Footnotes to Chapter VII

1.  Hasted II, 466-7
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2. Bancks, op. cit., 45.

3.  Stagg, 1, 3. Stagg uses the spelling ‘Holliwell’, the form usually found in contemporaty sources for the later years of this manor. The earlier ‘Holiwell’ more clearly indicates the provenance of the name, as does the modern ‘Holywell Park’.

4.  Fane Lambarde, 20.

5,  See Alan Everitt, The Community of Kent and the Great Rebellion (1966), esp. at 190 & 284. The Sedleys of St Clere, being Parliament men, were out on a limb, but they were comparative newcomers to Holmesdale. Francis Clerke we take to be the son of Sir William Clerke, who raised at his own expense a regiment of Kentishmen in the King’s defence and in 1644 fell at its head in the battle for Cropredy Bridge.

6.  Hasted III, 84.

7.  Sir John Dunlop, The Pleasant Town of Sevenoaks (1964), 113-4.

8.  PCC Wills, year 1679, fol. 104 (PRO: PROB. 11/360).

9.   William Bosvile married Jane, daughter of the Revd Clement Hobson, who was vicar of Eltham for nearly sixty-seven years and died in harness in 1725 at the age of ninety. In Eltham church were buried not only his mother, his wife, three of his children and himself, but also four children of his daughter, Jane Bosvile: Reg. Roff., Pt. II, 951.

10.  AC XLVI, 75; Dunlop, pp. cit., 128, 139-40, 150. Dunlop says that William rebuilt the house, but Hasted (III, 84) attributes it to Henry. Sprange’s Tunbridge Wells Guide of 1786 gives its date as about 1750 which, if correct, would make Henry responsible. William had partly retired from the affairs of this world in about 1728 and wholly in 1740.

11.  PCC Wills, year 1700, fol. 190 (PRO: PROB. 11/458).

12.  Dunlop, op, cit., 143.

13.  Ibid., 149, 170-1, 186, 196-7, 210.

14.  See report of a visit to Ash by: members of the K.A.S. in the West Kent Advertiser for 30 July 1920 (from which there is a cutting in D.C.L.).