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The Fay Thomas Collection includes family archives relating to the Thomas family. Moses Thomas (1825-1878) was a significant figure in the history of the area now known as the City of Whittlesea, Victoria, Australia. Moses and Ann and their family lived at "Mayfield", Mernda, near Whittlesea, Victoria.

YPRL hold digital copies of the Papers of the Moses Thomas Family held at State Library Victoria

Copyright for these images is Public domain but a credit to the Fay Thomas Collection and YPRL would be appreciated.

Enquiries: Yarra Plenty Regional Library

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Governor Abercrombie signed the following bills:

House Bill 2052 (Relating to Provider Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment) increases access to Provider Orders for Life-Sustaining Treatment (POLST) by updating references from “physicians orders for life-sustaining treatment” to “provider orders for life-sustaining treatment.” The measure also expands health care provider signatory authority to include advance practice registered nurses and corrects inconsistencies of terms describing who may sign a POLST form on behalf of a patient.

House Bill 1616 (Relating to Health Planning) adds to the Hawaii State Planning Act’s objectives and policies for health, the identification of social determinants of health and prioritization of programs, services, interventions, and activities that address identified social determinants of health to improve Native Hawaiian health in accordance with federal law and reduce health disparities of disproportionately affected demographics.

House Bill 1723 (Relating to Psychiatric Facilities) amends the notice requirements for the discharge of an involuntary patient committed pursuant to legal proceeding involving fitness to proceed and requires the family court to conduct a timely hearing prior to the termination of a standing commitment order.

House Bill 2320 (Relating to Health) establishes health equity as a goal for the DOH and requires the DOH to consider social determinants of health in assessing health needs in the state. The measure is known as “Loretta’s Law” for the late DOH Director Loretta Fuddy, who was passionate proponent.

House Bill 2581 (Relating to Insurance) establishes the State Innovation Waiver Task Force and requires the task force to submit two interim reports and a final report to the legislature.

Senate Bill 2469 (Relating to Telehealth) requires equivalent reimbursement for services, including behavioral health services, provided through telehealth as for the same services provided via face-to-face contact between a health care provider and a patient. The measure also clarifies that health care providers for purposes of telehealth include primary care providers, mental health providers, oral health providers, physicians and osteopathic physicians, advanced practice registered nurses, psychologists, and dentists. For consistency purposes, the bill changes statutory references of “telemedicine” to “telehealth.”

House Bill 2400 (Relating to Temporary Disability Benefits) provides temporary disability benefits to employees who suffer disabilities as a result of donating organs.

Senate Bill 1233 (Relating to Leaves of Absence) requires certain private employers to allow employees to take leaves of absence for organ, bone marrow, or peripheral blood stem cell donation. Unused sick leave, vacation, or paid time off, or unpaid time off, may be used for these leaves of absence. The measure also requires employers to restore an employee returning from leave to the same or equivalent position and establishes a private right of action for employees seeking enforcement of provisions.

2 - A page of notes relating to Cochrane’s history by northyorkscc

In 1884, a shipyard was opened in Beverley by Andrew Cochrane and others. In a volume relating to the vessels built both at Beverley and Selby, we have found a page of notes relating to the history of the Company and the Cochrane family. In the top right hand corner there appears to be a list of the various names the company traded under depending on the partners at the time. We also see that work commenced on laying out the yard at Selby on 15th March 1898. Date: n.d. (c.1884-c.1957)

Celebrating Selby’s shipbuilding heritage, “Trawling Through Time” is funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund.

Navdeep Singh Dhillon and Sona Charaipotra attend Jakara 2009: 1984. Reflect. Respond. React. by Navdeep Dhillon

Navdeep Singh Dhillon and Sona Charaipotra attend Jakara 2009: 1984 - Reflect. Respond. React. Discussion on contemporary youth Sikh issues relating to Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale, K.P.S. Gill, Indira Gandhi's assasination, the rise of religious extremism, terrorism, the Delhi pogroms aka delhi "riots." victims of 1984

confectionery by Illustrate Your Mind

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The Brief for confectionery-The brief-I have been commissioned by a newly opening vintage/retro sweet shop ‘Penny’s’ to create a sculpture to be displayed in the window display of their establishment. Being their first display it must be colourful and promote confectionary attracting customers into the shop. It must reflect vintage to relate to the theme and style of the shop. The sculpture size isn’t particular and has been left for decision, but it must have a strong impact on the viewers. Introduction-I have been commissioned to produce a 3D sculpture for the window of a vintage/retro sweetshop that has just opened and needs a colourful and vibrant window display to attract customers. The constraints mean I have to make the sculpture based around confectionary and persuade the audience to buy the range of confectionary products sold in the vintage sweet shop named ‘Penny’s’. It can be any size, but must reflect the vintage style of the shop. I have many ideas of how I could fulfil this. By looking at old sweet wrappings and recreating an old fashioned sweet shop display. By using bright vibrant colours I can make the sculpture appealing. The main target audience will be children, but can range to teenagers and adults. I need to make sure I appeal all age groups with the sculpture I design for the window display. If the sculpture looks aesthetically welcoming then the shop is more likely to be successful. This means I must plan the sculpture carefully as it is of high importance to the shop in which commissioned me. I will conduct research, by looking at primary and secondary imagery; this will broaden my knowledge and understanding into the looks of confectionary. Creating observational drawing will help me start to build ideas and during this process I can experiment with different media’s to show variety within my work. By looking at critical studies I can be inspired and influenced by their work and by incorporating their work into mine will make it recognisable and therefore attract an audience. I will make sure I have explored all media’s possible and investigate techniques and process thoroughly. This allows me to see which materials work best for the brief I need to meet. I need to be considering the size, construction and shape of my sculpture. Through developing initial idea’s I should be able to finalize a suitable sculpture that will take part in a window display for a vintage sweet shop called ‘Penny’s’. Artist I will be looking at include, Claes Oldenburg, Peter chang, Wayne Theibauld, Banksy and many more. I hope to present my pages all in a similar style and creative sense, using the confectionery unit as a theme for decoration on all pages.

Critical study annotations-

Lisa Milroy

I choose to reproduce Lisa Milroy because she uses a lot of repetition and uses symmetry to produce her artwork. I think this is very inspiration because I could use repetition or symmetry in my sculpture for the display in the shop window. I have been commissioned to produce a window display for the sweet shop ‘Penny’s’ and the sculpture must be boldly and brightly coloured but sustain the vintage style to fit in with the theme of the shop. I choose to produce her butterfly as it shows symmetry and most sweets are symmetrical. The colours she has used are bright and vibrant and I would love to incorporate this into my final sculpture. I could use her pattern work as decoration on a sweet wrapper perhaps or take her style of work and produce a display for the window. I do think it has a lot of black in it and although this is very bold it looks very harsh. I would like something lighter to display to create a friendly environment to invite an audience into the shop. Creating it in pastels gave it an interesting texture which may appeal to an audience. Overall I am very pleased with this reproduction and hope to incorporate Lisa Milroy’s work into my design work. To improve I will continue to experiment with other medias and continue looking at other artists for inspiration. In comparison to Wayne Theibaud he has repeated the ice creams within his artwork and the media in which he produced that item of work looks similar to Lisa Milroy’s. I think Wayne Theibaud uses lighter colours though so I will try and peruse a look closer to his.

Claus Oldenburg

I reproduced Claus Oldenburg’s cake using acrylic paint and glue gun to build texture. I am very pleased with this design because I think it looks interesting and appealing as I have used more than one media to reproduce it in. Claus Oldenburg produces a lot of 3D sculptures that represent food and confectionary. His work is amazing and I really admire him as an artist. This is my favourite reproduction on the page and I think the colours work really well as I have contrasts of light and dark. I would need to be careful not to completely copy Claus Oldenburg’s work when it comes to designing. The colours of chocolate work really well I think because it looks appealing and appetizing and this will attract and audience into the sweet shop ‘Penny’s’ I have been commissioned by to produce a sculpture for the window of. It needs to stay in the theme of vintage so I could incorporate Claus Oldenburg’s idea with my own to add it an element of vintage. It’s not a perfectly neat reproduction and an audience might think something like this is scruffy but I do like this style and produced in this way to give it texture and appeal. Overall I am very pleased with my reproduction and I think I will defiantly use Claus Oldenburg as influence within my design work. To improve I need to refine a neater method to some designs so I have explored all methods s and medias. In comparison to Kate Malone they have both created 3D objects and used food as an influence. I think Kate Malone has a more refined style and uses different colours that are more pastel and dark than Claus Oldenburg who just uses realistic colours.

Joseph Cornell

At the beginning of the year I had the privilege to go to New York with the school and whilst we were there we looked round many of the art galleries. In one particular gallery I saw originals of Josephs Cornell’s work. I love the way in which he uses collage and memories and nostalgia to create interesting and unusual pieces of work. I could have stood there for ages looking at it and interpreting it in my own way. I think he relates to this unit as he shows a more vintage approach to art work and as I have been commissioned to produce a vintage sculpture for a sweet shop window display he has given me brilliant influence that I can apply to my design work. I chose to present a small section of his work and focused on the documents and vintage paper he placed in the box. I really like the words printed in an old fashioned style on tea stained paper because it resembles vintage. I do think I could have produced more of his work instead of a small section. But as I have had a change to choose a close up it really shows the detail that he goes into within his work. I would love to use text within my designs maybe to say the name of the sweet shop. Overall I am pleased with this reproduction but to improve I would add more to this image as it looks a little bear. In comparison to Grayson Perry, he uses words within his work, like greed for example. Words like these would be perfect for confectionary and food and I will think of incorporating them into my own work.

Wayne Theibaud

Wayne Theibaud uses a range of pastel colours that are bold and bright. I have been commissioned to produce a sculpture for a shop window that is bold and brightly coloured so that it will appeal to an audience and attract them into the sweet shop. I think I have reproduced three of his images to a high standard well using three different medias. The pastel work is my favourite as I can blend the tones and colours together to create an infusion that looks appetizing and appealing to an audience. The fine line is neat and refined which stands out and looks bold but it lacks colour and I need to include a lot of bright colours within my designs so I am not just using black fine line when it comes to designing. The colour pencil reproduction allowed me to layer more than one colour on top of each other which looks strong and powerful; it also creates texture and looks vibrant. This is perfect for the design work I will go in to produce but I so feel I could have produced it on a larger scale to show the intricately of the deign more. Overall I am very pleased with the work I have reproduced and I find Wayne Theibaud very inspirational and hope to include his influence within my work. To improve I will produce work on a bigger scale and stick to medias that involve colour. In comparison to Lisa Milroy he uses bright colours and uses repeating within his work, as she does and shows with her work in various other objects.

Kate Malone

I reproduced Kate Malone’s Blackberry vase as its one of my favourite pieces by her. I think the colours are vibrant and strong, this is perfect as I have been commissioned to produce a bold and brightly coloured sculpture to display in a sweet shop window called ‘Penny’s’. I used colour pencil to create my reproduction and by using colour pencil allows me to layer up my colours to create infusions of colour that are bright, vibrant and lively. I think my piece looks like the work of Kate Malone and I am happy with the reproduction as this time I have concentrated on the actual picture and not made up my own interpretation. I could have added a 3D aspect into the lid more by contrasting light and dark. Also I fear the colours are too strong if I were to place them in a well-lit environment in a window it could be to overpowering. These are all points I will take into consideration when producing my final outcome and initial deigns. Overall I am very pleased with vase I have reproduced but need to tone down some elements to be able to incorporate it into my design work. To improve I will develop my colour pencil skills and continue to tone down some area’s whilst others will be more refined and strong. In comparison to Peter Chang they have both used strong colours and the shapes of their pieces are extremely interesting and imaginative and almost have an abstract feel to them. I will incorporate these elements within my final outcome.

Grayson Perry

Grayson Perry has produced some very complicated work and this I found tricky to produce so I choose to focus on a symbolic close up. I enlarged the hand symbol and collaged it onto the vase I made out of different pieces of coloured paper. I think the black on the yellow background looks bold and strong but I could have done more of the design to show more of Grayson Perry’s work. He uses a lot of words within his work and I should have incorporated this as I would like to include text within my design work. As I have been commissioned to produce a sculpture for a sweet shop window I can take Grayson Perry’s 3d aspect of his vase work and produce something within this style. Overall I am very pleased with the final outcome of my reproduction but feel I could have added a little more. To improve I will next time focus on a bigger close up of an artists work, unless it’s more intricate and has more detail to it. In comparison to Kate Malone they both produce vase work and I think the ceramic looks sturdy and bold, but as I don’t like using this medium and material so I will have to experiment with it first to see how well I can create a sculpture.

Chapman Brothers

The chapman brothers have some very unusual work, I don’t like there style of artwork but I thought it showed how things join to together and the piece I reproduced showed a lot of texture and mark making which I could incorporate into my design work. I don’t particularly like this reproduction I produced because the image itself doesn’t appeal to me and looks far too scary, I wouldn’t use a style like this in my designs as it would scare the customers and not be welcoming and appealing for them to come into the sweet shop ‘Penny’s. They have commissioned me to produce a boldly and brightly coloured sculpture for the window display of their shop. Fine line alone would look dull so I added in some colour to experiment with mixing medias, I think it looks powerful but for my designs I would need more colour. Overall I am not as happy with this reproduction but it has been useful as it has allowed me to experiment with mixing different medias together to create a bold but brightly coloured image. To improve I will try to apply this to my designs that I will be producing shortly in the project. In comparison to Grayson Perry they both have produced unusual work that doesn’t really appeal to me and that includes a lot of harsh and dull colours, I can take some influence from these artists but will use other artist as well and combine a collection to create a powerful and strong final design.

Andy Warhol

I reproduced an Andy Warhol reproduction and found this artist myself. He uses a pop art style and as I have been commissioned to produce a vintage sculpture for the display window for a sweet shop called ‘Penny’s’ I think this style of art looks to modern. What drew me to this piece of work was the fact it showed confectionary and that he had used old tea stained paper, this looks vintage and will fit in with the theme of the shop. When I went to New York with the school earlier this year I had the privilege of seeing some Andy Warhol work first hand but had never seen this ice cream before that he has produced so was surprised to find it. Reproducing it was simple as I made it graphical and used coloured paper. I did tea stained the cone and fine lined the overall outcome to make it look bold and refined. I think it looks bold and brightly coloured which is a constraint of mine set by the commissioners. The style is a little too modern but the old tea stain paper effect makes it look a, little older and therefore vintage. Overall I am very pleased with this design and hope to take certain aspects forward into my design work. To improve I will continue to look at artists to inspire my own design work. In comparison to Wayne Theibaud they both use bright and bold colour that are eye catching, I can use this to my advantage and use bold and bright colours to attract an audience into the sweet shop.

Burger

I re produced this burger but cannot find out whom the artist is that produced it. I have gone into to extensive research but have a hunch that it is work of Claus Oldenburg’s. This burger represents food and being a painting I chose to reproduce it in water colour. I used watercolour pencils to keep it tight and not to washed out. I think the burger contains strong and vibrant colours which is suitable for the shop window sculpture I have been commissioned to produce. It needs to be boldly and brightly coloured. I think watercolour can look too washed out but I am pleased that I have managed to keep this image strong and vibrant. I could have added in fine line to give it definition but I have previously experimented with this so wanted to show watercolour alone. Overall I am very pleased with this reproduction as it suits the constraints to my brief. To improve I could continue researching which artist produced this work as I do not know. In comparison to Peter Chang they both use bold and strong colours. If I want to draw an audience into the old fashioned vintage style sweet shop I need to use bold and vibrant colours to attract and audience’s attention.

St Mary the Virgin, Goudhurst, Kent by Jelltex

For the best part of the last year, I have been posting shots of Kent churches on Twitter, to break up the torrent of horrible news relating to COVID, Brexit and our Dear Leader, and in doing so, I have discovered many churches I visited at the start of the project, needed to redone.

Goudhurst, is, apparently, the highest point in Kent, or so Jools tells me. I will just check that with Wikki: Hmm, it seems not. That is Betsom's Hill north of the M25 near to the border with London. Goudhurst is not even in the top ten.

I can confirm we approached the village along a long hill from a river valley, finally climbing up the narrow high street, getting round the parked cars and finding a space nearly big enough for the car near to the church.

On the other side of the road from the church, a series of very Kent houses and buildings, all decorated with pegtiles, in the Kent fashion, and to the south, the imposing structure of The Star and Eagle Hotel.

The church sits in it's large graveyard, pretty as a picture on a sunny summer's afternoon as on my first visit, but on a grey, late autumn afternoon, just as the light fades, it loses some of its charm.

The church itself is resplendent with it's honey-coloured stone, squat tower and spreading aisles on both sides.

There is a welcome notice on the door in the west end of the tower stating that the church is always open and all are indeed, welcome.

Its a fine touch.

Inside, it is light and spacious, so spacious to have to grand leather sofas in the nave, not sure if this is for glamping, or for some other reason, but they're doing no harm.

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Seen from afar Goudhurst is Kent's answer to Rye - a small hilltop village over which broods the lovely church. Its west tower, dating from the seventeenth century, is rather low, but the honey-coloured sandstone is particularly beautiful here. We enter the church through the tower, and are impressed by the way in which the width and height of the nave and its aisles combine to make such a noble structure. There are two remarkably fine wooden effigies dating from the sixteenth century, carved and painted and set into a purpose-built bay window. Nearby, in the south chapel, the walls are crammed with monuments and there are three brasses, one of which is covered by a stone canopy - not particularly grand but unexpected and functional.

www.kentchurches.info/church.asp?p=Goudhurst

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GOUDHURST

LIES the next parish southward from Marden. The northern part of it, as far southward as the stream formerly called Risebridge river, which flows from Bedgebury to Hope mill, and a smaller part likewise on the other side of it, adjoining to the rivulet called the Bewle westward, is in the hundred of Marden, and lower division of the lath of Scray; the rest of the parish southward of the first-mentioned stream, is in the hundred of West, alias Little Barnefield, and lath of Aylesford, comprehending the whole of that hundred. So much of this parish as is within the borough of Faircrouch, is in the hundred of Cranbrook; as much as is in the boroughs of Pattenden, Lilsden, Combwell, and Chingley or Bromley, is in the same hundred of West, alias Little Barnefield; and the residue is in the hundred of Marden. It lies wholly within the district of the Weald, and in the division of West Kent.

The borsholders of the boroughs of Highamden, Pattenden, and Hilsden, in this parish, are chosen at the court-leet holden for the manor of East Farleigh, and the inhabitants owe no service but to that manor; only a constable for the hundred of West Barnefield may be chosen out of such parts of them as lay within it for that hundred. The manor of Maidstone likewise extends into this parish, over lands as far southward as Rise-bridge.

THE PARISH OF GOUDHURST is very pleasantly situated, being interspersed on every side with frequent hill and dale. The trees in it are oak, of a large size, and in great plenty throughout it, as well in the woods, as broad hedge-rows and shaves round the fields. The lands are in general very fertile; the soil, like the adjoining parishes, is mostly a deep stiff clay; being heavy tillage land, but it has the advantage of a great deal of rich marle at different places, and in some few parts sand, with which the roads are in general covered; and in the grounds near Finchcocks, there is a gravel-pit, which is the only one, I believe, in this part of the county. There is much more pasture than arable land in it, the former being mostly fatting lands, bullocks fatted on them weighing in general from 120 to 130 stone. It is well watered with several streams in different parts of it, all which uniting with the Teis, flow in one channel, along the western side of this parish, towards the Medway. The eastern and southern parts of it are much covered with thick coppice wood, mostly of oak. The turnpike road from Maidstone over Cocksheath through Marden, leads through the upper part of this parish southward, dividing into two branches at Winchethill; that to the left goes on to Comborne, and leaving the town of Goudhurst a little to the right, joins the Cranbrooke road a little beyond it. That to the right, having taken into it a branch of the Woodgate road from Tunbridge, near Broadford-bridge, goes on to the town of Goudhurst, and thence eastward to Cranbrooke and Tenterden; and the great high road from Lamberhurst through Stonecrouch to Hawkhurst, and into Sussex, south-east, goes along the southern bounds of this parish.

The parish is about eight miles long and four broad. There are about three hundred houses in it, and somewhat more than five inhabitants to a house. It is very healthy; sixty years of age being esteemed, if not the prime, at least the middle age of life; the inhabitants of these parts being in great measure untainted with the vices and dissipation too frequently practised above the hill.

There are two heaths or commons here; the one called Pyles-health, and the other Killdown, in West Barnefield hundred.

THE TOWN, or village of Goudhurst, stands in the hundred of Marden, about half a mile within the lower or southern bounds of it, on an hill, commanding an extensive view of the country all around it. It is not paved, but is built on the sides of five different roads which unite at a large pond in the middle of it. The houses are mostly large, antient and well-timbered, like the rest of those in this neighbourhood, one of them, called Brickwall, belongs to the Rev. Mr. Thomas Bathurst. Within memory there were many clothiers here, but there are none now. There is some little of the woolstapling business yet carried on.

On the summit of the hill, on which the town stands, is the church, a conspicuous object to the neighbouring country, and near it was the marketplace, which was pulled down about the year 1650, and the present small one built lower down, at the broad place in the town near the pond. The market was held on a Wednesday weekly, for cattle, provisions, &c. till within memory; it is now entirely disused, there is a fair held yearly in the town, upon the day of the assumption of our lady, being August 26, for cattle, hardware, toys, &c. This market and fair were granted in the year of king Richard II. to Joane, widow of Roger de Bedgebury, the possessors of which estate claim at this time the privilege of holding them, by a yearly rent to the manor of Marden.

At the hamlet of Stonecrouch is a post-office of very considerable account, its district extending to Goudhurst, Cranbrooke, Tenterden, Winchelsea, Rye, and Hastings, and all the intermediate and adjoining places, to which letters are directed by this Stonecrouch bag.

ALMOST adjoining to the town eastward, on the road leading to Tenterden, there is A HAMLET, called LITTLE GOUDHURST, in which there is an antient seat, called TAYWELL, which for many generations was possessed by a family of the name of Lake, who bore for their arms, Sable, a bend between six crosscroslets, fitchee, argent. In the north isle of this church, under which is a vault, in which this family lie buried, there is a marble, on which is a descent of them. The last of them, Thomas Lake, esq. barrister-at-law, resided here, but dying without issue male, his daughters and coheirs became possessed of it; one of whom married Maximilian Gott, esq. and the other Thomas Hussey, esq. whose son Edward Hussey, esq. of Scotney, now possesses the entire see of this estate, which is demised for a long term of years to Mr. Olive, who has almost rebuilt it, and resides in it.

AT A SMALL DISTANCE southward from the abovementioned seat, is another, called TRIGGS, which was for several descents the residence of the Stringers, a family of good account in the different parts of this county. John Stringer, esq. son of Edward Stringer, of Biddenden, by Phillis his wife, daughter of George Holland, gent. resided here in king Charles I.'s reign, and married Susanna, daughter of Stephen Streeter, of Goudhurst, by whom he had Stephen, of Goudhurst; John, gent. of Ashford, who left a daughter and heir Mary, married to Anthony Irby, esq. Edward and Thomas, both of Goudhurst; the latter left two sons. Thomas and Edward, and a daughter Catherine, who married William Belcher, M. D. by whom the had Stringer Belcher, and other children. The Stringers bore for their arms, Per chevron, or, and sable, in chief two eagles displayed of the second, in the base a fleur de lis of the first.

Stephen Stringer, the eldest son of John, resided at Triggs in the reign of king Charles II. and was succeeded in it by his second son Stephen Stringer, esq. who kept his shrievalty here in the 6th year of queen Anne. He died without male issue, leaving by Jane his wife, daughter of John Austen, esq. of Broadford, four daughters his coheirs, Jane, married to Thomas Weston, of Cranbrooke; Hannah to William Monk, of Buckingham. in Sussex, whose eldest daughter and coheir married Thomas Knight, esq. of Godmersham; Elizabeth married Edward Bathurst, esq. of Finchcocks, and Anne married John Kirril, esq. of Sevenoke. (fn. 1) This seat was afterwards alienated to Francis Austen, esq. of Sevenoke, whose son Francis Mottley Austen, esq. of Sevenoke, is the present owner of it.

THE MANOR OF MARDEN claims over the greatest part of this parish; part of it, being the dens beforementioned, are within the manor of East Farleigh, and the remaining part, called Wincehurst-den, is within the manor of Gillingham, near Chatham. Although that part of this parish which lies within the hundred of West Barnefield, being the most southern part of it, contains those places which are of, by far, the greatest note in it, yet, for the sake of regularity in my description, I shall begin with those in the hundred of Marden, partly already described, and having finished that, proceed next to the hundred of West Barnefield, and the matters worthy of notice in it.

BOKINFOLD is a manor of large extent, situated in the hundred of Marden, having formerly a large park and demesnes belonging to it, which extended into the parishes of Brenchley, Horsemonden, Yalding, Marden, and Goudhurst, the house of it being situated in that of Yalding, in the description of which parish the reader will find an ample account of the former state and possessors of it. (fn. 2) It will, therefore, be sufficient to mention here, in addition to it, that the whole of this manor coming at length into the possession of Sir Alexander Colepeper. He in the 3d year of queen Elizabeth levied a fine of it, and three years afterwards alienated that part of this manor, and all the demesnes of it which lay in Brenchley, Horsemonden, Yalding, and Marden, to Roger Revell, as has been mentioned under the parish of Yalding, and THE REMAINDER OF IT in this parish, held of the manor of Marden, to Sharpeigh, whose descendant Stephen Sharpeigh passed that part of it away in 1582, to Richard Reynolds, whose son and heir John Reynolds, about the 41st year of queen Elizabeth, conveyed it to Richard Eliot, and he, about the year 1601, alienated it to Thomas Girdler, who the next year sold it to John Reynolds, and he, in the 5th year of king James, transmitted it to John Beale, who, about 1609, passed it away to John Harleston, of Ickham, and he settled it by will on Richard Harleston, who in like manner devised it to his kinsman Richard Bishop, and he, soon after the death of king Charles I. sold it to Mr. Stephen Stringer, of Triggs, in Goudhurst, whose son, of the same name, was sheriff anno 6 queen Anne, and left five daughters his coheirs, of whom Elizabeth, the third, married Edward Bathurst, esq. of Finchcocks, and on the division of their inheritance, he, in her right, became possessed of this manor. He died in 1772, upon which this estate came to his son, the Rev. Thomas Bathurst, rector of Welwyn, in Hertfordshire, the present owner of it. A court baron is regularly held for this manor.

In 1641 the archbishop collated Richard Amhurst, clerk, to the free chapels of Bockinfold and Newsted annexed, in the archdeaconry of Canterbury, then vacant and of his patronage. (fn. 3)

COMBORNE is an estate, situated in the northernmost part of this parish, adjoining to Winchet-hill, in the hundred of Marden likewise; which place of Winchet-hill was antiently the original seat in this county, of the family of Roberts, of Glassenbury.

An ancestor of this family, William Rookherst, a gentleman of Scotland, left his native country, and came into England in the 3d year of king Henry I. and had afterwards the surname of Roberts, having purchased lands at Winchet-hill, on which he built himself a mansion, calling it Rookherst, after himself. This place came afterwards to be called Ladiesden Rokehurst, alias Curtesden, and continued the residence of this family till the reign of king Richard II. when Stephen Roberts, alias Rookherst, marrying Joane, the daughter and heir of William Tilley, of Glassenbury, removed thither, and the remains of their residence here are so totally effaced, as to be known only by the family evidences, and the report of the neighbourhood.

But their estate at Winchet-hill continued several generations afterwards in their descendants, till it was at length alienated to one of the family of Maplesden, of Marden, in whose descendants this estate, together with that of Comborne adjoining, continued down to Edward Maplesden; esq. of the Middle Temple, who died in 1755, s. p. and intestate. Upon which they descended to Alexander Courthope, esq. of Horsemonden, the son of his sister Catherine, and to Charles Booth, esq. the grandson of his sister Anne, as his coheirs in gavelkind, and on a partition of those estates between them, Winchet-hill was allotted to Charles Booth, esq. afterwards Sir Charles Booth, of Harrietsham-place, who died possessed of it, s. p. in 1795, and his devisees, for the purposes of his will, are now in the possession of it; but Comborne was allotted to Alexander Courthope, esq. since deceased, whose nephew John Cole, esq. now possesses it.

FINCHCOCKS is a feat in this parish, situated within the hundred of Marden, in that angle of it which extends south-westward below Hope mill, and is likewise within that manor. It was formerly of note for being the mansion of a family of the same surname, who were possessed of it as early as the 40th year of Henry III. They were succeeded in it by the family of Horden, of Horden, who became proprietors of it by purchase in the beginning of king Henry VI.'s reign, one of whom was Edward Horden, esq. clerk of the green cloth to king Edward VI. queen Mary, and queen Elizabeth, who had, for some considerable service to the crown, the augmentation of a regal diadem, added to his paternal coat by queen Elizabeth. He left two daughters his coheirs, Elizabeth, married to Mr. Paul Bathurst, of Bathurst-street, in Nordiam, and Mary to Mr. Delves, of Fletchings, who had Horden for his share of the inheritance, as the other had this of Finchcocks. He was descended from Laurence Bathurst, of Canterbury, who held lands there and in Cranbrooke, whose son of the same name, left three sons, of whom Edward, the eldest, was of Staplehurst, and was ancestor of the Bathursts, of Franks, in this county, now extinct, (fn. 4) of the earls Bathurst, and those of Clarenden-park, in Wiltshire, and Lydney, in Gloucestershire; Robert Bathurst, the second, was of Horsemonden; and John, the third son, was ancestor of the Bathursts, of Ockham, in Hampshire. Robert Bathurst, of Horsemonden above-mentioned, by his first wife had John, from whom came the Bathursts, of Lechlade, in Gloucestershire, and baronets; and Paul, who was of Nordiam, and afterwards possessor of Finchcocks, from whose great-grandson William, who was a merchant in London, descended the Bathursts, of Edmonton, in Middlesex. By his second wife he had John, who was of Goudhurst, ancestor of the Bathursts, of Richmond, in Yorkshire. In the descendants of Paul Bathurst before-mentioned, this seat continued down to Thomas Bathurst, esq. who by his will devised this seat and estate to his nephew Edward, only son of his younger brother William, of Wilmington, who leaving his residence there on having this seat devised to him, removed hither, and rebuilt this seat, at a great expence, in a most stately manner. He resided here till his death in 1772, having been twice married, and leaving several children by each of his wives. By his first wife Elizabeth, third daughter and coheir of Stephen Stringer, esq. of Triggs, he had three sons, Edward, who left a daughter Dorothy, now unmarried, and John and Thomas, both fellows of All Souls college, in Oxford, the latter of whom is now rector of Welwyn, in Hertfordshire. Before his death he conveyed this seat and estate by sale to his son by his second wife, Mr. Charles Bathurst, who on his decease in 1767, s. p. devised it by will to his brother, the Rev. Mr. Richard Bathurst, now of Rochester, the present possessor of it. This branch of the family of Bathurst. bore for their arms the same coat as those of Franks, in this county, and those of Cirencester, Lydney, and Clarendon, viz. Sable, two bars, ermine, in chief three crosses pattee, or, with a crescent for difference; but with a different crest, viz. Party per fess, and pale, a demi wolf argent, and sable, holding a regal crown, or; which I take to be that borne by Edward Horden, whose heir Paul Bathurst, their ancestor, married, and whose coat of arms they likewise quartered with their own.

¶AT NO GREAT DISTANCE from Finchcocks, in the same hundred, lies a capital messuage, called RISEDEN, alias GATEHOUSE, which formerly belonged to a family named Sabbe, one of whom, Simon Sabbe, sold it, before the middle of the last century, to Mr. Robert Bathurst, from whom it descended down, with an adjoining estate, called TRILLINGHERST, to another Robert Bathurst, who died in 1731, and lies buried in this church, whose daughter Mary sold them both to Sir Horace Mann, bart. the present possessor of them.

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