Bibliography

This bibliography is by no means complete, I have only listed those references I have actually looked at to date, more will be added as I find them.

Abell, Henry Francis, 1901, Kent and the Great Civil War. (Ashford, Kentish Express), 68-87.

[Account of the Civil War and the exploits of Colonel Edwin Sandys in Kent.]

Allibone, Jill, 1991, George Devey, Architect 1820-86. (Cambridge, Lutterworth).

[Architect responsible for remodelling Betteshanger House.]

Austen, Rupert, 2006, 'Finglesham Farm, Finglesham', Canterbury's Archaeology 2004-2005, 46-7.

[Architectual appraisal of the farmhouse. The surviving buildings date from the 16th - 19th centuries.]

Baxter, Wynne E., 1877, The Domesday Book of Kent – A Return of Owners of Land 1873.

[An alphabetical list of land owners in Kent.]

Behrens, Lilian Boys, 1926, Under Thirty-Seven Kings, Legends of Kent and Records of the Family of Boys. (London, Saint Catherine Press), 64-68, 123-124.

[An account of the different branches of the Boys family in Kent. Includes reproductions of two watercolour sketches of Betteshanger Farm House and Old Betteshanger Church.]

Berg, Mary and Jones, Howard, 2009, Norman Churches in the Canterbury Diocese. (Stroud, History Press), 81-85.

[Description with a detailed plan and drawings reconstructing the 12th century elevations.]

Berry, William, 1830, County Genealogies, Pedigrees of Families in the County of Kent. (London, Sherwood, Gilbert & Piper).

[Sandys family tree, 41-3.]

Bradley, A. G., undated (c. 1919) England's Outpost, 238 - 248.

[Account which mainly deals with the Sandys family, there are four line illustrations by Fred Adcock: 1. Betteshanger House, 2. The junction of The Street and Deal Road Northbourne, 3. South side of Northbourne church and 4. Northbourne Court.]

Broady, June, 1989, Deal in Old Photographs. (Gloucester, Alan Sutton), 99.

[Group photograph of men and boring equipment at Northbourne prospecting for coal in March 1913.]

Burrage, Champlin,1912, The Early English Dissenters in the Light of Recent Research (1550-1641), vol 1. (Cambridge, University Press), 194-200.

[Career of Henoch Clapham, Vicar of Northbourne 1607-1614.]

Chadwick, Sonia E., 1958, ‘The Anglo-Saxon Cemetery at Finglesham, Kent: A Reconsideration’, Medieval Archaeology, vol. 2, 1-71.

[see also married name: Hawkes, Sonia Chadwick.]

Chalklin, C. W., 1960, The Compton Census of 1676: The Dioceses of Canterbury and Rochester in (ed.) Hull, F. A Seventeenth Century Miscellany, Kent Records vol. xvii.

Chalklin, C. W., 1965, Seventeenth Century Kent. A Social and Economic History.

Collyer, David G., 1995, Deal and District At War 1939-1945.

Cotton, Charles, 1939, ‘St Austin’s Abbey, Canterbury. Treasurers’ Accounts 1468-9, and Others’, Archaeologia Cantiana,  li, 66-107.

Crellin, T. D., 1973, ‘Investigations and Excavations During The Year’, Archaeologia Cantiana, lxxxviii, 218-19.

[Watching brief on a water pipeline from Poison Cross to Mongeham. Mostly ditches containing medieval pottery.]

Davis, A.H., 1934, William Thorne’s Chronicle of Saint Augustine’s Abbey, Canterbury. (Oxford, Blackwell)

[A chronicle of the history of St. Augustine's Abbey by the 14th century monk William Thorne including details of its Saxon origins and charters.]

Dowker, George, 1900, ‘Deal and its Environs’, Archaeologia Cantiana, xxiv, 108-121.

[History of  Deal area, including a section on Northbourne.]

Drewett, Peter and Rudling, David and Gardiner, Mark, 1988, The South-East To AD 1000. (London, Longman).

[An account of archaeology in the south-east of England from the Palaeolithic to the late Anglo-Saxon Period. It includes a plan and brief account of the Anglo-Saxon cemetery at Finglesham, as well as an aerial photograph of the Updown Anglo-Saxon cemetery near Eastry.]

Duncan, Leland L., 1906-7, Testamenta Cantiana: A series of extracts from Fifteenth and Sixteenth Century Wills relating to Church Building and Topography, 145, 236-7.

[Leland Lewis Duncan M.V.0., O.B.E., F.S.A 1862-1923. Lewisham antiquarian and author; as a junior clerk, during the lunch hour, he would slip out of the War Office to Somerset House and copy a will or two and then return to the office.]

Everitt, Alan, 1973, The Community of Kent and the Great Rebellion 1640-60. (Leicester, University Press), 111-16.

[Account of the Civil War and the exploits of Colonel Edwin Sandys in Kent.]

Finch, William Coles, 1976, Watermills and Windmills, 251, (1st published 1933).

[Brief history of Old and New Mill and includes four photographs (two of each mill). Also mentions a third mill recorded on 1736 map.]

Fuller, Stephen, 2010, The Story of the Northbourne Branch of the Fuller Family, (Privately published).

[The Fullers owned and ran the windmill at Northbourne. It also includes an account of a branch of the Fuller family in Canada.]

Gaunt, J., 1975, ‘Palaeolithic Hand-axe from Finglesham’, Kent Kent Archaeological Review No. 39, 252.

Halliwell, Geoffrey and Parfitt, Keith, 1983, 'A Mesolithic Site at Finglesham’, Kent Archaeological Review No. 72, 29-32.

Halliwell, Geoffrey, 1992, ‘Another Palaeolithic hand-axe from Finglesham’, Kent Archaeological Review, No. 107, 155-8.

[Palaeolithic hand-axe discovered at Finglesham in the garden of  'The Old Waggoners', Marley Lane, TR 3336 5350.]

Halliwell, Geoff and Parfitt, Keith, 1993, 'Non-River Gravel Lower and Middle Palaeolithic Discoveries in East Kent’, Kent Archaeological Review No. 114, 80-89.

[Fragment from an Acheulian hand-axe West Street, Finglesham TR 333 543.]

Halliwell Geoff and Parfitt, Keith, 1996, ‘More Palaeolithic Discoveries in East Kent’, Kent Archaeological Review No. 123, 58-64.

[Fragment from an Acheulian hand-axe West Street, Finglesham TR 333 543.]

Hammond, Egerton Douglas, 1856, Farm Servants and Agricultural Labourers: their moral and religious condition.

[Rev. Egerton Hammond became vicar of Northbourne in 1852. His book was based on his prize winning essay on ways to improve the behaviour and condition of farm workers; including advice on building adequate cottages for farm workers.]

Harrington, Duncan (ed.), Pearson, Sarah and Rose, Susan, 2000, Kent Hearth Tax Assessment Lady Day 1664. The British Record Society Hearth Tax Series Volume II
Kent Archaeological Society Kent Records Volume XXIX

Harvey I.M.W., 1991, Jack Cade's Rebellion of 1450. (Oxford, Clarendon).

Hasted, Edward, 1799, The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent, (1st edn) Vol IV.

[See description of 2nd edition below. The earlier four-volume folio edition of the History contains some material which was trimmed and not included in the 2nd edition.]

Hasted, Edward, 1800, The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent, (2nd edn) Vol IX.

[The starting point for anybody researching local history in Kent. Hasted suffered many setbacks - he broke his leg in 1789, fled to France in 1790 to escape his creditors, and was imprisoned for debt from 1795 to 1802. William Boteler and William Boys collected much of the material for Eastry, Sandwich, and the neighbouring parishes. The 2nd edition was reprinted by E P Publishing Ltd Yorkshire in 1972.]

Hawkes, Sonia Chadwick, 1958, see maiden name: Chadwick, Sonia E.

Hawkes, Sonia Chadwick, & Davidson, H. R. E. & Hawkes, C. 1965, ‘Finglesham Man’, Antiquity, Vol. XXXIX No. 153, 17-32.

Hawkes, Sonia Chadwick, 1976, ‘Palaeolithic Hand-axe from Finglesham’, Kent Archaeological Review No. 43, 59.

Hawkes, Sonia Chadwick, 1976, ‘Orientation at Finglesham: Sunrise Dating of Death and Burial in an Anglo-Saxon Cemetery in East Kent’, Archaeologia Cantiana, xcii, 33-52.

Hawkes, Sonia  Chadwick, 1976, 'Interim Report on Excavations at Eastry', Archaeologia Cantiana, xcii 247-8.

[Excavation along the route of a water pipeline which ran across Updown Anglo-Saxon cemetery.]

Hawkes, Sonia Chadwick, 1977, Medieval Archaeology xxi (1977), 209.

Hawkes, Sonia Chadwick, 1982, Anglo-Saxon Kent c. 425-725, in Archaeology in Kent to AD 1500, (ed.) Leach, P.E. (London CBA Research Report No. 48), 64-79.

Hawkes, Sonia Chadwick, 1982, Finglesham. A Cemetery in East Kent, in James Campbell (ed.) The Anglo Saxons, 24-5.

[Short article on the Finglesham cemetery with a plan and black and white photographs of three of the finds: silver buckle, glass claw-beaker and a sword.]

Hawkes, Sonia Chadwick and Grainger, Guy, 2006, The Anglo-Saxon Cemetery at Finglesham, Kent, Oxford University School of Archaeology: Monograph 64.

[A report on the excavations, by Sonia Chadwick Hawkes, between 1959 and 1967, mostly prepared in the 1980s and published as a 'product of its time'. It consists of an illustrated inventory of the 216 graves, along with illustrations of the finds and specialist reports. Unfortunately there is no intention of publishing a second volume of discussion to put the cemetery and its finds into context.]

Hayward, Ruth, 1990 Down Memory Lane.

[A fascinating booklet of collected recollections on Finglesham and Northbourne, one memorable instance is the theft and recovery of a closet bucket. They were originally written for the parish magazine by the late Mrs. Hayward.]

Hussey, Arthur, 1903, 'Archbishop Parker's Visitations 1569', The Home Counties Magazine, Vol.V, 210.

Huxley, A. L., 1960, 'A Garden of Elizabethan Terraces', Country Life, August 11 1960, 278-9.

[A description of the gardens of Northbourne Court, including five photographs.]

Igglesden, Charles, 1902, A Saunter Through Kent with Pen and Pencil Vol. IV, (Ashford, The Kentish Express), 57-75.

[Betteshanger and Northbourne in this volume, although over 100 years old, this is another starting point for anybody researching their local history. Well known for the characteristic illustrations by Xavier Willis.]

Igglesden, Charles, 1926, A Saunter Through Kent with Pen and Pencil Vol. XIX, (Ashford, The Kentish Express), 76-80.

[Ham in this volume.]

Jenkins, C., 1911 ‘An Unpublished Record of Archbishop Parker’s Visitation in 1573’, Archaeologia Cantiana, xxix, 270 - 318.

Jessup, R. F., 1954, ‘The Faussett Pavilion, Part 1 The Pavilion’, Archaeologia Cantiana, lxvi, (1953), 1-8.

[The Reverend Bryan Faussett (1720-1776) was a well known Kentish antiquary. For some of his larger relics he constructed a pavilion close to Heppington House and included two  sculptured corbels said to be from the medieval chapel at Northbourne Court.]

Jones H. A., 1985, ‘Some 19th century graffiti at Northbourne’, Kent Archaeological Review No. 81, 17-20.

[Ship graffiti discovered on wood panelling in Flint House at Northbourne, TR 3329 5211.]

Kidd, Charles and Williamson David, 2000, (eds) Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage, 1254-5.

[Lord Northbourne's lineage.]

Marsden, Barry. M., 1974, The Early Barrow Diggers. (Aylesbury, Shire Publications), 6-9.

[Brief summary of the exploits of Reverend Bryan Faussett (1720-1776) see Jessup, R. F., 1954.]

Matson, Colin, 1964, ‘Men of Kent. 1. Boys of Bonnington’, Archaeologia Cantiana, lxxix, 70-76.

[Also mentions the Boys of Betteshanger.]

May, A. W., 1977, Parish of Ham East Kent, unpublished.

[Hand written manuscript in Sandwich Library, very neat writing rendered in a number of different colours. Includes a lot of information extracted from the Parish Registers.]

Mercer John, 1802, 'Northborn'Gentleman's Magazine, December 1802, Part II, 1097-8.

[Short history of Northbourne, mostly derived from Hasted, which had just been published at the time.]

Morgan, Philip, 1983, (ed.) Domesday Book, A Survey of the Counties of England, 1, (Phillimore).

Morice, William Charles, 1923, A Collection of Morice and Morrice Biographies with genealogical trees. (London, Rivingtons).

Morrice Frederick L. H., 1881 The Nightless North - A Walk Across Lapland. (Cambridge, Jones & Piggott).

[Frederick Morrice, of The Vine, Northbourne, along with a friend and his dog Barle, sailed to the mouth of the river Tana in northern Norway. They travelled southward following the courses of the rivers Tana, Munio and Torneo to the Gulf of Bothnia and the Baltic Sea.]

Newman, John, A., 1987, The Buildings of England: North East and East Kent. (London, Penguin) 3rd ed.

Northbourne, Lord, 1900, ‘Northbourne Court’, Archaeologia Cantiana, xxiv, 96-107.

[History of Northbourne Court by Walter Henry James, 1869-1932, 2nd Baron. Includes foldout map of Northbourne, detailed account of the life of  Sir Edwin Sandys and a drawing of the Sandys memorial in St. Augustine's church.]

Oswald A., 1933, Country Houses of Kent. (London, Country Life), 20 and illus. nos. 69, 70 and 71.

[Only a paragraph on the history of Northbourne Court, more interesting are the b&w photographs - two of the barn and one of the garden terrace and house.]

Parfitt, Keith, 1979, ‘Discoveries along a pipeline through the parishes of Sutton and Northbourne near Deal’, Kent Archaeological Review, No. 55, 110-15.

[Two sites discovered: one between Willow Wood and Little Mongeham TR 3151 5079. The other a complex of ditches north of Stoneheap at TR 323 508. Most of the features were devoid of finds but where pottery was recovered it was Iron Age in date.]

Parfitt, Keith, 1983, ‘Investigations and Excavations During The Year’, Archaeologia Cantiana, xcix, 290.

[Mesolithic flint site at Finglesham, over 1,700 flints recovered at TR 3383 5379.]

Parfitt, Keith, 1983a, ‘The lost church of Little Mongeham, near Deal’, Kent Archaeological Review No. 73, 70-5.

[Survey of the site in 1981 at TR 3330 5089.]

Parfitt, Keith, 1992, ‘A Bronze Age Axe from Ham near Deal’, Kent Archaeological Review No.109, 198-9.

[TR 3265 5459.]

Parfitt, Keith and Halliwell, Geoff, 2009, 'An Acheulian Handaxe from Lower Farm, Finglesham, Near Deal', Kent Archaeological Review No. 178, 178-180.

[TR 3376 5373.]

Phillips, Charles J., 1918, 'Arms and Armour seized at Knole During the Civil War', Archaeologia Cantiana xxxiii 33, 125-130.

[Arms and Armour in Knole House seized by Colonel Edwin Sandys in 1642; including a list of the items taken.]

Philp, Brian, 1978, ‘A Romano-British Cemetery at Northbourne, Kent’, Kent Archaeological Review No. 52, 30-49.

[Rescue excavation of 3rd century A.D. Romano-British Cemetery (14 burials) discovered during road widening of the Northbourne to Eastry road in 1974 - TR 329 527.]

Philp, Brian, 2002, Archaeology in the Front Line, 117-119.

[Site number 27 in the book - 'The Roman Cemetery at Northbourne 1974: Beneath the Bull-Dozer's Jaws'. Short account of the excavation with four black and white photographs. One showing the start of the excavation, the second an inhumation which appears to be 'burial 9', a third shows flanged bowl from burial 3, and the fourth photo shows a reconstruction of one of the Roman women.]

Philp, Brian and Keller, Peter, 2002, The Anglo-Saxon Cemetery at Eastry, near Dover. (Dover, Kent Archaeological Rescue Unit).

[Report of 1989 excavation in advance of the construction of the Eastry Bypass.]

Rabb, T. K., 1998, Jacobean Gentleman, Sir Edwin Sandys, 1561-1629 . (Princeton, University Press).

[Biography of Sir Edwin Sandys, a few references to Northbourne but written for serious students of early 17th century politics.]

Rigold, S. E., 1967, ‘Some Major Kentish Timber Barns’, Archaeologia Cantiana, lxxxi, 1-30.

[Barn at Northbourne Court.]

Roake, Margaret, 1999, (ed.) Religious Worship in Kent, The Census of 1851, Kent Archaeological Society, Kent Records vol. xxvii.

Sandys, Edward Seton, 1930, History of the Family of Sandys

[This book describes various branches of the Sandys family, including an account of the life of Sir Edwin Sandys of Northbourne Court. It includes a portrait of Sir Edwin Sandys, a ground floor plan of Northbourne Court, a photograph of Northbourne Court Gate and two photographs of his tomb in Northbourne Church.]

Sandys, Thomas Myles, 1907, History of the Sandys Family. Published privately, printed by Farmer & Sons.

[Colonel Thomas Myles Sandys includes the history of various branches of the Sandys family as well as sixty-one black and white illustrations, including a portrait of Colonel Edwin Sandys who suffered mortal wounds at the Battle of Powick Bridge in 1642. Also a photograph of Queen Elizabeth's gate at Northbourne Court and the ruined entrance gate, but oddly none of Northbourne Court itself. There are two photographs of Sir Edwin Sandys' monument, and also a portrait of Sir Edwin himself.] Thomas Myles Sandys (12 May 1837–18 October 1911) was a Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) for Bootle from the 1885 until he resigned his seat in March 1911. He died later that year, aged aged 74.

Secor, Philip B. 1999, Richard Hooker Prophet of Anglicanism. (Tunbridge Wells, Burns & Oates).

[Richard Hooker was Edwin Sandys's tutor and friend at Corpus Christi College Oxford. The book gives a good insight into college life and Edwin's role in the publication of Richard Hooker's book, Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity.]

Slack, Paul, 1985, The Impact of Plague in Tudor and Stuart England. (London, Routledge & Kegan Paul) 233-36.

[An account of Henoch Clapham (Vicar of Northbourne 1607-1614), his time in London during 1603 plague outbreak.]

Spears, Kathleen, 1959, ‘Mrs. Elizabeth Carter, 1717-1806’, Archaeologia Cantiana, lxxiii, 142-153.

[The scholarly 'Mrs.' Elizabeth Carter, English poet, translator and 'bluestocking', was a frequent visitor to Northbourne.]

Stahlschmidt, J.C.L., 1887, The Church Bells of Kent.

[Although out of date concerning Northbourne it is still the standard text on Church Bells in Kent.]

Stebbing, W. P. D., 1929, ‘Jutish Cemetery near Finglesham, Kent’, Archaeologia Cantiana, xli, 115-125.

[Initial excavation of  the Anglo-Saxon cemetery in 1928-9. His full name is William Pinckard Delane Stebbing.]

Tester, M., 1966, ‘Funeral Hatchments in Kent’, Archaeologia Cantiana, lxxxi, 79-94.

[Funeral hatchment in St. George's Church Deal, Rev. Montagu Pennington d.1849. Vicar of Northbourne 1806-1849, nephew and biographer to Mrs Elizabeth Carter.]

Thorneycroft John, 1998, 'The Lost Court at Northbourne', Northbourne Parish Magazine, October 1998.

Turpin, B. J. & J.M, 1979, Windmills in Kent

[Booklet with a short history of New Mill, Northbourne and a recent photograph]

Whatmore, L. E., (ed.), 1950-1, Archdeacon Harpsfield's Visitations, 1557, Catholic Record Society.

Weyburn, S. Fletcher, 1911, Weyburn – Wyborn Genealogy (New York, Frank Allaben Genealogical Company).

[The main section of the book covers the American Wyborn genealogy, although a sizable section deals with English Wyborns, including Northbourne, Sholden and the surrounding area.]

West, Jenny, 1973, The Windmills of Kent, 59-61.

[History of New Mill, Mill Lane including some of the 19th century accounts.]

Willis, A. J., 1967, Canterbury Marriage Licences 1751-1780.

Willis, A. J., 1972, Canterbury Licences (General) 1568-1646.

Willson, John, 1989, ‘Rescue Excavations on the Anglo-Saxon Cemetery at Eastry’, Kent Archaeological Review No.100,  229-31.

[Excavation of Updown Anglo-Saxon cemetery along the route of the Eastry Bypass, TR 3115 5373.]

Wilson, Geoffrey, 1976, The Old Telegraphs.

[Account of the Admiralty Shutter Telegraph in 1796, which ran from London to Deal with a station at 'Telegraph Farm', Betteshanger.]

Wood-Legh K.L., 1984, Kentish Visitations of Archbishop Warham and his Deputies 1511-1512, Kent Records vol. Xxiv, Kent Archaeological Society.

Woodruff C. E., 1909, ‘Church Plate in Kent, No. IV.’, Archaeologia Cantiana, xxviii 115 - 155.

Zell, M., 2000, ‘Landholding and the Land Market in Early Modern Kent’, in (ed.) Zell, M. ‘Early Modern Kent 1540-1640’.

OTHER SOURCES

Dictionary Of National Biography, Vol. L, 1897, 286-290.

[Sir Edwin Sandys (1562-1629).]

Dictionary of National Biography, Vol VI, 1886, 285-6.

[Thomas Brett (1667-1743) non-juror, and rector of Betteshanger.]

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 2004,

Thomas Brett (1667-1743) non-juror, and rector of Betteshanger.
Henoch Clapham, Vicar of Northbourne (1607-1614) Vol. 11, 731-732.
George Devey, architect of Betteshanger House (1820-1886).
Sir Walter James (1816-1893). Later Lord Northbourne, 1st Baron. Vol. 29, 741–742.
Robert Lugar, architect of Betteshanger House (1772/3– 1855) Vol. 34, 724–725.
Captain Bezaleel Morrice (1678-1749) [DNB Entry is not entirely accurate].
Montagu Pennington (1762-1849) Vol. 43, 592–593.
Anthony Salvin architect of of Betteshanger church etc (1799-1881).
Sir Edwin Sandys (1562-1629).

Kent County Council, Calendar of Quarter Sessions Records 1574 - 1622. Part 1-4.
Kent County Council , Calender of early rolls among the Quarter Sessions Records, 1596-1605.
Kent County Council , Calendar of Quarter Sessions Records 1639 – 1677.
The Deal Scene, 1887-1977, 1977, published by the Deal, Walmer and District History Society and the Deal Maritime and Local History Museum.

[1906 Fuller's advert with photograph of New Mill, Northbourne and also group photograph of men and boring equipment prospecting for coal in 1913 [see Broady, 1989].]

Who Was Who 1981-1990, pub. A & C Black, London.

Sir John Wriotheseley Russell of Vine Farm, 660.
Sir Eric Smith, 702.



DIRECTORIES

Kelly's Post Office Directory of Kent 1878

History, Gazetteer and Directory of the County of Kent by Samuel Bagshaw 1847: [Northbourne] [Ham] [Betteshanger]

EAST KENT POLL BOOKS

1734, 1754, 1790, 1802, 1832, 1837, 1852, 1857, 1863, 1865, 1868.