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5 days ago · Narcissus sylvestris pallidus calyce luteo, the wild English daffodil, observed by Mr. Thorpe of Bexley, in a moist place or two in Cobham park. ON OCTOBER 19, 1714, anno 1st king George I. Sir Richard Temple, bart. was, by letters patent, created baron Cobham of Cobham, in the county of Kent.
4 days ago · Thomas de Beaumont, 6th Earl of Warwick (1208–1242) Margaret de Beaumont, 7th Countess of Warwick (1242–1253) William Mauduit, 8th Earl of Warwick (1221–1268) William de Beauchamp, 9th Earl of Warwick (1238–1298) Guy de Beauchamp, 10th Earl of Warwick (1298–1315) 5 Earls of Kent South-East Hubert de Burgh, 1st Earl of Kent (1227–1243) 6
4 days ago · The histories of three hundreds in the lath of Scray: Faversham, Milton and Tenham. The volume includes accounts of the isle of Sheppey and the ville of Sheerness. It also gives addenda for this volume and for volume 5. Kent, History and Topographical Survey. Originally published by W Bristow, Canterbury, 1798.
5 days ago · William Henry de Zuleisten de Nassaw was in the 7th year of king William III. anno 1695, created baron of Enfield, viscount Tunbridge, and earl of Rochford, in Essex. He was the son of Frederick de Nassaw, lord of Zuleisten, in Holland, and natural son of Henry, prince of Orange, the king's grandfather.
3 days ago · From the youngest of whom, Sir James, descended the Palmers, of Dauney, in Buckinghamshire, who upon the eldest branch becoming extinct, have succeeded to the title of baronet; and by his second wife he had Roger Palmer, earl of Castlemain. Sir Thomas Palmer, the eldest of the three brothers, died in his father's life-time, and left Sir Thomas ...
5 days ago · LITTLE WROTHAM is a district in the north-east part of this parish, next to Trottesclive, which in the reign of the Conqueror, was part of the possessions of Odo, bishop of Baieux, and earl of Kent, the Conqueror's half brother, under the general title of whose lands, it is thus entered in the book of Domesday.
2 days ago · Includes a general account of the history, topography and natural history of the county. The volume also details the parishes of the two hundreds of Blackheath and Bromley and Beckenham, including several parishes which now form part of metropolitan London. These include Charlton, Deptford, Greenwich, Lewisham and Woolwich.
