Richard de Rokesley - Is it correct he marred 2 wives by same name?

"Villare cantianum, or, Kent surveyed and illustrated being an exact description of all the parishes, burroughs, villages and other respective mannors included in the county of Kent : and the original and intermedial possessors of them..." Philipot, John, 1589?-1645., Philipot, Thomas, d.1682.

Page 74: Criolls Court is another Manor in Brenchley, which by Joan Daughter of Bertram de Crioll, and Heir Generall of her Brother John de Crioll it came to Sir Richard de Rokesley, and by his Daughter and Heir Joan to Thomas de Poynings whose Successor Sir Ed. Poynings dying in the twelfth year of Hen. the eighth without Issue or any collateral Alliance, in the fourteenth year of that Prince it escheated to the Crown,

Page 82: Borden in the Hundred of Milton hath nothing memorable in it but the Mannor of Criolls and Poyles, for they were alwaies united together, and were parcell of that spreading Demeasne which fell under the Signory of Bertram de Crioll, and he dyed possest of them in the twenty third year of Edward the third, and left it to John Crioll his Son and Heir, who dying without Issue, Joan his Sister and Heir Generall brought this and much other Land to be possest by her Husband Sir Richard de Rokesley; but he likewise deceasing without Issue, the same fatal Vicissitude brought it by Joan sole Daughter and Heir to be the Patrimony of Thomas de Poynings, in which Family the Title flowed with an uninterrupted Current untill it devolved to Sir Edward Poynings, who dyed in the twelfth year of Henry the eighth, without Issue lawfully begotten, and as it appears by the last Inquisition taken after his Decease in the fourteenth year of that Prince, without any respective Kindred that could legally entitle themselves to his Estate, so this Mannor escheated to the Crown,

Page 86: Seaton, Ulley, and Potbery, are three little Mannors lying within the Verge of this Pa∣rish, the first of which held in grand Serjeantie of the Crown, with this respective Service to be performed by the Lord of the Fee, Esse vantrarius Regius quando Rex iverit in Vasconiam, donec per usus fuerit pari Solutarum pretio 4 d. which wiser Heads, who pretend to unravell the Intrigues and Criticisms of Law Latin interpret thus, to be the Kings fore Footman, when he shall go into Gasconie, untill he hath worn out a pair of Shoes, which cost 4 d.

All these Mannors were wrapped up in the Demeasn of Crioll, and Bertram de Crioll died seised of them in the twenty third year of Edward the first, whose onely Daughter Joan being matched to Richard de Rokesley, called in some old Records Sir Richard, upon the Death of her Brother John de Crioll without Issue, entituled her Husband to that large Patrimony which called her Father Proprietary; but he dying without Issue Male, Joan his Sole Heir wedded to Thomas de Poynings, knit together the Demeasn of Crioll and Rokesley, and cast it into his Possession; and here it made its abode untill the eleventh year of Richard the second, and then the Title of these Mannors came by Eleanor the general Inheritrix of Poynings, to submit to the Dominion of Henry Earl of Northumberland, and his Successor Henry Earl of the same place alienated them in the twenty third of Henry the eighth to Sir Thomas Cheyney, William Walsingham, and William Fitz Williams, and they conveyed them to Sir Christopher Hales, and his Son Sir James sold them to Sir Thomas Moile, by whose Coheir they devolved to Sir Thomas Finch.

Page 95: Capell in the Hundred of Folkstone was parcel of that Estate which celebrated the Family of Averenches to have been its Proprieraries, which continued no longer in the Name then the End of K. John; for then William de Averenches dying without Issue Male, Matilda his onely Daughter and Heir brought Capell with the two little Mannors, Halton and Wolverton alias Wolton, to be possest by Hamon de Crevequer, called in the Language of those times, the great Lord of Kent; from him they descended to his Son and Heir Hamon de Crevequer, who dying about the forty seventh year of Henry the third without Issue, his Estate in Kent and elsewhere was seised on by that Prince, as having died in Actual Arms against him, but was by the Act of Pacification made at Kenelworth in the fiftieth year of his Reign restored to his four Sisters, whereof one was espoused to John de Lenham, the second was matched first to Nicholas de Sandwich, and next to John de Segrave;

...Matilda the third was wedded to Bertram de Crioll, and the fourth was married to William de Pateshull; but upon the Division of the Estate, Capell, with its two Appendages Halton and Wolton, accrued to Crioll, by whose Daughter and Heir they came to Sir Richard de Rokesley, and then by Joan his Sole Inheritrix to Tho. de Peynings; in which Family they remained untill the twelfth year of Henry the eighth, and then Sir Edward Poynings dying without any lawfull Issue, they came by Mary his natural Daughter to Edward Lord Clinton, to whom they were by Grant confirmed in the thirtieth of that Princes Reign, and he in the second year of Q.Mary passed them away to Mr. Henry Herdson, whose Grandchild Mr. Francis Herdson conveyed them to his Uncle Mr. John Herdson, and he dying without Issue, setled them on his Kinsman Sir Basil Dixwell Knight and Baronet, whose Kinsman Mr. Basill Divwell of Broome in Barham is now Proprietarie of them.

Pp.158-9: Terlingham and Ackhanger, were the Patrimony as high as the Reign of the Conquerour (as Doomsday instructs us) of William de Muneville, the Repairer and Restorer, if not Founder and Establisher of Folkston priory. By whose Daughter and Heir they devolved to William de Averenches, who had Issue William de Ave∣renches, in whom the male-line failed, so that Matilda de Averenches his Sole Heir by matching with Hamon de Crevequer, Baron Leeds Castle, made them parcel of his Demeasne: who by his Addition, so swelled his Estate, that he was styled the great Lord of Kent, and was of that Esteem in this County, that by a generall Consent and Councell of the Barons of the Cinque-ports, the Custody of the Sea-Coast from Hastings to Pool, was committed to his Care and Inspection, Pat. 19. Hen. tertii Memb. 14. And he held these Mannors at his Death, which was in the forty seventh year of Henry the third, Rot. Esc. Num. 33. And left them to his Son Hamon de Crevequer, who was enwrapt in the Faction and Rebellion of Simon de Montfort Earl of Leicester, raised against Henry the third; but was, by that Act of Oblivion and Clemency, styled Dictum de Kenilworth, passed by that Prince in the fiftieth year of his Reign, called to Mercie, and to most part of his Estate, excepting Leeds-Castle, Bersted, Chetham, and some other peices, but dyed without Issue;

...so that Eleanor matched to Bertram de Crioll, Juliana first matched to Nicholas de Sandwich, and secondly to Roger de Segrave, and two others who were wedded to Lenham, and Pateshull, became, as they were his four Sisters, his four Coheirs.

And upon the partition of the Estate, these two Mannors came over to be the Patrimony of Crioll, and Bertram de Crioll above mentioned held them at his Death, which was in the twenty third year of Edward the first, Rot. Esc. Num. 48. And left them to John his only Son, who dying Childlesse, Joan his Sister matched to Sir Richard de Rokesley, became his Heir:

...but he determining likewise in a Female Heir called Joan, she by espousing Sir Thomas de Poynings, Father of Michaell de Poynings of Terlingham, raunged these places under the Demeasn of that Family, in which they remained, untill the latter end of Henry the seventh: and then Sir Edward Poynings, gave them in Dower, with Mary his natural Daughter to Thomas Lord Clinton, whose Son Edw. Lord Clinton, about the Beginning of Queen Mary, by Sale passed them away to Herdson, from whom by Testament they came over to Dixwell, in which Family the Possession of them is still permanent.

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Page 176: The other Moity of Hamme, belonged to the Criolls of Walmer, of which Family I shall speak more at that Place: Simon de Crioll, as I discover by old Deeds, held it in the Raign of King John and Henry the third, and transmitted it to his Son Nicolas de Crioll, who held it at his Death, which was in the one and thirtieth of Edward the first, and from him did it by the steps of several Generations descend to Sir Thomas Crioll, who was slain at the second Battle of Sr. Albans, tamely, and in cold Blood; that is, he was beheaded by Queen Margaret, wife to King Henry the sixth, in the thirty eighth of that Prince's Raign, because he had been an eager Partisan of the House of Yorke, and being thus infortunately cut off, left that great Estate he was possest of, in this County, to two Daughters and Co-heirs, one of which was matched for his second wife to John Fogg of Repton Esq; Son and Heir of Sir William Fogg, and he had Issue by her Thomas Fogg, Serjeant Porter of Callis Esquire, a Place of eminent Trust and Concernment in those Times. And he ended in two Daughters and Co-heirs; Anne first matched to Mr. William Scott, Brother of Sir Reginald; and secondly, to Mr. Henry Isham, and Alice first wedded to Edward Scott, of the Moat in Sussex Esquire, and after to Sir Robert Oxenbridge, of the County of South-hampton; but the Moity of this Mannor of Hamme, upon the dividing the Estate into equal Portions, fell to be the Inheritance of Edward Scott, in Right of Alice his wife, and his Descendant in our Grand-fathers Remembrance alienated all his Interest and Concernment here, to Bois of Betshanger, whose Successor Mr. John Bois of Betshanger Esquire, is now entirely possest of this Mannor; as namely, of that Moity, which came over to this Family, by Purchase from Oxenbridge, as well as of that, which devolved to this Name, by Purchase from Scott.

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Page 187: W[alt]ham is another Mannor in Hinxhill, which was folded up in the vast Demeasne of Crioll, by whose Daughter and Heir it came to Rokesley, and by the Female Inheritrix of Rokesley to Poynings: in which Name it continued until the twelfth year of Henry the eighth, and then Sir Edward Poynings dying without any lawful Issue; after a signal and solemne Inspection, by several Inquisitions into his colla∣teral Alliance, no Claim being laid unto his Estate, this Mannor escheated to the Crown,

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Page 210: West-Langdon lies in the Hundred of Bewsborough, and was a Mannor belonging to the Abbey of West-Langdon, which was founded by Sir William de Auberville of Westenhanger Knight, to the Honour of St. Mary, and St. Thomas the Martyr of Canterbury, and filled with white Cannons or Cannons Praemonstratenses, in the time of Richard the first. Hugh de Auberville the Founder's Son,

and Sir William Auberville Son to this Hugh, were Benefactors to this House, and this last, Sir Williams only Daughter and Heir, being married to Nicholas de Crioll of Bellaview nere Limne Hill, brought this Monastery, to be under the Patronage of the Criolls, whose Demeasn upon the Dissolution, being made the Incom of the Crown, it here resided till Queen Elizabeth granted it, with all the priviledges annexed to it, in the thirty third year of her Rule to Samuel Thornehill of London Esquire, father to Sir Timothy Thornehill, upon whose Decease his Lady Dowager had West-Langdon assigned to her by Right of Jointure, as being enstated before upon her in Marriage.

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Page 216: There are two other Mannors in Lenham of Signal Estimate; the First is West-Shelve, written likewise Middle-Shelve; it was parcel of the Estate of Bertram de Criol, and by Joan his Daughter and Heir was linked to the Revenue of her Husband Sir Richard de Rokesley, from whom the Fate of Female Interest devolved it on Thomas de Poynings; and to this Family was it for many ages fastned, till Sir Edw. Poynings, extracted lineally from this Man, in the fourteenth year of Hen. the eighth, was found to have died both without lawful Issue, and without Alliance: and so this Name being both in the direct and collateral Line extinguished, the Crown laid claim to this Mannor as de Jure escheated;

Page 223: Bellaview, Otterpoole, and the Appendant Mannor of Wellop, are all circumscribed, within the Verge of Limne. The first of which, was both an eminent and ancient Seat of the Criolls, before they translated themselves to Ostenhanger, by matching with the Heir of Auberville; and the two last were wrapped up in that Revenue, which was as an Appendage both to support and enhaunce, the Grandeur of it, and went collectively together with Joan Daughter and Heir of Bertram de Crioll, to Richard de Rokesley, in the twenty third year of Edward the first, and remained with this Family, but untill the next Age; and the same Vicissitude carried them off, by Joan his Sole Inheritrix, to Thomas de Poynings, in which Name the Propriety resided untill the twelfth year of Henry the eighth; and then they devolved by Successive Descent to Sir Edw. Poynings: but he dying without any legitimate Issue, and there being none of his Alliance, that could by any collateral Affinity, pretend any visible or manifest Title to the Estate, it devolved by escheat, in the four∣teenth year of that Prince, to the Crown...

Pp.233-4: St. Mary Church in Romney Mersh, lies in the Hundreds of St. Martins and New-Church, and was anciently folded up in that large Demeasn which did acknowledge the Dominion of the Criolls; John de Crioll or Keriel of a younger Extraction from Bertram de Crioll held it at his Death, which was in the forty ninth year of Edward the third,

and transmitted it to his Son Sir Nicholas Criol; from whom by a continued Succession, it devolved to Sir Thomas Crioll Knight of the Garter, who falling an Oblation at the Battle of St. Albans, to the Cause and Quarrel of the House of York, by his Daughter and Heir it came to be the Inheritance of John Fogge Esquire, who left it to his Son Thomas Fogge: and though he determined in two Daughters and Coheirs, Alice matched to William Scot, and Anne first married to Edward Scot, and after to Henry Isham, yet it seems (to improve and continue the Name) he gave this and other Lands to his Kinsman George Fogge, whose Posterity enjoyed it even until our Fathers Memory, and then it was alienated to Carkeredge.

Page 246: Bertrams in Newington is so called because it was parcell of the Estate of Bertram de Crioll who died possest of it in the twenty third year of Edward the first, and left it to Joan his Heir, espoused to Sir Richard de Rokesley, by whose Sole Inheritrix likewise called Joan, it was linked to the Demeasn of Sir Thomas de Poynings,

from whom the Clew of Descent guided it down to Sir Edward Poynings, who dying in the twelfth of Henry the eighth without any lawfull Issue, or any visible kindred that could pretend a Title to the Estate, it lapsed to the Crown; and Henry the eighth granted it to Thomas Lord Cromwell upon whose attainder it being again escheated, Queen Mary in the first year of her Rule granted it to Edward Lord Clinton, who in the last year of that Princess, passed it away to Mr. Henry Herdson, whose grandchild Mr. Francis Herdson conveyed it by Sale to Mr. Henry Brockman, in whose Grandchild Mr. James Brockman the instant Inheritance is fixed.

Pp.265-6: Padlesworth in the Hundred of Lovingborough, is so obscure and inconsiderable a Village, that it should not have filled a place in this Register, but that it was a portion of that wide Estate which lay spread over the Face of all the adjacent Territorie, and acknowledged it self to be under the Jurisdiction of the Criolls. Bertram de Crioll died about the middle of Edward the first, and left Joan his Sole Heir, who had been before matched to Sir Richard de Rokesley of Rokesley Court in Northcrey, and so Padlesworth became the Rokesley's, but did not long cleave to that Name, for he expired likewise in two Female Co-heirs, whereof one of them called Joan was matched to Thomas de Poynings, and he left Issue Michael Poynings, from whom it came down to his descendant Robert Poynings, who passed it away by Sale to Fogge of Sene in Newington, in which Family the Title for many Descents lay involved, even until our Fathers Remembrance, and then it was alienated to Dynley, who is the instant Lord of the Fee.

Page 281: Oxney-house in this Parish, was an Ancient Seat of the Noble Family of Criol. Matilda Widow of Simon de Criol died possest of it, in the fifty second year of Henry the third, and transmitted it to Bertram de Criol, who held it at his death, which was in the twenty third year of Edward the first, Rot. Esc. Num.

After him his Son Bertram de Criol was setled in the possession, but was not long liv'd after his Father, for he died in the thirty fourth year of Edward the first, Rot. Esc. Num. 37. and left it to his Brother John Criol, who dying without Issue, it was brought over to his Sister Joan Criol, who by matching with Sir Richard de Rokesley, made it the Inheritance of that Name and Family, and was in possession of it at her Death, which was in the fifteenth year of Edward the second, Rot. Esc. Num. 95.

From whom it came down to Thomas Lord Poynings, who had espoused Agnes one of the Coheirs of them two, and in Right of this Alliance was his Successor, Richard Lord Poyning found invested in it at his Death, which was in the fifteenth year of Richard the second, Parte prima, Rot. Esc. Num. 53. and left it to his Kinsman Robert de Poynings, who passed it away by Sale to Tame, and in the fourth year of Henry the fourth, Robert Tame paid respective Aid for it, at the Marriage of Blanch that Kings Daughter.

Page 300: Criols-court in this Parish was one of those Seats which related to the Patrimony of Bertram de Crioll, and he died seised of it, in the twenty third year of Edward the first, and left it to his Son John de Crioll, who deceasing about the beginning of Edward the third without Issue, it devolved to Joan his Sister and Heir, who was matched to Sir Richard de Rokesley: but he likewise determined in Agnes Rokesley, who was one of his two Female Co-heirs, and she by matching with Thomas de Poynings entituled that Family to the possession of that wide Estate, which devolved to her in Right of her Mother, and from him did it descend to his Successor Sir Edward Poynings, Son of Robert Poynings, a man very eminent in the Government of Henry the seventh.

For this Sir Edward, in the first year of his Rule, immediatly after he had triumphed over Richard the third in Bosworth-field, was chosen one of his Privy Councel to manage the publick Interest of the Nation: Afterwards he most vigorusly opposed James Lord Audley, and his Cornish Squadrons being then in Defection to Henry the seventh, in the tenth year of his reign. And this Sir Edward held it at his Death, which was in the twelfth year of Henry the eighth, though his Office was not found until the fourteenth of that Prince, and then it being discovered that the whole Stock and Lineage of this Family were extinguished, and that there were none who were legally begotten (for Sir Thomas Poynings was his natural Son) that either in a direct or collateral Line, could pretend a Title to his Estate, it escheated to the Crown.

Pp.302-3: Stamford in the Hundred of Folkstone, is in itself, a small obscure Village, but made eminent by containing within the Limits of it, Ostenhanger, a Seat of as much Account and Eminence, as any in the County.

The Demeasne which related to it, was divided between the two noble Families of Crioll and Auberville: Bertram de Crioll, was Sheriff of Kent, in the twenty seventh year of Henry the third, and is written in the Pipe-roll of that year, of Westenhanger, a Name coincident with the other...

...Sir William de Auberville lived at the Borough of Westenhanger, when he founded the Abby of West-Langdon, in the Time of Richard the first: he had Hugh de Auberville, who likewise (as appears by the Leiger Book of that Covent, being, a liberal Benefactor to that Cloister) was his Son and Heir, and he had Issue Sir William de Auberville, in whom the Male-Line determined, and he had only a Female Inheritrix, espoused to Nicholas de Crioll, whether of a Younger House, or else a Younger Son to Bertram de Crioll above-mentioned, I cannot discover:

...Bertram de Crioll, had Issue Bertram de Crioll, who dyed possest of a great Proportion of Ostenhanger, in the twenty third year of Edward the first, as appears Rot. Esc. Num. 48. And left it to Joan his Daughter, married to Sir Richard de Rokesley, who upon the Decease of ---her--- only Brother John de Crioll, without Issue, became his Sole Heir.

This Sir Richard de Rokesley, was one of those eminent Kentish Gentlemen, that accompanied King Edward the first into Scotland, and for his signal Service performed at the Siege of Carlaverock, was made a Banneret by that Prince: but he likewise expired in two Daughters and Coheirs; Agnes one of them, was wedded to Thomas de Poynings; and Joan the other, was matched to Walter de Pateshull.

Upon the Partition of the Estate, Rokesley's Interest in Westenhanger wholly accrued to Poynings, and he had Issue Nicholas de Poynings, who was summoned to sit in Parliament as Baron, the thirty third year of Edward the third: Michael Poynings, who was likewise summoned to sit in Parliament as Baron, the forty second year of that Prince; and thirdly Lucas de Poynings, who in the year abovesaid, was honored with the same summons.

Upon the Devision of the Estate, Westenhanger was annexed to the Demeasne of Michaell de Poynings, and he had Issue Thomas de Poynings, who was summoned to sit in Parliament as Baron, in the sixth year of Henry the fourth, his Son and Heir was Robert Poynings, who in the twelfth year of Henry the sixth, with John Perry, were designed by Authority, to take the Subscriptions of those Kentish Gentlemen, who were summoned in, to renounce the Title of the House of York, which it seems was then in secret Agitation, to be set up against the House of Lancaster;

...and this Robert, was oftentimes summoned to sit in Parliament as Baron in the reign of that Prince. The last time I find him summoned, was in the twenty third year of his Government, and his Son and Heir was Robert Poynings, who was likewise summoned to sit in Parliament as Baron in the reign of the above-mentioned Monarch, and deceased the eighth year of Edward the fourth, and left his Estate here to that worthy Person his Son and Heir Sir Edward Poynings, of whom more hereafter.

I shall now discover, how that Division of Ostenhanger, which devolved to Nicholas de Crioll, by the Heir of Auberville, was passed away: Nicholas de Crioll, had Issue John de Crioll, who in the nineteenth year of Edward the third, obtained a Licence, to found a Chantry in the Chappel of St. Johns in Ostenhanger, and endow it with one Messuage, forty five Acres of Glebe, and six Acres of Pasture situated in Limn, as appears Prima Parte Pat. de Anno 19. Edwardi tertii Memb. 4.

And before, in the seventeenth year of that Prince, was permitted by Grant from the Crown, to embattle, and make Loop-holes in his Mansion house at Ostenhanger, as is manifest, secunda Parte Pat. de Anno 17. Edwardi tertii Memb. 34. And he left it secured and invested, with these new acquired Franchises, to his Son Sir Nicholas de Crioll, and he dyed seised of it in the third year of Richard the second, Rot. Esc. Num. 40. And from him did it successively devolve to Sir Thomas Keriell or Crioll, who was slain at the second Battle of St. Albans, in the thirty eighth of Henry the sixth, whilst he asserted the Quarrel of the House of Yorke, and dying without Issue-male, Thomas Fogge Esquire, in his Wife's Right, who was one of his Daughters and Co-heirs, entered upon his Estate here at Ostenhanger, and about the latter end of Edward the fourth, passed it away to his eldest Brother Sir John Fogge of Repton, who died possest of it, in the seventeenth year of Henry the seventh, and bequeathed it by Testament to his Son and Heir Sir John Fogge, who about the beginning of Henry the eighth, demised his Concernment here to Sir Edward Poynings;

which Edward Poynings was one of the Privy Councel to Henry the seventh, and lived here, when he so vigorously in the tenth year of that Prince, opposed the proceedings of James Lord Audley, who was afterwards defeated at Black-heath, and likewise was Lord Deputy of Ireland, and Knight of the Garter, and by his Influence on that Nation, was that eminent Statute enacted, which ever since hath been adopted into his Fa∣mily, and called Poynings-Law.

Page 326: Stockbery in the Hundred of Milton celebrates the Memory of the illustrious Family of Crioll, who lived here in Reputation amongst the eminent Gentry of this County, and in the Recital of their Possessions in this Parish, their Mansion was called a Castle, and divers of their old Deeds bore Teste at their Castle of Stockbery.

Sir Nicholas de Crioll was the first that brought this Family into Repute and Eminence; for he was one of those who accompanied Edward the first in the twenty eighth year of his Reign in his fortunate Attempt upon Scotland, when after a pertinacious Siege he reduced the Castle of Carlaverock, a piece in the repute of those Times, held almost inexpugnable; and for his signal Service in that Expedition, was created Knight Banneret, and died possest of this place in the thirty first of Edward the first:

...and in this Name and Family did the Title of this place by an uninterrupted Current of Descent, stream down to Sir Thomas Crioll Knight of the Garter, eminent for several Services performed under the Scepter of Henry the sixth, who being infortunately beheaded at the second battle of St. Albans, whilst he endeavoured to support the Title of the House of York in the thirty eighth year of Henry the sixth determined in Daughters and Co-heirs, one of which was wedded to Edward Bourchier who cast this Mannor into his possession, and he in her Right died seised of it in the fourteenth year of Henry the seventh; but after this it was not long constant to the Interest of this Family; for in the twenty third year of the abovesaid Prince, Robert Tate died seised of it, by right of purchase.

Page 332: Sutton by Walmer lies in the Hundred of Cornilo, and was the Inheritance of a good old Family, called Stroude...and when this Family was worn out, the next who were invested in the possession, were the Criols,

...and Nicholas Criol or Keriel, held it at his death, which was in the third year of Richard the second,

...whose Grand-child Sir Thomas Keriel being an active Champion of the Cause and Quarrel of Edward the fourth, against the House of Lancaster, was slain in the second Battle of St. Albans, where the Title of both Parties was put to the bloody decision of a Field,

...who leaving only two Daughters and Co-heirs, one matching with John Fogge Esquire, incorporated this into his Revenue, from whom by purchase, the Right was settled in Whitlock...

Page 351: Walmer is a Member of Sandwich, and so in no Hundred: It was one of those principal Seats which owned the jurisdiction and signory of the noble and spreading Family of Crioll, written frequently likewise Keriel.

The first, whom I find to be possest of it, was Matilda de Criol Widow of Simon de Crioll, and she in right of Dower was in possession of it at her Death, which was in the fifty second of Henry the third, Rot. Esc. Num. 34.

The next of this Name whom the Beams of publick Record represent to me to be possessor of it, was Nicholas de Crioll, who enjoyed it at his Death, which was in the thirty first of Edward the first, Rot. Esc. Num. 39.

In Ages of a nearer Approach unto us, John de Crioll in the forty ninth year of Edward the third died seised of it, and so did William Keriell in the first year of Henry the fifth; Rot. Esc. Num. 21. and left it to his Son Sir John Crioll of Sarre in Thanet, (who, as an old Pedigree of this Family informs me) was in eminent Command under Henry the fifth in his successful Expedition into France, having the Conduct of several Kentish Squadrons at the Battle of Agincourt, and died laden more with Honour then with Years in the ninth year of Henry the sixth,

...and left Sir Thomas Crioll or Keriell, Knight of the Gatter, Heir both of his Estate and Virtues: of whom because our Chronicles speak so much, I shall not be silent...

Page 352: Eshmerfeild is another eminent Mannor in Waltham, and calls for some Respective Account; because in Ages of a higher pedigree, it confessed itself in the Revenual of the signal Family of Crioll;

...for Bertram de Crioll, possest it at his Death, which was in the twenty third year of Edward the first, and though he expired in a Daughter and Heir,

...yet it continued still in the Tenure of a younger House, until Bennet Daughter and Co-heir of Sir Thomas Crioll, who was slain at the second Battle of St. Albans, brought it to her Husband John Fogge Esquire, whose Son Thomas Fogge, about the beginning of Henry the seventh, alienated his Right and Concernment in it to Sir Thomas Kempe...

Page 354: East-Well in the Hundred of Wye, was anciently the possession of a Family, which extracted its Sirname from hence, Matilda de Eastwell held it at her Decease, which was in the fifty second year of Henry the third, Rot. Esc. Num. 32.

But soon after this, this Family was faded away at this place, and then it devolved to be a Limbe of that Revenue, which acknowledged the Jurisdiction and possession of Bertram de Crioll, and he held it, in the twenty third year of Edward the first: but his Son John Crioll dying without Issue, about the beginning of Edward the third, it came down to Richard de Rokesley, Seneschall and Governour of Ponthieu and Monstreul, as appears, Pat. 1. Edwardi secundi, in the reign of Edward the second, who had married Joan Sole Daughter, and now Heir of Bertram de Crioll:

...but the same Vicissitude, not long after carried it off from this Name; for he went out likewise in two Daughters and Co-heirs, one of whom called Agnes, by matching with Thomas de Poynings emtombed the Name in his Family, and the Estate here at East-well, and else-where, in his Patrimony:

...but (as one ingeniously observes) the World itself, is but a great Ball cast down into the Aire to sport the Stars, and all the depopulations of Kingdomes, and ruine of Empires, is but their pastime; so I may likewise infer, that great Families, from their tumblings and rollings, are but the mockery and disports of Time, and so it appeared here;

...for Richard Lord Poynings, Successor to the abovesaid Thomas, died the eleventh year of Richard the second, and left his Estate here to his Sole Daughter and Heir, Eleanor matched to Henry Percy Earl of Northumberland, in whose right he became Lord Poynings,

...and so Eastwell became linked to his Revenue, and dwelt in this Name, and supported the Signory of Percy, untill the Fate of Sale dissodged it; for in the twenty third year of Henry the eighth, Henry Earl of Northumberland passes it away to Sir Thomas Cheyney, William Walsingham, and William Fitz Williams,

Page 384: Serre, now vulgarly called Sarre, is the first place of Note which offers itself up to a view: It was anciently a Parish, untill peradventure the unhealthinesse of the Soile; for it now confines upon Marishes (where formerly glided that Gullet of Sea-water, now wholly stifled with Sand) which made Thanett an Island, as may plainly appear by an ancient Mapp, printed by the original, and now extant in the Book called Monasticum Anglicanum) or else from the insalubrity of the Air, which being polluted with those black and foggie vapours which ascend from a loose and soggie earth, very frequently leave a venomous Tincture upon the Blood and Spirits of those Inhabitants, who are subject to the impression of such pernicious exhalations, forced those who dwelt in Serre, to abandon so sickly a Habitation; and so the Parish by degrees, began to languish away into that Solitude, we see it is shrunk into at present.

The Church was dedicated to St. Giles, but at present lies entombed in such forgotten Ruines, that scarce the least Remains are visible. The Mannor itself was one of the ancient Seats of the noble Family of Crioll.

Bertram de Crioll augments the Register of those Kentish Gentlemen, who were with Richard the first at the Siege of Acon in Palestine.

Bartholomew de Crioll another of this Name and Family, was Lieutenant of Dover-castle under the abovesaid Prince.

Simon de Crioll was with Edward the first, at his prosperous Siege of Carlaverock, and for his generous Assistance there, received the Order of Knighthood, and from him it came down to Sir William Crioll, Father to Sir John Crioll who held it in the Beginning of Henry the sixth, as appears Pat. 9. Hen. 6. Par. prim. Memb. 19.

And from him was it transmitted to his Son Sir Thomas Keriell, Knight of the Garter, a Man of that worth and eminence, in that time he lived in, that I might seem something to obscure his Glory, if I should not represent to the Reader, some of those honorable Achievements, which he performed in France, the Relation of which I have omitted in my Description of Stockbury and Walmer.

In the ninth year of Henry the sixth, he being Governour of Gourney in Normandy, issued out of that place, and harassed not only that Province, but fought with the Earl of Bretaigne, who was sent to oppose his Eruptions, and after a sharp Combat gave him a remarkable discomfiture, killing about six hundred, and captivating two hundred Soldiers.

In the fifteenth of Henry the sixth, he seised upon the Duke of Burgundie's Carriages and Cannons leaving Cretoy (a Fortresse then in possession of the English, and not long before distressed by the abovesaid Duke) furnished with victual for six hundred men, for the space of a twelvemonth.

And lastly in the twenty seventh year of Henry the sixth, he was sent over into France, with a supply of 1500 men to recruit the English Army, where he did as much with so small a quantity of men, as could be expected from humane Courage, and having reduced some pieces of strength, he encountered the Earl of Clermont at a place called Formigney, where being overlaid with Multitude, after he had given most signal Testimony of his valour, and discharged all those duties which might have secured and preserved the Honor of the English Nation, and the Glory of the day, by which he declared himself to be not only a prudent Man, but an expert Commander, he was defeated:

...But to proceed, after the Family of Crioll went out from the possession of this place, which was before the latter end of Henry the sixth, John White Esquire, became Lord of the Fee,

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It is in this section that shows it's one wife, (the one with kids);

Page 281: Oxney-house in this Parish, was an Ancient Seat of the Noble Family of Criol. Matilda Widow of Simon de Criol died possest of it, in the fifty second year of Henry the third, and transmitted it to Bertram de Criol, who held it at his death, which was in the twenty third year of Edward the first, Rot. Esc. Num.

After him his Son Bertram de Criol was setled in the possession, but was not long liv'd after his Father, for he died in the thirty fourth year of Edward the first, Rot. Esc. Num. 37. and left it to his Brother John Criol, who dying without Issue, it was brought over to his Sister Joan Criol, who by matching with Sir Richard de Rokesley, made it the Inheritance of that Name and Family, and was in possession of it at her Death, which was in the fifteenth year of Edward the second, Rot. Esc. Num. 95.