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A Downland Parish - Ash by Wrotham in Former Times by W. Frank Proudfoot

                   Chapter 2 -  The Early and Middle Ages  continued  page 21

24.  DNB  II,  1702 (Poynings); ibid., 1639 (Perey); Selby MSS, T1 /1: indenture of 22 May 1531 (Sir William Fitzwilliam & othrs.); Hasted II, 147-8.

25.  Hasted II, 466 (but lasted evidently thought that on Poynings’ death, the manor escheated to and remained with the Crown until the grant to Thomas Cromwell).

26.  AC  I, 261-2; ibid., AC IV, 237-8.

27.  KR IV, 1115; KR XVIII (Documents Illustrative of Medieval Kentish Society), 144; AC XIV, 240.

28.  KR IV, 163, 1060-1190.

29.  See Wallenberg, 37; AC XXVII, 67, 93-4. John de Idleigh may perhaps have been the ‘John Ydeleghe’ who had become a freeman of Canterbury in 1357: KR XVIII, 209. See also CPR Richard II 1383-92, 221-2, where there are retrospective references to John de Idelegh and Richard de Idelegh.

30.  KR IV, 1016.

31. Wallenberg, 38, has two references to the Martyns of Ash, the later of 1370. There is a fine brass in Dartford church to a Richard Martyn, d. 1400; his son, John Martyn of Franks in Horton Kirby, became a judge of the court of Common Pleas: AC XVIII, 387. There was also a John Martyn, gentleman, of Dartford, who joined in Jack Cade’s rebellion: AC VII, P234.

32.  John Hodsoll’s will, proved in the PCC in 1424, is reproduced in AC XIV, 223-4.

33. AC VII, 247, 249-50, 263, 265.

34. CPR  Henry VI 1446-52, 7 July 1450 & 5 January
1461; KR. XVIII, 215-7, 244-6, 251.

35. CPR Edward IV 1461-67, 15 November 1465.

36. Fielding, 19, shows John Aston as rector of Ash 1426-41. As to Fairby, see Wallenberg, 42.

37. CPA Edward IV (et alii) 1476-85, 15 October 1477.

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