17. Reg. Roff.,  Pt.II, 1020-1. Jane’s mother, Elizabeth Hodsoll, was the only daughter of Thomas Stonehouse, citizen and apothecary of London.

18. This might have been a reasonable deduction from the name and Mr Kenneth Rogers, whose family long lived at Attwood Place, tells me that such was in fact the case. 

19. In the Hearth Tax assessment of 1664, the house was rated at eight hearths, appreciably larger, for example, than the parsonages of Kingsdown (five hearths) and Fawkham (four hearths), but not approaching the then modern Ash Place’s top rating of thirteen hearths.

20. AC LXXIX, 165-6. Sadly, the board was stolen from the church some years ago.

21. AC XVII, 251.

22. Fane Lambarde, 22.

23. Hasted II, 472.

24. KAO, DR1/Ac U. The report and plan are reproduced in ed. Elizabeth Melling, Some Kentish Houses (V in the Kent County Council's Kentish Sources series) (1965), 64-6.

25. Fielding, 498..

26. Hasted II, 474.

27. Dunlop, op. cit., 148.

28. AC XLIII, 80.

29. DNB II, 1739.

30. Cresy’s account appears in his Notes on Horton Kirby (see footnote 5 to I, supra). Stagg, 2, records the alleged smuggling associations of The Crooked Billet. The name of the pub may seem appropriate for hanky-panky of this kind, but in fact has no sinister origin. A crooked billet was a swingle-tree, curved to make room for the horse’s hooves.

31. The details given of the Bowdler family are largely based on the entries for John Bowdler the elder, Thomas Bowdler and Thomas Bowdler the younger in DNB I, 195. No mention ibid. of the persisting local legend that (variously) four or six of the younger Bowdler’s died from drinking infected well or stagnant water.