Footnotes to XII

1. More manorial than parochial, it would seem. In 1836, the jurors of the Court Leet of the manor of Holiwell presented that ‘the stocks of and within the Manor are considerably out of repair and require to be forthwith put in proper state and repair’. On the other hand, when new stocks had been deemed necessary in 1814, the jurors had been of the opinion that ‘the same ought to be erected by and at the expense of the Parish of Ash’: Stagg, 3.

2. Save where otherwise indicated, areas taken from the survey have been adjusted to the nearest acre, inclusive of half-lanes’.

3. Hasted V, 40-1; F.N. Stagg, Some Notes on the Parish of Ridlev in Kent (typescript in Kent County Library); Bancks, op. cit., 83.

4. AC XXI, 254, 257: Hasted V, 40,

5. Spelt ‘Whittaker’ in the survey. Hasted has ‘Whitaker’ and so have the Ash with Ridley Land Tax assessments (from which much supplementary information in this chapter derives).

6. See Hasted IV, 552, 554

7. The other moiety of this manor had been bought by William Hodsoll (William III), temp Charles I, and long remained in the Hodsoll family, between members of whom it became divided Hasted II, 483.

8. The Earl had died in 1759. As to the Act of Parliament, see J. R. Smith, Bibliotheca Cantiana (1837), 51 (no. 275).

9. Stagg, 1.

10. Ibid., 2.

11. Hasted II, 149-50.

11a. The will of William Selby was dated 3 January 1771 and proved on 4 February 1773 (PCC 79, Stevens).

12. But as residents, it would seem, never for any great length of time. A Joseph Cox was again working the land about 1812 but he did not stay for long.

13. The Taskers* were no doubt of the well-known Dartford family of that name. The only previous connection between them and Ash that has been traced was apparently of a transitory nature and, unhappily, ended tragically. On 9 April 1683 continued

   *  At a Court Baron of the Manor of South Ash Chas. Hodsoll Esq. (lessee of Hestor Hodsoll widow) held on 27 October 1790, it was recorded that Elizabeth Selby (daughter of James Burrow and widow of William Selby who died in 1777, the Elizabeth referred to) had died since the last Court (actually in 1788) seized of a Barn and about 70 acres of land situate in Ash near the Swan and occupied by Joseph Olliver (sic), held at a quit rent Of 12s.3½d., that a Heriot of the best living Beast belonging to the decd., then became due to the Lord of the Manor (for which the Lord had seized a Sorrel Mare & afterwards sold it for 15 guineas), that there also became due a relief of one year’s quit rent, and that the said Elizabeth Selby had devised the premises to ‘Sarah now the wife of John Tasker of Dartford ... Brewer’.
   For the information as to the Court Baron of 1790 in this addendum, the writer is indebted to Mr Leslie Morgan, the present owner {1998) of the lordship of South Ash (who has lately deposited the extensive documentation of that Manor in the Centre for Kentish Studies at Maidstone).