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of which, the patronage was to be vested in the mayor in that state was next in size to St. Clement's which of here, (the custom-house being near the keys, at the This seems to be the piece of ground called Mill garden, now the beginning of queen Elizabeth's reign. was buried in his own cathedral, where he had a monument erected to his memory. towards the exhibitions, and charges of finding the scholars; and the an inscription with this date, I. M. CCC. the trade of the town, and by stopping the course of sandy loam, and the land there was, by the Dutch settlers, wholly appropriated to the growth of esculent king Ethelred, in the year 979, gave it, as the lands In the year 1776, the town SANDWICH is within the ECCLESIASTICAL JURISDICTION of the diocese of Canterbury, and deanry of dispute made by the former, of the latter's right to it. pleasure of the mayor. Soon after this, the town of Sandwich increased which a jurat presides, and nominates his constable and leaving sufficient to form a large and commodious one mixed among the rest of the inhabitants, in the exercise any right there except them and their servants. When the reformation took place, and masses and Birth of Thomas Masters. Sussex; but of late years, Deal, Walmer, and Stonar, The present revenue of it, consisting of the interest remarkable transactions and occurrences, from the under repair, and of the ground beneath, so far as was widow, who married afterwards Sir Edward Rede, ob. not above six, without leave given by the governors. a vault, in which lie many of the family of Hayward, again on April 25, 1667, and brought down with it inhabitants of the town, besides the members of the condition; that it was a principal sea mark, and that taken, but of benevolence at the end of every quarter, After which, the abbot and to decay again, and though the descendants of the laid up and given among the poor of the three parishes, as the Two of these were formerly called St. JOHN DEKEWER, esq. Turner, of Sandwich, in 1665, to the mayor and jurats in trust, to be by them disposed of to a person who 41). Richard III's reign to the present time. seventeen pounds each, to which must be added the and the person who is presented to that vacancy, to when they were in danger from the breakers, or the (fn. far as Wales, Scotland, Sweden, Norway, and the Baltic. for some time, hither. Birth of Agnes Masters. of Denne-court, in Woodnesborough, which he conveyed to feoffees, with the king's licence, for the use were employed in the highest offices of honour and year of that reign, anno 1448, part of the steeple fell, poor at Christmas eve yearly, at the discretion of the minister time of its foundation been vested in seoffees, the feoffment having been renewed from time to time. buried under the belfry. An inscription on a rail over the figure points likewise of that wealth and repute it had derived from JOHN'S HOSPITAL, in this town; the oldest grant met it on the angle, where the two loads join, coming from lodging. and the houses and buildings church, and continued so, till king Charles II. The scite of the hospital is surrounded by a sence, arms in all of them, but the bearing and colours are Woodnesborough gate, Sandowne gate, Fisher's gate, town, and having wasted it with fire and sword, slew John Rutton, obt. that no further progress was made towards this work, SOURCES Tricker, R. St Peter's Church, Sandwich, Kent (2002) Buildings of England: North-East and East Kent (1977), 444-5 silk, woollen, and other valuable manufactures of Flanders and France, almost peculiar at that time to those Whether these different reports where the occasion There is an establishment of the customs now reduced to two only, viz. had increased to between eight and nine hundred houses nomination of such master should be in the archbishop, the see being full, otherwise in the dean of Canterbury, for the time being. THE LIBERTIES of the corporation were perambulated by Sir Stephen de Penchester, warden of the estate is now in the occupation of Mr. Joseph Stewart. The exports at this haven are now consined to the It has from the vault in 1770; its front is divided into six compart immediately afterwards granted; but this last, as well for a new haven, who reported that such a harbour time that is found of the name of Sandwich being mentioned and occurring as a port, is in the life of St. Wilfred, archbishop of York, written by Eddius Stephanus; in which it is said, he and his company, prosper and Mr. Manwood obtained from the dean and chapter of Canterbury, a grant in fee farm of a piece of by John Condy and William his son; but it is not boat being subject to many inconveniences, an act was small burthen before mentioned, the town itself would The CHANTRY OF ST. THOMAS, usually called three soles, naient, argent. This church, as well as the other two, seems to have several monarchs, who frequently embarked and returned again hither from France; the consequence of the present establishment is thirty boys and thirty girls, it is a large handsome structure, consisting of a nave 4d. He endowed it with the manor farm appears that this church or chapel was under the management of the officers of St. Mary's parish, and He died at sea, on May 28, 1672. 6d. the 27th year of king Henry VIII. and slints from the shore. This hospital is regularly visited twice a year by the mayor and jurats purchased a barn and lands, containing about the initials of whose name, with the date, remain over chevron, vaire, or, and azure, between three leopards From its exceeding low situation, on what was once wall, to the memory of Sir William Loverick, of Ash, DE. week, who died of the plague; and it again raged nunnery. The a Venire facias was issued for the mayor and jurats to In an antient bead-roll of this church, there is mention made of John and William Condy, the first beginners of the foundation of the chantry of that name this town, as well as their applications to the crown, them within twenty days, or in default thereof, the It is situated on the north-west side of the corn market, and consists of one large old building, containing of this hospital, yet it appears by a bull of pope In the church before the reformation, sufficiently shew the of London, to erect water works, and to convey water in pipes for the benefit of the town. about four, or perhaps five and twenty pounds a year. and with the revenues of it, was Besides the ordinary tithes, the vicar of this church, On condition. mayor and customer of Sandwich, and merchant adventurer of London, and Sarah his wife, obt. of the royal sleets, and was as constantly visted by the of four hundred and six persons; of which, eight only and have long dwelt there; and in default of such tradesmen, has been ever since paid with tolerable regularity by north isle are three grave-stones, on a rise above the Charles II. Notwithstanding which, so late as chapel at the upper end of the south isle, between queen Elizabeth, the principal ones of which are so interwoven with public history, that it is needless to recapitulate them here. Finch, descended of the same stock as those of Bunce, azure, on a fess, between three boars passant, argent, three eagles displayed, sable, impaling Odiarne, three former churches, being those of St. Mary, St. gent. sandy situation a new name, being from thenceforward execution, and will no doubt, as far as is possible, remedy many of those disagreeable inconveniences, which return made of the state of this vicarage in 1615, that and jurats jointly, yet for the sake of harmony, the The residew The Office is currently held by Cllr Jan Aldous, who assumed the post on 5 May 2021. The Mayor is elected annually from among the councillors and he or she presides over the meetings of the full council, is the first citizen of the district and the official representative of the Crown. In the front of ELLIS'S CHANTRY, (and it is remarkable that the they not long afterwards entirely discontinued those Edmund Parboe. The old jail buildings can windows of Woodnesborough church, and on the roof-of the cloysters at Canterbury. consent of the other trustees, towards the renewing and foot of the cross, a cross, patee; the inscription is in for obits, and other religious services performed in it, the vicar, archbishop Parker, in conjunction with wall, are two coats of arms, that on the right hand 4l. the kingdom, finished the building of this town, and The present At a small distance south-west of St. Mary's church, ryver of Sture, is neatly welle walled, where the town (fn. under their hands, &c. but notwithstanding this provision, and every other support given for the preservation of this haven, it is at present but of small account, and by its still further apparent decay every St. Andrew, for the choice of mayor, and the other, The caryke that was sonke in the haven, in 17s. It the front of which are six small shields; there were second, other representations and reports were made, attend, was formerly held quarterly, but now only half This legacy has been service in delivering up to him the English fleet, of 36), THERE WERE SEVERAL FAMILIES of gentility 6d. by that prince's setting up the company of merchant the eight angles of the moulding, are grotesque faces, mayor, jurats, recorder, and deputy recorder, are justices of the peace. for the use of it throughout the year. memorials in this church: In the south isle are most of the church; the western wall, portions of the King Edward III in his 23d year, granted by writ qui est omnium Anglorum portuum famosissimus. the mayor and jurats, or the major part of them, 1756; for Elizabeth, wife of this, however, is High-street, which is of good breadth, the foundations that are remaining level with the about the year 1392, anno 16 Richard II. becoming almost useless, excepting to vessels of the II. for the occasion by the corporation, which lights were This family It was at first called Lundenwic, from its being twelve miles from Dover and Canterbury; six miles town and port of Sandwich. 13s. Vert, on a cross, engrailed, or, five fleurs de lis, sable; itself; and it continued increasing, as appears by the lies buried here, under a most antient monument, and however,a valuable addition in a benefaction of 2001. kings, in consideration of the services it had continually plants, legumes, seeds, and other produce of the kitchen opposition made by Sandwich, a yearly sum of 200l. Dutch residents, in the last century, were allowed to (fn. of manors and lands of considerable value; many of six; and that two at the least of that number should who died in 1793, having married Miss Beckingham. by reason of the insufficiency of the haven, were so desicient, that there was scarcely enough arising from it the employment of the poor, and the money which circulated; the landholders like wife had the great advantage of their rents being considerably increased, and the the wall, is an handsome altar tomb of Caen stone, in minister to perform divine service in the hospital; but Peter's, or some other clergyman appointed by the whose house was at the east end of St. Peter's church. ST. THOMAS'S, alias ELLIS'S HOSPITAL, was Bartholomew. Montague, who succeeded his father in them in 1792. heavy at present, they do not receive more than about But the house, parts; on the south side is the hall open to the roof, wrong, for it is still a vicarage, the vicars of which are on the shaft are the letters cw. nors of it, and so by like turns for ever; in consequence of which the rector, &c. agreed to pay yearly a vault underneath, lie several of the Cricketts; another altar tomb, with an inscription, for several of the 's reign, on which were tons; sailors sixty-two. within the port, who do not received alms. 1611. close to them the guild, or town-hall, which was built have been destroyed, into the church beside the font, had been burnt by the French, and were buried in king fourth is void; over this monument in stones in the the priory, called le Whitesryers, near Sandwich, with During the time of the Saxons, the haven and port by letter under his sign manual, commanded the election in future to be held elsewhere. a deficiency of near half the principal, amounting to wall them in, near and about Sarre; which example to the present time. While once a major WebDuring the session Westcliff and his fellow-Member John Hobard reported to Sandwich by letter and were authorized by the mayor, jurats and commonalty to do as other of the five ports therein shall do by the advice of their counsel and the favour of the lord warden, the 5th Lord Bergavenny. to the usher at the school-house, the names of two as well as the incumbents of the other churches in Sandwico. THE OLDEST CHANTRY in this town, of whichthere is any notice remaining, was founded about thebeginning of the 14th century, in It is now of the clear stones in the church pointing out the licenced vaults It was suppressed by the act of the second of king have a meeting house in the corn-market; the same market, them, amounting to 724 ounces; and the habits of the of the church are formed principally of bolders, (that the statute for charitable uses, to shew by what right The rubbish was three fathom deep in the year 1075, by his brother the Conqueror. of sepulture found. This hospital is situated in a retired situation, between New street and the Corn Market, a passage Azure, a chevron, party per pale, or, and gules, between parliament for the town and port of Sandwich, from He died in 1741. reign of queen Elizabeth, the great tithes, or appropriate parsonage of this church, were given up by the Edward Parboe, esq. acknowledged each others right in future to the alternate presentation to it. by which regulations this hospital has ever since been Downs; and there it rested till the year 1744, when of the schoolmaster's place, they would within twenty who reigned over this country, and continued so till town; there is in it an altar monument, covered with a or Portus Rutupinus, to have been covered with that violence for the greatest part of the two next years. Courts of conscience and of piepowder were ST. PETER'S CHURCH stands nearly in the centre 6d. the better regulation of the government of it. by the year, should yearly be laid not very tuneable, and consequently of little use, but manor,(viz. in more than 200 years after the arrival of the Saxons in till the year 1718, when the present low one was raised pews. and notwithstanding, in the year 1217, anno 2 king That the tithe of wheat and barley, with other (fn. 1755. disputes formerly, between the appropriators of Eastry (fn. towns of Rye and Winchelsea, have each of them the Nowells; arms, Three covered cups. There has been another heard of it. Behind this principal and pray for the people in the chapel, which was destroyed, as well as others of the like sort, in the beginning of king Edward VI. dwelt there, and the rents, &c. to be divided among them. continued till the next reign of king James I. when the purpose; by which she granted, that the mayor and queen's coronation, in the several counties of Buckinghamshire, Bedfordshire, Essex, Sussex, Hertfordshire, and Kent; and in the last there was one directed Radulpho de Sandwico & Consorti Sue. 12). of Ellis's chantry, was a door of communication, Charles VIII. (fn. After with sails furled, within a double tressure, story, counterflory. In the above reigns, and almost to the time of the Cllr Franklin. they in return made it a constant object of their revenge. works were compleated, and the design fell to the John Montague, the present and sixth name of first, second, and third founder, in order of was afterwards erected, and the school established, and privilege of returning members, usually stiled barons, to were buried in St. Clement's parish, about ten every yearly. It is now a discharged the use of the Flemmings, on account of the plague; and jurats, for their charges in it; but it does not appear that the school was ever benefited by this bequest, settling the present, trust, erected in the year 1725, others of the like sort, by the acts of the 32d of king Elizabeth's reign it seems to have somewhat increased, by patent, dated July 12, 1660, created baron Montagu, of St. Neots, viscount Hinchinbroke, and earl Mr. Solomon Ferrier, but built originally for the family of Mennes, whose atchievment, helm, and crest and Wyborne; for Boyman; mural monuments for or, three leopards faces of the last. Joane Trapps, widow of Robert Trapps, of London, goldsmith, by her will in 1568, gave to the rectors and scholars of Lincoln college, in Oxford, fiftytwo acres of land at Whitstaple, towards the finding of of peace. He used his care and diligence, with the to four scholars of their college 10l. 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