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SURROGATE'S COURT,

County Of New York.

In the Matter

of

the Judicial Settlement of the Account of Proceedings of Harry B. Hollins,John L. Cadwalader and Frederick Ogden Beach, as Executors of the Last Will and Testament of CONSUELO, DOWAGER

Duchess Of Manchester, deceased.

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Extract from Account of Proceedings,

Verified 20th May, 1912.

SCHEDULE II.

Statement of other fuets affecting the administration of the Estate.

The testatrix up to the time of her marriage, had been an American citizen, residing in New York, but by reason of her marriage became a British subject and a resident of London, England. At the time of her death the larger part ofher estate was located in New York and elsewhere in the United States, and with reference to that property she provided for a separate administration by the executors now accounting herein and by them in their

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capacities are trustees. The remaining property is under administration by the general executors and trustees under a grant of probate in England.

Death duties or taxes on all the property of the estate, including that in America, have been levied in England, the place of domicile of the testatrix, but these taxes have not been entirely collected owing to the fact that the payment would occasion a deficiency of assets under the control of the executors in England unless recourse were had to jewelry, personal belongings located in England, and the family residence in London. The duties so imposed are of three-fold character, denominated respectively Estate, Legacy and Settlement Estate Duties, and with regard to the property under the control and administration by the executors accounting herein the amount levied aggregated the sum of £71,700. All these duties are levied on rights ofsuccession enjoyed by the legatees under the will by the law of England. Nevertheless, the bulk of the estate of the testatrix is under the control of the executors appointed by this court, and is to remain under administration by them on distribution to them as trustees. The general executors who were appointed in England have ascertained that after using all available personal securities and cash under their control in paying the duties charged on both classes of property—viz., on the American estate and general estate—there will be a deficit of £20,000 or thereabouts, unless recourse be had to personal belongings, jewelry, pictures and heirlooms of the testatrix, which in large part were specifically bequeathed, the family residence in London, which is a leasehold and which is located at Number 5 (irosvenor Square, and the contents of said residence.

In a suit brought in the High Court of Justice

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in England, Chancery Division, by the general executors against the Duke andDuchess of Manchester and their children and other persons interested in the estate, to determine a number of questions affecting the administration of the estate, and among them the question whether the general executors were liable to pay death duties in England on the American assets, a judgment was rendered to the effect that the death duties in England hereinabove referred to were properly payable by the general executors upon the entire estate, including the American assets. Such further proceedings Mere taken under that judgment that an order was made therein, dated February 20, 1912, charging such death duties upon the estate, and intimating that any sums of money sent by the American executors to England might be impounded for the payment ofsuch death duties as were charged by reason of succession under the will to the American assets, whatever the purpose of such payments or to whomever made.

The executors of the estate in England have urged that the American executors should remit to 21 them sufficient amounts of capital to supply such deficit and thereby avoid the necessity of a sale of the personal heirlooms and belongings, and the family residence in London, as there are ample assets under the control of the American executors.

An order was therefore made on the 28th day of March, 1912, in the said suit hereinbefore referred to by which it was directed that unless the American executors should remit to the general executors the sum of £20,000 within a certain time specified, the executors in England should proceed to a sale of the leasehold No. 5 Orosvenor Square. It has been urged that such payment would subserve the orderly administration of the estate and the in22 Extracts fromAmerican Executors' Accounts

terests of the family, and, besides, remove a reason for adverse action and litigation in impounding the income which the American executors remit to the family of the testatrix and annuitants in England.

The accounting executors have been of the opinion, should the court so order, that in the decree to be entered settling these accounts there should be some provision authorizing and directing the ac„„ counting executors to remit to Viscount Duncannon and Thomas Rawle, as general executors of the will ofthe testatrix, the sum of £20,000, or thereabouts, with which to pay such deficit of

£20,000.

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Extracts from Supplemental Account of

Proceedings Verified July 15, 1912.

SCHEDULE C 1.

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Payments from capital for crpcimcs of administration.

June 7, 1912—Voucher No. 1.

Remitted Vise o u n t Duncannon and

Thomas Rawle Trustees, by draft on

London, £20,000 at 4.8720 exchange.. $97,440.00

(Reing amount advanced to meet de-

ficit in English Death Duties on

American assets.)

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HARRY II. HOLLINS,

JOHN L. CADWALADER,

FREDERICK OGDEN REACH,

Executors.

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SCHEDULE H.

Statement of other facts affecting the administration of the Estate.

Since the prior accounting it was found that the premises No. 5 Grosvenor Square, London, were likely to be sold, unless the money was advanced by the American executors to meet the English Death Duties, as set forth in Schedule H of such prior accounting. The American executors, there- 26 fore, made the said payment of £20,000 which is shown in Schedule C 1 of this account, and thereupon an order was duly entered in the suit referred to in such prior account staying the sale of the said residence property.

"In sacred memory of Anne Abbott widow & relict of William Abbott , gent, one co-heir of William Millington, gent, once of Conning. Andrew Luttrell, executor & great grandson erected this monument "

"The proverbs true tis not unknown to any

That death takes best and leaves the worst by many

Her meritts vertue love and everlasting fame

Will still sprout out though death hath cropt her name

And although meagre death struck with deadly stinge

Forever will all angels aleluuia singe

Obit 17 day of October Year of Grace 1610"

Anne was the co-heiress daughter of William Millington of Conning

She lived at Hartland Abbey house -

After the abbey was dissolved in 1539 it was gifted by Henry Vlll to the Sergeant of his Wine Cellar at Hampton Court, William Abbott possibly her father in law

She & husband William Abbott 1540 - 1609 had one heiress daughter

1. Prudence 1639 m 1583 Andrew Luttrell 1560–1625 of Braunton son of Nicholas Luttrell 1523–1592 of Dunster Castle & Joan Sachervelll

Prudence brought Hartland & its Abbey estate to husband Andrew Luttrell and the Abbey remained in that family until 1704 when their heiress Mary Luttrell married Paul Orchard l having a son Paul Orchard ll 1812 www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/4A8zq99Y72 & daughter Charlotte 1791 www.flickr.com/gp/52219527@N00/c4b50T9Lq5 who married Rev Hooper Morrison and inherited the estate on the death of her brother. The estate then passed to her son Rev Thomas Hooper Morrison of Alwington; flic.kr/p/2rj89yv However he never lived in the Abbey & after he died without issue in 1824, the estate passed to Lewis William Buck great-nephew of Paul Orchard II, and grandson of George Buck and Anne Orchard daughter of Paul Orchard l whose descendant change his name to Stucley and were created baronets in 1859. They have retained the estate ever since .

- Church of St Necton ,Hartland Devon

Janice Dennis www.findagrave.com/memorial/151121541/ann-abbott www.britainexpress.com/photos.htm?attraction=5538

Draft for Summons to George Grimson, Cromer Road, Aylsham, Norfolk for non-payment of Medical services provided by Dr. Richard John Morton to Caroline Grimson wife of George Grimson in 1894, 1895 and 1898. Summoned by Thomas Purdey, Solicitor executor of Dr. Richard John Morton deceased Aylsham, Norfolk, who died 20th October 1902. For up to 4 years after his death payments were still being made and collected by his Solicitors and his wife and recorded. Dated 8th October 1903.

Richard John Morton was born in 1849 the son of Richard Kay, also a Surgeon and Eliza Mary Needham Morton. He married Mary Ann (Marion) Magar 5th May 1872 at Holy Trinity, Lambeth. Morton of Aylsham Family Papers.

George Grimson, House Painter, born circa 1847 at Aylsham, Norfolk married Caroline Sutton 6th December 1870 at Marsham. She was the daughter of James Sutton and Sarah Sutton born circa 1849 at Hevingham, Norfolk. The 1911 census shows them living at Cawston Road, Aylsham with Caroline’s Parents.

Church of St Mary,

Monument to Sir Wymond Carye d. 1612; Alabaster and marble; commissioned by his brother Sir Edward Carye of Aldenham and Sir Edward’s son. Sir Henry Carye, Sir Wymond’s executor. East end of north aisle.

The monument is set with fine disregard for the aisle windows, perhaps no surprising since Sir Wymond had demolished the 40ft long chancel. The monument was described by Blomefield: ‘At the east end of the north isle is a stately monument for Sir Wymond Carye, with his effigies of alabaster, and in armour, lying on an altar tomb of marble, his head resting on a pillow, hands joined, and erect; over him is raised a beautiful arch of marble, &c. supported by porphyry pillars of the Corinthian order, and on the summit, the arms of Carye, but so defaced by time, and so high, as not to be well accounted for.’ The inscription under the arch is decorated with coronets on an acanthus crown, damaged on the right, angels heads (that on the left missing), fruit and reminders of death in the pomegranates, skull above crossed bones, spade and shovel around a crown(?) of acanthus and the winged hour glass.

The inscriptions are now difficult to read, but were transcribed by Blomefield: ‘Here lyeth in hope and expectation of that joyful day of the resurrection, when the Saviour of the whole World shall appear in power and judgment, to awake all those who have slept in him, to be pertakers of the everlasting blessedness of his eternal kingdom, Sir Wymond Carye of Snettesham in the county of Norfolk Kt. sometime of Thremhale Priory in Essex, first branch of that family of the Carys which is descended from Edmund Beanford, duke of Somerset, and so from John of Gaunt duke of Lancaster, erected by his only brother, Sir Edward Carye of Aldenham in Hertfordshire, master and treasurer of his majesties jewels and plate, and of Sir Henry Carye of C — in Bucks, son and heir of the said Sir Edward Carye joynt executor of the last will of Sir Wym. Carye, who lived about 75 years, & in peace and happiness and in the comfortable testimony of a good conscience and stedfast faith in Christ, died April 3, 1612.’

No decoration, presumably coats of arms, remain on the tomb chest. Sir Wymond had rented the lordship of the manor from the crown under Queen Elizabeth and James I, it was acquired outright by Sir henry Carye in 1614. Sir Wymond was knighted at Whitehall in 1604 and had married Catherine Jernangen, the widow of Henry Crane of Chilton, Suffolk. They had no children and she made her will, as Dame Catherine Carey of Fleet Farm, Chilton, Suffolk in 1613.

Francis Blomefield, 'Smethdon Hundred: Snettesham Lordship', in An Essay Towards A Topographical History of the County of Norfolk: Volume 10 (London, 1809), pp. 370-381 http; Nikolaus Pevsner and Bill Wilson, Buildings of England. Norfolk 2: North West and South, New Haven and London, 1997, pp. 654-56.

Church of St Mary,

Monument to Sir Wymond Carye d. 1612; Alabaster and marble; commissioned by his brother Sir Edward Carye of Aldenham and Sir Edward’s son. Sir Henry Carye, Sir Wymond’s executor. East end of north aisle.

The monument is set with fine disregard for the aisle windows, perhaps no surprising since Sir Wymond had demolished the 40ft long chancel. The monument was described by Blomefield: ‘At the east end of the north isle is a stately monument for Sir Wymond Carye, with his effigies of alabaster, and in armour, lying on an altar tomb of marble, his head resting on a pillow, hands joined, and erect; over him is raised a beautiful arch of marble, &c. supported by porphyry pillars of the Corinthian order, and on the summit, the arms of Carye, but so defaced by time, and so high, as not to be well accounted for.’ The inscription under the arch is decorated with coronets on an acanthus crown, damaged on the right, angels heads (that on the left missing), fruit and reminders of death in the pomegranates, skull above crossed bones, spade and shovel around a crown(?) of acanthus and the winged hour glass.

The inscriptions are now difficult to read, but were transcribed by Blomefield: ‘Here lyeth in hope and expectation of that joyful day of the resurrection, when the Saviour of the whole World shall appear in power and judgment, to awake all those who have slept in him, to be pertakers of the everlasting blessedness of his eternal kingdom, Sir Wymond Carye of Snettesham in the county of Norfolk Kt. sometime of Thremhale Priory in Essex, first branch of that family of the Carys which is descended from Edmund Beanford, duke of Somerset, and so from John of Gaunt duke of Lancaster, erected by his only brother, Sir Edward Carye of Aldenham in Hertfordshire, master and treasurer of his majesties jewels and plate, and of Sir Henry Carye of C — in Bucks, son and heir of the said Sir Edward Carye joynt executor of the last will of Sir Wym. Carye, who lived about 75 years, & in peace and happiness and in the comfortable testimony of a good conscience and stedfast faith in Christ, died April 3, 1612.’

No decoration, presumably coats of arms, remain on the tomb chest. Sir Wymond had rented the lordship of the manor from the crown under Queen Elizabeth and James I, it was acquired outright by Sir henry Carye in 1614. Sir Wymond was knighted at Whitehall in 1604 and had married Catherine Jernangen, the widow of Henry Crane of Chilton, Suffolk. They had no children and she made her will, as Dame Catherine Carey of Fleet Farm, Chilton, Suffolk in 1613.

Francis Blomefield, 'Smethdon Hundred: Snettesham Lordship', in An Essay Towards A Topographical History of the County of Norfolk: Volume 10 (London, 1809), pp. 370-381 http; Nikolaus Pevsner and Bill Wilson, Buildings of England. Norfolk 2: North West and South, New Haven and London, 1997, pp. 654-56.

detail of the top of the monument

4th October – 9th December 1902 details of the meetings re the renunciation of Leonard S Parker and James Parker as Trustee of their father Samuel Parker’s Will due to Bankruptcy.

Leonard and James Parker were the son’s of Samuel Parker and Caroline Sparkhall. Along with their mother Caroline and sisters Caroline Laura Parker and Jessie Limmer Parker inherited under the Will with Property held in Trust.

The daughter Jessie Limmer Parker married Alfred Guiver on 31st January 1894 at Wymondham, Norfolk, England. The other daughter Caroline Laura Parker married James Brummage, 17th March 1894 at Wymondham, Norfolk, England.

The present Trustees, John Castle Pomeroy and James Brummage Account of the Will of Samuel Parker, Residuary Legatees following death of Caroline Parker, widow of Samuel Parker October 1906. Caroline, nee Sparkhall, Parker died 2nd March 1906. Amounts and the details of money paid to Caroline Laura Parker and Jessie Limmer Parker who inherited under the Will.

Daughters Jessie Limmer Parker married Alfred Guiver on 31st January 1894 at Wymondham, Norfolk, England. The other daughter Caroline Laura Parker married James Brummage, 17th March 1894 at Wymondham, Norfolk, England.

Samuel Parker born 1814 at Wymondham was the son of James and Sophia, nee Scarlett, Parker he married Caroline Sparkhall 11th August 1846 at Wymondham. Caroline was the daughter of John Sparkhall and Elizabeth Limmer and was born in 1824 at Wymondham.

The Parker Family of Wymondham Documents.

The present Trustees, John Castle Pomeroy and James Brummage Account of the Will of Samuel Parker, Residuary Legatees following death of Caroline Parker, widow of Samuel Parker October 1906. Caroline, nee Sparkhall, Parker died 2nd March 1906. Amounts and the details of money paid to Caroline Laura Parker and Jessie Limmer Parker who inherited under the Will.

Daughters Jessie Limmer Parker married Alfred Guiver on 31st January 1894 at Wymondham, Norfolk, England. The other daughter Caroline Laura Parker married James Brummage, 17th March 1894 at Wymondham, Norfolk, England.

Samuel Parker born 1814 at Wymondham was the son of James and Sophia, nee Scarlett, Parker he married Caroline Sparkhall 11th August 1846 at Wymondham. Caroline was the daughter of John Sparkhall and Elizabeth Limmer and was born in 1824 at Wymondham.

The Parker Family of Wymondham Documents.

Abstract of Title Trustees of Will of John F Clark to Lewknor Cottage, Picton Road, Ramsgate Kent, 1904. List several previous Indentures etc.plus value of any houses and what and what cannot be built on the Land. First 19th & 25th March 1799 redemption of Land Tax by John Garrett.

Amongst many others:

28th August 1866 Indenture between Sir Robert Garrett, George Young, Edward Newman, Robert Beckford Johnstone, John Francis Bontenis.

7th July 1876 John Frederick Clark died. His wife Mary Ann Clark and son-in-law Birches Frost Wills are named as Executors and Trustees

2nd December 1878 Agreement between John Frederick Clark and Jennings Butler for £100.

28th December 1896 Jennings Butler died and by his Will of 1895 Thomas Newman, Alfred Thomas Brewer and his Niece Isabella Butler Long made Trustees and Executors of his Will.

5th March 1898 Isabella Butler Long died.

15th September 1902 Indenture of Mortgage between Mary Ann Clark, Widow of Ramsgate, Birches Frost Wills, Carpenter, Ramsgate, Sarah Kingdom Klug of 112 Clifton Hill, St Johns Wood, London, Widow.

John Frederick Clark born circa 1821 at Ramsgate was a Carpenter/Builder. He married twice: Elizabeth Hooper Moses 30th June 1844 at Ramsgate and Mary Ann Bobey 23rd October 1871 at St. Lawrence, Kent.

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Wall memorial: "In memoriam John Gillies Shields JP 1857- 1943

Patron of this living; The organ of this church was rebuilt and enlarged by the executors of his estate and the directors of Breedon and Cloud Hill Lime Works , and two new bells were added, one given by O... Brewery, and one by Breedon and District Nursing Association. One bell was recast and the whole peal of six hung on ball bearings, the cost being met by public subscription in the year 1959

CM K Parsons, Vicar; F Wakefield; W Smith Churchwardens" - Church of St Mary & St Hardulph, Breedon on the Hill, Leicestershire

Flora court (5, Wiedner Mainstreet 88, Hartmann alley 1), secessionist rental house, built in 1901/1902 by Oskar Laske (student of Otto Wagner and Karl König, from 1907 exclusively painter and graphic artist), Viktor Fiala and builder J. Barak as executors after a draft of Wunibald Deininger. The remarkable building shows (as one of the few rental houses of Vienna) in its brittle outline the tendencies of the Viennese Secessionism around 1900 in the follow-up period after Otto Wagner, the original (partly coloured) decor, unlike the floral-curvilinear trends of Western modernism, always serving to emphasize the tectonics of the structure (see also Villa Vojcsik by Otto Schönthal).

Florahof (5, Wiedner Hauptstraße 88, Hartmanngasse 1), secessionistisches Miethaus, erbaut 1901/1902 von Oskar Laske (Schüler Otto Wagners und Karl Königs, ab 1907 ausschließlich Maler und Graphiker), Viktor Fiala und Baumeister J. Barak als Ausführende nach einem Entwurf von Wunibald Deininger. Der bemerkenswerte Bau zeigt (als eines der wenigen Miethäuser Wiens) in seiner spröden Gliederung die Tendenzen des Wiener Secessionismus um 1900 im Anschluss an Otto Wagner, wobei der originelle (teils färbige) Dekor, im Gegensatz zu den floral-kurvilinearen Tendenzen des westlichen Jugendstils, stets zur Betonung der Tektonik der Gliederung dient (vergleiche Villa Vojcsik von Otto Schönthal).

www.wien.gv.at/wiki/index.php/Florahof

Monument to William Henry Fortescue, Viscount Clermont and Earl of Clermont in Ireland †1806. Marble. South chancel. Commissioned by his nephew and executor William Fortescue, the second Viscount. Signed: De Carle &Son, Bury, Suffolk.

This, as Jon Bayliss noted, is a key monument for attributions to the De Carle workshop. The inscription is set within an open pediment with urn under a crown on an aureole and fluted Corinthian capitals, suggesting a doorway, with the coat of arms in the apron. The design had been used in the monuments to Matthew †1779 and Sarah Goss at St Peter Hungate, Norwich, to Anthony Norris †1786 at Barton Turf, and to Charles Parrott †1787 at Saham Toney. At St Peter Hungate the apron shows a roundel with profile portrait bust, probably by de Carle’s senior partner, John Ivory. Ivory had retired in the 1790s and after the death of his son Thomas in 1805 the business was sold by his widow in October 1806. This may explain why the De Carles, who had moved one of their family workshops to Bury, felt free to sign a monument whose design may owe much to John Ivory.

Clermont was 85 when he died, having been appointed Baron Clermont in 1770 and a Viscount in 1776, both in the Peerage of Ireland. He was succeeded, as the inscription notes, by his nephew, who apologises at the end that he: ‘was away in Ireland at the time of his decease.’ Viscount Clermont had Pickenham Hall rebuilt by Sir Robert Taylor in 1777-78. It was rebuilt by William Pilkington in 1812-13 on the orders of the second Viscount Clermont.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viscount_Clermont; Nikolaus Pevsner and Bill Wilson, Buildings of England. Norfolk 2: North West and South, New Haven and London, 1997, 519; biography of John Ivory in Ingrid Roscoe, Emma Hardy & MG. Sullivan, A Biographical Dictionary of Sculptors in Britain, 1660-1851, online at the Henry Moore Foundation

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Church of St Peter,

Monument to the ancestors of Edward Atkyns. Marble. Commissioned by Edward Atkyns 1750. South wall of chancel. Possibly by Robert Page to a design by Sir Henry Cheere.

The monument, framed in a Gothic arch with trefoil head, is divided between a cartouche with coat of arms, a long inscription set in a lugged architrave under a decorative scroll and the funerary monument whose lions’ paws rest a black marble plinth. The frame was introduced in emulation of the monument in the south transept of Westminster Abbey, commissioned by Edward Atkyns from Sir Henry Cheere and ready by the 15 December 1746. In his will Atkyns specified that: ‘my executors lay out a sum of money not less than two hundred pounds and not more than three hundred in erecting a monument of myself and my ancestors in the chancel of the Parish church at Ketteringham, both in model, size and inscription as near as conveniently be (to that in Westminster Abbey) and that I desire that notice may be taken in the monument in Westminster Abbey that another one is set up in Ketteringham church and to take notice on both monuments that they were erected out of the veneration and regard that I had for the memory of my ancestors.’

The ancestors mentioned in the main inscription on both monuments were:

Sir Edward Atkyns †1669, a Baron of the Exchequer;

Sir Robert †1709, his eldest son, Chief Baron of the Exchequer and Speaker of the House of Lords;

Sir Edward †1698, his youngest son, also Chief Baron of the Exchequer, who retired to Norfolk in the (Cromwellian) revolution;

Sir Robert eldest son of the Sir Robert † 1709, a gentleman scholar, author of a History of Gloucestershire, who died in 1711.

Finally a tablet on the sarcophagus of both added: ‘In memory of his ancestors, who have so honourably presided in the Courts of Justice in Westminster Hall, EDWARD ATYKYNS Esqr. late of Ketteringham in Norfolk, second son of the last named Sir Edward, caused this monument to be erected. He died January the 20th 1750 aged 79 years.’

Atkyns had bought Ketteringham Hall from Henry Heron (ca. 1675-1730) who had inherited the Hall through his marriage to Abigail, Sir William Heveningham’s daughter. The sale was probably around 1695, when Heron inherited his father’s estate of Cressy Hall, Lincolnshire in.

The attribution of the Ketteringham monument remains open. There is no doubt that the monument in Westminster Abbey is by Henry Cheere, two of Cheere’s drawings for it were sold at Christies Dec. 1982 lot 104, but, with the exception of Matthew Craske (The Silent Rhetoric of the Body. A History of Monumental Sculpture and Commemorative Art in England, 1720-1770, 2007, 198-201 and footnotes 30 and 31 on p.467), who believes both monuments are by Cheere, doubts remain and it has been attributed, notably by Pevsner, to the Norwich sculptor Robert Page. The argument was well summed up by Jon Bayliss who noted that the framing arch at Ketteringham, intended to echo that at Westminster Abbey, does not resemble other more up-to frames by Cheere. The Abbey monument rests on four legs, rather than two lion paws, whose ‘furry cuffs’ have no parallels in other comparable monuments. He offered as a possible explanation is that after his work for the Churchman family in St Giles, Cheere was aware that the city had a sculptor in the shape of Robert Page who was capable of matching the standards expected in his own workshop and that he could sub-contract the Atkyns monument to Page.

Matthew Craske, cited above, notes that the family memorial belongs with a group of commissions ‘For great old men planning their death with no sons to inherit, one of the problems was to ensure that their elected heir acted as instructed.’ He interprets the choice of texts with a quote from another scholar working on the same era, Sheerer West: ‘Tory families in particular were intent upon proving their relationship with the past…(and that) their histories sought to prove that their subjects had a long association with the Royal family both before and following the civil war.’

www.westminster-abbey.org/our-history/people/edward-and-r..., accessed 17/07/2015

detail of lion's paw

Indenture dated 19th February 1907 for sale of 1 York Street, Ramsgate, Kent under Will of James Mercer Edwards by Executors Anne Mary Edwards, Widow, of Ramsgate, Gilbert Edwards Bryant, of the Royal Artillery Barracks, Scarborough, Yorkshire, Thomas Newman, Solicitor’s Clerk of Ramsgate, Kent and The Ramsgate Cinque Ports and County Permanent Building Society.

Quotes Indenture dated 5th August 1877 whereby James Barber Edwards of Deal sold the premises to James Mercer Edwards of Ramsgate. James Mercer Edwards made his Will dated 30th August 1894 he gave all his real estate to his Wife Anne Mary Edwards and his Son-in-law Captain Gilbert Edwards Bryant and his Clerk Thomas Newman in Trust to be sold. All three were named as Trustees. He died 3rd March 1896.

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fregata " Golden Pegasus"

by Šipka

Church of St Peter,

Monument to the ancestors of Edward Atkyns. Marble. Commissioned by Edward Atkyns 1750. South wall of chancel. Possibly by Robert Page to a design by Sir Henry Cheere.

The monument, framed in a Gothic arch with trefoil head, is divided between a cartouche with coat of arms, a long inscription set in a lugged architrave under a decorative scroll and the funerary monument whose lions’ paws rest a black marble plinth. The frame was introduced in emulation of the monument in the south transept of Westminster Abbey, commissioned by Edward Atkyns from Sir Henry Cheere and ready by the 15 December 1746. In his will Atkyns specified that: ‘my executors lay out a sum of money not less than two hundred pounds and not more than three hundred in erecting a monument of myself and my ancestors in the chancel of the Parish church at Ketteringham, both in model, size and inscription as near as conveniently be (to that in Westminster Abbey) and that I desire that notice may be taken in the monument in Westminster Abbey that another one is set up in Ketteringham church and to take notice on both monuments that they were erected out of the veneration and regard that I had for the memory of my ancestors.’

The ancestors mentioned in the main inscription on both monuments were:

Sir Edward Atkyns †1669, a Baron of the Exchequer;

Sir Robert †1709, his eldest son, Chief Baron of the Exchequer and Speaker of the House of Lords;

Sir Edward †1698, his youngest son, also Chief Baron of the Exchequer, who retired to Norfolk in the (Cromwellian) revolution;

Sir Robert eldest son of the Sir Robert † 1709, a gentleman scholar, author of a History of Gloucestershire, who died in 1711.

Finally a tablet on the sarcophagus of both added: ‘In memory of his ancestors, who have so honourably presided in the Courts of Justice in Westminster Hall, EDWARD ATYKYNS Esqr. late of Ketteringham in Norfolk, second son of the last named Sir Edward, caused this monument to be erected. He died January the 20th 1750 aged 79 years.’

Atkyns had bought Ketteringham Hall from Henry Heron (ca. 1675-1730) who had inherited the Hall through his marriage to Abigail, Sir William Heveningham’s daughter. The sale was probably around 1695, when Heron inherited his father’s estate of Cressy Hall, Lincolnshire in.

The attribution of the Ketteringham monument remains open. There is no doubt that the monument in Westminster Abbey is by Henry Cheere, two of Cheere’s drawings for it were sold at Christies Dec. 1982 lot 104, but, with the exception of Matthew Craske (The Silent Rhetoric of the Body. A History of Monumental Sculpture and Commemorative Art in England, 1720-1770, 2007, 198-201 and footnotes 30 and 31 on p.467), who believes both monuments are by Cheere, doubts remain and it has been attributed, notably by Pevsner, to the Norwich sculptor Robert Page. The argument was well summed up by Jon Bayliss who noted that the framing arch at Ketteringham, intended to echo that at Westminster Abbey, does not resemble other more up-to frames by Cheere. The Abbey monument rests on four legs, rather than two lion paws, whose ‘furry cuffs’ have no parallels in other comparable monuments. He offered as a possible explanation is that after his work for the Churchman family in St Giles, Cheere was aware that the city had a sculptor in the shape of Robert Page who was capable of matching the standards expected in his own workshop and that he could sub-contract the Atkyns monument to Page.

Matthew Craske, cited above, notes that the family memorial belongs with a group of commissions ‘For great old men planning their death with no sons to inherit, one of the problems was to ensure that their elected heir acted as instructed.’ He interprets the choice of texts with a quote from another scholar working on the same era, Sheerer West: ‘Tory families in particular were intent upon proving their relationship with the past…(and that) their histories sought to prove that their subjects had a long association with the Royal family both before and following the civil war.’

www.westminster-abbey.org/our-history/people/edward-and-r..., accessed 17/07/2015

detail of flowers

15th March 1906 Letter from Barclay & Co Gurney’s Bank, Norwich, asking for Probate or Burial Certificate of Mrs. Caroline Parker. Sent to Pomeroy & Son, Solicitors.

Samuel Parker born 1814 at Wymondham was the son of James and Sophia, nee Scarlett, Parker he married Caroline Sparkhall 11th August 1846 at Wymondham. Caroline was the daughter of John Sparkhall and Elizabeth Limmer and was born in 1824 at Wymondham.

Caroline, nee Sparkhal, Parker died 2nd March 1906.

The Parker Family of Wymondham Documents.

October 23, 1911

Broadway, Los Angeles

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Mrs Ann Poskitt relict of Mr Mark Poskitt 1802........ ..erected by her executors Mr Joseph Howard Ship Chandler Hull, Mr Richard Acton Pontefract - Wistow church Yorkshire

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Church of St Peter,

Monument to the ancestors of Edward Atkyns. Marble. Commissioned by Edward Atkyns 1750. South wall of chancel. Possibly by Robert Page to a design by Sir Henry Cheere.

The monument, framed in a Gothic arch with trefoil head, is divided between a cartouche with coat of arms, a long inscription set in a lugged architrave under a decorative scroll and the funerary monument whose lions’ paws rest a black marble plinth. The frame was introduced in emulation of the monument in the south transept of Westminster Abbey, commissioned by Edward Atkyns from Sir Henry Cheere and ready by the 15 December 1746. In his will Atkyns specified that: ‘my executors lay out a sum of money not less than two hundred pounds and not more than three hundred in erecting a monument of myself and my ancestors in the chancel of the Parish church at Ketteringham, both in model, size and inscription as near as conveniently be (to that in Westminster Abbey) and that I desire that notice may be taken in the monument in Westminster Abbey that another one is set up in Ketteringham church and to take notice on both monuments that they were erected out of the veneration and regard that I had for the memory of my ancestors.’

The ancestors mentioned in the main inscription on both monuments were:

Sir Edward Atkyns †1669, a Baron of the Exchequer;

Sir Robert †1709, his eldest son, Chief Baron of the Exchequer and Speaker of the House of Lords;

Sir Edward †1698, his youngest son, also Chief Baron of the Exchequer, who retired to Norfolk in the (Cromwellian) revolution;

Sir Robert eldest son of the Sir Robert † 1709, a gentleman scholar, author of a History of Gloucestershire, who died in 1711.

Finally a tablet on the sarcophagus of both added: ‘In memory of his ancestors, who have so honourably presided in the Courts of Justice in Westminster Hall, EDWARD ATYKYNS Esqr. late of Ketteringham in Norfolk, second son of the last named Sir Edward, caused this monument to be erected. He died January the 20th 1750 aged 79 years.’

Atkyns had bought Ketteringham Hall from Henry Heron (ca. 1675-1730) who had inherited the Hall through his marriage to Abigail, Sir William Heveningham’s daughter. The sale was probably around 1695, when Heron inherited his father’s estate of Cressy Hall, Lincolnshire in.

The attribution of the Ketteringham monument remains open. There is no doubt that the monument in Westminster Abbey is by Henry Cheere, two of Cheere’s drawings for it were sold at Christies Dec. 1982 lot 104, but, with the exception of Matthew Craske (The Silent Rhetoric of the Body. A History of Monumental Sculpture and Commemorative Art in England, 1720-1770, 2007, 198-201 and footnotes 30 and 31 on p.467), who believes both monuments are by Cheere, doubts remain and it has been attributed, notably by Pevsner, to the Norwich sculptor Robert Page. The argument was well summed up by Jon Bayliss who noted that the framing arch at Ketteringham, intended to echo that at Westminster Abbey, does not resemble other more up-to frames by Cheere. The Abbey monument rests on four legs, rather than two lion paws, whose ‘furry cuffs’ have no parallels in other comparable monuments. He offered as a possible explanation is that after his work for the Churchman family in St Giles, Cheere was aware that the city had a sculptor in the shape of Robert Page who was capable of matching the standards expected in his own workshop and that he could sub-contract the Atkyns monument to Page.

Matthew Craske, cited above, notes that the family memorial belongs with a group of commissions ‘For great old men planning their death with no sons to inherit, one of the problems was to ensure that their elected heir acted as instructed.’ He interprets the choice of texts with a quote from another scholar working on the same era, Sheerer West: ‘Tory families in particular were intent upon proving their relationship with the past…(and that) their histories sought to prove that their subjects had a long association with the Royal family both before and following the civil war.’

www.westminster-abbey.org/our-history/people/edward-and-r..., accessed 17/07/2015

detail on the sarcophagus

Draft Abstract of Title of Henry Arthur Lucy of 24 Carlton Gardens, Herne Bay, Kent to Leasehold premises at 3 Brooke Road, Stoke Newington under Will of Harriett Jones, 20 Albion Hill, Ramsgate, 1905.

Refers to various Indentures giving details of previous owners and terms of Lease. E.g. 19th November 1883 between William Ambrose Tyssen Amerherst, MP of Didlington Hall, Norfolk, Robert Goodall of 1 Evering Road, Stoke Newington, Middlesex, Builder, Harriett Jones wife of William Henry Jones of 30 Huntingdon Street, Kingsland Road, Middlesex, Gas Fitter.

20th January 1898 Will of Harriett Jones residing at the Five Bells Inn, Hoo, Kent. Henry Arthur Lucy, 3 Brooke Road, Stoke Newington, Jeweller’s Assistant named as Executor.

3rd March 1904 Codicil to Will of Harriett confirms Henry Arthur Lucy of 20 Albion Hill, Ramsgate as Executor.

8th May 1904 Harriet died at 20 Albion Hill, Ramsgate. The 1901 census shows Henry and his wife, Eliza Sophia Jones and children living at 24 Carlton Gardens, Herne Bay. He died in 1908.

Church of St Peter,

Monument to the ancestors of Edward Atkyns. Marble. Commissioned by Edward Atkyns 1750. South wall of chancel. Possibly by Robert Page to a design by Sir Henry Cheere.

The monument, framed in a Gothic arch with trefoil head, is divided between a cartouche with coat of arms, a long inscription set in a lugged architrave under a decorative scroll and the funerary monument whose lions’ paws rest a black marble plinth. The frame was introduced in emulation of the monument in the south transept of Westminster Abbey, commissioned by Edward Atkyns from Sir Henry Cheere and ready by the 15 December 1746. In his will Atkyns specified that: ‘my executors lay out a sum of money not less than two hundred pounds and not more than three hundred in erecting a monument of myself and my ancestors in the chancel of the Parish church at Ketteringham, both in model, size and inscription as near as conveniently be (to that in Westminster Abbey) and that I desire that notice may be taken in the monument in Westminster Abbey that another one is set up in Ketteringham church and to take notice on both monuments that they were erected out of the veneration and regard that I had for the memory of my ancestors.’

The ancestors mentioned in the main inscription on both monuments were:

Sir Edward Atkyns †1669, a Baron of the Exchequer;

Sir Robert †1709, his eldest son, Chief Baron of the Exchequer and Speaker of the House of Lords;

Sir Edward †1698, his youngest son, also Chief Baron of the Exchequer, who retired to Norfolk in the (Cromwellian) revolution;

Sir Robert eldest son of the Sir Robert † 1709, a gentleman scholar, author of a History of Gloucestershire, who died in 1711.

Finally a tablet on the sarcophagus of both added: ‘In memory of his ancestors, who have so honourably presided in the Courts of Justice in Westminster Hall, EDWARD ATYKYNS Esqr. late of Ketteringham in Norfolk, second son of the last named Sir Edward, caused this monument to be erected. He died January the 20th 1750 aged 79 years.’

Atkyns had bought Ketteringham Hall from Henry Heron (ca. 1675-1730) who had inherited the Hall through his marriage to Abigail, Sir William Heveningham’s daughter. The sale was probably around 1695, when Heron inherited his father’s estate of Cressy Hall, Lincolnshire in.

The attribution of the Ketteringham monument remains open. There is no doubt that the monument in Westminster Abbey is by Henry Cheere, two of Cheere’s drawings for it were sold at Christies Dec. 1982 lot 104, but, with the exception of Matthew Craske (The Silent Rhetoric of the Body. A History of Monumental Sculpture and Commemorative Art in England, 1720-1770, 2007, 198-201 and footnotes 30 and 31 on p.467), who believes both monuments are by Cheere, doubts remain and it has been attributed, notably by Pevsner, to the Norwich sculptor Robert Page. The argument was well summed up by Jon Bayliss who noted that the framing arch at Ketteringham, intended to echo that at Westminster Abbey, does not resemble other more up-to frames by Cheere. The Abbey monument rests on four legs, rather than two lion paws, whose ‘furry cuffs’ have no parallels in other comparable monuments. He offered as a possible explanation is that after his work for the Churchman family in St Giles, Cheere was aware that the city had a sculptor in the shape of Robert Page who was capable of matching the standards expected in his own workshop and that he could sub-contract the Atkyns monument to Page.

Matthew Craske, cited above, notes that the family memorial belongs with a group of commissions ‘For great old men planning their death with no sons to inherit, one of the problems was to ensure that their elected heir acted as instructed.’ He interprets the choice of texts with a quote from another scholar working on the same era, Sheerer West: ‘Tory families in particular were intent upon proving their relationship with the past…(and that) their histories sought to prove that their subjects had a long association with the Royal family both before and following the civil war.’

www.westminster-abbey.org/our-history/people/edward-and-r..., accessed 17/07/2015

detail of the shell on the sarcophagus

1903 details of meetings concerning Mrs. Caroline Parker, mortgages and repairs on property

28th March – 15th October 1903 details of meetings concerning Mrs. Caroline Parker, the mortgages and repairs on property including the Browick Property held in trust under Samuel Parker’s Will: Giving details of meetings with family and others.

Samuel Parker born 1814 at Wymondham was the son of James and Sophia, nee Scarlett, Parker he married Caroline Sparkhall 11th August 1846 at Wymondham. Caroline was the daughter of John Sparkhall and Elizabeth Limmer and was born in 1824 at Wymondham.

The Parker Family of Wymondham Documents.

For the executor of an estate, this surety bond guarantees that the estate is managed according to the terms of the deceased’s will. If the executor fails to do their duty, the executor bond provides a level of protection to the family and heirs of the estate.

Draft Abstract of Title of Henry Arthur Lucy of 24 Carlton Gardens, Herne Bay, Kent to Leasehold premises at 3 Brooke Road, Stoke Newington under Will of Harriett Jones, 20 Albion Hill, Ramsgate, 1905.

Refers to various Indentures giving details of previous owners and terms of Lease. E.g. 19th November 1883 between William Ambrose Tyssen Amerherst, MP of Didlington Hall, Norfolk, Robert Goodall of 1 Evering Road, Stoke Newington, Middlesex, Builder, Harriett Jones wife of William Henry Jones of 30 Huntingdon Street, Kingsland Road, Middlesex, Gas Fitter.

20th January 1898 Will of Harriett Jones residing at the Five Bells Inn, Hoo, Kent. Henry Arthur Lucy, 3 Brooke Road, Stoke Newington, Jeweller’s Assistant named as Executor.

3rd March 1904 Codicil to Will of Harriett confirms Henry Arthur Lucy of 20 Albion Hill, Ramsgate as Executor.

8th May 1904 Harriet died at 20 Albion Hill, Ramsgate. The 1901 census shows Henry and his wife, Eliza Sophia Jones and children living at 24 Carlton Gardens, Herne Bay. He died in 1908.

Church of St Margaret,

Monument to Bussy †1719 and Mary †1730 Greene. Marble, 1745, Signed Robt Page Fecit. Commissioned by his daughter and executor, Mary. Now east wall of north nave, moved from south wall of chancel, east end in 1881.

The impressive monument would once have filled the south wall of the chancel, at the very east end, before it was moved by the architect R.M. Phipson in 1881 to make way for a new window. It is dominated by the beautiful veined grey pyramid, decorated with the family coat of arms on a scrolled cartouche, with oak leaves and scallops. The pyramid rests on the base which houses the inscription, now difficult to make out because of the pews, and frames the darker commemorative chest. This rests on lions’ paws and the upper tiers rise to an acorn, symbol of strength and growth and is flanked by two mourning youthful angels. One sheds a tear while wiping his other eye, his foot resting on a skull, while his companion clutches his hands in palpable grief.

The inscription is the only source of information about Bussy and Mary Greene. It included four of their children whose deaths dated from 1709 down to 1737. Both the impressive scale of the monument, with its accomplished handling of a range of colour within a deliberately limited palette, and its original position in the chancel underline the inscription’s reference to Bussy Greene as a gentleman of Catton, who died when he was fifty two years old.

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Ash is a large village, now almost a town, now bypassed by the Canterbury to Sandwich road.

St Nicholas is a large church, and sits on a low mound above the High Street and houses.

The church itself is cruciform in shape, and previously stated, large.

It is furnished with serval monuments and brasses, all of a very high standard.

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A large and impressive church of mainly thirteenth century date over restored in 1847 by the irrepressible William Butterfield. The scale of the interior is amazing - particularly in the tower crossing arches which support the enormous spire. They are an obvious insertion into an earlier structure. The best furnishing at Ash is the eighteenth century font which stands on an inscribed base. For the visitor interested in memorials, Ash ahs more than most ranging from the fourteenth century effigy of a knight to two excellent alabaster memorials to Sir Thomas Harfleet (d 1612) and Christopher Toldervy (d 1618). Mrs Toldervy appears twice in the church for she accompanies her husband on his memorial and may also be seen as a `weeper` on her parents` memorial! On that she is one of two survivors of what was once a group of seven daughters - all her weeping brothers have long since disappeared.

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ASH

LIES adjoining to the last-described parish of Staple northward. It is written in Domesday, Ece, and in other antient records, Aisse, and is usually called Ash, near Sandwich, to distinguish it from Ash, near Wrotham.

The parish of Ash is very large, extending over a variety of soil and country, of hill, dale, and marsh lands, near four miles across each way, and containing more than six thousand acres of land, of which about one half is marsh, the river Stour being its northern bounday, where it is very wet and unwholesone, but the southern or upland part of the parish is very dary, pleasant and healthy. The soil in general is fertile, and lets on an average at about one pound an acre; notwithstanding, there is a part of it about Ash-street and Gilton town, where it is a deep sand. The village of Ash, commonly called Ash-street, situated in this part of it, on high ground, mostly on the western declivity of a hill, having the church on the brow of it, is built on each side of the road from Canterbury to Sandwich, and contains about fifty houses. On the south side of this road, about half a mile westward, is a Roman burial ground, of which further mention will be taken hereaster, and adjoining to it the hamlet of Gilton town, formerly written Guildanton, in which is Gilton parsonage, a neat stuccoed house, lately inhabited by Mr. Robert Legrand, and now by Mrs. Becker. In the valley southward stands Mote farm, alias Brooke house, formerly the habitation of the Stoughtons, then of the Ptoroude's and now the property of Edward Solly, esq. of London.

There are dispersed throughout this large parish many small hamlets and farms, which have been formerly of more consequence, from the respective owners and in habitants of them, all which, excepting East and New Street, and Great Pedding, (the latter of which was the antient residence of the family of solly, who lie buried in Ash church-yard, and bore for their arms, Vert, a chevron, per pale, or, and gules, between three soles naiant, argent, and being sold by one of them to dean Lynch, is now in the possession of lady Lynch, the widow of Sir William Lynch, K. B.) are situated in the northern part of the parish, and contain together about two hundred and fifty houses, among them is Hoden, formerly the residence of the family of St. Nicholas; Paramour-street, which for many years was the residence of those of that name, and Brook-street, in which is Brook-house, the residence of the Brooke's, one of whom John Brooke, esq. in queen Elizabeth's reign, resided here, and bore for his arms, Per bend, vert and sable, two eagles, counterchanged.

William, lord Latimer, anno 38 Edward III. obtained a market to be held at Ash, on a Thursday; and a fair yearly on Lady-day, and the two following ones. A fair is now held in Ash-street on Lady and Michaelmas days yearly.

In 1473 there was a lazar house for the infirm of the leprosy, at Eche, near Sandwich.

¶The manor of Wingham claims paramount over this parish, subordinate to which there were several manors in it, held of the archbishop, to whom that manor belonged, the mansions of which, being inhabited by families of reputation and of good rank in life, made this parish of much greater account than it has been for many years past, the mansions of them having been converted for a length of time into farmhouses to the lands to which they belong.

f this manor, (viz. Wingham) William de Acris holds one suling in Fletes, and there he has in demesne one carucate and four villeins, and one knight with one carucate, and one fisbery, with a saltpit of thirty pence. The whole is worth forty shillings.

This district or manor was granted by archbishop Lanfranc, soon after this, to one Osberne, (fn. 7) of whom I find no further mention, nor of this place, till king Henry III.'s reign, when it seems to have been separated into two manors, one of which, now known by the name of the manor of Gurson Fleet, though till of late time by that of Fleet only, was held afterwards of the archbishop by knight's service, by the family of Sandwich, and afterwards by the Veres, earls of Oxford, one of whom, Robert de Vere, earl of Oxford, who died anno 3 Edward III. was found by the escheat-rolls of that year, to have died possessed of this manor of Fleet, which continued in his descendants down to John de Vere, earl of Oxford, who for his attachment to the house of Lancaster, was attainted in the first year of king Edward IV. upon which this manor came into the hands of the crown, and was granted the next year to Richard, duke of Gloucester, the king's brother, with whom it staid after his succession to the crown, as king Richard III. on whose death, and the accession of king Henry VII. this manor returned to the possession of John, earl of Oxford, who had been attainted, but was by parliament anno I Henry VII. restored in blood, titles and possessions. After which this manor continued in his name and family till about the middle of queen Elizabeth's reign, when Edward Vere, earl of Oxford, alienated it to Hammond, in whose descendants it continued till one of them, in the middle of king Charles II.'s reign, sold it to Thomas Turner, D. D. who died possessed of it in 1672, and in his name and descendants it continued till the year 1748, when it was sold to John Lynch, D. D. dean of Canterbury, whose son Sir William Lynch, K. B. died possessed of it in 1785, and by his will devised it, with the rest of his estates, to his widow lady Lynch, who is the present possessor of it. A court baron is held for this manor.

Archbishop Lanfranc, on his founding the priory of St. Gregory, in the reign of the Conqueror, gave to it the tithe of the manor of Fleet; which gift was confirmed by archbishop Hubert in Richard I.'s reign. This portion of tithes, which arose principally from Gurson Fleet manor, remained with the priory at its dissolution, and is now part of Goldston parsonage, parcel of the see of Canterbury, of which further mention has been made before.

The other part of the district of Fleet was called, to distinguish it, and from the possessors of it, the manor of Nevills Fleet, though now known by the name of Fleet only, is situated between Gurson and Richborough, adjoining to the former. This manor was held in king John's reign of the archbishop, by knight's service, by Thomas Pincerna, so called probably from his office of chief butler to that prince, whence his successors assumed the name of Butler, or Boteler. His descendant was Robert le Boteler, who possessed this manor in king Ed ward I.'s reign, and from their possession of it, this manor acquired for some time the name of Butlers Fleet; but in the 20th year of king Edward III. William, lord Latimer of Corbie, appears to have been in the possession of it, and from him it acquired the name of Latimers Fleet. He bore for his arms, Gules, a cross flory, or. After having had summons to parliament, (fn. 8) he died in the begening of king Richard II.'s reign, leaving Elizabeth his sole daughter and heir, married to John, lord Nevill, of Raby, whose son John bore the title of lord Latimer, and was summoned to parliament as lord Latimer, till the 9th year of king Henry VI. in which he died, so that the greatest part of his inheritance, among which was this manor, came by an entail made, to Ralph, lord Nevill, and first earl of Westmoreland, his eldest, but half brother, to whom he had sold, after his life, the barony of Latimer, and he, by seoffment, vested it, with this manor and much of the inheritance above-mentioned, in his younger son Sir George Nevill, who was accordingly summoned to parliament as lord Latimer, anno 10 Henry VI. and his grandson Richard, lord Latimer, in the next regin of Edward IV. alienated this manor, which from their length of possession of it, had acquired the name of Nevill's Fleet, to Sir James Cromer, and his son Sir William Cromer, in the 11th year of king Henry VII, sold it to John Isaak, who passed it away to Kendall, and he, in the beginning of king Henry VIII.'s reign, sold it to Sir John Fogge, of Repton, in Ashford, who died possessed of it in 1533, and his son, of the same name, before the end of it, passed it away to Mr. Thomas Rolfe, and he sold it, within a few years afterwards, to Stephen Hougham, gent. of this parish, who by his will in 1555, devised it to his youngest son Rich. Hougham, of Eastry, from one of whose descendants it was alienated to Sir Adam Spracklin, who sold it to one of the family of Septvans, alias Harflete, in which name it continued till within a few years after the death of king Charles I. when by a female heir Elizabeth it went in marriage to Thomas Kitchell, esq. in whose heirs it continued till it was at length, about the year 1720, alienated by one of them to Mr. Thomas Bambridge, warden of the Fleet prison, upon whose death it became vested in his heirs-at-law, Mr. James Bambridge, of the Temple, attorney at-law, and Thomas Bambridge, and they divided this estate, and that part of it allotted to the latter was soon afterwards alienated by him to Mr. Peter Moulson, of London, whose only daughter and heir carried it in marriage to Mr. Geo. Vaughan, of London, and he and the assignees of Mr. James Bambridge last mentioned, have lately joined in the conveyance of the whole fee of this manor to Mr. Joseph Solly, gent. of Sandwich, the present owner of it. There is not any court held for this manor.

In this district, and within this manor of Fleet lastmentioned, there was formerly a chapel of cose to the church of Ash, as that was to the church of Wingham, to which college, on its foundation by archbishop Peckham in 1286, the tithes, rents, obventions, &c of this chapel and district was granted by him, for the support in common of the provost and canons of it, with whom it remained till the suppression of it, anno I king Edward VI. The tithes, arising from this manor of Fleet, and the hamlet of Richborough, are now a part of the rectory of Ash, and of that particular part of it called Gilton parsonage, parcel of the possessions of the see of Canterbury, of which further mention will be made hereafter. There have not been any remains left of it for a long time part.

Richborough is a hamlet and district of land, in the south-east part of this parish, rendered famous from the Roman fort and town built there, and more so formerly, from the port or haven close adjoining to it.

It was in general called by the Romans by the plural name of Rutupiæ; for it must be observed that the æstuary, which at that time separated the Isle of Thanet from the main land of Kent, and was the general passage for shipping,had at each mouth of it, towards the sea, a fort and haven, called jointly Rutupiæ. That at the northern part and of it being now called Reculver, and that at the eastern, being the principal one, this of Richborough.

The name of it is variously spelt in different authors. By Ptolemy it is written [Patapiaia (?)] urbem; by Tacitus, according to the best reading, Portus, Rutupensis; by Antonine, in his Itinerary, Ritupas, and Ritupis Portum; by Ammianus, Ritupiæ statio; afterwards by the Saxons, Reptacester, and now Richborough.

The haven, or Portus Rutupinus, or Richborough, was very eminent in the time of the Romans, and much celebrated in antient history, being a safe and commodious harbour, stationem ex adverso tranquillam, as Ammianus calls it, situated at the entrance of the passage towards then Thamas, and becoming the general place of setting sail from Britain to the continent, and where the Roman fleets arrived, and so large and extensive was the bay of it, that it is supposed to have extended far beyond Sandwich on the one side, almost to Ramsgate cliffs on the other, near five miles in width, covering the whole of that flat of land on which Stonar and Sandwich were afterwards built, and extending from thence up the æstuary between the Isle of Thanet and the main land. So that Antonine might well name it the Port, in his Itinerary, [Kat exochin], from there being no other of like consequence, and from this circumstance the shore for some distance on each side acquired the general name of Littus Rutupinum, the Rutupian shore. (fn. 9) Some have contended that Julius Cæsar landed at Richborough, in his expeditions into Britain; but this opinion is refuted by Dr. Hasley in Phil, Trans. No. 193, who plainly proves his place of landing to have been in the Downs. The fort of Richborough, from the similarity of the remains of it to those of Reculver, seems to have been built about the same time, and by the same emperer, Serveris, about the year 205. It stands on the high hill, close to a deep precipice eastward, at the soot of which was the haven. In this fortress, so peculiarly strengthened by its situation, the Romans had afterwards a stationary garrison, and here they had likewise a pharos, of watch tower, the like as at Reculver and other places on this coast, as well to guide the shipping into the haven, as to give notice of the approach of enemies. It is by most supposed that there was, in the time of the Romans, near the fort, in like manner as at Reculver, a city or town, on the decline of the hill, south-westward from it, according to custom, at which a colony was settled by them. Prolemy, in his geography, reckons the city Rutpia as one of the three principal cities of Kent. (fn. 10) Orosius. and Bede too, expressly mention it as such; but when the haven decayed, and there was no longer a traffic and resort to this place, the town decayed likewise, and there have not been, for many ages since, any remains whatever of it left; though quantities of coins and Roman antiquities have been sound on the spot where it is supposed to have once stood.

During the latter part of the Roman empire, when the Saxons prevented all trade by sea, and insefted these coasts by frequent robberies, the second Roman legion, called Augusta, and likewise Britannica, which had been brought out of Germany by the emperor Claudius, and had resided for many years at the Isca Silurum, in Wales, was removed and stationed here, under a president or commander, præpositus, of its own, who was subordinate to the count of the Saxon shore, and continued so till the final departure of the Romans from Britain, in the year 410, when this fortress was left in the hands of the Britons, who were afterwards dispossessed of it by the Saxons, during whose time the harbour seems to have began to decay and to swerve up, the sea by degrees entirely deserting it at this place, but still leaving one large and commodious at Sandwich, which in process of time became the usual resort for shipping, and arose a flourishing harbour in its stead, as plainly appears by the histories of those times, by all of which, both the royal Saxon fleets, as well as those of the Danes, are said to sail for the port of Sandwich, and there to lie at different times; (fn. 11) and no further mention is made by any of them of this of Rutupiæ, Reptachester, or Richborough; so that the port being thus destroyed, the town became neglected and desolate, and with the castle sunk into a heap of ruins. Leland's description of it in king Henry VIII.'s reign, is very accurate, and gives an exceeding good idea of the progressive state of its decay to that time. He says, "Ratesburg otherwyse Richeboro was, of ever the ryver of Sture dyd turn his botom or old canale, withyn the Isle of the Thanet, and by Iykelyhod the mayn se came to the very foote of the castel. The mayn se ys now of yt a myle by reason of wose, that has there swollen up. The scite of the town or castel ys wonderful fair apon an hille. The walles the wich remayn ther yet be in cumpase almost as much as the tower of London. They have bene very hye thykke stronge and wel embateled. The mater of them is flynt mervelus and long brykes both white and redde after the Britons fascion. The sement was made of se sand and smaul pible. Ther is a great lykelyhod that the goodly hil abowte the castel and especially to Sandwich ward hath bene wel inhabited. Corne groweth on the hille yn bene mervelous plenty and yn going to plowgh ther hath owt of mynde fownd and now is mo antiquities of Romayne money than yn any place els of England surely reason speketh that this should be Rutupinum. For byside that the name sumwhat toucheth, the very near passage fro Cales Clyves or Cales was to Ratesburgh and now is to Sandwich, the which is about a myle of; though now Sandwich be not celebrated by cawse of Goodwine sandes and the decay of the haven. Ther is a good flyte shot of fro Ratesburg toward Sandwich a great dyke caste in a rownd cumpas as yt had bene for sens of menne of warre. The cumpase of the grownd withyn is not much above an acre and yt is very holo by casting up the yerth. They cawle the place there Lytleborough. Withyn the castel is a lytle paroche chirch of St. Augustine and an heremitage. I had antiquities of the heremite the which is an industrious man. Not far fro the hermitage is a cave wher men have sowt and digged for treasure. I saw it by candel withyn, and ther were conys. Yt was so straite that I had no mynd to crepe far yn. In the north side of the castel ys a hedde yn the walle, now fore defaced with wether. They call it queen Bertha hedde. Nere to that place hard by the wal was a pot of Romayne mony sownd."

The ruins of this antient castle stand upon the point of a hill or promontory, about a mile north-west from Sandwich, overlooking on each side, excepting towards the west, a great flat which appears by the lowness of it, and the banks of beach still shewing themselves in different places, to have been all once covered by the sea. The east side of this hill is great part of it so high and perpendicular from the flat at the foot of it, where the river Stour now runs, that ships with the greatest burthen might have lain close to it, and there are no signs of any wall having been there; but at the north end, where the ground rises into a natural terrace, so as to render one necessary, there is about 190 feet of wall left. Those on the other three sides are for the most part standing, and much more entire than could be expected, considering the number of years since they were built, and the most so of any in the kingdom, except Silchester. It is in shape an oblong square, containing within it a space of somewhat less than five acres. They are in general about ten feet high within, but their broken tops shew them to have been still higher. The north wall, on the outside, is about twice as high as it is within, or the other two, having been carried up from the very bottom of the hill, and it seems to have been somewhat longer than it is at present, by some pieces of it sallen down at the east end. The walls are about eleven feet thick. In the middle of the west side is the aperture of an entrance, which probably led to the city or town, and on the north side is another, being an entrance obliquely into the castle. Near the middle of the area are the ruins of some walls, full of bushes and briars, which seem as if some one had dug under ground among them, probably where once stood the prætorium of the Roman general, and where a church or chapel was afterwards erected, dedicated to St. Augustine, and taken notice of by Leland as such in his time. It appears to have been a chapel of ease to the church of Ash, for the few remaining inhabitants of this district, and is mentioned as such in the grant of the rectory of that church, anno 3 Edward VI. at which time it appears to have existed. About a furlong to the south, in a ploughed field, is a large circular work, with a hollow in the middle, the banks of unequal heights, which is supposed to have been an amphitheatre, built of turf, for the use of the garrison, the different heights of the banks having been occasioned by cultivation, and the usual decay, which must have happened from so great a length of time. These stations of the Romans, of which Richborough was one, were strong fortifications, for the most part of no great compass or extent, wherein were barracks for the loding of the soldiers, who had their usual winter quarters in them. Adjoining, or at no great distance from them, there were usually other, buildings forming a town; and such a one was here at Richborough, as has been already mentioned before, to which the station or fort was in the nature of a citadel, where the soldiers kept garrison. To this Tacitus seems to allude, when he says, "the works that in time of peace had been built, like a free town, not far from the camp, were destroyed, left they should be of any service to the enemy." (fn. 12) Which in great measure accounts for there being no kind of trace or remains left, to point out where this town once stood, which had not only the Romans, according to the above observation, but the Saxons and Danes afterwards, to carry forward at different æras the total destruction of it.

The burial ground for this Roman colony and station of Richborough, appears to have been on the hill at the end of Gilton town, in this parish, about two miles south-west from the castle, and the many graves which have been continually dug up there, in different parts of it, shew it to have been of general use for that purpose for several ages.

The scite of the castle at Richborough was part of the antient inheritance of the family of the Veres, earls of Oxford, from which it was alienated in queen Elizabeth's reign to Gaunt; after which it passed, in like manner as Wingham Barton before-described, to Thurbarne, and thence by marriage to Rivett, who sold it to Farrer, from whom it was alienated to Peter Fector, esq. of Dover, the present possessor of it. In the deed of conveyance it is thus described: And also all those the walls and ruins of the antient castle of Rutupium, now known by the name of Richborough castle, with the scite of the antient port and city of Rutupinum, being on and near the lands before-mentioned. About the walls of Richborough grows Fæniculum valgare, common fennel, in great plenty.

It may be learned from the second iter of Antonine's Itinerary, that there was once a Roman road, or highway from Canterbury to the port of Richborough, in which iter the two laft stations are, from Durovernum, Canterbury, to Richborough, ad portum Rutupis, xii miles; in which distance all the different copies of the Itinerary agree. Some parts of this road can be tracted at places at this time with certainty; and by the Roman burial-ground, usually placed near the side of a high road, at Gilton town, and several other Roman vestigia thereabouts, it may well be supposed to have led from Canterbury through that place to Richborough, and there is at this time from Goldston, in Ash, across the low-grounds to it, a road much harder and broader than usual for the apparent use of it, which might perhaps be some part of it.

Charities.

A person unknown gave four acres and an half of land, in Chapman-street, of the annual produce of 5l. towards the church assessments.

Thomas St. Nicholas, esq. of this parish, by deed about the year 1626, gave an annuity of 11. 5s. to be paid from his estate of Hoden, now belonging to the heirs of Nathaniel Elgar, esq. to be distributed yearly, 10s. to the repairing and keeping clean the Toldervey monument in this church, and 15s. on Christmas-day to the poor.

John Proude, the elder, of Ash, yeoman, by his will in 1626, ordered that his executor should erect upon his land adjoining to the church-yard, a house, which should be disposed of in future by the churchwardens and overseers, for a school-house, and for a storehouse, to lay in provision for the church and poor. This house is now let at 1l. per annum, and the produce applied to the use of the poor.

Richard Camden, in 1642, gave by will forty perches of land, for the use of the poor, and of the annual produce of 15s. now vested in the minister and churchwardens.

Gervas Cartwright, esq. and his two sisters, in 1710 and 1721, gave by deed an estate, now of the yearly value of 50l. for teaching fifty poor children to read, write, &c. vested in the minister, churchwardens, and other trustees.

The above two sisters, Eleanor and Anne Cartwright, gave besides 100l. for beautifying the chancel, and for providing two large pieces of plate for the communion service; and Mrs. Susan Robetts added two other pieces of plate for the same purpose.

There is a large and commodious workhouse lately built, for the use of the poor, to discharge the expence of which, 100l. is taken yearly out of the poor's rate, till the whole is discharged. In 1604, the charges of the poor were 29l. 15s. 11d. In 1779. 1000l.

There is a charity school for boys and girls, who are educated, but not cloathed.

The poor constantly relieved are about seventy-five, casually fifty-five.

This parish is within the ecclesiastical jurisdiction of the dioceseof Canterbury, and deanry of Bridge.

The church, which is dedicated to St. Nicholas, is a handsome building, of the form of a cross, consisting of two isles and two chancels, and a cross sept, having a tall spire steeple in the middle, in which are eight bells and a clock. It is very neat and handsome in the inside. In the high or south chancel is a monument for the Roberts's, arms, Argent, three pheons, sable, on a chief of the second, a greybound current of the first; another for the Cartwrights, arms, Or, a fess embattled, between three catherine wheels, sable. In the north wall is a monument for one of the family of Leverick, with his effigies, in armour, lying cross-legged on it; and in the same wall, westward, is another like monument for Sir John Goshall, with his effigies on it, in like manner, and in a hollow underneath, the effigies of his wife, in her head-dress, and wimple under her chin. A gravestone, with an inscription, and figure of a woman with a remarkable high high-dress, the middle part like a horseshoe inverted, for Jane Keriell, daughter of Roger Clitherow. A stone for Benjamin Longley, LL. B. minister of Ash twenty-nine years, vicar of Eynsford and Tonge, obt. 1783. A monument for William Brett, esq. and Frances his wife. The north chancel, dedicated to St. Nicholas, belongs to the manor of Molland. Against the north wall is a tomb, having on it the effigies of a man and woman, lying at full length, the former in armour, and sword by his side, but his head bare, a collar of SS about his neck, both seemingly under the middle age, but neither arms nor inscription, but it was for one of the family of Harflete, alias Septvans; and there are monuments and several memorials and brasses likewise for that family. A memorial for Thomas Singleton, M. D. of Molland, obt. 1710. One for John Brooke, of Brookestreet, obt. 1582, s. p. arms, Per bend, two eagles.—Several memorials for the Pekes, of Hills-court, and for Masters, of Goldstone. A monument for Christopher Toldervy, of Chartham, obt. 1618. A memorial for Daniel Hole, who, as well as his ancestors, had lived upwards of one hundred years at Goshall, as occupiers of it. In the north cross, which was called the chapel of St. Thomas the Martyr, was buried the family of St. Nicholas. The brass plates of whom, with their arms, are still to be seen. A tablet for Whittingham Wood, gent. obt. 1656. In the south cross, a monument for Richard Hougham, gent. of Weddington, and Elizabeth his wife, daughter of Edward Sanders, gent. of Norborne. An elegant monument for Mary, wife of Henry Lowman, esq. of Dortnued, in Germany. She died in 1737, and he died in 1743. And for lieutenant colonel Christopher Ernest Kien, obt. 1744, and Jane his wife, their sole daughter and heir, obt. 1762, and for Evert George Cousemaker, esq. obt. 1763, all buried in a vault underneath, arms, Or, on a mount vert, a naked man, bolding a branch in his hand, proper, impaling per bend sinister, argent and gules, a knight armed on borjeback, holding a tilting spear erect, the point downwards, all counterchanged. On the font is inscribed, Robert Minchard, arms, A crescent, between the points of it a mullet. Several of the Harfletes lie buried in the church-yard, near the porch, but their tombs are gone. On each side of the porch are two compartments of stone work, which were once ornamented with brasses, most probably in remembrance of the Harfleets, buried near them. At the corner of the church-yard are two old tombs, supposed for the family of Alday.

In the windows of the church were formerly several coats of arms, and among others, of Septvans, alias Harflete, Notbeame, who married Constance, widow of John Septvans; Brooke, Ellis, Clitherow, Oldcastle, Keriell, and Hougham; and the figures of St. Nicholas, Keriell, and Hougham, kneeling, in their respective surcoats of arms, but there is not any painted glass left in any part of the church or chancels.

John Septvans, about king Henry VII.'s reign, founded a chantry, called the chantry of the upper Hall, as appears by the will of Katherine Martin, of Faversham, sometime his wife, in 1497. There was a chantry of our blessed Lady, and another of St. Stephen likewise, in it; both suppressed in the 1st year of king Edward VI. when the former of them was returned to be of the clear yearly certified value of 15l. 11s. 1½d. (fn. 13)

The church of Ash was antiently a chapel of east to that of Wingham, and was, on the foundation of the college there in 1286, separated from it, and made a distinct parish church of itself, and then given to the college, with the chapels likewise of Overland and Fleet, in this parish, appurtenant to this church; which becoming thus appropriated to the college, continued with it till the suppression of it in king Edward VI.'s reign, when this part of the rectory or parsonage appropriate, called Overland parsonage, with the advowson of the church, came, with the rest of the possessions of the college, into the hands of the crown, where the advowson of the vicarage, or perpetual curacy of it did not remain long, for in the year 1558, queen Mary granted it, among others, to the archbishop. But the above-mentioned part of the rectory, or parsonage appropriate of Ash, with those chapels, remained in the crown, till queen Elizabeth, in her 3d year, granted it in exchange to archbishop Parker, who was before possessed of that part called Goldston parsonage, parcel of the late dissolved priory of St. Gregory, by grant from king Henry VIII. so that now this parish is divided into two distinct parsonages, viz. of Overland and of Goldston, which are demised on separate beneficial leases by the archbishop, the former to the heirs of Parker, and the latter, called Gilton parsonage, from the house and barns of it being situated in that hamlet, to George Gipps, esq. M. P. for Canterbury. The patronage of the perpetual curacy remains parcel of the possessions of the see of Canterbury.

¶At the time this church was appropriated to the college of Wingham, a vicarage was endowed in it, which after the suppression of the college came to be esteemed as a perpetual curacy. It is not valued in the king's books. The antient stipend paid by the provost, &c. to the curate being 16l. 13s. 4d. was in 1660, augmented by archbishop Juxon with the addition of 33l. 6s. 8d. per annum; and it was afterwards further augmented by archbishop Sheldon, anno 28 Charles II. with twenty pounds per annum more, the whole to be paid by the several lessees of these parsonages. Which sum of seventy pounds is now the clear yearly certified value of it. In 1588 here were communicants five hundred; in 1640, eight hundred and fifty. So far as appears by the registers, the increase of births in this parish is almost double to what they were two hundred years ago.

www.british-history.ac.uk/survey-kent/vol9/pp191-224

National Trustees Executors Building, Melbourne

20th December 1902 – 20th February 1903 details of the meetings re Mrs. Caroline Parker, the mortgages and repairs on property including the Browick Property held in trust under Samuel Parker’s Will.

Samuel Parker born 1814 at Wymondham was the son of James and Sophia, nee Scarlett, Parker he married Caroline Sparkhall 11th August 1846 at Wymondham. Caroline was the daughter of John Sparkhall and Elizabeth Limmer and was born in 1824 at Wymondham.

The Parker Family of Wymondham Documents.

Die Cast Series 2

TIE Bomber, Death Star, Executor,

A-Wing, Landspeeder, Snowspeeder, and Slave I

Australian view.

Vergilius Maro, Publius: Aeneis [English]. Eneydos. Translated by William Caxton, from the French Livre des Énéides. [Westminster]: William Caxton, [after 22 June 1490]. Page from Caxton’s prologue (A2v) with administraive inscription relating to Thomas Perkines (16th/17th century): “The condit[i]on of this present obligation is such that yf the aboue bonnden Thomas Perkines his heires executors administrators or assignes or eyther of them for and in good consideration him movinge”. Sp Coll Hunterian Bv.2.10.

Autographed publicity still.

Will of Eleanor Woodcock, wife of David Woodcock, Platelayer, Whittingham, Northumberland, 12 August 1911.

Executor: David Woodcock. Beneficiaries: David Woodock, and her childen (Unamed).

Witnesses: John Balmbra, Alnwick and William B. Young, Alnwick

Church of St. Mary,

Monument to Mrs Everilda Thornhill †1743, and members of her family. Marble, above north arcading of central aisle. Commissioned by the executors of her will on her orders.

The inscription is illegible, but clarified in the photographs. Everilda Thornhill was a spinster from Burnham, who died aged 44. The other members of her family included in the inscription, and buried in a vault nearby, were: her mother, Ann Thornhill †1724; her uncle Thomas Harris †1726; and her brother John Thornhill †1741.

The inscription, under an angel head is set under a broken pediment, with (presumably) the now illegible family coat of arms. It is framed by dark, doubled, Corinthian piers, above gadrooning and a double curved apron. The elegant monument is not signed (or if it had been the signature is now lost) but close to, but more complex than, contemporary monuments by Norwich sculptors, notably John Ivory’s monument to Mary Slater †1748 at Hingham.

detail of the inscription

Great shot of the Executor set all ready to roll.

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