila (1626-1629, April-July 1633).

In July 1629, Prince Miron Barnovschi-Movila had to leave the country, fleeing to Poland, so that construction work on the monastery of Iasi was slowed down or even stopped. He was summoned to Istanbul on April 27, 1633 on the pretext that he would receive the reign of Moldova, but was arrested there in June 1633, sent to prison and beheaded on July 2, 1633.

In his will of June 22, 1633, drawn up in Constantinople, the former sovereign of Moldova ordered his executors (the factor Iancu Costin, father of the chronicler Miron Costin, and the great logician Matei Gavrilaș) to sell his properties in Poland for , with the money obtained, complete the construction of the Church of the Assumption of Iași, of the church "Sf. Ioan Botezătorul” of Iași and of the churches of Toporăuți and Liov.

The Barnovschi Monastery, administered by Greek monks until the secularization of the monastery property (1863) during the reign of Alexander Ioan Cuza, became the official residence of the patriarchs of the Orthodox East who crossed Moldova. By the law of secularization of goods of December 1863, the monastery of Barnovschi was abolished, it lost its properties and the Greek monks left it. It became a parish church, having as branch the church of Saint-Lazare.

Over time, the buildings of its premises deteriorated, the annex buildings being demolished by the systemization plan of the Civic Center Iași of 1983. The church, the bell tower and a cellar which were attached to it escaped the bulldozers of the Communist regime.

Between 1994 and 2004, the Barnovschi church was strengthened and restored inside and outside, with funds allocated by the Ministry of Culture and Religious Affairs, but also with the help of UNESCO.

Executor dorsal greebles finished by Fabrice Neaud

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St John the Baptist, Barham, Kent by Jelltex

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The news was that Jools' cough was little better. She got a mail back from the surgery on Friday saying her (non-urgent) appointment with the doctor was on December 14th. But as we were going to Tesco, she would have a chat with the pharmasist and see about some of the behind the counter stuff.

Winter has arrived, though no snow as yet, but the wind is set in the east, its cloudy and feels raw outside.

I would spend part of the day churchcrawling.

After shopping.

We go to Tesco, Jools really only coming so she could get something for her cough.

With a few bottles of tripel and cider we managed to spend £140. A bag of rice, not white easy cook rice I'll admit, but that's £4.50 now.

Wow.

Back home with the shopping and a bottle of serious cough syrup, we put the shopping away and have breakfast.

No surprise then that Jools wasn't coming out with me, she wanted to get the cough under control, would only take the new syrup when needed as it can make you drowsy.

I had a list of churches, and first up was our local one, St Margaret.

They were having a craft day. I thought it might be a fayre, but was a kid's craft day. Anyway, the church would be open and I could take shots of the memorials and windows.

There were pagan heads at the top of each column, and as corbel stones. The more I looked, the more pagan heads, even at the top of two of the columns, but not all.

No real ancient glass, but good quality Victorian.

The church itself is the triumph, being an early Norman and well preserved.

Although, sadly, the tower is in poor repair and needs reroofing, which is why it is currently encased in scaffolding.

I am sure when we called in at Barham last week, a sign said there was a craft fayre on, so would be open. I would go back, and get some shots, I thought.

Its a half hour drive, if that out of Dover down the A2 and off at the Wingham turning, down the valley and parking outside the church, its spire pointing to heaven.

Inside the church there was no fayre again, just a warden showing a lady round. We all said "hello", and I went about getting shots.

I have been here at least three times, but now take the big lens to get details of the windows and memorials high up, so there are always new details to reveal.

Star item is the window of St George and the dragon, though is hidden in the north-west corner, and best viewed from the stairs to the belltower.

After 20 minutes, the visitor left and the warden turned off the lights, forgetting I was there, but I had my shots.

From Barham its a short drive to Bridge, then along the Nailbourne to Patrixbourne, where I see the door was open, but I had another target: Bekesbourne, the next village along, crossing the dry bed of the bourne, stopping on the lane outside the church. I look left to the Old Palace, but there were no cars parked there, so no point of even knocking, I drove on.

Instead of turning left back to Bridge, I turn right towards Littlebourne, no real idea where I was going.

Littlebourne could wait for another time, I only went back there in 2020, I went to Wingham, driving on towards Sandwich.

I thought, it's a long time since I was at Woodnesborough, I could cut through Ash and go there.

Which is what I did.

I could have stopped at Ash too, that's usually open, but there'll be other times. I have been there twice and got good shots last time for sure.

From Ash, the road climbs, leading to Woodnesborough, Woden's Hill, where there was a hill fort in antiquity. The church is on the highest point, overlooking the marshes of the old Wantsum Channel, and on to Sandwich which when the Channel was still flooded, was on a spit of land.

The church is a marker for miles around due to its cupola, something is shares with Ringwould near to home.

Inside it was so dark, I thought I would need to find the lights, but I could not find them. So, I hoped the camera would cope without.

It did.

But again, I was here really to record the windows, which were rich in detail. I took 215 shots here, 560 in a morning at three churches.

Not bad.

But I was done, what light there was, was fading, even though it was only just after one. I would go home.

Once home I got busy.

I have a taste for beans. Not baked beans, but Boston Beans. I had a recipe, and we got the ingredients that morning, so went about making a huge panful. Three tins of haricot beans, tomatoes, stock, spices, bacon, pork belly, mustard, and black treacle.

Cooked on the hob for an hour, then cooked long and low in the oven for four hours.

What came out looked and tasted like fine Boston Beans. We will be eating these for weeks.

At the same time I make fritters.

The plan was to be all cooked and eaten before the football began at three.

I did it with half an hour to spare, the leftover wine drunk too, meaning I would struggle to stay awake for Holland v USA game. Netherlands win pretty comfortably.

And in the evening, with a soundtrack of funk and soul thanks to Craig, I watch Argentine v Australia, which was a stunning game.

Even better, I sat on the sofa to watch, Cleo eyed me as if to say how dare you take my chosen sleeping place. But she came over, paced around, then lay between the arm of the sofa and my leg. Scully lay on the other side. I had 50% of the household cats.

Happier than I have been for ages.

Best of all was that the syrup worked, stopped the coughing, and Jools fell asleep right off.

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A morning out, revisiting some familiar fairly local churches.

Final visit was to Woodnesborough, aka Woden's Hill, near to Sandwich.

It was open, but no light switch that could be found meant that the church was dark, but the camera coped well.

Woodnesborough sits on the highest point near to the coast, its cupola marking the spot, and visible for miles in all directions.

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The tower makes this church one of the easiest in Kent to identify. It is capped by a little cupola and wooden balustrade of eighteenth-century date that replaced a medieval spire. During the Middle Ages the church was owned by Leeds Priory which invested heavily in the structure, and was no doubt responsible for the excellent sedilia built in about 1350. The canopy is supported by a quadripartite vault in turn supported by angry little heads. Above the sedilia is the cut-off end of a prickett beam. The east window, of Decorated style stonework, has a thirteenth-century hangover in the form of a shafted rere-arch. There are two excellent modern stained glass windows designed by F.W Cole, which show the Creation (1980) and St Francis (1992). The good altar rails are of Queen Anne's reign, as are the splendid Royal Arms.

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WOODNESBOROUGH,

¶OR Winsborough, as it is usually called, lies the next parish northward from Eastry, being written in the survey of Domesday, Wanesberge. It took its name according to Verstegan, from the Saxon idol Woden, (and it is spelt by some Wodensborough) whose place of worship was in it; however that may be, the termination of the word berge, or borough, shews it to be of high antiquity.

art of this parish, over which the manor of Boxley claims, is within the jurisdiction of the justices of the town and port of Sandwich, and liberty of the cinque ports; and the residue is in the hundred of Eastry, and jurisdiction of the county of Kent.

There are three boroughs in this parish, viz. Cold Friday, Hamwold, and Marshborough; the borsholders of which are chosen at the petty sessions of the justices, acting at Wingham, for the east division of the lath of St. Augustine.

THIS PARISH is large, being two miles and an half one way, and upwards of a mile and an half the other. The church stands nearly in the centre of it, on high ground. At a small distance from the church is Woodnesborough hill, both of which are sea marks. This hill is a very high mount, seemingly thrown up by art, and consisting of a sandy earth, it has been thought by some to have been the place on which the idol Woden from whom this place is supposed to have taken its name) was worshipped in the time of the Saxons; by others to be the burial place of Vortimer, the Saxon king, who died in 457, whilst others suppose this mount was raised over those who fell in the battle fought between Ceoldred, king of Mercia, and Ina, king of the West Saxons, in the year 715, at Woodnesbeorb, according to the Saxon chronicle, which name Dr. Plot supposes to be Woodnesborough. Vortimer, as our historians tell us, at his death, desired to be buried near the place where the Saxons used to land, being persuaded that his bones would deter them from any attempt in future. Though authors differ much on the place of his burial, yet this mount at Woodnesborough is as probable, or more so, perhaps, than any other, for it was near to, and was cast up so high as to be plainly seen from the Portus Rutupinus, which at that time was the general landing place of the Saxon fleets. Some years ago there were found upon the top of it sundry sepulchral remains, viz. a glass vessel (engraved by the Rev. Mr. Douglas, in his Nænia;) a fibula, (engraved by Mr. Eoys, in his collections for Sandwich;) the head of a spear, and some fragments of Roman vessels. Much of the earth of sand has been lately removed round the sides of it, but nothing further has been found.

At a small distance northward from hence, at the bottom of a short steep hill, lies the village called Woodnesborough-street, and sometimes Cold Fridaystreet, containing thirty four houses. The vicaragehouse is situated in the middle of it, being a new handsome building; almost contiguous to it is a handsome sashed house, belonging to the Jull family, now made use of as a poor-house; through this street the road leads to Sandwich. West ward of the street stands the parsonage-house, late the seat of Oliver Stephens, esq. deceased, and now of his window, as will be further noticed hereafter. Besides the manors and estates in this parish, particularly described, in the western parts of it there are several hamlets, as Somerfield, Barnsole, Coombe, with New-street, Great and Little Flemings, Ringlemere, and the farm of Christians Court.

In the north east part of the parish, the road from Eastry, by the parsonage of Woodnesborough northwestward, divides; one road, which in antient deeds is called Lovekys-street, going towards Ash-street; the other through the hamlet of Marshborough, formerly called Marshborough, alias Stipins, to Each End and Sandwich, the two windmills close to the entrance of which are with in the bounds of this parish. Each, Upper Each, called antiently Upriche, and Each End, antiently called Netheriche, were both formerly accounted manors, and are mentioned as such in the marriage settlement of Henry Whyte, esq. in the beginning of queen Elizabeth's reign. After the Whytes, these manors passed in like manner as Grove, in this parish, to the James's. Upper Each, or Upriche, has for many years belonged to the family of Abbot, of Ramsgate, and is now the property of John Abbot, esq. of Canterbury. Each End, or Netheriche, belongs, one moiety to the heirs or devisees of the late earl of Strafford, and the other moiety to John Matson, esq. of Sandwich.

¶It cannot but occur to the reader how much this parish abounds with Saxon names, besides the name of Wodens borough, the street of Cold Friday, mentioned before, is certainly derived from the Saxon words, Cola, and Friga, which latter was the name of a goddess, worshipped by the Saxons, and her day Frige-deag, from whence our day of Friday is derived; other places in this parish, mentioned before likewise, claim, surely, their original from the same language.

This parish contains about 3000 acres, the whole rents of it being about 3373l. yearly value. It is very bare of coppice wood; the Old Wood, so called, in Ringleton, being the only one in it. The soil of this parish is very rich and fertile, equal to those the most so in this neighbourhood, particularly as to the plantations of hops, which have much increased within these few years past. The middle of the parish is high ground, and is in general a flat open country of arable common fields. West and south-westward the lands are more inclosed with hedges. North and north-westward of the parsonage, towards Sandwich, they are low and wet, consisting of a large level of marsh land, the nearness of which makes the other parts of this parish rather unhealthy, which is not otherwise very pleasant in any part of it. There was a fair held here yearly, on Holy Thursday, but it has been for some time disused.

In Ringleton field, in this parish, there was found about the year 1514, a fine gold coin, weighing about twelve shillings, with a loop of the same metal to hang it by; on one side was the figure of a young man in armour, a helmet on his head, and a spear over his right shoulder; on the reverse, the figure of Victory, with a sword in her hand, the point downwards.

The church, which is dedicated to St. Mary, consists of a nave, and two isles, having a square tower steeple at the west end, with a modern wooden turret and vane at the top of it, in which are five bells, made in 1676. It had a high spire on the tower, which was taken down some years ago. At the east end of the chancel is a marble tablet for John Cason, esq. of this place, justice of the peace, obt. 1718; John Cason, esq. his son, obt. 1755; arms,Argent, a chevron, sable, between three wolves heads, erased, gules, on an escutcheon of pretence, sable, a chevron, between three fleurs de lis, of the field; another for Thomas Blechenden, of the antient family of that name, of Aldington, in Kent, obt. 1661; arms, Azure, a fess nebulee, argent, between three lions heads erased, or, attired, gules, impalingBoys. On the south side, an antient altar monument with gothic pillars and arches, having had shields and arms, now obliterated. Against the wall, under the canopy, two brass plates, which have been removed to this place, from two grave-stones in the chancel; the first for Sir John Parcar, late vicar of this church, who died the v.day of May, a°o dni m° v° xiij° on the second are Latin verses to the memory of Nichs Spencer, esq. obt. 1593. In the middle of the chancel, a gravestone for William Docksey, esq. of Snellston, in Derbyshire, a justice of the peace, obt. 1760; Sarah his wife, youngest daughter of John Cason, esq. obt. 1774; arms,Or, a lion rampant, azure, surmounted of a bend, argent. On a gravestone on the north side of the chancel, on a brass plate, On a chevron, three quatersoils, between three annulets, quartering other coats, now obliterated, for Master Myghell Heyre, sumtyme vicar of this churche, who dyed the xxii day of July, m° v° xxviii. In the north isle are several memorials for the family of Gillow, arms, A lion rampant, in chief, three fleurs de lis. At the entrance into the chancel, on a grave-stone, on a brass plate, John Hill, gent. of the parish of Nassall, in Staffordshire, obt. 1605. A mural monument for William Gibbs, of this parish, obt. 1777; arms,Argent, three battle axes, in fess, sable. In the church-yard are altar tombs to the memory of the Julls, and for Sladden; one for John Verall, gent. sometime mayor of Sandwich, obt. 1610; and another for John Benchkin, of Pouton, obt. 1639.

There were formerly painted in the windows of this church,Or, a chief indented, azure, for John de Sandwich. Several coats of arms, among which were those of Valence and St. Leger,Argent, three leaves in sinster bend, their points downward, proper.— On a canton, azure, three crescents, or, for Grove.— Argent, three escallops in chief, or, in base a crescent, gules, for Helpestone, usually called Hilpurton, bailiff of Sandwich, in 1299. A shield, being Helpeston's badge, another On a fess engrailed, three cinquefoils, between three garbs, for John Hill, of Nasall, in Staffordshire, who lies buried in this church. —A fess engrailed, three lions rampant, in chief, on the fess, a crescent for difference, for Spencer, customer, of Sandwich. — Quarterly, four coats; first, On a chevron, three quaterfoils; second, Per pale, ermine and argent; third, A cross, between four pomegranates, slipped; sourth,Three bars, wavy, for Michael Heyre, vicar here in 1520.

The church of Woodnesborough was given, in the reign of king Henry I. by a religious woman, one Ascelina de Wodensberg, to the priory of Ledes, soon after the foundation of it; to which deed was witness Robert de Crevequer, founder of the priory, Elias his son, and others; which gift was confirmed by the said Robert, who by his charter, released to the priory all his right and title to it. It was likewise confirmed by archbishop Theobald, and several of his successors, and by king Henry III. by his charter of inspeximus in his 41st year.

Archbishop William Corboil, who came to the see of Canterbury, three years after the foundation of Ledes priory, at the instance and petition of Ascelina above mentioned, who resigned this church into his hands for this purpose, appropriated it to the prior and convent, for the finding of necessary cloaths, for the canons there; and a vicarage was accordingly endowed in it.

There was a controversy between the prior and convent, and Adam, vicar of this church, in 1627, anno 14 Henry II. concerning the great tithes arising from the crofts and curtilages within this parish, which was referred to the prior of Rochester, who was the pope's delegate for this purpose, who determined that the prior and convent of Ledes, as rectors of this church, should receive, without any exception, all the great tithes of wheat, barley, oats, beans, peas, and of every fort of corn arising, or to arise from all lands, crofts, curtilages, or other places whatever, situated within the bounds, of this parish; and that the prior and convent should yearly pay to the said vicar, and his successors, half a seam of barley, and half a seam of beans, at the nativity of our Lord. (fn. 10)

¶After which, this parsonage appropriate,(which appears to have been esteemed as a manor) together with the advowson of the vicarage, remained with the prior and convent of Ledes, till its dissolution in the 31st year of king Henry VIII. when it was, with all its lands and possessions, surrendered into the king's hands, who by his dotation charter, in his 33d year, settled both parsonage and advowson on his new-founded dean and chapter of Rochester, with whom they remain at this time. On the dissolution of deans and chapters, after the death of king Charles I. this parsonage was surveyed in 1649, when is appeared that the manor or parsonage of Woodnesborough, with the scite thereof, and all manner of tithes belonging to it, with a garden and orchard of one acre, was valued all together at 300l. that the lessee was to repair the premises, and the chancel of the church; that the vicarage was worth fifty pounds per annum. The then incumbent was under sequestration, and there was none to serve the cure; and that the church was then quite ruinated, and in great decay. (fn. 11)

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A long and light church, best viewed from the south. Like nearby Ickham it is cruciform in plan, with a west rather than central, tower. Sometimes this is the result of a later tower being added, but here it is an early feature indeed, at least the same age (if not earlier) than the body of the church. Lord Kitchener lived in the parish, so his name appears on the War Memorial. At the west end of the south aisle, tucked out of the way, is the memorial to Sir Basil Dixwell (d 1750). There are two twentieth century windows by Martin Travers. The 1925 east window shows Our Lady and Child beneath the typical Travers Baroque Canopy. Under the tower, affixed to the wall, are some Flemish tiles, purchased under the will of John Digge who died in 1375. His memorial brass survives in the Vestry.

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Many churches in Kent are well known for their yew trees but St. John the Baptist at Barham is noteworthy for its magnificent beech trees.

The Church guide suggests that there has been a Church here since the 9th Century but the present structure was probably started in the 12th Century although Syms, in his book about Kent Country Churches, states that there is a hint of possible Norman construction at the base of the present tower. The bulk of the Church covers the Early English, Decorated and Perpendicular periods of building. Many of the huge roof beams, ties and posts are original 14th Century as are the three arches leading into the aisle..

In the Northwest corner is a small 13th Century window containing modern glass depicting St. George slaying the dragon and dedicated to the 23rd Signal Company. The Church also contains a White Ensign which was presented to it by Viscount Broome, a local resident. The Ensign was from 'H.M.S. Raglan' which was also commanded by Viscount Broome. The ship was sunk in January, 1918 by the German light cruiser 'Breslau'.

The walls contain various mural tablets. Hanging high on the west wall is a helmet said to have belonged to Sir Basil Dixwell of Broome Park. The helmet probably never saw action but was carried at his funeral.

The floor in the north transept is uneven because some years ago three brasses were found there. According to popular medieval custom engraved metal cut-outs were sunk into indented stone slabs and secured with rivets and pitch. In order to save them from further damage the brasses were lifted and placed on the walls. The oldest dates from about 1370 is of a civilian but very mutilated. The other two are in good condition and dated about 1460. One is of a woman wearing the dress of a widow which was similar to a nun. The other is of a bare headed man in plate armour. These are believed to be of John Digges and his wife Joan.

At the west end of the church is a list of Rectors and Priests-in-Charge - the first being Otho Caputh in 1280. Notice should be made of Richard Hooker (1594), the author of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity. The tiles incorporated into the wall were originally in place in the Chancel about 1375. They were left by John Digges whose Will instructed that he was to be buried in the Chancel and "my executors are to buy Flanders tiles to pave the said Chancel".

The 14th century font is large enough to submerse a baby - as would have been the custom of the time. The bowl is octagonal representing the first day of the new week, the day of Christ's resurrection. The cover is Jacobean.

The Millennium Window in the South Transept was designed and constructed by Alexandra Le Rossignol and was dedicated in July 2001. The cost of the project (approximately £6,500) was raised locally with the first donation being made by the then Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr George Carey.

The porch contains two wooden plaques listing the names of men from the village who were killed in the Great Wars - among them being Field Marshall Lord Kitchener of Broome Park.

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ANTIENTLY written Bereham, lies the next parish eastward. There are five boroughs in it, viz. of Buxton, Outelmeston, Derrington, Breach, and Shelving. The manor of Bishopsborne claims over almost the whole of this parish, at the court of which the four latter borsholders are chosen, and the manors of Reculver and Adisham over a small part of it.

BARHAM is situated at the confines of that beautiful country heretofore described, the same Nailbourne valley running through it, near which, in like manner the land is very fertile, but all the rest of it is a chalky barren soil. On the rise of the hill northward from it, is the village called Barham-street, with the church, and just beyond the summit of it, on the further side Barham court, having its front towards the downs, over part of which this parish extends, and gives name to them. At the foot of the same hill, further eastward, is the mansion of Brome, with its adjoining plantatious, a conspicuous object from the downs, to which by inclosing a part of them, the grounds extend as far as the Dover road, close to Denne-hill, and a costly entrance has been erected into them there. By the corner of Brome house the road leads to the left through Denton-street, close up to which this parish extends, towards Folkestone; and to the right, towards Eleham and Hythe. One this road, within the bounds of this parish, in a chalky and stony country, of poor barren land, there is a large waste of pasture, called Breach down, on which there are a number of tumuli, or barrows. By the road side there have been found several skeletons, one of which had round its neck a string of beads, of various forms and sizes, from a pidgeon's egg to a pea, and by it a sword, dagger, and spear; the others lay in good order, without any particular thing to distinguish them. (fn. 1)

In the Nailbourne valley, near the stream, are the two hamlets of Derrington and South Barham; from thence the hills, on the opposite side of it to those already mentioned, rise southward pretty high, the tops of them being covered with woods, one of them being that large one called Covert wood, a manor belonging to the archbishop, and partly in this parish, being the beginning of a poor hilly country, covered with stones, and enveloped with frequent woods.

BARHAM, which, as appears by the survey of Domesday, formerly lay in a hundred of its own name, was given anno 809, by the estimation of seven ploughlands, by Cenulph, king of Kent, to archbishop Wlfred, free from all secular demands, except the trinoda necessitas, but this was for the use of his church; for the archbishop, anno 824, gave the monks lands in Egelhorne and Langeduna, in exchange for it. After which it came into the possession of archbishop Stigand, but, as appears by Domesday, not in right of his archbishopric, at the taking of which survey, it was become part of the possessions of Odo, bishop of Baieux, under the title of whose lands it is thus entered in it:

In Berham hundred, Fulbert holds of the bishop Berham. It was taxed at six sulings. The arable land is thirty two carucates. In demesne there are three carucates, and fifty two villeins, with twenty cottagers having eighteen carucates. There is a church, and one mill of twenty shillings and four pence. There are twentlyfive fisheries of thirty-five shillings all four pence. Of average, that is service, sixty shilling. Of herbage twenty six shillings, and twenty acres of meadow Of pannage sufficient for one hundred and fifty hogs. Of this manor the bishop gave one berewic to Herbert, the son of Ivo, which is called Hugham, and there be has one carucate in demesne, and twelve villeins, with nine carucates, and twenty acres of meadow. Of the same manor the bisoop gave to Osberne Paisforere one suling and two mills of fifty sbillings, and there is in demesne one carucate, and four villeins with one carucate. The whole of Barbam, in the time of king Edward the Confessor, was worth forty pounds, when be received it the like, and yet it yielded to him one hundred pounds, now Berhem of itself is worth forty pounds, and Hucham ten pounds, and this which Osberne bas six pounds, and the land of one Ralph, a knight, is worth forty shillings. This manor Stigand, the archbishop held, but it was not of the archbishopric, but was of the demesne ferm of king Edward.

On the bishop's disgrace four years afterwards, and his estates being confiscated to the crown, the seignory of this parish most probably returned to the see of Canterbury, with which it has ever since continued. The estate mentioned above in Domesday to have been held of the bishop by Fulbert, comprehended, in all likelihood, the several manors and other estates in this parish, now held of the manor of Bishopsborne, one of these was THE MANOR AND SEAT OF BARHAM-COURT, situated near the church, which probably was originally the court-lodge of the manor of Barham in very early times, before it became united to that of Bishopsborne, and in king Henry II.'s time was held of the archbishop by knight's service, by Sir Randal Fitzurse, who was one of the four knights belonging to the king's houshould, who murdered archbishop Becket anno 1170; after perpetrating which, Sir Randal fled into Ireland, and changed his name to Mac-Mahon, and one of his relations took possession of this estate, and assumed the name of Berham from it; and accordingly, his descendant Warin de Berham is recorded in the return made by the sheriff anno 12 and 13 king John, among others of the archbishop's tenants by knight's service, as holding lands in Berham of him, in whose posterity it continued till Thomas Barham, esq. in the very beginning of king James I.'s reign, alienated it to the Rev. Charles Fotherbye, dean of Canterbury, who died possessed of it in 1619. He was eldest son of Martin Fotherby, of Great Grimsby, in Lincolnshire, and eldest brother of Martin Fotherby, bishop of Salisbury. He had a grant of arms, Gules, a cross of lozenges flory, or, assigned to him and Martin his brother, by Camden, clarencieux, in 1605. (fn. 2) His only surviving son Sir John Fotherbye, of Barham-court, died in 1666, and was buried in that cathedral with his father. At length his grandson Charles, who died in 1720, leaving two daughters his coheirs; Mary, the eldest, inherited this manor by her father's will, and afterwards married Henry Mompesson, esq. of Wiltshire, (fn. 3) who resided at Barhamcourt, and died in 1732, s. p. and she again carried this manor in marriage to Sir Edward Dering, bart. of Surrenden, whose second wife she was. (fn. 4) He lest her surviving, and three children by her, Charles Dering, who married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Thomas Farnaby, bart. since deceased, by whom he has an only surviving daughter, married to George Dering, esq. of Rolling, the youngest son of the late Sir Edw. Dering, bart. and her first cousin; Mary married Sir Robert Hilyard, bart. and Thomas Dering, esq. of London. Lady Dering died in 1775, and was succeeded by her eldest son Charles Dering, esq. afterwards of Barhamcourt, the present owner of it. It is at present occupied by Gen. Sir Charles Grey, bart. K. B. commanderin chief of the southern district of this kingdom.

THE MANORS OF BROME and OUTELMESTONE, alias DIGGS COURT, are situated in this parish; the latter in the valley, at the western boundary of it, was the first residence in this county of the eminent family of Digg, or, as they were asterwards called, Diggs, whence it gained its name of Diggs-court. John, son of Roger de Mildenhall, otherwise called Digg, the first-mentioned in the pedigrees of this family, lived in king Henry III.'s reign, at which time he, or one of this family of the same name, was possessed of the aldermanry of Newingate, in Canterbury, as part of their inheritance. His descendants continued to reside at Diggs-court, and bore for their arms, Gules, on a cross argent, five eagles with two heads displayed, sable, One of whom, James Diggs, of Diggs-court, died in 1535. At his death he gave the manor and seat of Outelmeston, alias Diggs-court, to his eldest son (by his first wife) John, and the manor of Brome to his youngest son, (by his second wife) Leonard, whose descendants were of Chilham castle. (fn. 5) John Diggs, esq. was of Diggs-court, whose descendant Thomas Posthumus Diggs, esq. about the middle of queen Elizabeth's reign, alienated this manor, with Diggs-place, to Capt. Halsey, of London, and he sold it to Sir Tho. Somes, alderman of London, who again parted with it to Sir B. Dixwell, bart. and he passed it away to Sir Thomas Williams, bart. whose heir Sir John Williams, bart. conveyed it, about the year 1706, to Daniel and Nathaniel Matson, and on the death of the former, the latter became wholly possessed of it, and his descendant Henry Matson, about the year 1730, gave it by will to the trustees for the repair of Dover harbour, in whom it continues at this time vested for that purpose.

BUT THE MANOR OF BROME, which came to Leonard Diggs, esq. by his father's will as above-mentioned, was sold by him to Basil Dixwell, esq. second son of Cha. Dixwell, esq. of Coton, in Warwickshire, then of Tevlingham, in Folkestone, who having built a handsome mansion for his residence on this manor, removed to it in 1622. In the second year of king Charles I. he served the office of sheriff with much honour and hospitality; after which he was knighted, and cveated a baronet. He died unmarried in 1641, having devised this manor and seat, with the rest of his estates, to his nephew Mark Dixwell, son of his elder brother William, of Coton above-mentioned, who afterwards resided at Brome, whose son Basil Dixwell, esq. of Brome, was anno 12 Charles II. created a baronet. He bore for his arms, Argent, a chevron, gules, between three sleurs de lis, sable. His only son Sir Basil Dixwell, bart. of Brome, died at Brome,s. p. in 1750, and devised this, among the rest of his estates, to his kinsman George Oxenden, esq. second son of Sir Geo. Oxenden, bart. of Dean, in Wingham, with an injunction for him to take the name and arms of Dixwell, for which an act passed anno 25 George II. but he died soon afterwards, unmarried, having devised this manor and seat to his father Sir George Oxenden, who settled it on his eldest and only surviving son, now Sir Henry Oxenden, bart. who is the present owner of it. He resides at Brome, which he has, as well as the grounds about it, much altered and improved for these many years successively.

SHELVING is a manor, situated in the borough of its own name, at the eastern boundary of this parish, which was so called from a family who were in antient times the possessors of it. John de Shelving resided here in king Edward I.'s reign, and married Helen, daughter and heir of John de Bourne, by whom he had Waretius de Shelving, whose son, J. de Shelving, of Shelvingborne, married Benedicta de Hougham, and died possessed of this manor anno 4 Edward III. After which it descended to their daughter Benedicta, who carried it in marriage to Sir Edmund de Haut, of Petham, in whose descendants, in like manner as Shelvington, alias Hautsborne, above-described, it continued down to Sir William Haut, of Hautsborne, in king Henry VIII's reign, whose eldest daughter and coheir Elizabeth carried it in marriage to Tho. Colepeper, esq. of Bedgbury, who in the beginning of king Edward VI.'s reign passed it away to Walter Mantle, whose window carried it by a second marriage to Christopher Carlell, gent. who bore for his arms, Or, a cross flory, gules; one of whose descendants sold it to Stephen Hobday, in whose name it continued till Hester, daughter of Hills Hobday, carried it in marriage to J. Lade, esq. of Boughton, and he having obtained an act for the purpose, alienated it to E. Bridges, esq. of Wootton-court, who passed away part of it to Sir George Oxenden, bart. whose son Sir Henry Oxenden, bart. of Brome, now owns it; but Mr. Bridges died possessed of the remaining part in 1780, and his eldest son the Rev. Edward Timewell Brydges, is the present possessor of it.

MAY DEACON, as it has been for many years past both called and written, is a seat in the southern part of this parish, adjoining to Denton-street, in which parish part of it is situated. Its original and true name was Madekin, being so called from a family who were owners of it, and continued so, as appears by the deeds of it, till king Henry VI's reign, in the beginning of which it passed from that name to Sydnor, in which it continued till king Henry VIII.'s reign, when Paul Sydnor, who upon his obtaining from the king a grant of Brenchley manor, removed thither, and alienated this seat to James Brooker, who resided here, and his sole daughter and heir carried it in marriage, in queen Elizabeth's reign, to Sir Henry Oxenden, of Dene, in Wingham, whose grandson Sir Henry Oxenden, bart. sold it in 1664, to Edward Adye, esq. the second son of John Adye, esq. of Doddington, one of whose daughters and coheirs, Rosamond, entitled her husband George Elcock, esq. afterwards of Madekin, to it, and his daughter and heir Elizabeth carried it in marriage to Capt. Charles Fotherby, whose eldest daughter and coheir Mary, entitled her two successive husbands, Henry Mompesson, esq. and Sir Edward Dering, bart. to the possession of it, and Charles Dering, esq. of Barham-court, eldest son of the latter, by her, is at this time the owner of it. The seat is now inhabited by Henry Oxenden, esq.

There are no parochial charities. The poor constantly maintained are about forty, casually fifteen.

THIS PARISH is within the ECCLESIASTICAL JURISDICTION of the diocese of Canterbury, and deanryof Bridge.

The church, which is dedicated to St. John Baptist, is a handsome building, consisting of a body and side isle, a cross or sept, and a high chancel, having a slim tall spire at the west end, in which are four bells. In the chancel are memorials for George Elcock, esq. of Madeacon, obt. 1703, and for his wife and children; for Charles Bean, A. M. rector, obt. 1731. A monument for William Barne, gent. son of the Rev. Miles Barne. His grandfather was Sir William Barne, of Woolwich, obt. 1706; arms, Azure, three leopards faces, argent. Several memorials for the Nethersoles, of this parish. In the south sept is a magnificent pyramid of marble for the family of Dixwell, who lie buried in a vault underneath, and inscriptions for them. In the north sept is a monument for the Fotherbys. On the pavement, on a gravestone, are the figures of an armed knight (his feet on a greyhound) and his wife; arms, A cross, quartering six lozenges, three and three. In the east window these arms, Gules, three crowns, or—Gules, three lions passant in pale, or. This chapel was dedicated to St. Giles, and some of the family of Diggs were buried in it; and there are memorials for several of the Legrands. There are three tombs of the Lades in the church-yard, the inscriptions obliterated, but the dates remaining are 1603, 1625, and 1660. There were formerly in the windows of this church these arms, Ermine, a chief, quarterly, or, and gules, and underneath, Jacobus Peccam. Another coat, Bruine and Rocheleyquartered; and another, Gules, a fess between three lions heads, erased, argent, and underneath,Orate p ais Roberti Baptford & Johe ux; which family resided at Barham, the last of whom, Sir John Baptford, lest an only daughter and heir, married to John Earde, of Denton.

¶The church of Barham has always been accounted as a chapel to the church of Bishopsborne, and as such is included in the valuation of it in the king's books. In 1588 here were communicants one hundred and eighty; in 1640 there were two hundred and fifty.

www.british-history.ac.uk/survey-kent/vol9/pp350-358

Maid'in Voyage by (The) Appleman

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1931 Plymouth "Rumble Seat" Roadster Model PB

The United States, in the 1930’s was in the grip of the Great Depression. As expected, commerce was practically at a standstill and accordingly, car sales were severely affected. The 1931 Plymouth PA Rumble-Seat coupe was the first full redesign of the Plymouth since its introduction with the model Q. The model helped increase Plymouth sales.

This model was a step ahead of Chevrolet and Ford – eliminating structural wood and designed with a double-drop frame, making the Plymouth look longer than its modest 169-inch length.

It featured several industry leading advances. Spark advance is now automatically controlled by manifold vacuum. The new Plymouth featured hydraulic brakes and “Floating Power” with rubber-cushioned mounts strategically placed along the engine’s center of gravity, which provided “the Smoothness of an Eight and the Economy of a Four”. This engineering featured was soon imitated. Also featured was an Easy-Shift transmission with a “silent” second gear. Closed bodies carried a built-in aerial inside the roof for the few who could afford the Philco-Transitone radio.

The “Free Wheeling” transmission allowed shifting out of first gear by simply lifting ones foot off the accelerator, using only the shift lever to select the next gear. No clutch needed!

The Plymouth engine was a pressure lubricated 4-cylinder L-head, 196.1 cubic inches, 3 5/8 bore and 4 ¾ stroke that developed 56 horsepower. Not exactly a “speedy” car but it got you where you wanted to go.............. provided it didn’t break down!

Source: In part from the display placard; in part by independent research and some of my own words.

The insert image

Some may recognize this as the work of Peter Driben (October 22, 1903 - September, 1968), an American pin-up artist/illustrator, who was perhaps one of the most productive pin-up artists of the 1930s and 1940’s, and into the early 50’s. Although both Alberto Vargas and Gil Elvgren have extensive catalogues of work, neither came close to the output of Driben. Driben's pinups delighted the American public from the beginning of World War II until the great baby boom of the 1950s.

Although popularly labeled as a “pin-up” artist, Driben was more prolific as a “cover artist” for early pulp magazines such as; Silk Stocking Stories, Gay Book, Movie Merry-Go-Round and Real Screen Fun. In the mid-thirties he expanded into the advertising field, creating three-dimensional die-cut window displays for big name companies like; Philco Radios, Cannon Bath Towels and Weber Baking Company. Perhaps Driben’s most famous work (other than having one of his illustrations serving as the backdrop for one of (The) Appleman’s Auto Creations) was his original posters and publicity artwork for The Maltese Falcon.

I would hope that Mr. Driben or his heirs, executors or agents (if any living) would not mind my incorporating one of his works into my artwork. I mean it’s a Plymouth for cryin’ out loud – an all American car!

Hope you’all enjoy.................

Vacances19_190161 by Joan

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