24.  Ibid., T1/4 (deed of 28 April 1590 between Thomas Walter and. John Walter),

25.  cf. ‘The Black Prince’ a Chantry’, the name of a comparatively modern house in Canterbury thought to stand on the site of the home of the chaplains of the chantry of that name in the Cathedral.

26.  Cust.Roff., 64.

27.  Ibid.

28.  Rev. G.W. Bancks, Hartley Through the Ages (1927), 52-3 (quoting from an MS in the possession of the Society of Antiquaries).

29.  Hasted II, 471, says that Scotgrove went from the Walters to the Lambarde family, ‘the inheritance of it being now vested in Multon Lambard, esq. of Sevenoke’. That appears to confuse the superior and inferior interests, but no doubt Hasted is right to the extent that the Lambardes claimed lordship over the land. In point of fact, the Walters of Pennis left the area 

well before the Lambardes acquired any land in Ash, having parted not only with Scotgrove but also with their main estate. Pennis was sold by them to George Gifford of Eynsford soon after the Restoration.

30.  Selby MSS, T1/41/3. Walter’s will was dated 11 May 1657; he was buried at Fawkham a week later.

31.  PRO, ref. PROB. 11/347. The will of Thomas Morris was dated 13 April 1674 and proved, with a codicil, in the PCC on 11 February 1675.

32.  Cust.Roff., 64; Hasted VI, 114. Possibly the Umfreys had roots in Ash. Rochester Consistory Court wills include one, dated 1499, of a Thomas Umfrey and another, dated 1518, of a Thomas Onfray, both Ash men.

33.  KAO,. Q/RP1 9 (Land Tax assessments for Ash with Ridley, 1780-1831). Lance first appears as owner (and occupier) of the property, unnamed but identifiable as Old House Farm, in 1783.