Edward Hasted 1799

The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent

Vol IV.

[p. 149]

THE MANOR OF TICKENHURST,

now called Tickness; in Domesday, Ticheteste, and in other ancient records, Tygenhurst, is situated in the borough and hamlet of its own name. It lies most part of it in this parish, but at some distance westward from the rest of it, the parishes of Eastry, Ham, and Betshanger intervening, and partly in that of Knolton. In the time of the Conqueror, Odo, the great Bishop of Baieux and Earl of Kent, the King's half-brother, was owner of it, and in the 9th year of that reign, anno 1074, gave certain tythes, which his homagers possessed in Tyginherst, to the Abbat and Convent of St. Augustine. Six years after which, at the taking of the survey of Domesday, this manor was thus entered in it, under the general title of the lands of the Bishop Baieux.

Turstinus ten de epo Ticheteste. p. uno solin & dim se defd. Tra. e. . . . . . In dnio. e. 1. car. cu. 4. bord. & parva silvula. T. R. E. valeb 4. lib & post. 40 sol. modo 100 sol. Edric de alha tenuit de rege. E.

Which is: Turstin holds of the bishop Ticheteste. It was taxed at one suling and an half. The arable land is . . . . . In demesne there is one carucate, with 4 borderers, and a small wood. In time of K. Edward the Confessor, it was worth 4 pounds, and afterwards 40 shillings, now 100 shillings. Edric de Alham held it of K. Edward.

Four years after taking of the above survey, the Bishop was disgraced, and all his possessions were confiscated to the Crown. After which, this manor came into the possession of a family, which took their surname from it, some of whom were witnesses to deeds of a very ancient date (v); but they became extinct before the reign of K. Henry VI, and it was afterwards the property of the Stoddards, ancestors of those of this name, of Mottingham, near Eltham in this county, in which this manor remained for some generations, till about the latter end of Q. Elizabeth's reign, it was alienated to Peyton, of Knolton (w), who continued in the possession of it, till Sir Thomas Peyton, of Knolton, bart. leaving only daughters and coheirs, they and their trustees passed it away to Sir John Narborough, Admiral of the British Navy, whose two sons, Sir Sir John Narborough bart, and his brother James, being both lost at sea with their father-in-law, Sir Cloudesley Shovel, knt, in 1707, Elizabeth, their sister, married to Sir Thomas D' Aeth, bart. succeeded to this manor among the rest of their inheritance, and died seised of it in 1744 (x); and his grandson, Sir Narborough D'Aeth, now of Knolton, bart. is the present owner of it.
In the year 1074, Bishop of Baieux and Earl of Kent, gave to St. Augustine's Monastery, in Canterbury, those tythes which his tenants had; i.e. Adelold the Chamberlain, in the villes of Cnolton, Tickenhurst, and Ringelton, and the tythes of all the lands of Turstan, and the tythes likewise of Bedleshangre, and the tythes of Osbern Paisforer, in the small ville of Bocland, and all these he gave with the King's consent, who by his charter confirmed the same. But the tythes of Cnolton and Ringelton, William de Abiney, in process of time, being lord of the fee of those lands, took away from the monastery, through his power; and the tythe of Boclonde, Roger de Malmains took away from it (y).

Within this borough and hamlet of Tickenhurst are two farms, called Great and Little Tickenhurst, both which pay tythes to the almonry or parsonage of Norborne, formerly belonging to St. Augustine's Monastery.


[p. 149 footnotes]

(u) See Finglesham, below. Dec. Script. Thorn, col. 1799.

(v) Philipott, p. 254, says, these deeds were, in his time, in the hands of Mr. Richard Fogge, of Dane Court in Tilmanstone.

(w) Philipott, p. 254, Richard Austen, of Eastry, yeoman, by his will, proved in 1585, gave to Richard, his son, his lands at Tykenhurst in Northborne.

(x) Anno 1745, 19 George II, an act passed for vesting the manor of Ruxley, and other lands there, and in North-Croy and Chesilhurst, and certain leashold premises in Northborne, in Sir Narborough D' Aeth, bart. and his heirs, discharged of the uses of his marriage settlement, and settling other lands of greater value in lieu thereof; which lands so settled in lieu thereof were, Kittington farm, in Nonington, 390 acres - Tickenhurst farm, 130 acres - and Little Tickenhurst farm, 60 acres, in Northborne, and other premises; all of the yearly value of 317l.

(y) Regist. Mon. Sci Aug. cart. 247, 248. Dec. Script col. 1789.