the Cathedral Church of Rochester," is the epitaph of Thomas Peniston, unfortunately without date. Thorpe, in the Custumale Roffense, places it in the Nave, and adds that it was destroyed in the Great Rebellion. His widow married Sir Alexander Temple, Knt., of Long House, Chandwell, Essex, who died in 1629, and he, too, was buried in the cathedral, where a tourist of 1635 noticed "Sir Alexander Temple's monument with his lady" (A.C., XI, 5-9). Pedigrees (here revised) give only one son to Thomas and Mary, another Thomas, the donor of this volume to Ed. Woods in 1641, who was created a baronet of Leigh in Sussex in 1611 and whose will was proved at Oxford in May, 1644. He married twice; firstly in 1613 to Martha, daughter of Sir Thomas Temple, Bart., of Stowe, his stepfather's brother, and secondly to Elizabeth, daughter and heir of Sir Thomas Watson of Halstead, widow of William Pope (eldest son of Sir Wm. Pope, created Earl of Downe in 1628) whom she had married at St. Margaret's Westminster in 1615, and who died in 1624. Thomas, the eldest son of the Peniston-Watson alliance, was of Cornwall House, which thenceforth remained the seat of the family. It seems likely, however, that Mary Somer had other children by Thomas Peniston, for the will of William Peniston¹  of Milton by Gravesend (Harvey 139) was proved, 1639, by his brother John. John Peniston also proved the will of John Causon of Frindesbury (Sadler 129) in 1635, and occurs in the rental of Hoden Fee of 1649, a manor of Cobham mainly situate in Frindesbury.

   The first list of baronets, a different script from the Queenborough arms and the armoury, has had the two last names added to it of Sir Thomas Temple and Sir Thomas Peniston, by the same hand that continued the list to 1620, possibly that of Sir Thomas Peniston¹ the binding, too, seems to have been made for him. The fact that the armoury, though general to Kent, contains much of North Kent, including Peniston, and is prefaced by the Queenborough Castle series, suggests an origin in the neighbourhood of the Hundred of Hoo, and permits the conjecture that it was a family MS., for that reason preserved, added to and bound by Sir Thomas at a later date, and save for the donation to Mr. Woods, retained by the family to the end.
   Queenborough Castle, commenced in 1361, is attributed by J. H. Harvey to Henry Yeveley, Mason of the King's Works to Edward III (Henry Yevele, pp. 25-26). It was demolished in, or soon after, 1650² and only the well remains. The Invicta Magazine in 1908 (Vol. I, 44-5) printed extracts relating to Queenborough from "A Tour thro' Great Britain," published anonymously in 1753. Among them is the following passage also given by Hasted: —
   "This Castle was standing in the year 1629, for Mr. Johnston.,
   ¹  He married Eliz. d. T. Heyward of East Milton: she died 23 March, 1635: see her M. I. in Milton by Gravesend Church.
   ². See Rambles in the Isle of Sheppey by Turmine, 1843.