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123 about A.D. 1354. (Reg. Roff.) But for, probably, an earlier notice see, under Rochester, the list of churches in that diocese from Hearne. (Text. Roff.)—On Offham Green not very long since (between 1825 and 1830, me teste), was preserved a Quintane, of which the upright post only now (1849) remains. 241. .—In the original MS. of (D.B.), as well as in the printed copy, this place decidedly appears, though possibly it may not actually be intended, to be named in the hundred of Axtane, whereas Ulcombe, which would seem to be signified, is in that of Eyhorne; and those hundreds are too widely distant to admit of confusion in their subdivisions. This circumstance alone has prevented me from agreeing with others in assigning the Domesday name to Ulcombe. The entry in the Survey gives not the smallest indication of confusion, otherwise certainly there is some ground for suspecting, that Ulcombe is actually meant. If we must look westward for a modern name to represent the Domesday one, Nulcombe was an ancient manor (though the position of it is now unknown, Hasted) in Seale—to which place no church is given, indeed it is not mentioned, in (D.B.) Seale being now in the hundred of Codsheath; and Combe Bank in the parish of Sundridge, in the same hundred, may very probably have been an old settlement, Roman remains having been discovered there. (Philipott.) It is very possible, that, when the Domesday Survey was taken, the hundred of Axtane included what is now called Codsheath, neither that, nor any similar, name appearing among the hundreds of A.D. 1086.

242. .—"Ibi dimidia æccla—There is half a church." (D.B.); possessing a moiety of the tithes of the district? The church is mentioned again elsewhere: " Ibi æcclesia est." (D.B.)—This is styled a chapelry to Stalisfield. (Hasted.)—Now however it stands separately in the (Clergy List) as a perpetual curacy, being, as well as Stalisfield, in the patronage of the archbishop. 243. .—As in several other instances, the parson of Orgarswick, but not the church, is named in (Val. Eccl.), compiled but a few years before the church is declared to have been desecrated, which circumstance is placed A.D. 1530. It yet occurs as a sinecure rectory in the (Clergy List), value £39, population eight.

244. .—Without farther information it is useless to conjecture where the second Domesday church might be situated.