Ockington in this Parish was a Limb that made up the Body of that Revenue which anciently did swell into so vast a Bulk and Dimension in this Track, and acknowledged for proprietaries the Noble Family of Cobham, as appears by an Inquisition taken in the sixth year of Edward the third, Rot. Esc. Num. 45. where Stephen de Cobham was then found to have been possest of it at his Death; and from him was the Title in a suc∣cessive stream of Descent wasted down to the Reign of Hen. the seventh, and then it was by Sale transplanted into Sir Henry Wiat, where it flourished being supported with the Sap and Verdure of so Noble a Family, until the fourth year of Edward the sixth, and at that Time it was by Sale torn off from this Name, for then Sir Thomas Wiat alienated it to Sir Anthony St. Leger, and he passed it away to George Brooke Lord Cobham about the seventh year of Edward the si, whose great Grand-child Sir William brooke Knight of the Bath, dying in the year 1643, without Issue Male it ce∣scended to Sir John Brooke restored to the Barony of Cobham by the last King in the year 1644, as being Reversioner in entail.Roundal though now shrunk into neglected Ruines, was in elder Times the first Seat of the noble Family of Cobham, from whence upon its Decay they were trans∣planted to Cobham Hall, and was the Cradle of Men very eminent in their respective Generations of whom take this brief prospect. Ex vete∣ri Rotulo penes Ed. Dering Militem & Bar. de∣junctum.Henry de Cobham is enrolled in the List of those Kentish Gentlemen who were concerned with Richard the first at the Siege of Acon. Rotulus Pipae de Scutagio Wallia. Reginald de Cobham accompanied Henry the third in his expedition against the Welch in the forty second year of his Reign. Sir Henry, Sir Reginald, Sir Stephen, and Sir Henry de Cobham who lies buried here at Shorne, are in the Catalogue of those Kentish Knights, who supported the Cause and Quarrel of Edward the first, at the Siege of Carlaverock in Scotland, in the twenty eighth year of his Reign. Jo. de Cobham was frequently summoned to sit in Parliament as Baron, in the Reign of Edw. the third. Richard de Cobham was made Knight Banneret by Edward the third, for his exemplary Service performed against the Scots, as appears Pat. Edw. tertii Parte secunda Memb. 22. This Mannor escheating to the Crown upon the Attainder of Henry Lord Cobham in the second year of K. James, it was by that Prince granted to Lodowick Duke of Lenox, who upon his Decease bequeathed it to his Nephew James Duke of Lenox, who being lately dead, Esme Duke of Lenox his onely Son is now heir apparent of it.Stowting lies in a Hundred which borrows its Name from this place. In the reign of K. Iohn, sundry ancient Records which have an Aspect upon that Prince's Time inform us that Stephen de Haringod was Lord of this Mannor, and had the Grant of a Market to be held weekly at this place on the Tuesday, and a Fair to be observed yearly for the space of two dayes, viz. the Vigil and Day of Assumption of the Virgin Mary, as is manifest, Cart. 16. Joan. Num. 43. and died possest of it in the forty first of Henry the third. But after this mans exit, I can track no more of this Stem or Stock, to have been proprietaries of it. The next Family which was successively entituled to the possession was the noble Family of Burghurst or Burwash, the first of which, whom by some old Deeds I discover to have held this place, was Bartholomew de Burwash, who received the Order of Knighthood by Edward the first; for his Noble and generous Assistance given to that Prince at the Seige of Carlaverock in the twenty eighth of his Reign, and he had Issue Stephen de Burwash, who obtained a Charter of Free-Warren to his Mannors Stowting, Sifleston, Ditton, and Burwash in Chiddington, in the first year of Edward the third, and died possest of this Mannor and Hundred in the third year of that Prince's Government, as appears, Rot. Esc. Num. 41. and from him did it descend to his Grand-child Bartholomew Lord Burwash who in the forty third of the abovesaid Monarch conveyed this Mannor with much other Land to Sir Walter de Paveley Knight of the Garter, in which Family the possession was constant, but until the beginnning of Richard the second, and then it was passed away by Sale to Trivet; from whom the same Fatalitie about the fifteenth year of that Prince brought it over to Sir Lewis Clifford, and by Descent this devolving to his Successor Lewis Clifford, he in the twelfth year of Hen. the sixth, conveyed it by a Fine then levied to William Wenlock, who not long after alienated his Right in it to Richard beauchampe Baron of Aburgavenny, who had Issue Richard Beauchampe in whom the Male Line 0