Footnotes to Chapter III

I.  The enclosure looks to have been about five acres in extent.

2.  See Robinson, 58-61, on which the account in this chapter of the Gatewyk v. Gatewyk case is based.

3.   KR XVIII, 17-8.

4.   KR XV (Kent Feet of Fines), lxiii, 230-1.

5.   AC XII, 234.

6.   Reg.Roff., 354; KR XII (Kent Chantries), 128.

7.   Doe d. Lushington v. Bishop of Llandaff, in which it was decided (in 1807) that Henry VIII had no right to have granted the rectory and tithes of Rodmersham, which came to him from the dissolution of the Hospitallers, to be held from him by knight service and that it was irrelevant that gavelkind could have had no practical consequences while the Hospitallers were in possession: Robinson, 61—2.

8.   KR IV, 63.

9.   Ibid., 407.

9a.   As appears from a Fine of 1314-15 relating to land in Cowden, to which Joan de Gatewyk was a party: AC XII, 298
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9b.   KR IV, 518.

9c.  KR XVIII, 144.

10.  KR IV, 684; AC X, 154.

11.  AC XVIII, 351; AC XX, 163, 182; Hasted XI,
47; ed. George 0. Howell, Kentish Note Book II (1894), 383-4. The Moraunt, or Morant, family gave their name to Morants Court in Chevening. Lora, daughter and heiress of Sir Thomas Morant of Morants Court, was married to Sir James Peckham of Yaldham, who was Sheriff of Kent in 1377 and 1389, by which marriage Sir James increased his already considerable possessions: AC XXVIII, 210. The Peckham family was closely associated with Ash, perhaps then and certainly later (see pp. 79-80 (infra)).

12.   AC X, 156; generally as to Edward III’s aid, see ibid., 99 ff.

13.   KR IV, 948.