affirmed that he held this Mannor of Temple Waltham, and from this Ivo de Haut did the Title in a never-ebbing Current of Descent glide down to Sir William Haut, who was Sheriff of Kent in the sixteenth year, and then again promoted to that Office in the twenty ninth year of Henry the eighth, and not long after deceased, and with him the Name found its Funeral in two Daughters and Co-heirs, one of which termed Elizabeth, was matched to Thomas Colepeper of Bedgebury Esquire, to whom this place in the right of his Wife devolved. And from his Family in the Age within the con∣fines of our Grand-fathers Remembrance, it was passed away by Sale to Salkeld, who not many years since conveyed the Possession over to Bateman.
There was a Chauntry founded at Depden in this Parish (as appears by a Manuscript in the Hands of Mr. Thomas Den Recorder of Canterbury, lately deceased,) founded and endowed by William Gratian Priest in the Raign of Henry the fourth; Whose Re∣venue upon the Dissolution of this Chauntry in the second year of Edward the sixth, was granted to Jo. Come and Richard Almot, who not long after passed it away to Wilt. Forbrasse Yeoman, a Name in some old Deeds written Fortbrasse, which argues it to be of French extraction, and from this Family it was about the Beginning of K. James carried off by Sale to Gregory, who within the Verge of some few years fast past, alie∣nated the Title to Sladden of Liminge.
Postling lies in the Hundred of Hene, and was, in Ages of a very high Ascent, the Patrimony of the Noble Family of Columbers, a Name in Times of elder Cognisance of very great reputation in the West of England; Philip de Columbariis or Columbers, held it at his Decease, which was in the fifth year of Edward the first, Rot. Esc. Num. 5. But after him I discover no more of this Family at this place. The next that is repre∣sented to be Possessor of it, is Hugh de Audley, and he held it as appears by ancient Court-rolls in the raign of Edward the second, and Edward the third, and passed it a∣way to Delves of Delves Court in the County of Chester, where it seems it had no long aboad; for about the forty third year of Edward the third, John de Delves alienates it to Richard Earl of Arundell; for which the Earl is pardoned, because he purchased it without License first obtained from the King as appears, Pat. de Ano 43. Edw. tertii Parte secunda Memb. septim. And in this Family was it for many Generations fixed and resident; until the thirty eighth year of Henry the eighth, and then it was by Sale transmitted to Sir Anthony Aucher. But the Tenure of it in this Family was brief and Transitory; for about the Beginning of Q. Elizabeth it went away from this Name to Robert Cranmer Esquire, Nephew to Thomas Cranmer Arch-bishop of Can∣terbury, who expiring in a Female Heir, she brought it along with her to Sir Arthur Harris of Crixey in Essex; from whom it is devolved to his Son and Heir Sir Cranmer Harris, who holds the instant Possession of it.
Henewood is another Mannor in this Parish, from whence the Honywood of Elm∣sted, and those of Pett in Charing do extract their Sirname: And Edmund de Honywood who in the raign of Hen. the third is remembred in the Front and Van of those in the Leiger Book of Horton Priory, who were munificent Benefactors to that Covent, is set down there to have been of Postling, and as this Place was then, so is it still through all that Flux and Decursion of Time which hath since elapsed, wound up in that revenue, which acknowledges the Signorie and Jurisdiction of this ancient Name and Family.
Pluckley in the Hundred of Calehill, was originally a Mannor which owned the Arch-bishops of Canterbury for Lords of the Fee, until Lanfranc Arch-bishop of Canterbury gave it to William Brother of John de Cobham, who in the Grant is styled Miles Archiepiscopi; not that he was ever any Knight or Souldier that attended upon him; but that he granted him this Mannor to hold in Knights Service of him and his Successors, which was very usual and customary for the Arch-bishops and other great Prelates to do; until King Edward the first growing jealous of the Power and Gran∣deur of the Clergie, who endeavoured by their Bounty and magnificent Donations to oblige both the principal of the Nobility and Gentry, and chain them up by these extraordinary Engagements to their Devotion, caused the Statute called Quia emptores Terrarum, in the one and twentieth of his raign to be made, which restrains and