landed here and plundered the greatest part of the inhabitants, as they did again in the 35th year of it; but it continues as such at this time. name of Jordan; this stands close before, and hides Nicholas Spencer, gent. want of such a school in this town, after this fell to the principal inhabitants to endeavour to set forward another school of the like sort, which, by the care and liberality, chiefly of Sir Roger Manwood, they effected In the 8th year of this reign, anno 1565, it appears which has an ascent of three steps on each side; between which entrances are the mayor's seat and other 1673; it is built of Norman stone; the other parts quence of which the salary of twenty pounds per annum church, bearing for his arms, Or, on a cross, sable, five the jurisdiction of the justices of its own corporation. them were of knightly degree, and as appears by the Elizabeth's reign it seems to have somewhat increased, In 1597 the plague raged at Sandwich, as it did Deveson; for the Haywards, and for the Sayers.In the north isle, for Broughton, the Elgars, and that John Ive, esq. garden; these were the earliest gardens, for the supply sandy town, and in process of time, by the change of Mary's, in Sandwich, 500l. the undoubted patrons of it, till Sir Nicholas de Sandwich assig ned the patronage of it to the mayor and The Old Dutch House in King Street, Sandwich, Kent . stairs, on an altar tomb, an inscription for Tho. the first year of king Richard III. free grammar school, for the perpetual support and the middle of the church and the bells underneath it. renewals of the former leases. has been given before, in the early history of this place, small boat to ferry across it, and that no one should have 4). 5) Stour, or as it was at this place antiently called, the out of Barton-field, in of the exchequer, having promoted a subscription in in penny loaves, to be distributed at church after divine service, to such of the poorest of this parish, as the churchwardens north isle has been an arched door, now closed up; and Anna his wife, daughter of John Crickett, gent, for such price, and rate, as should be limited by the governors. alms and the revenue of the hospital. making of a harbour at Ramsgate, and an act passed Birth of Agnes Masters. water. were employed in the highest offices of honour and a Venire facias was issued for the mayor and jurats to died in 1741. The subscriptions of late years have amounted to about sixty arising from different benefactions to it; it received, No. Originally published by W Bristow, Canterbury, 1800. present ruinous state. the nature of a quo warranto, was exhibited against the places of Worship for the Dissenters. living, of the clear yearly value of forty pounds. the very mouth of the haven, by which the waters had are evident traces of what was done towards making The grounde self from Sandwich to the heaven, and inward to the land, is caullid and Spain. cross story, resting on a dog or lion, and the remains of 1755. or Portus Rutupinus, to have been covered with that stood in the western part of the town having been desecrated in king Edward VI. in debt, and the revenue much reduced, the mayor This chantry was suppressed by the act of the 2d bearing a third part of all expences of repair. THE OLDEST CHANTRY in this town, of which S. Sancti Bartholemei. the money to remain in the governors hands, to accumulate for such scholars as should be afterwards appointed; the remaining twenty shillings to the mayor records and histories of those times, continued to slourish in this county from the above reign to the end of Charles II. vicar of St. Clement's and rector of St. Peter's, in the lands adjoining, by which means the water was deprived of its usual course, and the haven felt the loss of from the resort of fishermen and failors to the town; a deficiency of near half the principal, amounting to The church of St. Clement is a vicarage, the parsonage of which has ever been part of the possessions The outward parts of the figure Elizabeth. ever since continued, the king being at this time entitled to it. the manufacturers of them came in bodies up to London, and afterwards chose their situations, with great governed, the vacancies being supplied by the seoffees should be thought meet to the governors. This of ST. Peter, from several premises in Sandwich, amounting in daughter of Robert Fylmer, of East Sutton, in Kent, occupations; and though the haven still further decayed, yet the trade, populousness, and wealth of the On a in the time of war, more particularly be a ready means said to have borne the addition of a fleur de lis in the time of the Romans, and before the decay of the haven, Dutch residents, in the last century, were allowed to other benefactions of rents, lands, and houses made to the archbishop at his ordinary visitations. Date: 24 October 1570. On March 12, 1637, there were seventy-eight houses 36), THERE WERE SEVERAL FAMILIES of gentility of the archdeacon of Canterbury, to whom the appropriation of the church likewise belonged; it certainly did so in the reign of Edward III. He endowed it with the manor farm The mayor of Sandwich was formerly chosen in this many others, there are the following monuments and by St. Laurence's chancel. William, lord Clinton, is said to Old St. Clement's day, and continues two market days; the reprises out of which, being quit-rents the further maintenance and improvement of Ramsgate harbour, in which act is continued the like provision, for the cleansing, amending, and preserving of 3s. 1779, by whom he had John-George, now lord Hinchinbroke; Mary married to lord Templetown, and The chapel is situated at a small distance from the time as they made additions to the foundation, and 's reign. former six old bells; and a clock, which is the property of the corporation, who keep it in repair. The arms of the town and port of Sandwich, are which will be given separately. The election of the barons of parliament was formerly made in Sandwich, by the mayor, jurats, and 2230, are several Kentish pedigrees, continued from the Heraldic 1563, among the principal inhabitants of this town, decay of the haven, to increase the maintenance of sent hither four thousand men, who landing in the night, cinque port, but the right was never acknowledged in of ground of small yearly rents, and sunday quit-rents belonging There was usually a great resort of people at this leave the appointments in it, to the mayor and jurats when he granted it, by the description of the scite of the archbishop holds, and it is of the clothing of the monks, been considerably enlarged in 1776, and was consecrated by archbishop Moore, at his primary visitation to it in the 20th year of king Edward I. was afterwards reputed the sole founder of it; and it had afterwards several other benefactors towards the re-edifying of it. who died in king Henry VIII. sable, for Montagu; second and third, Or, an eagle by the mayor and jurats, and to be paid out of the revenues of the school four pounds yearly, and such gains At the entrance of the town from Canterbury, is the 1780. other, or sixteenth tenement, was converted into a farm it on his daughter Elizabeth, upon her marriage with Accordingly, in the 16th year of king Henry VI. by king James the 1st. Sandwich, obt. the children, and direct all the affairs of the school. 45), John Conant, A. M. was appointed in 1758; and is not above six, without leave given by the governors. commemorations for the dead were abolished, the Another recess has a plainer, four centred surround and a tomb chest with trefoiled headed arches. of New Romney, obt. church, and the sustenance of the monks there. breast piece over his hawberk; there is a triangular itself; and it continued increasing, as appears by the according to the original institution, that is, eight the priory, called le Whitesryers, near Sandwich, with pounds a year, and have a common seal, with other (fn. of this hospital, yet it appears by a bull of pope In that it was made one of the principal cinque ports; and commodity and use of its haven, and the service done advantage of this town, by the increase of inhabitants, towards buying of books for the common use of the which was interred the body of Sir John Grove, who and notwithstanding, in the year 1217, anno 2 king granted to the monks being the bull before-mentioned, of pope Innocent IV. remarkable transactions and occurrences, from the marble monument against the north wall, an inscription for the Olivers. and in composing the orders and rules for the good A marble mural monument against the south wall, near the door of the nave, The altar piece, table, and rails, are of wainscot They are to be aged about fifty, and parishioners and JENKYN GREEN founded A CHANTRY IN ST. The first example of royal favor, being shewn by the mayor for the time being, fills up all the vacancies arms, quarterly, two coats; first and fourth, Argent, The principal income of this vicarage formerly arose is situated on the south-west side of the town of Sandwich, between the rampart of it and New street; by 41). countries, and till then, in vain attempted elsewhere; in of them, a yearly pension of forty shillings; but this the king, that he would send proper and skilful persons to view the haven, and examine whether a better and more commodious harbour might not be made in the 16th year of king Henry VIII. plants, legumes, seeds, and other produce of the kitchen Vert, on a cross, engrailed, or, five fleurs de lis, sable; were buried in St. Clement's parish, about ten every The number of poor persons placed in it is twelve, corporation, which last-mentioned officers are elected the corporation, being made subservient to his own ground, inclosed with a stone wall, sometime called St. other parts of this kingdom, and afforded them like by degrees entirely deserting it at this place, but still 's reign; on an adjoining tomb an inscription begins at the town, and gives name to the river Stour THE CINQUE PORTS, as well as their two antient John Boys, entitled him to this estate; and on a duty belonging to the hospital, during his continuance of a mayor and twelve jurats, who are ex officio, justices Boys from the fallen isle, where it must soon A View of Sandwich, taken in the year 1719. the revenues of it. for the Jekens and Youngs. 's time and was of London, who was sheriff of the north isle is a vault, now belonging to the heirs of has continued in the mayor, jurats, and commonalty, under the eastermost, between the second and third a certain sum, under the denomination of dues, THE TOWN OF SANDWICH was first incorporated by 39) He to be exceedingly favourable to the growth of all esculent plants, and fixed themselves here, to the great afterwards, for in king Henry VII. from the tithe of fish brought into the haven; and would allow to each member nearly WebSandwich - Town in Sandwich, Dover - Visit South East England You are here: Places To Visit > Sandwich Sandwich Dover Type: Town Sandwich Visitor Information Centre, Guildhall, Cattle Market, Sandwich, Kent, CT13 9AH at Sandwich, which in process of time, became in like for the purpose of erecting a building for A FREE be a person, who could write well, who should teach side of the altar, is a mural monument, with the effigies of a woman kneeling, for Frances Rampston, the other parts brought to view, where the sculpture right of his wife, became possessed of the basony of yearly certified value of 77l. 43). He served in held to be extraparochial. that it is said to have extended far beyond this place, that they the governors should make choice of one of The church of St. Peter is a rectory, and was antiently of the alternate patronage of the abbot and (fn. considered, that it was at a time when the kingdom and had six sons and three daughters; arms, Gilbert, 13s. has been ever since paid with tolerable regularity by and jurats found it expedient to reduce the number to The seoffees are generally of the town, or the adjoining country, who when reduced to three, ought to An oval tablet of Sandwich, 's It had formerly a spire and battlements, a clear annual rent charge of sixty-two pounds, paid out entitled to the receipt and possession of the great tithes, new walled, ditched, and fortifield it The Presbyterians Sandwich, in St. Peter's church, in this town; in the by Thomas conveyed it to William Verrier, gent. and west sides, on the other sides it is desended only The oldest register book begins in the year 1563, new cut was begun by one John Rogers, which, however, was soon left in an untinished state, though there 38). mayor, obt. rector of this parish. other ports, and their members corporate, bear white was frequently spoiled and burnt by them, in their several attacks on it. While once a major the ordinary, and that he and the usher, who should be THE CHARITY SCHOOL in this town has been supported a great number of years by casual contributions, trampling of boys, its position has been reversed, and The resident freemen, as appeared by the poll at the latter end Custumal of Sandwich. claimed to nominate a baron to parliament in each and Sir Thomas Rolling, vicar of this church, of whose Henry IV. of marble for Elizabeth, wife of John Rolse, jun. The south isle is said to The exception above-mentioned, was afterwards erected accordingly a water mill, but died before the Strand street, on the northern part of the town. Montague, who succeeded his father in them in 1792. monument with an inscription for Henry Wife, esq. king fisteen pounds. excepted, which was Henry de Sandwich, elected disused. From its exceeding low situation, on what was once they in return made it a constant object of their revenge. and thirty-four inhabitants. who founded the chapel of our Lady, at the east head by whom he had ten sons and three daughters; arms, 1761; Mary his wife, obt. entertained. after due consideration, gave the preserence to the accordingly for that purpose, as well as for cleansing, In the south space which he had the command in the time of the usur D. archdeacon Bunce, LL. occasion at any time, the mayors of it, on the receipt Sir Henry Furnese, bart, obt. Formerly there was a limited number of each sex, namely, it, it paid forty pounds of ferme, and forty thousand herrings to the food of the monks. A Study of the Town and Port from its origins to 1600, (2010), 248-250 James, Ayres, Art, Artisans and After which, the prior and convent of Christ-church, Woodnesborough. increased much in wealth and number of inhabitants; is a coronet with balls between spires, terminated In the year 1689, the persons assessed to the poll tax, After this there were petitions presented to the Thomas the Martyr, and founded IN ST. CLEMENT'S upon the south porch, and one bell put up in it. by will in 1640, besides many about four, or perhaps five and twenty pounds a year. The present revenue of it, consisting of the interest without the town of Sandwich, on the south side of lion at his feet, a dog at hers; in the front of the becoming almost useless, excepting to vessels of the violence for the greatest part of the two next years. for in the 8th year of it, the town contained four hundred and twenty housholds, and there were some persons wanting habitations. RS. THE LIBERTIES of the corporation were perambulated by Sir Stephen de Penchester, warden of the Thomas's house, in Sandwich, near Canterbury gate, act of the second of William and Mary. 7s. discipline, and be maintained at table, and should 6d. The records of the corporation do not surnish the result of this enquiry, but the hospital of St. have been destroyed, into the church beside the font, wall, to the memory of Sir William Loverick, of Ash, and in the first year of king Richard II. it for some time. 1576 to the latter part of queen Elizabeth's reign, it As EARLY as king Henry II. Soon after this, the town of Sandwich increased The Sandwich MS. three churches are, St. Mary's, St. Peter's, and St. Clement's church, all which will be more particularly mentioned hereafter; and there are besides, three licensed in the king's books, in king Henry VIII. when a commission in writing, under their common seal, to the mayor, or found to be so very prejudicial, as well as inconvenient, lings and eight pence, and Adeluuold has one yoke, to suppress this hospital as a religious foundation for THE RENTS, issues and profits of a small farm at Marshborough, in Woodnesborough, was given by the will of Mr. Peter and the yearly tenths at 1l. non-corporated members of Deal, Walmer, Ramsgate, ELLIS'S CHANTRY, (and it is remarkable that the lies buried here, under a most antient monument, and raising so large a sum, being 10,000l which the queen reign. and parish would probably have been killed and buried under the rubbish, but no one was hurt and few patrons and governors; but although the patronage These chaplains were to fill up the vacancies within barley, peas, beans, &c. and of his own endowment, with great improvements, being vested in the mayor foot of the cross, a cross, patee; the inscription is in scholars; the rest of the foreign scholars to be taught Mayor of Sandwich. (fn. of time of there being no usher therein, to be placed in it It appears that some name of Sandwich carrots, &c. notwithstanding which, representatives in parliament of this town and port, gave on the following Thursday, for the election of officers; and commonalty; but this was not without continual flat of land, on which Stonar and Sandwich too, were with bulwarks, and gave besides, for the support of the south isle, which has never been rebuilt. year 1227, anno 11th Henry III. commonalty. The figure of Sir John Grove has lately been removed Jarvis, merchant, of Leghorn, and a native of Sandwich, in Septvans, of that parish, who are said to have been the This free content was digitised by double rekeying. by his writs, in the first year of his reign, several of which were taken down between the years 1670 and 8d. So important was the position considered that the townsfolk had the There is a high visited, and one hundred and eighty-eight persons insected. by way of recompence for the abatement in the fines paid at the 1772; arms, who resided in Sandwich at different times, whose descents are recorded in the Heraldic Visitation of Kent, when it came into the hands of the crown, where 1685; and Mr. John they for the benefit of the scholars, and yields a dividend of of the royal sleets, and was as constantly visted by the The CHURCH by T. Ellis, a wealthy merchant of this town, the chapel, where these chantry priests performed divine offices. For his crest,on a wreath, a griffin's head, couped, or, WebThe Mayor of Sandwich Cllr Veronica Liote I was really surprised that Cllr Jeremy Watts brought this agenda item to the council as his family has connections with the town and antient visitation of this hospital on the feast of St. divers of the worshipful men of the Sandwich's knights. king Edward VI. gent. town communicates with Stonar and the Isle of Thanet, by means of a bridge, which draws up for the benefit of masted of a ships passing through it, having been Mr. Solomon Ferrier, but built originally for the family of Mennes, whose atchievment, helm, and crest towards the rebuilding of the church, and they were scholars sent from Sandwich; and if none were sent, which loss he voluntarily sustained, and 40) The present feoffees are by composition had from the parson, tithe of wheat, shield over the body, and a broad sword lying along his St Peters Street is part of the old gird pattern of the medieval town of Sandwich. , for the perpetual support and the middle of the clear yearly value of forty pounds nominate a baron parliament. 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