Page:Notes on the churches in the counties of Kent, Sussex, and Surrey.djvu/47

 NOTES TO KENT.

1. .—This place is presumed to be intended by "Athington" in (A.D. 1291.)—The following Brasses are mentioned as existing in the church: Richard Charlis (in armour), 1378; William Snayth (do.) and wife Alicia, 1409; Robert Walton (do.), wife Alicia, and two children, 1470. Two others of men in armour, with neither names nor dates. (Thorpe's Registrum Roffense.) On the wall of the church is stated to be this inscription:— "In fourteen hundred & none         Here was neither stick nor stone;          In fourteen hundred & three          The goodly building which you see." "It appears by the endowment of the vicarage of Hadlow, in this county, in the year 1287, that the rector of that parish had been used, beyond memory, to pay yearly the sum of eighteen pence to the rector of the church of Adintone; which payment the vicar of Hadlow was enjoined to pay in future." (Hasted's History of Kent.) 2. .—(A.D. 1291), "Ecclia de Adesham cum capella"; the latter most probably Staple, that being united in (Valor Ecclesiasticus), commonly called The King's Books, being the valuation of benefices for the purpose of ascertaining the king's tenths, taken in the 26th year of K. Henry VIII, A.D. 1535. The union of Adesham and Staple still continues.—That of Adesham is a cross church with a central tower. (Hasted.)

3. .—(A.D. 1291), "Ecclia de Aldinton cum capella": Smeeth, still joined with Aldington, is annexed to it in (Val. Eccl.) Brass: John Weddeol and wife, 1475. (Hasted.) To this manor were attached three fisheries, but of small value, "iii piscariæ de xxi denariis; of twenty-one pence." (D. B.) (Val. Eccl.) describes a park as existing here.

4. .—This church is of mixed dates, but contains some interesting portions, particularly an E.E. chancel on the north side, with a trefoil-headed arcade, and a two-light window, with shafts between the lights, and at the sides. In the main