I

:88 urban arm 1-rrrum Hunnxgp,

in Houndpit and Blackmanbury, was grantcd to Hcnyy
Laurence, to hold in ta;-ile by.koight'5 fflviccrand he
that year held a-court here; and in his defcendants it
continued till the 18th of . queen Elizabeth's reign,
whenit: wasalienated by line levied. by john l_,a,urQncc

to William Parthcrich, efq. whofe arms were, Vaire:
urgent and /able, on . a rbizf of the fecond, Mn; rafij of
lb: firji. .H.ts grandfon Sir Edward Partherich, oft-his
Piaf,-‘C. palfed ttaway in 1638 to Sir Arnold Braems,
dcfccnded of afamily originally out of Flanders, where
hisaneellors were opulent merchants. Jacob Braems

his ancellor, was of Dover, merchant, and built mg‘
great houfe now the Cultom houfe there, where he re-
fided. -Sir Arnold Braems above-mentioned, bore" for
hts.arm_s, Sable. on a cbief, argml, a dgmi [jun ,-,,,,,p,,,,,,
gig/ts. He‘ built ‘a {pacious and magnificent manlion
on the fcnte of the- antient court‘-lodge here, which he

' named Bruno]:-PLACB, inwhich he afterwards refided,

as did his fon Walter Bxzacms. crq. till his death in
1692 5 but the great coil of building this {car ('0 gm-
povenlhed theeftatc, that his heirs, about the year
1 704, were obliged to, part with it. which they did by
W? ‘O .l°h" Taylor. CR]-' of Bifrons, who foon after.
wards pulled down the greatell part of this manlion,
leaving pnly one wing of it flanding, the [ize and {late-
linels of which being ofitfelf full fuflicienrfor a gen.
-tleman’s refidenee, cannot but give an idea of the gran-
deut of.th'e whole building when entire. He died in
3729, {ince ‘which this manor and feat has Continued
In his defcendants, in like manner as Bifrons 8b0V¢.

defcribed, down to his great-grandfon Edward Taylor, '

efq. the prefent polfclfor of them, Thcrc is not any
COUl't,l'lCld for this manor.

Baaaaciuz, now called Great and Little Barakers
is another manor in this parifh, which in the exit year
of king Edward I. was in the poll:-[lion of Walter dc
Kancifiuas appears by an inquifition taken that year at
his deceafe; not long after which it had paflcd am; ,'

family

names. 289
family of its own name. After this name was become
extinct here, it came into the polfeflion of the Litch-
fields, who owned much land about Ealtry, Tilman-
flone, and Betlhanger, and in this name it continued
till the 22d year of Edward IV. and then Roger Litch-
field paffed it away to Richard I-Iaut,whofe only daugh-
ter and heir Margery carried it in marriage to William
Ifaac, efq. of Patrixborne, from whofe defcendant Ed-
ward lfaac, aboutthe latter end of king Henry V lII.
it was {old to Petyt and Weekes, who joined in the fale
of it to Naylor, of Renville, from which name it was
alienated to Smith and Watkins; after which it was
conveyed by fale to John Taylor, efq, of Bifrons, in
whole defcendants it has continuedvdown to Edward
Taylor, efq. the prefent owner of it.

CHARITIES.

Sm Hemuz Pumsit, of Beltclborne, by will in t6I I, gave
ms. to be yearly paid out of his manor of Well-court, towards

the relief ofthe poor of it.
The poor conllantly relieved are about eighteen, cafually

the fame.

Bruno: is within the ECCLESIASTICAL julusorcd
Tron-of the diare/e of Canterbury, and dreary of its
'own l'lalnC‘.

The church, which is dedicated to St; Peter, confills
of three illes, a high chancel, and a north fept or chan-
cel in the middle of the north ifle. It has a fpire ileeple
at the fouth-call corner, inwhich are three bells. In
the high chancel, within the altar-rails, is a monument
for Jane, fccond daughter of Walter Harfletc, of
Bekefborne, firlt wife of Sir Arnold-Braems, oh. :6 3 5,
and lies buried in St. Mary's church, in Dover; and
for Elizabeth, (fccond daughter of Sir Dudley Diggs)
his fecond wife, obt. 1645, and lies in the middle of
this chancel. Againfl the north wall is a- painted por-
trait of Robert Bargrave, gent. of Bridge, obt. 1649.
Under a circular arch in the fame wall are two rows of
finall imagery, carved in Ftone, the uppcrmoll repre-

vot.. xx. u fcnting


 

490 BRIDGE AND PETHAM HUNDRED.

lenting God the Father, with feveral figures on each
fide ; the lower one, figures taken from the hifiory of
the Old Teltament. Underneath thefe, in the hollow
ofathe wall, is the -figure of a man lying at full length,
in robes, with his two hands joinedand uplifted, having
on his head feemingly a full pcrriwig. A memorial for
John Hardy, efq. ofBridge-place,obt. 177g. On the
call lide of the tomb window is a hollow in the wall, and
under it an infcription for Macohus Kafey,vicar of Pa-
trixborne, obt. m.v.c.i.xii. and of his being vicar there
xxi years. On the oppofite tide of the window is carved
the figure of a fcull, with a fnake entering in at one
eye, and the end. of it out at the other, and a hand with
a finger pointing up to it, as ifit had been the caufe of
the perfon’s death,-and feveral bones are interfperfed
about it. The north chancel is made ufc of fora fchool,
by voluntary contributions. On the fouth fide of the
chancel is a circular arched door—way, with Saxon or-
naments. In the regifler are many entries, from the
year 1580 to I660, of the Family ‘of Bargrave, alias
Bargar, refidents in this parilh, and one for Thomas,
ion of John Cheney, gent. who died in 1620.

The church of Bridge, which is a vicarage, was a].
ways efieemed as a chapel to the church of Patrixborne,
and as fuch is included in the valuation of that vicarage
in the king's books, the vicar of which is inflituted and
inducted into that vicarage, with the chapel of Bridge
annexed to it.‘

The parfonage of this parifh therefore, as an appen-
dage to that of Patrixborne, is the property of Edward
Taylor, efq. of Bifrons. In 1588 here were eighty-y
nine communicants, in 1640 one hundred and twenty.

f See the'lifl of vicart under Patrixborne before.
5, O

Pc,yv'Lv-bow-¢. [l~'-‘CH9 5DMr~u-~'~P~4~-3‘ "

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NACKINGTON. 29!

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NACKINGTON,

CALLED in anticnt writings Nalindon, and N41)»:-
tan, lies the next parifh fouth weftward from Bridge.
The greateft part of it is in the upper half hundred of
Bridge, and a {mall diltriél: of the northern part of it in
the hundred of Whitflaple. It has but ‘one borough,
viz. that of Nackington.

Nncxmm-on lies about a mile north-ealt from
Canterbury ; the high road from which to Hythe and
Romney Marlh leads through it , it is a pleafant healthy
fituation. The calf and weft fides of the parifh are
open uninclofed arable and hop-grounds, the ealtern
part behind Staple-gate being moflly planted with them;
and the wcltern arable, in which is a large diflrift ofland,
called from its {ice the Hundred-acres, formerly Haven
field, the property of feveral diflerent owners. The
foil, though much inclined to chalk, is in general very
fertile, and worth upon an average twenty {billings an
acre, though there is much in it let for more. There
is no village, but there are about eighteen houfes in-
terfperfed throughout it; the church flands on a gentle
rife, at a. {mall diltance eaftward from the road, with
the parfonage and the court-lodge - of Sextries near it.
Beyond I-leppington the profpeét changes to a barren
dreary country, covered with fiints, and enveloped
among woods. Behind that feat ran the old Stone-
flreet way of the Romans, from their flatioir Duro'uer-
alum, or Canterbury, to that of Pbrtus Lemanis, or
Limne, only to be traced now over the arable lands,
and through the woods, and a little higher up lies If-
fins wood, formerly the fcite of the manor of Ytching,
as it was antiently {pelt in king Henry the Vlth.’s reign,
a {mall part of which only is within this parilh, clofe to
the bounds of which are the vejfigia of an zmlient ramp,

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