A topographie or survey of the county of Kent with some chronological, historicall, and other matters touching the same, and the several parishes and places therein / by Richard Kilburne of Hawkherst, Esquire.

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A topographie or survey of the county of Kent with some chronological, historicall, and other matters touching the same, and the several parishes and places therein / by Richard Kilburne of Hawkherst, Esquire.
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Kilburne, Richard, 1605-1678.
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London :: Printed by Thomas Mabb for Henry Atkinson, and are to be sold at his shop ...,
1659.
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BETHERISDEN.

BEatriciden, lieth towards the South-side of the Coun∣ty, about four miles and a half (towards the South-west) distant from Ashford; so much thereof as is in the Boroughs of Hales, Bridge, Engham, or 〈◊〉〈◊〉, is in the Hundred of Blackborne, Bailiwick of the seven Hun∣dreds, & West division of the County, & the residue there∣of (being part in the Hundred of Chart and Longbridge, and part in the Hundred of Calehill) is in the Bailiwick of Chart and Longbridge, and East division of the County, it is all in the Lath of Scray, division of the Justices in the Lath of Shipway, and was in the Deanry of Charing, and Diocess of Canterbury, the Church standeth in the Hundred of Chart and Longbridge, and was called St. Bearice, In which are the armes of Surenden (a principal inhabitant in this Parish in the time of King Edw. 2.) and

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owner of the seat there, called Surenden (now the habi∣tation of Chute, a Family of good esteem in this County) the liberties of St. Augustine, and the late Dean of Canter∣bury do claim in this Parish, the liberty of Wye claimeth over the Borough of Snodehill in the same, and a Fare is kept yearly in this Parish upon St. Margarets day (being the twentieth day of Iuly.)

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