Footnotes to Chapter VIII

1.  The detail in this account of the Hodsolls is based mainly on the Ash registers, supplemented by monumental inscriptions in Ash church and by Wills and Other Records Relating to the Family of Hodsoll, a paper by James Greenstreet in AC XIV, 225.40 (which includes a pedigree of the Loose Court branch of the family). Use has also been made of some Ash Voters’ lists of the eighteen-thirties and, mostly, eighteen- forties preserved in DCL.

2.  AC XIV, 235.

3.  See the reference to South Ash Manor in John Newman, West Kent and the Weald (in Buildings of England series), 2nd edn., 132-3.

4.  AC XIV, 225.

5.  Ibid., 226-7.

6.  Ibid., 238-9. A license was issued in 1683 for the marriage of John Hodsoll (who was John I’ s second son) and Elizabeth, daughter of Robert Saunders, gent., of Maidstone; this fact may suggest that the 1678 transaction was not at arm’s length.

7.  See Kentish Times of 10 February 1939 (cutting in DCL).

8. Jane, who never married, died in 1775. A handsome white marble stone, bearing the Hodsoll arms on a lozenge, was laid down to her memory in the Hodsoll chancel by Hester, wife of William V. That she had done so is recorded with a curious particularity in the inscription on the memorial to William and Hester on the east wall of that chancel.

9.  R.L. Arrowsmith, A History of County Cricket Kent (1971), 18.

10. AC XIV, 239.

11.  Arrowsmith, op. cit., 16-8..

12.  The Fine by which the transaction was effected is abstracted in AC XIV, 239

13.  Likewise a Fine, abstracted  ibid.

14.  Stagg, 2.

15.  Then or some years later, John Wild lived at Clapham Lodge, Clapham, Surrey and William Wild at East Dulwich.

16.  In 1839, William Hodsoll junior was farming