Robert PORDAGE

Abt 1540 - 1596  (~ 56 years)

• Name	Robert PORDAGE
  Born	Abt 1540
  Gender	Male
  Buried	24 Jul 1596	Ospringe, Kent, England
  Person ID	I18889	Young Kent Ancestors
  Last Modified	4 Sep 2021

  
  

  Family	Mary GYLLES,   b. Abt 1540
  Married	8 Feb 1563	Ospringe, Kent, England   [1]
  Children	1. Timothy PORDAGE,   c. 24 Aug 1572, Ospringe, Kent, England   2. Susan PORDAGE,   c. 5 Jun 1575, Ospringe, Kent, England ,   bur. 18 Jul 1631, Herne, Kent, England  (Age ~ 56 years)   3. Margaret PORDAGE,   c. 25 Mar 1578, Ospringe, Kent, England   4. Francis PORDAGE,   c. 24 May 1580, Ospringe, Kent, England ,   bur. 23 Apr 1658, Ospringe, Kent, England  (Age ~ 77 years)   5. Marie PORDAGE,   c. 17 Dec 1582, Ospringe, Kent, England   6. Simon PORDAGE,   bur. 2 Mar 1573/1574, Ospringe, Kent, England
  Last Modified	20 Mar 2022
  Family ID	F5847	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  A PART of the above-mentioned estate of Painters, alias Bayfield, usually called BAVELL, situated near Bavells sostal, was alienated from the name of Greenstreet to that of Pordage, in which it continued some time, and until it was sold to Mr. Whatman, of London, whose heir sold it to Knowler, as he did to Dewy, of Surry, from thence by a daughter it went in marriage to Parker, the heirs of whose descendant John Dewy Parker, of Surry, are the present possessors of it. ¶BROGDALE, or Brokedale, is an antient seat situated in the eastern part of this parish, near Whitehill, which in early times gave name to a family who resided at it, one of whom, John de Brokedale, is mentioned as such by Southouse, in his Monasticon Favershamiense. After this name was extinct here, this seat came into the possession of the Clerks; John Clerk, of Brokedale, resided here anno 7 Richard II. 1383, as appears by a release given by Robert, abbot of Faversham, to him, in which he is so named, and is stiled Bedellus noster de Upland in Hund. de Faversham. How it passed afterwards, I have not found; but in the reign of James I. it was become the property of Head and Clive, who in that reign sold it to Mr. John Knowler, of Faversham, who was mayor of that town in 1734, having married Mary, the eldest daughter of Francis Pordage, esq. of Rodmersham, by whom he had several children, and in his descendants, who resided at Brogdale, it continued down to Mr. John Knowler, gent. who died in 1676, and devised it by his will to his grandson Mr. John Knowler, son of Robert his son, who most probably died before him, and left besides a daughter Mary, married to Mr. Robert Luckyn, of Ospringe, by whom she had Mr. Robert Lukyn, late of Faversham. Mr. John Knowler, gent. the grandson, resided at Brogdale, and died in 1700, leaving one son John Knowler, esq. of Canterbury, barrister-at-law, recorder of that city, and steward of the town of Faversham, who died possessed of Brogdale, then converted into a farm-house, in 1763, leaving Mary his wife, daughter and heir of Mr. John Russell, of Hawkhurst, surviving, who died in the year 1781. They were both buried in Faversham church, as were most of his ancestors and relations above-mentioned, several of whom were from time to time mayors of Faversham, and bore for their arms, Argent, on a bend, between two cotizes, sable, a lion passant guardant, crowned, or. He left two daughters his coheirs, of whom Anne, the eldest, married Henry Penton, esq. M. P. for Winchester, and Mary, the youngest, Henry Digby, lord Digby, and they some few years since joined in the sale of it to John Bax, esq. of Prestonhouse, who is the present possessor of it. [Source: Hasted, Edward. "Parishes: Ospringe." The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent: Volume 6. Canterbury: W Bristow, 1798. 499-531. British History Online. Web. 5 September 2021. http://www.british-history.ac.uk/survey-kent/vol6/pp499-531.] ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Will Pordage Robert Ospringe 1595 1596 PRC/17/50/428b PRC/16/108 P/1 1596 Inv Pordage Robert Ospringe 1596 PRC/10/24/268 Will 1596 Will Porrage Thomas Boughton under Blean 1548 1548 PRC/32/22/3 Brenchley Boughton under Blean 1548 Will Porrege Robert Boughton under Blean 1556 1557 PRC/32/26/159 PRC/16/23 P/6 1557 Will Porrege Joan Boughton under Blean 1557 1558 PRC/32/26/168 1558 Will Poredge William Faversham 1564 1569 PRC/17/40/225 PRC/16/52 P/4 1569 Will Pordage Anne Faversham 1684 1685 PRC/17/76/304b PRC/16/313 P/6 Place Perry 1685 Will Pordage Elizabeth Molash 1687 1690 PRC/17/77/417b PRC/16/322 P/3 1690 Will Pordage Thomas Sheldwich 1687 1687 PRC/17/77/51a PRC/16/317 P/4 1687 ================================================================================= p. 165. Graveney. Esc. Num. 100. But deceased without Issue-male, so that his only Daughter Joan matched to John Boteler became his Heir. This John Boteler, was high Sheriff of Kent, in the twenty second year of Richard the second. But dyed likewise with∣out Issue-male, so that his Estate here, which devolved to him by Female Right, by the same Fate, was carried away to John Martin, one of the Judges of the Common-Pleas, who married Ann his Sole Heir, and this Man lyes buryed in Graveney Church, under a Fair Stone inlaid with Brasse, and his Pourtraicture insculped thereon, with this Inscription affixed. Hîc jacet Joannes Martin, Justi∣ciarius de communi Banco, qui obiit 24 Octobris, 1436, & Anna Uxor ejus.From Martin, the Propriety of that Estate here, which had been diverse years entitu∣led to this Name, went by Purchase into Pordage of Rodmersham, in which Family the Possession hath for several Generations been constantly resident. p. 169. Goodwenston [by Faversham] in the Hundred of Feversham, was the ancient Seat of Chich. The first of Eminence, was Ernaldus Chich, who was a man of principall Account in the Reign of Henry the second, Richard the first, and King John: nor were they more eminent here, then they were at Canterbury, where they had large Posses∣sions, and unto them did the Aldermanry of Burgate appertain. Thomas Chich of Goodwenston, was a prime Benefactor, to the Church of St. Mary Bredmin in Canterbury, where his Name together with his Effigies are in an old Character set up, in the West-window, as his Coat is likewise in the Chancel, insculped in Stone-work. He was Bailiff of Canterbury, an Office not contemptible in those Times, in the year 1259, and again in the year 1271. Thomas Chich, this mans Son, was She∣riff of Kent in the forty fourth year of Edward the third, and held his Shrievalty at Goodwenston. Thomas Chich, this Mans Son, was Sheriff of Kent likewise in the fifteenth year of Richard the second, and he was Grandfather to Valentine Chich, who matched with Philippa Daughter and Heir of Sir Robert Chichley, Brother to Henry Chichley, Arch-bishop of Canterbury, but dyed without Issue-male: so that his three Sisters and Coheirs wedded to Kemp, Judde, and Martin, shared his In∣heritance, and by a joint Consent, about the Beginning of Henry the eighth, passed away their Estate here and at Ewell, in this parish, to Pordage of Rodmer∣sham: and from this Name about the Beginning of Queen Elizabeth it passed a∣way to Fagg descended from the Faggs of Willesborough, where I find by the Court Rolls of the Mannor of Brabourne, that one Andrew Fagge held Lands there of that Mannor, in the Reign of Edward the third. But to go on, the Faggs had not long been planted in their new atchieved Purchase at this place, when Robert Fagge concluded in two Daughters and Coheirs, Ann who was mat∣ched to Sir John Proude, who was unhappily slain at the Groll, in the year 1628, whilst he did vigorously pursue the Quarrel of the States General, at that Siege against the Capital Enemy of their Religion, and Liberty, the Spaniard: and Mary espoused to Sir Edward Partrich, for his first Wife, but dyed without any Issue surviving by him. Sir John Proud left only one Daughter called Ann, who was first wedded to Sir William Springate, and secondly to Mr. Isaac Pennington, eldest Son to Isaac Pennington, Lord Maior of London in the year 1643, in Right of which Alliance, he at present holds this Mannor of Goodwenston. p. 241. Esthall is another Mannor in Morston, which although it be now by the Vicissitude of Time, and the injurious Impressions of Age, shrunk from its elder Beauty, into decay and Neglect; yet in Ages of a higher date, it was adorned with a nobler Char∣acter of Splendor, when it confessed it self to be parcell of the Inheritance of an an∣cient Family called De la pine, (so they are written in their old dateless Deeds) and bore for their Arms Sable, three Pine Apples Or. James De la pine was Sheriff of Kent in the twenty sixth, and part of the twenty seventh years of Edward the third, and held his Shrievalty here at Esthall, and died possest of it in the thirty seventh year of the abovesaid Prince, and left it to his Son and Heir Thomas De la pine, who about the be∣ginning of Richard the second, conveyed his Title and Concernment in it to Thomas St. Leger Esquire, Sheriff of Kent in the twentieth year of Richard the second, who dying without Issue-male, Joan, one of his Daughters and Coheirs, by matching with John Ewias, linked it to the Demeasn of that Name, and from him did it transmit it self by Descent, to his Son and Heir Humphrey Ewias, who was seised of it at his De∣cease, which was in the thirty third year of Henry the sixth, and from him by a Thread of paternal Succession, was it transported to his Grandchild William E•ias in whom the Male-line determined, so that by Alice his Daughter and Heir, it came to confess the Signory of Thomas Hales, who in the sixth year of Edward the sixth by a Fine and re∣covery wherein his Wife was concern'd, passed away the whole De••se to Sir Anthony Aucher, whose Son, Sir Anthony Aucher, in the ninth year of Quee•Elizabeth, by the same conveyance alienated it to Gardiner, where the Title was so •••atile and mutable that it stayed with this Family, but untill the tenth year of the ab•••said Princess, and then it was transplanted by Sale into John Norden, who in our ••••dfathers memory demised it to Pordage, Predecessor to Mr........ Pordage of R•••ersham, who is now entitled to the Fee-simple of it. pp. 282-283. Rodmersham in the Hundred of Milton, was the Inheritance of a Family, whose Sirname was Pine: John de la Pine enjoyed it, in the twentieth year of Henry the third, as appears by private Evidences, and so did James de la Pine his Grandchild, who deceased in the thirty seventh year of Edward the third, and left it to his Son and Heir James de la Pine, a Child of nine years old, at his Fathers Exit; and he pre∣served it untill the latter end of Richard the second, and then it was transmitted by Sale to Podach, now called vulgarly Pordage, descended originally from John de Podach, who flourished as appears by an ancient Pedigree, relating to this Fami∣ly, in the raign of Henry the third, and held Lands in the County of Devon, which bore his Name, and was called Podach; and from this above-mentioned Iohn, is Mr. Tho. Pordage aliàs Podach, now of Rodmersham, by a multiplyed Efflux of many Descents lineally extracted, and bears now the Fesse in his Coat Armour, plain, whereas by anci∣ent Monuments, and Seals affixed to old Evidences it is manifest, his Ancestors bore it Checque. Upon what Grounds, the modern Alteration is establisht, I confesse I know not; it is enough, that the Dignity of the Family, is yet supported, by that ancient Inheritance, which they have for so many Ages, and yet do possesse, here at Rodmersham. p. 284. [St. John's manor in Rodmersham] This Order was first brought into England, in the year of Grace 1100, by Jordan de Briset, in some old Deeds written Brinset, Lord of Well-hall at Eltham in Kent, and Muriell his Wife, who founded a House for them at Clerkenwell, and dedicated it to St. John, which afterwards became the Head of their Alberge here in England, to which this Mannor continued united, as parcell of their Demeasne, untill the Dissolution in the Reign of Henry the eighth, like a general Deluge, swept it away, and transported it into the Revenue of the Crown, and that Prince by Royal Con∣cession, made it the Estate of William Pordage Esquire, in whose Descendant, Thomas Pordage Esquire, the present Inheritance of it remains at this instant placed. p. 339. Tong in the Hundred of Milton, was anciently called Thewng and Thawng, which import as much in Saxon, as Thong in English; for the common Opinion derived from a universal Tradition, and that asserted and justified by an uninterrupted Assent of elder Times, is, That Vortiger the British King, gave Hengist and Horsa, as a Symbol and Pledge of his Affection, so much Land to erect a Fortress on, as could be environed and circumscribed, by the Hide of a Beast cut into Thongs, which accordingly was performed, and the Castle thus established, in Memory of the original Donation, was in the Saxon Dialect styled Thwangceoster or Thong-castle: and this Story is made more probable and plausible, because Matthew of Westminster affirms that Aurelius Ambrosius by many provocations endevoured to engage Hengist, and his Saxons to a Battle at Tong in Kent: and that there was a Castle here, the Fragments and Remains of some Fortifications near the Mill, do easily evince; though they lie now gasping in so deplored an heap, that only the Rubbish of its Ruines are dis∣cernable; yet certainly in elder Times it was a Fortress of Importance; for the Moat of the Castle is yet so wide and deep, that it contributes Water enough to drive a Mill. But to proceed; After the Conquest, it constantly acknowledged the powerful and eminent Family of Badelesmer, and Bartholomew Lord Badclesmer obtained the Grant of a three Dayes Fair at St. Giles, to be observed at Tong, as appears, Pat. 9. Edwardi secundi Num. 57. But when he, by his Defection, in the sixteenth year of Edward the second, had forfeited this, and the residue of his Pa∣trimony to the Crown, this by the indulgent favour of Edward the third, was in the second year of his reign, restored to his Son Bartholomew Lord Badelesmer, who died possest of it, in the twelfth year of the abovesaid Prince, and left it to his Brother Giles de Badelesmer, who dying without Issue, it accrued upon the Division of the Estate, to be the Portion of Edmund Mortimer Earl of March and Ʋlster, who had matched with Elizabeth Widow of William Bohun Earl of Northampton, and Sister and Co-heir of the abovesaid Giles, and he in the fifth year of Richard the second, was found in her Right to have died possest of it, as appears, Rot. Esc. Num. 43. and from him it descended to his Grand-child Edmund the last Earl of March, who being embarked in that War, which was commenced by Henry Lord Percy, Sir∣named the Hotspur of the North, against Henry the fourth, made Shipwrack of his Estate here at Tong, and was seised on as an Escheat by the Crown, and lay involved in the Royal Revenue, until Henry the sixth, in the twenty seventh year of his reign, granted it to Sir Thomas Browne of Bechworth-castle, both Controller and Treasurer of his Houshold: but his Son Sir George Browne, in the eleventh year of Edward the fourth, surrendered it back to the Crown, for the Benefit and Use of Cicely Dur∣chess Dowager of Yorke, Mother of the abovesaid Prince: After whose Decease it reverts and flows back into its ancient Channel, and was esteemed a Limb of the Royal Patrimony, until the first year of King Edward the sixth, and then it was by that Prince granted to Sir Ralph Vane, as a Guerdon of that eminent and signal Ser∣vice he performed in Scotland, when he was employed thither with Sir Ralph Sadler, by King Henry the eighth: and he not long after conveyed his Interest here to Sir Rowland Clerke, and from him in the fourth year of the abovesaid Prince, it passed away by Sale to Salomon Wilkins, in which Family it remained until the latter end of Queen Elizabeth, and then it was alienated to Mr. William Pordage of Rodmersham Ancestor to Mr. Thomas Pordage, who still is in possession of it. [Source: 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;... Philipott, Thomas, Esq.. London: William Godbid, Anchor Inn, Little Brittain. 1659. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eebo2/A54665.0001.001?rgn=main;view=fulltext;q1=Kent+--+Description+and+travel] ========================================================================= brogdale farm listed building Listing Text TR 05NW OSPRINGE BROGDALE ROAD (east side) 5/89 Brogdale Farmhouse 4.5.70 (formerly listed under Faversham) II House. C18. Painted brick and plain tiled roof. Two storeys and attic, with brick cornice to hipped roof with 2 raking dormers and stacks to rear left and rear right. Three glazing bar sashes on first floor and 2 on ground floor, all with segmental heads, and canted bay window to end left. Door of 6 panels and traceried semi-circular fanlight under an open pediment on pilasters. Listing NGR: TR0064859666

  
  

• Sources

  [S34] Parish Register, England, Kent: Church of England, Canterbury Cathedral Archives, (U.S.A., Salt Lake City: Genealogical Society of Utah), Ospringe, Kent, England, Marriages, 8 Feb 1563.