Footnotes to Chapter II

1.  Thos. Hearne, ed., Textus Roffensis (1720), 229; Dr Gordon Ward, The List of Saxon Churches in the Textus Roffensis, in AC XLIV, 39 ff.

2.  Details of the Domesday survey for Ash (Eisse) are based on the translation in Victoria County History, Kent III (1932), 221.

3.  AC V, 267.

4.  See Fame Lambarde.

5.  Hasted II, 469. Stagg, 3, points out that when the farm at South Ash was offered for sale in 1831, it was charged with a quit-rent to the manor of Sutton-at-Hone. This could be a pointer to the whereabouts of the manor of St John’s Ash, as to which more will be said later.
6.  KR IV (Diocesis Roffensis Registrum Hamonis Nethe), 37-38.

7.  CPR Henry III 1259-66, 11 September 1266.

8.  KR IV, 477. Fielding, 19, shows John de Palsgrave (which should be ‘Palgrave’) as rector of Ash in 1532, but there seems no. evidence that he was ever the incumbent; he may have been Launcelyns locum tenens. In 1332, Palgrave was absolved from contumacy in refusing to answer charges against him, subject to a modest penance and a warning to be obedient in future:
KR IV, 473.

9.  Ibid., 715-6 & 732-3. There were close associations and constant interplay between the dioceses of Rochester and Norwich.

10.  Ibid., 1036.

11.  CPR Edward III 1370-74, 26 November 1370.