In het Engelse graafschap Kent zijn al eeuwen van Horne’s gevestigd in het landgoed Horne’s Place bij het plaatse Appledore wat erg lijkt op het Nederlandse Apeldoorn of Appeldorn in NRW Duitsland. Of zij familie van de hoofdtak van de van Horne’s zijn is niet bekend, maar er zijn aanwijzingen dat deze familie in de 12e of 13e eeuw van het continent naar Engeland is geëmigreerd.
In de analen van Appledore is sprake van een zekere ridder genaamd Jan van Bassigny die een beroep doet op verworven rechten door king John van Engeland die regeerde van 1199 -1216 van een van zijn nazaten:
| Petitioners: | John de Basynges (Basing), knight |
| Name(s): | de Basynges (Basing), John |
| Addressees: | King and council |
| Nature of request: | John de Basynges, knight, states that King John granted to Ralph de Normanvill and his heirs the county of Rutland, to hold at farm of him and his heirs; and that he is the heir of Ralph de Normanvill. However, because of two successive minorities in the descent, the county was taken into the king’s hand, and not sued out of it. He requests delivery of the county, to hold at farm according to the purport of the charter. |
| Nature of endorsement: | [None] |
| Places mentioned: | Rutland |
| People mentioned: | John, King of England; Ralph de Normanvill; Gerard [de Normanvill], son of Ralph de Normanvill; Thomas [de Normanvill], son and heir of Gerard de Normanvill; Margaret [de Basynges (Basing)], daughter and heir of Thomas de Normanvill; William de Basynges (Basing), husband of Margaret de Basynges; Thomas [de Basynges (Basing)], son and heir of Margaret de Basynges. |
Onderstaand document laat zien dat de Hornes nauw betrokken waren bij het droogleggen van Romney Marsh, een specialiteit van de lage landen…
Deze van Horne’s waren aanzienlijke lieden, die posities hadden als rechters en sheriffs die het gezag van de koning uitoefende in het graafschap. Dit lijkt mede uit het feit dat zij het oratorium mochten ontvangen in hun eigen privé kapel.
Deze William I of Horne was een soort warden of peace voor een lagere rechtbank die de vrede van de koning moest bewaken. Hij bezat nog een statig huis in het plaatsje Cuckstone (Cuxton).
Onderstaand een strafzaak tegen William Hoorne ten tijde van Hnery VIII
| 13 Feb. R. O. | 3926. INDICTMENTS in KENT. |
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| 26 Jan.—John Goldyng, of Glemeforth, entered into a recognizance of 100l. to aid the King’s constables when required, to bear himself well towards the King and his subjects, and to appear before the Council on the octaves of Hilary next. | |
| Today appeared the jury of Kent, who refused to find a bill of murder and a bill of rescues against Wm. Hoorne, in spite of “pregnant and manifest evidence” produced by the King’s solicitor and others. Ric. Clerk, Nic. Pix, Nic. Culter and Wm. Strangborne, whose “frowardness” prevented the bill being found, were committed to the Fleet, 28 Jan. The jury confessed that they would have indicted Hoorne, if it had not been for the four abovenamed jurors. Another bill is ordered to be made against Hoorne, and a new jury charged. The men of Apuldore must be present at the next assizes to give evidence against Hoorne. |
Zijn opvolger Roger Horne komt voor in de boekhouding van Henry VIII: July 1528, 11-20:
| 11 July. R. O. | 4501. SIR EDW. GULDEFORD to WOLSEY. |
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| On Sunday last, 5 July, Roger Horne, of Kenerton, and John Bell, of Apuldre, came to me at Hallden, and showed me the lewd sayings of Sir John Crake, parish priest of Brensett in Romney Marsh. Sends a bill of it. Has committed the priest to Maidstone gaol until Wolsey’s pleasure be known, as it was not meet to trouble him with strangers in the time of this plague. Has been ill of it himself. Would be glad to have one of the late Sir Wm. Compton’s offices. Hallden, 11 July. Signed. |
(Background): [“When Roger Horne died in 1544, he owned not only this manor of Kenardington, but also five dwelling houses of which one, clearly Hornes Place, Appledore, was held of the Dean and Chapter of Canterbury. His son Henry succeeded to all the property and, on his death in 1565, left all his estate to his daughter Benet. She was to be the last of the Hornes of Appledore and Kenardington. She became a recusant, one of those who refused to take the oath of allegiance to Queen Elizabeth, and in 1570, at the age of eleven, fled to the continent without the Queen’s license. She married another recusant, Richard Guildeforde. They both died in exile, he in 1586, she in 1597. There were no children and the long line of Hornes of Appledore ended with her death.]
Another potentate had arrived in the parish, Philip Chute. A man of distinction and of great wealth, he belonged to a family of eminence, of which Chaloner Chute of the Vyne, near Basingstroke, a distinguished lawyer and Speaker of the House of Commons at the time of the Restoration, was to be the most prominent member. Philip Chute had won fame and the gratitude of King Henry VIII at the seige of Boulougne on September 14, 1544. Here he had served as standard bearer to the men of arms of the Kings Band. He was rewarded with the grant of a canton to his coat of arms – the lion of England on a field argent and vert – and with considerable wealth. He had already been given the confiscated monastaries at Winchelsea and Faversham. The King, on July 15th, 1545, appointed him Captain of Camber Castle and, more to the point, provided with the appointment a salary of 2/- a day, and the right to draw 6d. a day for each man on an establishment of eight “soldeors” and six “gonners”. Henry VIII’s patent was endorsed later on behalf of Queen Mary and Queen Elizabeth, thus ensuring the continued payment of the pension.
Philip Chute undoubtedly owned the lease of, and lived in, Hornes Place, Appledore, and was buried in Appledore church. When he acquired it is not known. Hasted is wrong in saying that when Richard Guildeford and his wife Benet, the daughter of Henry Horne, were attainted, Hornes Place, with his other property was confiscated to the crown “and the Queen soon afterwards granted to here.” Henry Horne did not die until 1565, only two years before Philip Chute’s death, and there is no reason to think that he was a recusant or that his property was confiscated. His daughter Benet was then only six years old and was not declared a recusant until 1570. The legend of the Queen bestowing the property of the Papist recusant on her father’s gallant standard bearer is much more colorful, but on his own statement he acquired Hornes Place by purchase, and did so probably some time before Henry Horne died in 1565.”
De Hornes en hun geschiedenis komen ook voor in de poëzie van John Gower (Jan van Goer?), een tijdgenoot en goede vriend van Geoffrey Chaucer. Onderstaand extract op basis van de “Longleat House” editie becommentarieerd door Kate Harris laat zien wat er zoal beschreven is:
Ik vond onderstaand artikel op het internet:
CHAPEL AT HORNE’S PLACE, APPLEDORE.
BY CANON SCOTT ROBEBTSON.
On Appledore Heath stands the ancient mansion of Horne’s Place, now used as a farm-house. At its south-eastern angle there remains, in fair preservation, a small domestic chapel, built towards the end of the fourteenth century. It is now used as a barn for wool. The character of many of its architectural details is remarkable, and they are probably unique in England. Sir Gilbert Scott said that the architect, who designed them, was probably a Frenchman, and certainly a poet. Sir Gilbert traced, in all the carving, forms of the leaves or flowers of the Lesser Celandine, a wild plant which blooms abundantly in the neighbourhood during the spring. So much did he commend the beauty of this very small chapel, that Mr. Benjamin J. Scott (then of Sevenoaks, now of Addiscombe) caused careful drawings and plans of the building to be made. These he has generously placed at my disposal, and from them the accompanying plates have been prepared. Among the domestic chapels remaining in Kent, I know of none which, on the whole, excelled this in simple beauty and originality of design. At Leeds Castle, the chapel retains few of its original details; in the Mote at Ightham, the earlier of the two chapels has good features, but they have suffered more from age and neglect than Horne’s Chapel has done. Perhaps the chapel at Old Sore more nearly resembled this. At Knole, the chapel is of much later date. Such domestic chapels, called oratories, were not uncommon in the Middle Ages; but none could be used, for Divine service, until the “bishop of the diocese had granted his license to that effect. Consequently, by searching the Eegisters of the Archbishopric, I discovered that in November, 1366, Archbishop Langham granted to “William Horne, of ” Apoldre,” permission to hear Divine service in his oratory here.* At that period the stifier vertical lines, of Perpendicular architecture, were beginning to supplant the moreLangham’s Register, folio 48″.
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flowing and graceful lines of the Decorated. Of this fact the chapel at Horne’s Place furnishes an example. It stands upon a crypt, which is six feet high in the clear, lighted by two small rectangular windows, deeply splayed; one at the east end, and the other at the west. This crypt was originally entered, from the south side, by descending four steps to a doorway in the south-west corner. It is now used as a cellar, and a doorway from the house has been made through its north wall. The area of the interior of the chapel itself is about 22 feet by 12 ; and its clear height is about 23 feet, from the floor to the apex of each of the three arched and moulded principals of the boarded roof. The ridge of the roof is five or six feet higher. The doorways are two ; one at the north-west corner, by which Mr. Horne’s family entered the chapel from the house; the other, in the west wall at its southern end, is the external entrance, approached by an ascent of three or four steps. The latter doorway is, in the clear, about 6 feet high and 2 feet wide; it has round shafts, with moulded caps and bases. The aegmental arch of its head springs not from the shaft-caps but from vertical stilts, which rise a foot above the caps. Of the “four windows, those in the north and south walls are alike, and partake more of the Decorated style; while the large east window, and the small one in the west wall, are decidedly Perpendicular in character. The latter window, placed higla up in the west wall, has two cinquefoiled lights, with a square head (to which the central mullion runs up), and on. the exterior a square label with its ends returned. The north and south windows have, each, three seven-foiled lights, with shafted mullions of Decorated character. On the exterior the labels are ogeed, but have rather depressed curves; on the interior, the hood-moulding of each window is formed of four curves, crowned by a finial which some consider to represent a horseshoe, on which, instead of nails, seventy-seven round beads are carved. This finial, 4 inches high and nearly 4 inches broad, is shewn on the plate of details. I do not myself think that the architect intended it to suggest any idea of a horse-shoe. The stop, with which the hood-mould dies away into a simple hollow, is extremely peculiar. Two views of it are shewn on the plate of details. The eastern window (now bricked up) has a central seven-foiled light, flanked by two lower five-foiled lights, with shafted mullions, which extend through the tracery (of quatrefoils and triangles) to
the window arch. The exterior hood-mould is capped by a cross with round ends as a finial. On the interior, the hood has only a simple hollow moulding, in which, at the level of the inullion caps, there is a stop similar to them. Sir Gilbert Scott traced, in these caps and stops, a resemblance to the flower of the Lesser Celandine (when stripped of its petals) crowning its slender stem. The boarded roof is very richly moulded. Its three arched principals spring from corbels, of clunch or fine chalk, on each of which, embedded in a cluster of the heart-shaped leaves of the Lesser Celandine (said Sir Gilbert Scott), is carved a shield (having ogeed cusps at its three angles) 4 inches high and 3 inches wide, charged with one Katherine wheel. This is clearly an intimation that the chapel was dedicated to St. Katherine, who in England was one of the most popular of Saints. The suggestion that it bore some allusion to the arms of the Scotts, of Scots Hall, is quite inadmissible. The Scotts bore, on their armorial shield, three Katherine wheels within a bordure. Their family had no connection whatever with Horne’s Place, when this chapel was built; nor was the Horne family connected by marriage with the Scotts. A curious ” squint,” or long slanting hagioscope, is pierced through the southern wall of the chapel, at about 7 or 8 feet from the ground outside. This is one of the peculiar features of the building. Its external aperture is 2 feet square; and through it ventilation could be effected when none of the windows could be opened ; through it, also, the pries b could see, and communicate with, any one outside (which he could not do through the windows, so high are they in the walls). From the outside, no persons could look into the chapel, through this squint, xinless they were mounted upon some external gallery or stage. The family of Horne flourished at Romney and Appledore during the thirteenth,* fourteenth, and fifteenth centuries, but it disappeared from that district before the end of the sixteenth. In. Romney Marsh there was a bridge, called Horne’s Bridge, which was taken down in 1893. King Edward I, when at Romney in 1276, granted to Matthew de Horne a piece of land upon which he might construct a quay. He, or one of the same name, also possessed the manor of East Horne, in the hundred of Blackheath. William Horne, who in 1366 obtained the Archbishop’s licence
In A.D. 1260 Roger de Horne was steward of the Earl of Gloucester for the Lowy of Tunbridge. (Hundred Moll, Purley’s Hist, of the Weald, ii., 128.)
to hear Divine service within his oratory at Appledore, held much land there, from the Priory of Christ Church, Canterbury. He was made a Justice of the Peace in 1378, and perhaps on that account, or on account of his connection with the church lands around, his house was one of those which Wat Tyler’s adherents attacked and broke into in 1381. Two figures, formerly painted in a window of Appledore Church, seem to have represented him and his wife. Beneath them were the names of William Horne and Margaret his wife. We do not know how he was related to Edmund Horne who represented Canterbury in Parliament from 1382 to 1406 ; nor to Richard de Horne who probably resided at Lenham, and was a man of consideration in the hundred of Calehill in 1381. William Horne’s successor was Henry de Horne (probably his son), who was elected to represent Kent in Parliament in October 1404. He served as Sheriff of Kent in 1406. The family seems to have had three branches. In 1426, among the gentlemen of Kent were numbered Henry Horne of Appledore, John Horne of Lenham, and Richard Horne of Westwell.* According to the Digges pedigrees, a few years later one James Horne of Horne’s Place, dying in 1442, left only a sister Juliana, wife of John D’igges, who was his heir. How this could be does not appear. Certainly, Horne’s Place in Appledore continued in the Horne family for more than a century after that. Robert Horne, who was in 1455 a trustee for the transfer of Eastmarsh,t in Appledore and Kenardington, represented Kent in Parliament in 1460. He served the office of Sheriff, also, in 1452, and seems to have been the head of the family at Appledore. Yet the pedigrees place Gervase Horne in that position about A.D. 1451. The children of Gervase were Henry, William, and Margeria, who married James Bering of Lyminge. Henry Horne (son of Gervase) had three sons, Gervase, Robert, and Henry. Gervase, the eldest, was admitted to the freedom of the town and port of New Romney, in April 1478 ; and lived until the 14th Feb. 151|. His two sons were young children when he died; Roger born in 1505, and Thomas in 1507. Roger, the elder of the two, married Ann, daughter of Thomas Ashburnham (by his wife Elizabeth Dudley). In 1525, while Roger Horne was still a minor, under age, John Shery, Rector of Kenardington, resigned his benefice. Young Roger was the
Fuller’s Worthies, ii., 87. •j- Close Roll, 33 Henry VI, memb. 4. J British Museum Additional MS. 5621.
patron; and consequently his guardian, Sir Edmund Walsingham, presented Hugh Presell to the living, Presell was instituted by Archbishop “Warham on the 28th of January 1525-6. As the advowson was appendant to the manor, we must suppose that the manor of Kenardington was possessed by the Horne family before 1525. Hasted says (vii., 26) that Roger Horne purchased, in 1533 (24 Hen. VIII), that manor in Kenardington the seat of which has ever since been called (like the original mansion in Appledore) Horne’s Place; but he must be in error respecting the date. Roger Horne seems to have been an active country gentleman. In July 1528 he and John Bell of Appledore went to Sir Edward Guildeford at ?olvenden to complain of the lewd sayings of John Crake, parish priest of Brenzett, who was in consequence committed to Maidstone Gaol.* When a royal loan was levied for Henry VIII, in 1542, Roger Horne contributed £10; and this was among the later acts of his life. His will was made on the 8th of June 1543. He died before Kenardington Church was ruined by lightning. His son Henry must therefore have been the lord of the manor who contributed so largely (as Hasted says) to the reconstruction of that church in 1559-60. Of the four children of Roger Horne only two left any issue. Henry, his eldest son (who married Katherine Moyle), died on the 6th of June 1565, leaving an only child and heiress Benett Horne, then but five years old. She married Richard Guildeforde, a Roman Catholic, who refused to take the oath of supremacy required by the Government of Elizabeth ; he fled (in 1570,12 Eliz.) into exile; was attainted; and died at Rouen in 1586. His wife died at Brussels in 1597, leaving no issue. Roger Horne’s daughter Katherine survived until New Year’s Day, 1609, She had married Thomas, third son of Sir Walter Mantel!, and she left issue by him; but the forfeited estates at Appledore and Kenardington could not be regained for her children. Horne’s Place in Appledore was granted, by the Queen’s Government, to Philip Chute; and Horne’s Place in Kenardington to Walter Moyle.
Farley’s History of the Weald of Kent, ii., 451.
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THE MANOR OF POPESHALL, or Popshall, as it is commonly called, and sometimes erroneously, Copsall, is situated at the eastern boundary of this parish, adjoining to Waldershare park. It is written in the survey of Domesday, Popeselle; at the time of taking which, it was part of the possessions of Odo, bishop of Baieux, under the general title of whose lands it is thus entered in it:
The same Osbern (son of Letard) holds of the bishop, Popeselle. It was taxed at one suling. The arable land is. . . . . . In demesne there are two carucates and one villein, with four borderers, having half a carucate. Two freemen held this land of king Edward. A certain knight of his held half a yoke, and there he has one carucate in demesne. The whole in the time of king Edward the Confessor was worth sixty shillings, and afterwards twenty, now one hundred shillings.
In Beusberge hundred, Radulf de Curbespine holds half a yoke in Popessale, and there he has three oxgangs of land. In the time of king Edward the Confessor, and afterwards, it was worth four shillings, now eight shillings. Uluric held it of king Edward.
On the bishop of Baieux’s disgrace, which happened about four years afterwards, the king his brother, consiscated all his possessions, and granted the lands abovementioned, among others, to Hugh de Port.
These lands, which together made up the barony of Port, were held of the king in capite by barony, the tenant of them being bound by his tenure to maintain a certain number of soldiers from time to time, for the defence of Dover castle, and it was afterwards held by knight’s service of his descendants (who assumed the name of St. John, and made their seat of Basing, in Hampshire, the chief, or capital of their barony), by the family of Orlanstone, of Orlanstone, in this country; for William de Orlanstone held it, as appears by an escheat roll, marked with the number 86, in Henry III’s reign, and left it to his son William de Orlanstone, who in the 51st year of that reign obtained a charter of freewarren, among other liberties, for his manors of Orlanstone and Popeshalle. At length his descendant John de Orlanstone, about the latter end of king Edward the IIId.’s reign, alienated this manor to Horne, a branch of that family of this name seated at Hornesplace, in Apledore, in which name it continued, till James Horne, dying s. p. in the 20th year of king Henry VI. it descended to John Digge, of Barham, whose ancestor of the same name had married Juliana, sister, and at length heir, of James Horne above mentioned, and in his descendants it continued down to Sir Dudley Diggs, of Chilham-castle, who about the latter end of king James I’s reign, alienated it to Sir William Monins, bart. of Waldershare, who was possessed of the remaining part of Popeshall, probably the same as is described in the survey of Domesday as abovementioned, as having been held by Ralph de Curbespine, which had been in the possession of his ancestors of the name of Monins, as far back as the beginning of king Edward III.’s reign. (fn. 6) His son, Sir Edward Monins, bart. died possessed of the whole of this estate in 1663, after which his heirs and trustees joined in the sale of it, together with other manors and lands in this parish and neighbourhood, to Sir Henry Furnese, bart. who died in 1712 possessed of it; since which it has descended down in like manner as that of Coldred, above described, to the present right hon. George Augustus, earl of Guildford, who is the present owner of it. A court baron is held for this manor.
Henry Malmains, of Waldershare, by his will anno 1274, mentions the church of Popeshale, among others, to which he had given legacies; and in a manuscript of Christ-church, Canterbury, mention is made, that the pension of the vicar of Coldred was assigned to the maintenance of one chaplain at Popeshall; and in the valuation of churches made in the 8th year of king Richard II. anno 1384, the churches of Coldrede and Popeleshale, belonging to Dover priory, are both mentioned. The foundations of this chapel, or church, are still to be seen at a small distance from the manor house.
There was a portion of tithes arising from seventy-six acres of the manor of Popeshall, which belonged to the abbot of Langdon. (fn. 7) It is now the property of the earl of Guildford.
A BRANCH of the family of Finch was settled at Coldred, in the latter end of queen Elizabeth’s reign, of whom there is a pedigree in the Heraldic Visitation of Kent, 1619. They bore for their arms, the same as those of Eastwell, but with the chevron ingrailed.
There are no parochial charities, The poor constantly relieved are about six, casually four.
THIS PARISH is within the ECCLESIASTICAL JURISDICTION of the diocese of Canterbury, and deanry of Sandwich.
The church, which is dedicated to St. Pancrase, is very small and mean, consisting of only one isle and a chancel. It has one bell in it, but the steeple of it has been down for many years past. There are two singular nitches, such as are not seen in these parts, piercing the head wall of this church, at the west end, where it rises above the roof, each of which probably held a bell formerly, and though not used in common in this part of the country, are at this time frequent in the parts adjacent to Calais, in France, formerly under the dominion of the English. In the chancel are memorials for the Ockmans, of Deal, arms, A fess between three crescents, impaling a fess dancette, between three balls. On a brass plate, an inscription for William Fyntch, gent. obt. 1615, who married Bennet, daughter and heir of Christopher Hunniwood, gent. A memorial in the body for Margaret, wife of Thomas Jeken, obt. 1616. A monument for Edward Pettit, A. M. vicar of Shepperdswell and Coldred, obt. June 20, 1709.
The church of Coldred was given to the priory of St. Martin, in Dover, by archbishop Langton, in the beginning of king Henry II.’s reign, and was not long afterwards appropriated to it, and confirmed by the chapter of Christ-church, with the deduction of a competent portion of six marcs to the vicar for his maintenance, (fn. 8) and in this state it continued till the dissolution of the priory, in the 27th year of Henry VIII. when it was suppressed by act, as being under the clear yearly value of two hundred pounds. After which the king granted this church and the advowson of the vicarage, with the scite and other possessions of the priory, in his 29th year, to the archbishop, part of whose possessions they remain at this time. This parsonage is held of the archbishop on a beneficial lease by the right hon. the earl of Guildford. There are twenty acres of glebe land belonging to it. It is valued in the king’s books at 6l. 2s. 6d. and the yearly tenths at 12s. 3d. The antient yearly pension of four pounds is still paid by the archbishop, as possessor of the priory lands of Dover to the vicar. In 1588 here were communicants sixty, and it was valued at twenty pounds. In 1640 here were communicants sixty, and it was valued at thirty pounds.
This vicarage was augmented with the yearly sum of twenty pounds, to be paid by the lessee of the great tithes, by archbishop Juxon, anno 12 Charles II. and confirmed by another indenture, anno 28 of the same reign. It is now of the clear yearly certified valued of 35l. 7s. 9d.
Archbishop Whitgift in 1584, united this vicarage and the adjoining one of Shebbertswell; and archbishop Sancrost in 1680, again consolidated these vicarages, in which state they continue at this time, the Rev. Richard Blackett Dechair being the present vicar of both these parishes.
THERE WAS A PORTION OF TITHES, as has been already mentioned, payable to the abbot and convent of Langdon, from certain lands of the manor of Popeshall; and the same abbot, &c. was entitled to the small tithes of a tenement in this parish, which they held of the prior and convent of Cumbwell, concerning which there was an agreement between the abbot and convent and those of St. Martin’s, Dover, the appropriators of this church in the year 1227. There are at this time seventy acres of land belonging to Popshall, and eighteen acres and a half to Newsole, tithe free, which seem to be the above portion of tithes. There is now another portion of tithes arising from ninety acres of land in this parish, payable to the lords of the manor of Temple Ewell adjoining. (fn. 9)
Footnotes
- 1. See Dec. Script. Thorn, col. 1931, 2163.
- 2. See Harris’s History of Kent, p. 81.
- 3. Rot. cart. ejus an. N. 6. Tan. Mon. p. 221.
- 4. Augtn. off. Kent, box H. 24. Rot. Esch. ejus an. pt. 8.
- 5. See more of this family, and the settlements of the Furnese estates, under Waldershare.
- 6. See the Register of St. Radigund’s abbey, and the Book of Knights Fees.
- 7. See Ducarel’s Rep. p. 26. Stev. Mon. vol. i. p. 39.
- 8. Leiger Book of St. Martin’s, Dover, f. 187b, MSS. Lamb. See Ducarel’s Rep. p. 26, 27.
- 9. See Decem, Scriptores, col. 2163.
The Manor of East Lenham
In latter times the manor of East Lenham was in possession of the Hornes, but whether descended from those of Hornes-place, in Kenardinton, I have not found.
¶John Horne, esq. was of East Lenham, in the reigns of king Henry V. and VI. in whose family it continued till John Horne, gent. of East Lenham, leaving an only daughter and heir Alice, she carried it in marriage to John Proffit, gent. of Barcombe, in Sussex, who bore for his arms, Argent, a lion rampant, and semee of escallops, sable, whose sole daughter and heir Elizabeth, widow of Richard Manfield, gent. of Middlesex, entitled her husband, John Chauncy, esq. of Hertfordshire, to this manor, of which he died possessed in 1546, and was buried in the church of Sawbridgeworth. He was ancestor of Sir Henry Chauncy, serjeant-at-law, the historian, and bore for his arms, Gules, a cross patonce, argent, on a chief, azure, a lion passant, or, which he quartered with those of Horne, Argent, on a chevron gules, between three bugle horns, sable, three mullets or. his eldest son, Robert, having taken on himself the habit of a Carthusian, Henry, the second son, became possessed of all his father’s estates.