his fire: and L'Achille, which had borne down to her assistance, was reduced to a complete wreck; as was a third ship also, that had dared to engage in the tremendous conflict. His arm was shattered before the battle was decided; yet he would not quit the deck till he had given strict orders, that in no event should his flag be struck whilst his ship floated upon the waves. He died of his wounds at Portsmouth, and was interred in a vault in Eastry Church, on the fifth of July following.

At BETSHANGER, formerly a seat of the Boys family, is a good mansion, now belonging to the Rev. James Morrice; and at a little distance, at UPDOWN, in Ham Parish, is the seat of John Minet Fector, Esq. son and partner of the above Mr. P. Fector. The house has little to recommend it; but the grounds, which have been enlarged by the present proprietor, are charmingly situated, and the prospects of the surrounding country are particu larly fine.

EASTRY was an ancient demesne of the Saxon Kings, who are said to have had a PALACE here, in which, according to the chronicler Thorne, and Matthew of Westminster, the two Cousins of Egbert, King of Kent, were murdered by the courtier Thunor, and afterwards buried in the Hall under the Royal Throne. In the year 979, King Ethelred granted to the Priory of Christ Church, "all the lands of his inheritance in Estrea;" and the Prior and Convent had, in succeeding ages, liberty of free warren, and a weekly market here. In the Court Lodge, which was greatly altered, and partly rebuilt, about twenty years ago, by the Bargraves, Lessees under the Dean and Chapter of Canterbury, Archbishop Becket is stated to have concealed himself for eight days, previous to his taking shipping for France, in November, 1164, when fleeing from the well-merited indignation of Henry the Third. The Church is a spacious edifice, dedicated to St. Mary, and consists of a nave, chancel, and aisles, with a large and strong tower at the west end, the entrance to which opens beneath a semicircular Norman arch. The interior is clean and neat: it contains various

*See under Minster, p. 985, et seq.

rious sepulchral memorials for the Botelers, Paramors, Foggs, Bargraves, Harveys, and other families.

KNOWLTON is a small Parish, of little more than 430 acres, almost the whole of which is the property of Sir Narborough D'Aeth, Bart. whose grandfather, Thomas D'Aeth, Esq. of North Cray, acquired it by his marriage with Elizabeth, daughter of Admiral Sir John Narborough, who had purchased this Manor of the four daughters and coheiresses of Sir Thomas Peyton, Bart. a descendant of the Peytons, of Peyton Hall, in Suffolk. This gentleman, who died in 1684, erected the present mansion in Knowlton Park; but it was altered, and some part of it rebuilt, by Sir Thomas D'Aeth, in the reign of Queen Anne. The Park, which includes about 200 acres, is ornamented by many fine trees, particularly about the house. In the Church, which is a small building, dedicated to St. Clement, are various memorials of the Langleys, Peytons, Narboroughs, and D'Aeths, whose families have possessed this estate in succession.

GROVE, in Staple Parish, was formerly the seat of the Knightly family of Grove, of whom Sir John Grove lies buried in St. Peter's Church, Sandwich. It was afterwards sold to the Lynches, about the middle of the reign of Queen Elizabeth, and was devised by the late Sir William Lynch, K. B. Envoy Extraordinary to the Court of Turin, to his widow, who now resides here. The burialplace of the Lynches is in the Grove chancel, in STAPLE Church, which contains a singular Font, the base being partly supported by figures of dogs, sitting, and having its faces sculptured with the symbols of the Evangelists, crucifixion, &c.

WINGHAM formed part of the possessions of the See of Canterbury from the early Saxon times till the Dissolution; after which it remained in the Crown, till Charles the First granted the site, called Wingham Court, with the demesne lands of the Manor,' in trust, for the City of London, the Corporation of which directed them to be sold towards the end of the reign of that King, to Sir William Cowper, Bart. His descendant, the present Earl Cowper, derives one of his titles from this place; but though he has many estates in this county, he has no residence here; his ancient seat of

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Ratling Court, in Nonington, having been dilapidated into a farm house; and his old mansion at the Mote, in Fordwich, taken down.

During the period that Wingham belonged to the See of Canterbury, the Archbishops had a residence or Palace here, in which Edward the First was entertained by Archbishop Winchelsea; Edward the Second, by Archbishop Walter Reynolds; and Edward the Third, with many lords and nobles, by Archbishop Meopham. In Henry the Third's time, Archbishop Boniface procured the privilege of a Market for this Manor, but this has been disused from time immemorial. The village contains about fifty houses.

WINGHAM COLLEGE was founded by Archbishop Peckham in the year 1286, for a Provost and six Secular Canons, or Prebends. This foundation was dissolved in the first of Edward the Sixth, when its annual revenues were estimated at the nett value of 1931. 2s. 1d. In the last year of the same King, it was granted, with the patronage of the Church, and all tythes, to Sir Henry Palmer, in consideratien of the sum of 5191. 11s. 4d. but subject to the payment of 201. annually to the Curate. Sir Henry was descended from an ancient family, that had been long seated at Angmering, in Sussex, and was the second of three sons of Sir Edward Palmer, who are stated to have been born on three successive sundays. He lost his life at Guisnes, after the surrender of Calais in the time of Philip and Mary, and was succeeded by his son, Sir Thomas, who was Sheriff of Kent in the thirty-seventh of Elizabeth, and created a Baronet in 1621, only a few months preceding his death. He was buried in Wingham Church, where is a monument to his memory, and that of his Lady, executed by Nicholas Stone, the Elder, the inscription of which records that, for the "sake of the Poor, they never broke up house in this place for sixty years." Sir James, his youngest son, Chancellor of the Order of the Garter, was father to Roger Palmer, the noted Earl of Castlemain, husband to the Duchess of Cleveland. Sir Thomas

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