Hinxhill is a compact village in the shadow of Wye down. I say a village, its a few of homes and the Hinxhill Estate, which you are unable to see from the street.
St Mary has been a church I have wished to see inside of for quite a few decades, and I have in no way identified it open. But for this Heritage weekend, I experienced superior hopes.
And I was not let down.
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Remote and peaceful Hinxhill is the archetypal place church. Almost all courting from the 13th century, the narrow north aisle is a common give way – built to be made use of as a processional place devoid of benches. The pretty lancet home windows, with trefoil headed tops are small and minimal even though the north chapel has a single with a rere-arch, a signal of prosperity in the latter 13th century. The odd chancel monitor is dated to the 17th century and the woodwork of the pulpit is possibly of that date much too. The stained glass is Victorian and primarily by the Scottish company of Ballantyne – a catalogue of transforming trend. The south chancel window of Christ weeping is significantly great. The wonderful Royal Arms is one of several in Kent by Marten of Tenterden and effectively truly worth a glimpse. To the north of the chancel is a seventeenth century tomb with good effigies and skulls beneath – which legend says was walled up with plaster for two hundred decades just before getting re exhibited by the Victorians. In the vestry is a delightful piece of continental glass of probable seventeenth century day.
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HINXHILL,
Typically referred to as Hinexsell, and in quite antient instances created Hengestelle, is the upcoming parish eastward from Kennington. The manor of Bilsington claims over a great portion of this parish.
HINXHILL is an obscure parish, but small recognised, and having quite tiny site visitors by it. The village is made up of only 4 or five residences, 1 of which, is the principal farm-household of Sir John Honywood’s estate in this article, and a different the parsonage. It stands on superior ground, with the church on the west aspect of it. The antient mansion stood close to the south-west corner of the church-garden, acquiring a wonderful prospect above the adjoining region. The kitchen area is all that continues to be of it now, currently being created use of as an oast and stowages for hops. Not considerably from the church, northward, are Great and Minimal Plumpton, the former was for some time the residence of the Andrew’s, the latter of the Whitwick’s. Down below the hill from the village to the north and west, it is a deep and most disagreeable nation, the soil a stiff clay, with significantly boggy ground, specially westward, where by it is joined by the river Stour. About the village it it tolerable fertile land, but southward there is a lot sand, combined with the quarry or rag stone.
A truthful is held right here yearly on the Saturday in Whitsun-7 days, for toys and pedlary.
In the year 1727, a species of subterraneous hearth was taken discover of in the valley between Goodcheape in this parish and Wye. This fireplace commenced in a marshy discipline, on the side of a tiny brook, in the vicinity of the water, and continued to melt away alongside its lender with out spreading considerably for some times later on it appeared on the other facet, and prolonged alone for the area of some acres around the industry, consuming all the earth exactly where it burnt into red ashes, fairly down to the springs, which in most areas lay four ft and extra deep. In the place of about 6 weeks it had eaten about three acres of floor, at which time it burnt in quite a few destinations, and despatched forth a great smoak and a sturdy smell pretty like that of a brick-kiln but it in no way flamed, apart from when the earth was turned and stirred up. For some space where it was burnt the ground felt hot, even though the grass appeared no more parched than may well be fairly expected from the dryness and heat of the time. In various destinations the place the earth was turned up, it was uncovered to be warm and soaked in close proximity to 4 toes deep, and substantially hotter about two toes deep than nearer the floor and when this earth was exposed to the air, while it was really moist, and not hotter than may be conveniently borne by the hand, nevertheless the heat of it enhanced so rapid, that in a several minutes it was all above on fireplace, like phosphorus created with allum and flour. The soil of the subject is of the very same mother nature with that the turs is created of in Holland. The surface of it is usually soaked, other than in serious dry seasons but this season it was considerably much more parched and more challenging than regular. It was difficult to have any of this away, on account of its firing just one piece in certain firing in the pocket of one who was bringing it absent, had almost burnt its way through prior to it was perceived. (fn. 1)
In the stone-quarry by Swatfield-bridge, at the southern boundary of this parish, as properly as in numerous of the rag-stones about the adjoining parishes of Sevington and Willesborough, is uncovered the ostracites stone, quite big and on a rag-stone at Lacton, in the latter parish, the flat shell of one particular calculated eight inches diameter and the late Mr. Thorpe, of Bexley, had two in his possession, quite massive and honest, with the convex parts completely filled up with reliable stone, which were provided to his father, Dr. Thorpe, by the earl of Winchelsea.
A person ÆTHELFERH, a servant of the abbot of St. Augustine’s monastery, about the year 864, by will gave the land of Hengesteselle, which was a parish, as Thorne suggests in his Chronicle, contiguous to that of Willesborough northward, to that monastery but Hugo de Montfort, in the time of the Conqueror, obtained possession of it, in spite of all the endeavours of the monks to oppose it: and appropriately this estate looks to have been hence entered in the study of Domesday as follows, amid his belongings:
In Langebrige hundred, Gislebert holds of Hugo one particular yoke, which a sure Sochman held of king Edward. It is and was worthy of four shillings. There was nothing there nor is.
Of Etwelle, which Herbert the son of Ivo, retains without the division of Hugo, he himself holds fourteen acres of land inside of his division, and it is worth two shillings.
And still even further in the very same file, below the like title, is the following entry, which evidently relates to his possessions, part of, or at least adjoining to individuals in advance of-stated:
In Langebrige hundred. In the exact same hundred, is one rood of land in Suestone, which a single Sochman held of king Edward. There is now a single borderer spending twelve pence. In the time of king Edward the Confessor it was really worth thirty pence, and afterwards eighteen, now three shillings.
Robert de Montfort, grandson of Hugo higher than-outlined, getting later on incurred the displeasure of king Henry II. all his estates, and these among them, them, came into the king’s hands, following which it appears that THE MANOR OF HINXHILL, with that of SWATFORD, alias SWATFIELD, was afterwards held by the relatives of Strabolgie, earls of Athol but Alexander Baliol, lord of Chilham, grew to become possessed of them at the latter conclude of king Henry III.’s reign, in ideal of Isabel his spouse, widow of David de Strabolgie, earl of Athol, and held them, by the courtesy of England, throughout her existence, she possessing been, on the loss of life of her brother Richard de Dover, s.p. turn out to be entitled to them for her life, the inheritance of them belonging to John, earl of Athol, her son by her previous husband, as heir to her brother before-talked about. At size they descended down to David, earl of Athol, who died in the 49th calendar year of king Edward III. leaving two daughters his coheirs, Elizabeth, the eldest, married to Sir Thomas Percy, a more youthful son of Henry, lord Percy, and Philippa to John Halsham, of Halsham, in Sussex the latter of whom, by her father’s will, became entitled to these manors. At duration her grandson Sir Hugh Halsham, in the beginning of king Henry VI.’s reign, passed them absent, in the 3d 12 months of that reign, to Sir Robert Scott, lieutenant of the tower of London, brother of Sir William Scott, of Braborne, and afterwards of Scotts-hall, whose only daughter and heir Alice, marrying William Kempe, nephew to cardinal archbishop Kempe, he, in her proper, turned entitled to them but his grandson Sir William Kempe, about the latter stop of king Henry VIII.’s reign, alienated them to Browning from which loved ones, about the reign of queen Elizabeth, they had been alienated to Robt. Edolph, esq. son of Robert Edolph, of Brenset, and brother of Simon Edolph, of St. Radigunds, who bore for his arms, Ermine, on a bend, sable, a few cinquesoils, argent, (fn. 2) who later on resided at Hinshill court docket, as did his son Sir Robert Edolph, who kept his shrievalty right here in the 6th calendar year of king James I. but his son Robert Edolph, esq. dying s.p. in 1631, gave these manors of Hinxhill and Swatford, with each other with the courtroom leet of the fifty percent hundred of Longbridge, by will to Cecilia his spouse, for her lifetime, or so very long as she continued single but she later on remarrying Sir Francis Knolles, of Examining, forfeited her curiosity in them, upon which they came to Mr. Samuel Edolph, her previous husband’s subsequent brother, who some yrs afterwards conveyed them to his brother in-regulation Mr. John Angel, of Surry, for the extra effectual efficiency of his will and he, someday following the dying of king Charles I. handed them absent to Edward Choute, esq. of Bethersden, who afterwards resided at Hinxhill-courtroom, as did his son Sir George Choute likewise, who was succeeded in them by his son George Choute, esq. who was created a baronet in 1684. He pulled down this mansion, and taken out to Bethersden, in which he died s.p. in 1721, (fn. 3) acquiring devised these manors by will to Edward Austen, esq. of Tenterden, afterwards baronet, who offered them not long later on to Sir William Honywood, bart. of Evington, who died possessed of them in 1748, and his direct descendant Sir John Honywood, bart. of Evington, is the present possessor of these manors.
The courts baron for the manors of Hinxhill and Swatford, have been for some time disused and the court docket leet for the fifty percent hundred of Longbridge has been for quite a few years past held by the constable of it, only for the appointment of a successor in his business office, as will be even more taken discover of hereafter.
WALTHAM is a put below, which was once accounted a manor, and antiently belonged to the spouse and children of Criol, from whom it went by relationship into that of Rokesle, and thence once more in like method to the family of Poynings, in which it continued until Sir Edward Poynings, governor of Dover castle, and lord warden, dying possessed of it anno 14 Henry VIII. 1522, not only with out authentic concern, but even without any collateral kindred, who could make claim to his estates, this manor, amongst some others, escheated to the crown, whence it was right away later on granted to Sir Richard Damsell, who not lengthy just after handed it away to Goldhill as he did about the latter end of queen Elizabeth’s reign, to Mr. Robert Edolph, of Hinxhillcourt due to the fact which it has handed in like method as the manor of Hinxhill before-explained, down to Sir John Honywood, bart. who is the present possessor of it.
GOODCHEAPES, as it is now called, but more effectively Godchepes, is an estate in the northern section of this parish, which for a sequence of numerous generations had owners of that surname, a single of whom, Thomas Godchepe, as seems by the inquisition taken right after his demise, died possessed of it in the 31st 12 months of king Edward I. and in his title and descendants it remained fastened right up until the latter close of king Henry VIII.’s reign, and then it came by the will of 1 of them, named also Thomas Godchepe, soon after the limitation of it, to a number of diverse folks, who had been turn out to be extinct with out difficulty, to the last individual mentioned in remainder in the will, Mr. John Barrow. The situation of which bequest is consequently related: Mr. John Barrow, being an legal professional, was known as upon to make the will of Thomas Godchepe, and by his route inserted the names of 8 individuals, who have been to thrive each and every other in the inheritance of this estate in tail, and currently being asked by Barrow, whom he really should increase more, he was answered by the testator, that as there had been a reciprocal friendship between them, he should really place his individual identify subsequent after them all and they all deceasing in class of time s.p. this estate in the end devolved to him and his heirs. Instances identical to the above have took place in relation to other estates in this county, especially to the Leeds abbey estate, by Sir Roger Meredith’s will, who died in 1742, s.p. who obtaining despatched for Mr. Walter Hooper, an lawyer, to make his will, just after possessing devised his estates to numerous different people successively in tail, appeared at a decline who to identify up coming in the entail, when Mr. Hooper described himself and his nephew and all the prior remainders owning ceased, they the two successively appreciated that estate by the will. (fn. 4) Mr. Barrow, who bore for his arms, Lozengy, or, and azure, a grissin, salient, ermine, resided later on right here, and died in 1578, leaving two daughters his coheirs, whose eldest daughter and coheir Elizabeth, marrying Mr. Robert Edolph, the purchaser of Hinxhill-courtroom as right before-talked about, he grew to become entitled to it someday about the latter conclusion of queen Elizabeth’s reign because which it has handed in like succession of ownership as the manors of Hinxhill and Waltham right before-outlined, down to Sir John Honywood, bart. who is the present possessor of them.
Charities.
MARTHA WADE, by will in 1722, gave an annuity of forty shillings, out of lands in this parish and Wye, to the use of the weak not acquiring alms, vested in the churchwardens and overseers.
The lousy consistently relieved are about twelve, casually 8.
THIS PARISH is inside of the ECCLESIASTICAL JURIADICTION of the diocese of Canterbury, and deanry of Limne.
The church, which is dedicated to St. Mary, is a modest creating, consisting of two isles and two chancels, owning a small spire steeple at the west finish, in which are three bells. In the large chancel, on the north facet, there is a handsome monument, very well preserved, for Robert Edolph, esq. and Cicely Browne his wife, obtaining their effigies kneeling on it. He died in 1631. In the south isle are memorials for Coveney, arms, On a bend, 3 trefoils slipt. The north isle is really narrow certainly in it is a memorial for Kennet Backe, gent. captain of the prepare-bands, obt. 1687. On the south facet, in the church-garden, are a number of memorials for the Wightwicks, and a really antient stone, coffinshaped, with a cross tale on it. It seems by the parish sign-up, that quite a few of the Edolphs are buried in this church, from the calendar year 1588, when Mr. Robt. Edolph, sen. gent. was buried in it, to the current century. Mr. John Barrow in 1578, Sir Edward Chute in 1634, and many others of some be aware in daily life, appear furthermore to have been buried in it, for whom there are not any memorials.
¶The church of Hinxhill was antiently appendant to the manor, and ongoing with it until Robert Edolph, esq. by will in 1631, gave the manor of Hinxhill to his wife Cecilie, for her lifestyle, or right until she remarried, and the advowson and patronage of this church to her and her heirs for at any time. By which usually means the advowson getting separated from the manor, grew to become an advowson in gross, and nevertheless it later on was possessed by the exact proprietors as the manor, still possessing been after divided it could in no way later on be appendant to it once more. (fn. 5) She before long later on remarrying Sir Francis Knolles, forfeited her lifetime-estate in the manor to her late husband’s next heir and brother, Mr. Sam. Edolph, and some many years later on alienated the reversion of the advowson, (for she seems to have offered to the Rectory in 1666) to him. Because which it has continued, in like succession of ownership with the manor of Hinxhill, and his other estates in this parish, to Angel, Choute, and Austen, and from the latter to Sir William Honywood, bart. whose descendant Sir John Honywood, bart. is the present proprietor and patron of this church.
This rectory is valued in the king’s guides at 7l. 16s. 8d. It is now a discharged dwelling, of the distinct annually accredited benefit of thirty-4 pounds. In 1578 here ended up communicants seventy-one particular. In 1640 it was valued at sixty lbs ., communicants seventy. There are 10 acres of glebe.
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