went to live in the house at Mereworth that her grandfather had built. Nappier was he than another relative, the unfortunate Admiral Byng, who was shot on his own quarter deck pour encourager lee autres.
   There had been a family of Masters, otherwise Masteir, in Ash in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, but the last entry for them in the registers is of a burial in 1667; that seems a little remote to explain the burial there in 1714 of the daughter of Martha Master that was. A quite different possibility is that the Fawkham valley may, at the time, have been suffering from one of its periodic floodings and that in 

consequence Fawkham church was inaccessible or its churchyard under water. There would have been no difficulty in reaching Ash, since in those days Pennis Lane continued thither as the King’s highway; near West Yoke, the track of the old road still remains,
   The death of one twin and survival of the other also occurred in the case of the first recorded of Ash twins; Henry Abard lived only a week or two. There are two instances, one in 1706 and the other in 1786, of twins living only hours or days and both being buried on the same day. In another case, twins born in February, 1776 both died in the following month.