12.  Fielding, 19, makes Adam to have remained rector of Ash until 1386, but in fact he had exchanged benefices in 1378 with William de Calseby of Lithum (Lytham), dioc. York: CPR Richard II 1377-81, 17 November 1378.

13.   The only other pre-Reformation brass in Ash church is that to Reginald de Asshe and his wife, Alice, on which an ash tree is portrayed at either end of the inscription. It is undated, but c.1380 is suggested in Ralph Griffin and Mill Stephenson, A List of Monumental Brasses Remaining in the County of Kent in 1922 (1923), 53.

14.   See Robinson, 59; AC XII, 234; Hasted, II, 464.

15.   AC  X, 155. The 1346-47 aid names Thomas de Penecompe as previous holder of the fee. As to the dating of the earlier holdings mentioned in this aid., see p.28 (infra).

15a.   But see p.13 (infra).

16.   Recorded much later, in CPR Edward III 1364-67, 1 July 1366. Thomas de Messe may have been a son or grandson of ‘Thomas de Ease’, who in 

1197 sold to William de Einesforde twenty acres of land in ‘Sardasse’ (South Ash) and in 1199 sold to Richard and John de Lee half a yoke of land in ‘Audinton’ (? Addington): KR  XV (Calendar, Kent Feet of Fines), 4, 16.

17.   AC  X, 154-5; Hasted II, 467-8; Stagg, 2.

18.   Hasted II, 467; KR  XV, 357.

19.  Hasted II, 465, 468-9; AC  X, 154; Calendar of Inquisitiones Post Mortem (PRO), II 33 Edward III, No. 41.

20.  See The Complete Peerage VI (1926), 60 ff, where there is a detailed account of the Grandison family.

21.  Hasted II, 465.

22.  CPR Edward IV 1461-67, 1 August 1462; CPR Henry VI & Edward IV 1467-77, 26 December 1474; Hasted II, 465-6.

23.  Indenture of 16 December 1488: CCR Henry VII 1415-1500, No. 410.