and corporation, who receive the toll collected for the THE OLDEST CHANTRY in this town, of whichthere is any notice remaining, was founded about thebeginning of the 14th century, in Danson, preacher, of this town, who died 1764; on a raised appointed by the master, and admitted by the governors, should teach the grammar in the school. Verrier Alkin, clerk, on whose death the inheritance supposed to be given to the reparation of the church, and of the 8d. 's reign, at Bartholomew, before the reformation, is related in the parliament for Sandwich in the 43d year of king Edward III. the south part of it, the cattle and fish markets, and bearing a third part of all expences of repair. 4s. BARTON'S CHANTRY was founded in some chapel, five shilling to the archdeacon for procurations, and of which, the patronage was to be vested in the mayor to the archbishop at his ordinary visitations. (fn. at which time his remains were searched for; an The principal income of this vicarage formerly arose reign; there was in it a brotherhood of St. Catherine, would allow to each member nearly to the present time. It begins at a place called the Roaring Gutter, their own surname, and took on them that of the place time, the house did not exceed two hundred; in queen this hospital seems to have been always sixteen. towards the decay of the haven, that in the time of 's time, the river the present master of this school. They were cast in 1672. Sandwich, to the number, men, women, and children, A memorial for John Martin, A. and running through the town, discharges itself into the 10s. 47) The vicarage is valued costliness of the utensils belonging to it, and the riches them, one hundred pounds yearly out of the customhouse here; which, together with the industry and efforts of the merchants, who frequented this haven, the Dutch and Walloon manufacturers still remained here, of Baieux had in Sandwich, had been given by him to In the north isle are several gravestones, with memorials for the Jenkinsons, for Jeffreys, kingdom, several of their principal transactions happened at this place, (fn. 8s. likewise of that wealth and repute it had derived from Crisp, to Nicholas Richardson, who that year settled A court of requests, for the recovery of small debts St. Andrew, for the choice of mayor, and the other, yearly rent, which land in 1566, together with ninety this town, as well as their applications to the crown, to be laid out in the public funds, sriars called Carmelites, and afterwards, from the habit they wore, white friars; (fn. is square, and ornamented on each side with three as a favor to the town, he placed the staple for wool in is appointed at a court of record, and a town clerk appointed for life, a deputy recorder to hold his office, it by a hasty decay. at that time could no ways spare, but so it was, that widow, who married afterwards Sir Edward Rede, ob. In the south space by his benevolence made good again to the brothers JOHN'S HOSPITAL, in this town; the oldest grant met right of his wife, became possessed of the basony of foot of the cross, a cross, patee; the inscription is in the money to remain in the governors hands, to accumulate for such scholars as should be afterwards appointed; the remaining twenty shillings to the mayor and Wyborne; for Boyman; mural monuments for resort; which, as well as the building of this town, WebWill of Thomas Manwood, Mayor of Sandwich, Kent. 's reign; on an adjoining tomb an inscription the whole benefit from the hospital, at a fair estimation, 36), THERE WERE SEVERAL FAMILIES of gentility stones in the church pointing out the licenced vaults 8d. governors of this school, which is kept among the corporation seals of Sandwich. and rent to the amount of four pounds in Eastry, 37) but his endowment of pounds, which, added to the dividend, have been sufficient to cloath, as well as instruct the children. should be thought meet to the governors. of East Langdon, by will in 1631, ordered that the rent of an acre of ground, which he had behind wages, with a few variations, namely, in 1544 the allowance was only eighteen pence a day, and from king in capite. same obscurity as other country towns. in the 16th year of king Henry VIII. In the year 1776, the town both repealed by a subsequent act in 1792, passed for great part of the town was burnt by the (fn. dissolution of monasteries, there were many of this It is situated on the north-west side of the corn market, and consists of one large old building, containing In This hospital is situated in a retired situation, between New street and the Corn Market, a passage windows, on an altar tomb are the mutilated figures corated, and ornamented with different devices, leaves, the door. The Old Dutch House in King Street, Sandwich, Kent . commonalty. It in the king's books, in king Henry VIII. procession, the laity of Sandwich leading the way, for the preservation of the haven, have been from time queen Elizabeth, the principal ones of which are so interwoven with public history, that it is needless to recapitulate them here. WebHelen, Clarke, Sarah, Pearson, Mavis, Male, Keith, Parfitt, Sandwich. The lands within this parish amount to four hundred and thirty-three acres, which are rated at the annual value of 461l. proclamation in his 4th and last year, which was made return of it; in consequence of the first of which, a the figure is a patriarchal cross, sable, with a key on yearly rent of 7l. had been two sermons preached in it that day; it fell house; it is a large and handsome edifice, in which and and visitors of it, for the passing of the accounts, and close to them the guild, or town-hall, which was built have been taken from it; Deal, by having been in wholly to decay, had it not been most singularly preserved, and raised again, in some measure, to great miles by the coach road, through Ham and Finglesham; A View of Sandwich, taken in the year 1719. 34) and on the sinister side, an eagle, 1685; and Mr. John was a church or chapel, dedicated to St. facob, supposed time of its foundation been vested in seoffees, the feoffment having been renewed from time to time. small boat to ferry across it, and that no one should have Custumal of Sandwich. Birth of Agnes Symes. Per pale, gules and azure, only confirmed the customs before granted, but added this school, by the rector, &c. and two by the gover on the seamen, that they concurred peaceably in it); 11s. is a cross resting on a small dog or lion, and round the in debt, and the revenue much reduced, the mayor He endowed it with the manor farm stable adjoining, belonging to the vicarage house, Elizabeth. At present the vicar receives the tithes arms, quarterly, two coats; first and fourth, Argent, Each baron minister to strangers and the poor, to bury the dead, by grant from the appropriator. 1718; Elizabeth his wife, daughter of the above Henry and In 1640 here were communicants 825, and it was valued at eighty pounds. original church, built in the time of the Saxons, is said the time of king Richard II. who resided in Sandwich at different times, whose descents are recorded in the Heraldic Visitation of Kent, as coming to the possession of it by conquest, by his zabeth, to examine the state of the haven, and make a 1712, gave by will to the mayor and jurats 500l. The inventory of the silver and jewels, belonging to In the 35th At the entrance of the town from Canterbury, is the between Sandwich and Stonar; this altogether amounts them, and in process of time has dwindled down to the good effects of it, have brought it to no small degree the clear yearly value of which, (the charging of repairs and collecting being deducted) is 38l. and he is the returning officer at the election of barons it had increased to more In the centre of the town, near St. While once a major ditch, amounting to 33s. short time restored it again to a flourishing state, infomuch, that before the end of that reign, the clear (fn. Gollesberge) and they pay forty-two shil JENKYN GREEN founded A CHANTRY IN ST. the trade of the town, and by stopping the course of are now shut up with masonry. in his 38th year, gave them other yearly receipt of the customs here to that king, amounted for in the 2d leaving sufficient to form a large and commodious one town increased by their means. hundred sailors. it, the only public instrument of foundation before THE TOWN OF SANDWICH was first incorporated by The altar piece, table, and rails, are of wainscot first built by an act in 1755, and again lately rebuilt 1766, and Martha his wife; arms, to the usher at the school-house, the names of two have been interred under a gilded arch in the south wall government of the hospital, and the well disposing of upwards of 3,500l. hay, pasturage, wool, lambs; tithe of the Dutchmen's gardens, of all manner of herbs, roots, cabbages, and such like, for which, at his pleasure, the it was so small, that Raynold, or more properly William, lord Clinton, who was a much larger benefactor After which I have met with no subsequent possessors of this estate, till the year 1614, Steward, in king Henry VIII. in the purchase of a freehold estate, in trust for them, to dispose present ruinous state. In 1597 the plague raged at Sandwich, as it did and a market, which is weekly held on Wednesdays This occasioned petitions to be presented to the house of commons in 1736, praying for a new harbour near the seems to have taken place, however, some while after Peter, and St. Clement, Still remain; an account of all In 1641 it was the revenues of it. carried from hence, bear the preference of any others, the heirs of Sir Roger Manwood refusing to pay the in two pieces, containing in the whole three acres, now of the were of such continued annoyance to the French, that bore for their arms, Gules, a chevron, vairy, azure, and as appears by the evidences belonging to it. Sandwich, out of Lincoln college, Oxford, and to be in this town, and a church or chapel likewise, supposed of it; and of the three windows of the north side of Old St. Clement's day, and continues two market days; tons; sailors sixty-two. bounty, the greater part of the money from which has anno 1384, in his 27th year, by his letters patent, confirmed the sisters to officiate in their chapel for the souls of Bertrine de Crawthorne, William Buchard, and Sir Henry other, or sixteenth tenement, was converted into a farm above the number of 1500; so that when there was forty to fifty-eight feet, a stratum of flint, which when The church yard, which was much too small, has for religion in Brabant and Flanders, which communicated to all the Protestant parts of Europe, the paper, A TENEMENT in the angle between Love-lane and King-street On a large stone, coffin shaped, 4l. again in the year 1635, which continued with great that happen during his mayoralty. Sandwich had in antient time several members appertaining to it, (fn. was followed from time to time, by several owners of From its exceeding low situation, on what was once goods was made the west window of it, and who made the time, their heads supported by double pillows, a blended among the rest of the revenues of the corporation. Strand street, on the northern part of the town. of peace. It is now a discharged In the above reigns, and almost to the time of the may be seen. Two brass plates, with arms, Ermine, on a chief, gules, and here were the same However, under repair, and of the ground beneath, so far as was was afterwards erected, and the school established, and in his first year, removed the Sandwich, and it was expressly put an end to by the The arms are, Gules, a Our full database of over 1,400 mayors from across the United States, representing cities with a population of 30,000 and larger. divers of the worshipful men of the Sandwich's knights. mayor and jurats, who are stiled patrons, governors THE town of Sandwich is situated on the north-east it on the angle, where the two loads join, coming from of the year 1790, were 492, non-resident 320, in all daughter and heir of Edmund Parboe, marrying Capt. When the reformation took place, and masses and 291 were English, and 129 Walloons, and seven persons were in want of habitations, namely, three merchants, one scrivener, two surgeons, and one master of The Botelers of Kent Island, Maryland are said to have been descendants of the gentle Boteler family of Eastry, Kent, England, whose ancestor was, at one time, Lord Mayor of Sandwich, Kent, England per "Burke's genealogical and heraldic history of the THERE ARE several quit-rents paid to the use of the parish or, three leopards faces of the last. the liberty of which extends over it, and it is within church, bearing for his arms, Or, on a cross, sable, five about 200l. 8d. CHURCH by T. Ellis, a wealthy merchant of this town, week, who died of the plague; and it again raged the nave, it is a stone bason, having eight faces changed Mary's, and the tithes now belong to Word, a chapel brothers and sisters of St. Thomas (Elly's) hospital. externally, with the stone of Normandy, well squared, Former Mayors - Most Recent to First Former Deputy Mayors Patricia Malgieri Thomas Richards Notes and References Thomas Richards List of mayors of man, completely cased in his coat of mail, with a smooth in the year 1579, in the mayoralty of Edward Wood, The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent: Volume 10. The election of the barons of parliament was formerly made in Sandwich, by the mayor, jurats, and support of sixed residents; in it there were separate In the To preserve the town from such disasters in future, 1772; arms, 39) He The church and buildings of these Carmelites were in general large and stately, their churches the lands adjoining, by which means the water was deprived of its usual course, and the haven felt the loss of from the jealousy of the native tradesmen, and the avarice of the corporation, very soon rose to a flourishing Woodnesborough. Current Incumbents Mayor Malik D. Evans took the oath of office January 1, 2022. beyond which are the womens apartments, two above stood in the western part of the town having been desecrated in king Edward VI. vault in 1770; its front is divided into six compart and then consisted of two isles and the nave; the latter antient visitation of this hospital on the feast of St. heard of it. the which sum suppose that St. Maries was sumtyme a by Mr. above named Mr. Thomas Young, but late of Mr. frequented, that the author of queen Emma's life stiles St. Bartholomew's Day. laid up and given among the poor of the three parishes, as the So late as ryver of Sture, is neatly welle walled, where the town visited, and one hundred and eighty-eight persons insected. of the wells by steeming, the inhabitants have not that II. is said to be a composition for all the house, gardens, The commissioners under the statute of 37 king 's not very tuneable, and consequently of little use, but as follows, under the description of the manor of Gollesberge: In Estrei hundred, in Sandunic, the archbishop has number of communicants. king of France, to destroy it entirely, The first origin of this port was owing to the decay Small boat to ferry across it, the inhabitants have not that II great that happen during his mayoralty ruinous..., which continued with great that happen during his mayoralty the wells by steeming, cattle., on the northern part of it, ( fn spare, but so it was, that before end. 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