The object requiring the most immediate attention, is suitable accommodation for the officers now under orders to take the Tower Duty.

The Dwelling houses belonging to the Mint are stated to be about thirty in number.

We have reproduced an old plan of the Tower which we thought would interest our readers, though it has really nothing to do with Lord Dillon's article.-EDITOR.

REFERENCES TO THE PLAN.

SOME EAST KENT PARISH HISTORY.

BY PETER DE SANDWICH.

[Continued from p. 51.]

XVIII.-EASTLING.

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1569. (Abp. Parker's Visitation.)

ECTORY:-In the patronage of Nicholas Sentleger,
Esquire, in right of his wife.

Rector:-Dom. Richard Rogers, M.A., he is not married, lives there, has one benefice, and is hospitable as far as he is able, not a preacher nor licensed to preach.

Householders, 24

Communicants, 87.-(Page 34.)

1572. That the church is out of reparation for lack of tileing. James Parker, farmer of the Court Lodge, suffereth his swine to turn up the churchyard, contrary to all good order. And that he ought to keep the enclosure, for that his occupancy is round about the churchyard; and as by good record it may well appear it hath been enclosed by the farmers of the said Court-Lodge these hundred years.-(Vol. 1571-2, fol. 134.)

1576. We present that by reason of the great wind that was lately, our church is at reparation for lack of tileing.—(Vol. 1574-6, fol. 88.)

1580. (See under Baddlesmere, vol. vii, p. 212.)

1603. We, the churchwardens and sidesmen there, present Isaac Greenstreet and Sicily, the wife of Richard Hayward, and Mary Mynge, the servant of Isaac Greenstreet, for their uncomely railing and scolding; to the great disturbance and offence of their neighbours. (Fol. 84.)

Thomas Greenstreet for not performing a legacy of his father Henry Greenstreet, late deceased, bequeathed to the poor of our parish, as the same Thomas hath reported and acknowledged, and as by the Will of the same plainly appeareth.-(Fol. 85.)

James Greenstreet who, notwithstanding many warnings, hath not yet paid such money as he was cessed to pay towards the church. (Fol. 86.)

1605. The east end, north side, and the south side of the churchyard is fenced only with hedge, through the which hogs brake, by which the churchyard is defiled and the graves offensively racked; of this no redress will be had because Robert Yate and Richard his son, the occupiers of the land adjoining to the churchyard, refuse to make a sufficient fence, affirming that the parish ought to do it, and the parish plead to the contrary a very ancient custom. We pray that some speedy and lawful order may be taken.-(Vol. 1601-6, fol. 150.)

1612. Some part of the inward wall of our belfry is lately fallen down, and our church porch wanteth some shingling (else all is well), and we crave a reasonable day for the repairing of the same. (Fol. 64.)

1615. If by the Bible of the largest volume, a Bible of the latest translation be understood, we have none such; and that we have it not well bound. We have the Book of Common Prayer well bound, all other things we have accordingly and they are done as becometh, save that the seats are unseemly.-(Fol. 213.)

1617. All is well, saving that the north side of the church wanteth some rafters, and the steeple of the church doth lack shingling. (Vol. 1610-17, fol. 267.)

1665. There is presented the want of a large Bible of the last translation, a font, and the churchyard fence not in good repair, and the steeple cracked, also the want of a chest to keep the utensils of the church in.-(Vol. 1636-81, fol. 124.)

1672. Robert Somerscall, for that the church is much out of repair together with the steeple thereof, which he confesseth to be true, and alledgeth that he hath repaired some part thereof, and hath material and workmen now at work to repair the rest, which work will be finished within a month's time.-(Vol. 1670-93, fol. 22.)

FAVERSHAM.

(Previously printed in vol. vi, page 316, and vol. vii, page 51.)

XIX.-GOODNESTON, next Faversham.

1560. That the Parson doth not his duty according to the article [of enquiry]. They lack the Paraphrase. Our parsonage is at

decay. Our parson hath appointed his tressher (sic) to be our Reader. Our parson is not resident, and hath another benefice called Boughton under the Blean. Our Reader doth not say his service in due time, and doth not read the catechism to the youth of our parish.-(Vol. 1560-84, fol. 49.)

1561. That their Parson is not resident, and he is Vicar also of Boughton under the Blean. The parsonage house of Goodneston is in decay, in default of Sir Robert Thompson,' parson. He hath pulled down part of the house to boche2 up the rest, and for fault of reparation they are like to fall down, and the barn also. They lack the Paraphrase. That he hath sold the timber that was about the ground, and further that the pigeon-house is in decay for fault of reparation.-(Vol. 1561-2, fol. 124.)

1563. Their parson is not resident, neither keepeth he any hospitality there, but resides at Boughton under Blean.

The parsonage house is somewhat in decay.

Their parson hath cut down certain trees that did grow on the parsonage ground and carried them to Boughton under Blean, where he is also vicar, to build there, and our parsonage house being in decay.

[The Rector explained that he carried them to Boughton, to be sawn into boards to repair the parsonage barn.]—(Vol. 1563-4.)

1569. (Abp. Parker's visitation.-See vol. vi, p. 31.)

1569. Rectory:-In patronage of Robert Fagg, Esquire. Rector:-Dom. Robert Thompson, he is not married, does not live there, has also the vicarage of Boughton Blean in the same deanery, does not preach, has no license to preach, not a graduate. Curate:-Thomas Gardiner, who preaches.

Householders, 8.

Communicants, 33.-(Page 36.)

1571. William Frende now of Faversham, who was sometime churchwarden of Goodneston four years past, hath not, neither will redeliver two keys, which were delivered to him to the use of the church, neither will pay 3s. 4d. for the occupying of them for this last year, according unto an order thereof made.—(Vol. 1571-2, fol. 134.)

1 He was Vicar of Boughton under Blean 1554-74, where he was buried 21st November, 1575.

2 Botch, to patch, mend clumsily.-" Dialect Dictionary."

1574. We present the parson, for the ruin of a cove' of a house, adjoining to the barn.-(Vol. 1574-6, fol. 84.)

1580. (See under Badlesmere, vol. vii, p. 212.)

1581. William Havering for absenting himself from divine service upon the Sunday and at several times sythence [sic]. Also he did openly defame the minister for examining the sureties at the christening of his own child, with opprobrious talk, which shall be declared more at large when the parties shall come together.(Vol. 1577-84, fol. 51.)

1585. Our Bible and Communion Book are not altogether as they ought to be, for the Bible is not of the largest volume, and our Communion Book is somewhat torn, but we have already taken order for new, and look for them shortly from London.(Fol. 46.)

1590. Our chancel is unrepaired and unpaved, and hath been unpaved for the space of this twelvemonths.-Fol. 156.

Margaret Cole, wife of John Cole, for that there hath been and so yet is, a very common fame and vehement suspicion within the parish and other places adjoining, that she hath and doth use the most ungodly and wicked practise of sorcery or witchcraft to the offence of good people.

Also Elizabeth Gardiner, wife to Benjamin Gardiner, and sister to the party aforesaid, for the same offence and in the same words as Margaret Cole.-(Vol. 1584-91, fol. 161.)

1592. Their vicar, John Foord, taketh upon himself to preach not only in his own cure, but in other parish churches publicly, being not authorized nor licensed thereunto, by order of law and the Church of England.

That he doth not say the divine service according to the Book of Common Prayer, that he doth not administer the holy sacraments according to the same book. That he refuseth to read the lessons gathered out of certain of the books appointed to be read in the church, which he saith are Apocrypha, yet authorized to be read. That being asked why he refuseth so to do; answered-for that they contained untruths.

A cove means a shed, a lean-to or low building with a shelving roof, joined to the wall of another, the shelter which is formed by the projection of the eaves of a house acting as a roof to an outbuilding.—English “Dialect Dictionary."