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Title: Archaeologia cantiana
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Kent Archaeological Society. cn
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Publisher: (London) Kent Archaeological Society
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ands and allotments;and that Mr. Francis Downes and Mr. George Ratcliffe shalldetermine all differences between the said parties; if needbe, Sir Edward Salter, Knt., to act as umpire. SWYNGFELD OR SwiNGPIELD. Swyngfield, as it is sometimes spelt, is situate in theHundred of Folkestone, about eight miles from Dover andsix and a half from Folkestone. It is also referred to byTanner as Ewell, hence there has arisen some uncertainty.It is in this or the adjoining parish that we are to look forthe house of the Knight Hospitallers of Jerusalem. Tanner§ states That there was here a house of theSisters of the Order before they were all placed together atBuckland, but whether this was at Swyngfield is uncertain;adding, There was a Preceptory of Knight Templars herebefore 1190, to which Sir Waresius de Valoris, Sir Ealph de * Close Rolls, 14 James I., part 3, No. 44, 1616.f Close Rolls, 16 James I., part 2, No. 25, 1618.X Chan. Enrolled Decrees, R. 508, No. 11, 1638.§ Tanner, Notitia, p. 217.
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TILE KNIGHT HOSPITALLERS IN KENT. 201 Clestringham,* Arnulf Kade, and others were great bene-factors. At the time of the Domesday Survey it probablyformed part of the possessions of Earl Godwin, previous tothe Conquest. * Dugdale states that William de Erleigh for the love thathe bare to the King Henry and his Queen Elinore, his sonHenry and the rest of the family, and for the redemption ofthe life of the said William and his wife, gave the whole landof Buckland and the church of Penitone, with other churchesand lands in divers other places, as appears by charter, atthat time drawn up a/t the hand of Thomas the Archdeacon,uncle of William de Erleigh, for the planting and ordering ofa religious house at Buckland; and that the said canons soplanted and ordered in the same place should possess theaforesaid lands and churches for their own use for pious andperpetual charity. After many years the canons forfeitedit by their own fault it appears, because they had slain theirown seneschal, a

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