Footnotes to Chapter VI

1.   Selby MSS, T1/30/3.

2.   Reg,Roff., Pt.II, 757;  Hasted II, 429-31, 456.

3.   Quoted extracts from Walter’s will are from the version in the first Ash register book; these do not differ in substance from the probate copy of the will.

4.   The boy may have been Richard, son of John Wakeman, boot and shoe maker, of Ash Street. At the time of the Census of 1861, Richard Wakeman, then aged thirteen, was described as ‘Errant (sic) boy to Rector’.

5.   The correspondence and papers relating to the dispute are in the Fawkham archives, wherein are also 

preserved the samples of cloth that Josiah Rolls obtained from the Dartford  tailor.

6.   A portrait of Mary Salwey as a child, with her brothers and sisters, was reproduced in Country Life for 20 September 1956.

7.   Reg,Roff., 125-6, 128-9.

8.  KR IV, 732-5.

9.  Ibid., 754-5, 821.

10.  Hasted II, 473-—4, The land Tax was imposed in 1692. Income Tax was originally levied as a war tax from 1797 to 1816; it was reimposed in 1842 and has not yet been discontinued.