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Title:  Villare cantianum, or, Kent surveyed and illustrated being an exact description of all the parishes, burroughs, villages and other respective mannors included in the county of Kent : and the original and intermedial possessors of them ... / by Thomas Philipott ... : to which is added an historical catalogue of the high-sheriffs of Kent, collected by John Phillipot, Esq., father to the authour.
Author: Philipot, John, 1589?-1645.
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away to his Son and Heir Sir George Sonds, now of Leeze-Court in Shelvich, Knight of the Bath, to whom the Possession of this Mannor at this instant is en∣tituledStamford in the Hundred of Folkstone, is in it self, a small obscure Village, but made eminent by containing within the Limits of it, Ostenhanger, a Seat of as much Account and Eminence, as any in the County. The Demeasne which rela∣ted to it, was divided between the two noble Families of Crioll and Auberville: Bertram de Crioll, was Sheriff of Kent, in the twenty seventh year of Henry the third, and is written in the Pipe-roll of that year, of Westenhanger, a Name co∣incident with the other. Sir William de Auberville lived at the Borough of Westen∣hanger, when he founded the Abby of West-Langdon, in the Time of Richard the first: he had Hugh de Auberville, who likewise (as appears by the Leiger Book of that Covent, being, a liberal Benefactor to that Cloister) was his Son and Heir, and he had Issue Sir William de Auberville, in whom the Male-Line determined, and he had only a Female Inheritrix, espoused to Nicholas de Crioll, whether of a. Younger House, or else a Younger Son to Bertram de Crioll above-mentioned, I cannot discover: Bertram de Crioll, had Issue Bertram de Crioll, who dyed possest of a great Proportion of Ostenhanger, in the twenty third year of Edward the first, as appears Rot. Esc. Num. 48. And left it to Joan his Daughter, married to Sir Richard de Rokesley, who upon the Decease of her only Brother John de Crioll, without Issue, became his Sole Heir. This Sir Richard de Rokesley, was one of those eminent Kentish Gentlemen, that accompanied King Edward the first into Scotland, and for his signal Service performed at the Siege of Carlaverock, was made a Banneret by that Prince: See Rot. Pipae de Anno 17. Edw. 2. but he likewise expired in two Daughters and Coheirs; Agnes one of them, was wedded to Thomas de Poynings; and Joan the other, was matched to Walter de Pateshull. Upon the Partition of the Estate, Rokesley's Interest in Westen∣hanger wholly accrued to Poynings, and he had Issue Nicholas de Poynings, who was summoned to sit in Parliament as Baron, the thirty third year of Edward the third: Michael Poynings, who was likewise summoned to sit in Parliament as Baron, the forty second year of that Prince; and thirdly Lucas de Poynings, who in the year a∣bovesaid, was honored with the same summons. Upon the Devision of the Estate, Westenhanger was annexed to the Demeasne of Michaell de Poynings, and he had Issue Thomas de Poynings, who was summoned to sit in Parliament as Baron, in the sixth year of Henry the fourth, his Son and Heir was Robert Poynings, who in the twelfth year of Henry the sixth, with Iohn Perry, were designed by Authority, to take the Sub∣scriptions of those Kentish Gentlemen, who were summoned in, to renounce the Title of the House of York, which it seems was then in secret Agitation, to be set up against she House of Lancster; and this Robert, was oftentimes summoned to sit in Parliament as Baron in the reign of that Prince. The last time I find him sum∣moned, was in the twenty third year of his Government, and his Son and Heir was Robert Poynings, who was likewise summoned to sit in Parliament as Baron in the reign of the above-mentioned Monarch, and deceased the eighth year of Edward the fourth, and left his Estate here to that worthy Person his Son and Heir Sir Edward Poynings, of whom more hereafter. I shall now discover, how that Division of Ostenhanger, which devolved to Nicholas de Crioll, by the Heir of Auberville, was passed away: Nicholas de Crioll, had Issue John de Crioll, who in the nineteenth year of Edward the third, obtained a Licence, to found a Chantry in the Chappel of St. Johns in Ostenhanger, and endow it with one Messuage, forty five Acres of Glebe, and six Acres of Pasture situated in Limn, as appears Prima Parte Pat. de Anno 19. Edwardi tertii Memb. 4. And before, in the seventeenth year of that Prince, was permitted by Grant from the Crown, to embattle, and make Loop-holes in his Mansion house at Ostenhanger, as is manifest, secunda Parte Pat. de Anno 17. Edwardi tertii Memb. 34. And he left it secured and invested, with these new ac∣quired Franchises, to his Son Sir Nicholas de Crioll, and he dyed seised of it in the third year of Richard the second, Rot. Esc. Num. 40. And from him did it suc∣cessively devolve to Sir Thomas Keriell or Crioll, who was slain at the second Battle of St. Albans, in the thirty eighth of Henry the sixth, whilst he asserted 0