SMARDEN.
LIeth towards the middle of the County, by the river Medway, about five miles, towards the South, distant from Leneham, in the Lath of Scray, and division of Ju∣stices in the Lath of Shipway.
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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- 1659.
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Such part hereof as is in the Borough of Povenden, is in the Hundred of B••ackborn,; and such part thereof as is ei∣ther in the Boroughs of Omenden, or Stepherst, is in the Hundred of B••ckley; and both the said parts in the Bai∣liwick of the seven Hundreds and West division of the County. And the residue of the said Parish is in the Bai∣liw••ck of Chart and Longbridge, Hundred of Cal••hill, and E••st division of the Coun••y.
The liberties of the late Dean of Canterbury and St. Au∣gustine claime there; and the liberty of the late Archbi∣shop of Canterbury, claimeth over the Den of Holnherst, in this Parish, as held of the Mannour of Sherland.
It was all in the Deanry of Charing, and Diocess of Can∣terbury.
The Church standeth in the Hundred of Calehill, and was called St Michael.
In which Church was a Rood loft: and in the year 1558 (one Drainer of this Parish, being a Justice of the Peace) to get advantage of his Neighbours, made in that Lo••t nine holes (through which he looked into the Church, and saw who observed not the Popish Ceremonies at Masse there; and them he afterwards punished, whereby he got the name of Iustice nine Holes (which name is yet in memory thereabouts:) who so desireth to read the fur∣ther story hereof, may finde the same at large, in the third part of the Acts and Monuments of the Church, fol. 971. A.
A Market is kept here upon every Friday, and a Faire yearly upon Michaelmass day, being the nine and twenti∣eth day of September.