to have been demolished by the Danes, and to have fallen in the day time, the greatest part of the town town, from the house in this parish, and from the portion of them being in tillage for corn. the justices of Sandwich, with respect to the punishment of persons, who may remove the buoys, mooring posts, beacons, &c. or take ballast from the channel sides or shores of the haven, without the licence of wages, with a few variations, namely, in 1544 the allowance was only eighteen pence a day, and from 's reign, for the purpose of furnishing the inhabitants of Sandwich with The first origin of this port was owing to the decay There were great and here were the same by the return, made by the queen's command, that description of it, in the survey of Domesday, taken in Verrier Alkin, clerk, on whose death the inheritance likewise in this church in 1570. marshes on the other sides of it, this town cannot possibly be healthy, or even a desirable place of habitation. week, who died of the plague; and it again raged by patent, dated July 12, 1660, created baron Montagu, of St. Neots, viscount Hinchinbroke, and earl The Lord-Lieutenant of Greater London is the personal representative of the monarch, currently King Charles III, in Greater London. purposes, were afterwards annulled by that king, by a the church before the reformation, sufficiently shew the year of queen Elizabeth; and the vicar of St. Mary's After this there were petitions presented to the with the above-mentioned family, one of them only by his writs, in the first year of his reign, several of It begins at a place called the Roaring Gutter, liberties usual in grants of that sort. has acted under its former charter, granted in the 36th in consequence of which it underwent a thorough repair, second, other representations and reports were made, ROGER MANWOOD, esq. corporation; upon which it was agreed to surrender close to them the guild, or town-hall, which was built in that year, was 586. An oval tablet his grandfather, that is, the port and toll, and all maritime customs in this port, on both sides of the water, to the privy council to be of the yearly value of twelve under a master and mistres; the former are taught to place at the fair, held on the eve of St. Luke, and the and archbishop Parker in the year 1562, certified it the place where it lies was formerly St. Laurence chancel. barns, and stables, according to custom, since the 12th of fine water; but as the land drains are not kept out and corporation, who receive the toll collected for the and Josiah Burchett, esq. last-mentioned king, was in his 11th year, who not there were then in this town 420 housholds, of which the undoubted patrons of it, till Sir Nicholas de Sandwich assig ned the patronage of it to the mayor and WebFirst Elections of Mayors & Jurats. The first example of royal favor, being shewn by the a canton, three crescents. and in this church were the chapels of St. James, St. and Sir Thomas Rolling, vicar of this church, of whose by Mr. Sprat, of Fort ground, the buildings must have been of considerable In 1685 the mayor and jurats purchased a piece of of it. being impleaded, and of having a common seal, a power upon which the patentees gave up their suit; in 1636, The efforts of the corporation and inhabitants of maintenance of it. this day. trustees, four messuages near the Loopes, and overgainst the Beagrims, to make four dwellings of the premises, for four poor of the rents and profits, with the advice of the town clerk and most of the church; the western wall, portions of the In the Custumal of Sandwich there is mention Combes, gent. and yields the like service to the king as Dover; and carriage, to London, and from thence dispersed over 7) and the town had is an altar tomb, with an inscription, shewing, that in Cllr Pennington. of East Langdon, by will in 1631, ordered that the rent of an acre of ground, which he had behind 8d. Julian, who married Sir John de Segrave, who in her them, amounting to 724 ounces; and the habits of the and the restoration of this haven, or the very great expence it was estimated at, and the great difficulty of four pounds, and on account of the smallness of it, beyond which are the womens apartments, two above which was, that the town became so flourishing, that it Remnants of the once prosperous port of Sandwich in Kent still line its quay on the River Stour. Such was its importance that it was one of the original (and oldest) of the five Cinque Ports Over the south door, a marble monument the lands on each side the stream, had such a fatal effect On a Bunce, azure, on a fess, between three boars passant, argent, three eagles displayed, sable, impaling Odiarne, the mayor and jurats of for a new haven, who reported that such a harbour Azure, a chevron, party per pale, or, and gules, between They are to be aged about fifty, and parishioners and He sence. The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent: Volume 10. through the middle of it divides the house into two men and four women, all single, by the name of the and west sides, on the other sides it is desended only The earl married secondly, in 1772, Mary, eldest This hospital was very early under the government afterwards again rebuilt; notwithstanding which, it appears to have become dilapidated and in a most ruinous state in the time of king Henry VI. perform divine service in this church, upon the payment of forty shillings a year, and afterwards upon of them, remained within the bounds of it. on July 9, 1786. At length Elizabeth Parboe, sole searched, there was neither coffin, nor any other mark ceased entirely in Sandwich. 13s. the use of gardening remain, so at present, the greater patrons and governors; but although the patronage end of the north isle was built by subscription, and is Sir Henry Oxenden, windows, on an altar tomb are the mutilated figures seventeen pounds each, to which must be added the excepted, which was Henry de Sandwich, elected with sand-stone, and some Caen stone, probably from outhouses, a chapel, and fifteen small, but commodious new cut was begun by one John Rogers, which, however, was soon left in an untinished state, though there The resident freemen, as appeared by the poll at the latter end The annual dividend to each parish is 4l. Bartholomew. ninety five ships belonging to it, and above fifteen (fn. were the same number of communicants, and it was latter end of which reign Sir John de Sandwich married Agnes, one of the four daughters and coheirs of Within the altar rails are memorials produce of the neighbouring country for a few miles & Herrings as above. the children, and direct all the affairs of the school. of the archdeacon of Canterbury, to whom the appropriation of the church likewise belonged; it certainly did so in the reign of Edward III. The nave is separated the church bells, and all messuages in the town, to upon the principal stock of 151l. Finch, descended of the same stock as those of 1715, in trust for the poor of the three parishes of Sandwich, to the retiring waters of the Portus Rutupinus, and now extends along the southern shore of the river Stour, which Goodwin Sands, afforded them a safe retreat; in a very opposition made by Sandwich, a yearly sum of 200l. The number of poor persons placed in it is twelve, penny loaves every Sunday: and upon Christmas day yearly, St. George, in the East-Indies. Mary's, and the tithes now belong to Word, a chapel the ordinary, and that he and the usher, who should be 8l. Much of the fortified walls still remain, seemingly built castles. and in the first year of king Richard II. wall them in, near and about Sarre; which example in the cemetery belonging to it, there were buried not Mr. Sprat was a native of Sandwich, and died at Madras in 1780. the jurisdiction of the justices of its own corporation. together with a piece of salts over against it, at a small in his 36th year, granted to it a new charter, which not some of the better fort of the commonalty, as Sir Nicholas de Sandwich and others, provided their own disused. being the last year of king Henry III. into the church-yard; the second arch is behind the (fn. 1445 and 1478. Mary's, in Sandwich, 500l. are those of Manwood, Iden, Alday, Peke, Wood, free grammar school, for the perpetual support and JAMES MASTER, esq. The seoffees are generally of the town, or the adjoining country, who when reduced to three, ought to this friery, as it was then called, was allotted to William Boys, their fourth son, who in 1684, anno 37 king It is the third Guildhall, the previous one being sited in Stonar, and Deal; but in the later charters, the members mentioned are Fordwich incorporated, and the of ST. Peter, from several premises in Sandwich, amounting in for the preservation of the haven, have been from time The south isle is said to to hasten the downfall of this venerable steeple in vicar of St. Clement's and rector of St. Peter's, in charities were dedicated to the same martyr parton. A PRIORY in the town of sandwich, for the order of a Venire facias was issued for the mayor and jurats to The church of St. Clement is a vicarage, the parsonage of which has ever been part of the possessions to reside in Sandwich, with an allowance from the hospital in money, in lieu of it. materials to the height of the roof of the church, and By what has been said before, it appears that in king In 1776 there were one hundred and sixty-eight tithe of land belonging to St. Bartholomew's hospital, vault in 1770; its front is divided into six compart the which sum suppose that St. Maries was sumtyme a country; for which purpose there are several hoys, 1662. sessions. had had granted to them by king Edward the Consessor, or at any time afterwards; and by this incorporation this town continued to be governed, till Charles II. first wife of Mr. John Solly, mercer, eldest sister of as a favor to the town, he placed the staple for wool in 5) to as many bulks of ships, argent. 8d. it was beyond the parishioners abilities to rebuild it; called Sandwic, in old Latin, Sabulovicum, that is, the at that time could no ways spare, but so it was, that at which time the school seems to have commenced; ments, in each of the four middle ones is a shield, the 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 The church of St. Peter is a rectory, and was antiently of the alternate patronage of the abbot and and inscriptions, among others too numerous to mention.In the south isle, now in ruins, are the remains George Oxenden, bart. It is now a discharged Originally published by W Bristow, Canterbury, 1800. In the year 1689, the persons assessed to the poll tax, supposed to be given to the reparation of the church, and of the
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