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 Abt 1570 - 1648 (~ 78 years)
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| Name |
Henry THOMSON |
| Born |
Abt 1570 |
Of Royton Chapel, Chartham, Kent, England  |
| Gender |
Male |
| Buried |
20 Oct 1648 |
Kent, England |
| Person ID |
I20090 |
Young Kent Ancestors |
| Last Modified |
20 Mar 2022 |
| Father |
Thomas THOMSON, b. Sandwich, Kent, England , d. Bef 29 Jan 1570, Sandwich, Kent, England |
| Mother |
Elizabeth MANSFIELD, d. Bef 7 May 1572, Sandwich, Kent, England |
| Family ID |
F520 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
| Family |
Dorothy HONYWOOD, b. 25 Dec 1572, London, Middlesex, England , bur. 5 Feb 1649, Kent, England (Age ~ 76 years) |
| Married |
27 Feb 1586 |
Dorking, St Martin, Surrey, England |
| Children |
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| Last Modified |
20 Mar 2022 |
| Family ID |
F6260 |
Group Sheet | Family Chart |
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| Notes |
- ROYTON, vulgarly called Rayton, is a manor in this parish, situated at a small distance eastward from Chillton, the mansion of which had a free chapel annexed to it, the ruins of which still remain.
In the year 1259, anno 44 Henry III. this manor was in the possession of Simon Fitzalan; in which year a final agreement was made in the King's court at Westminster, between Roger, abbot of St. Augustine, and the said Simon, concerning the customs and services which the abbot demanded of him for his free tenement, which he held of him in Royton, viz. one marc of silver yearly, and suit at the court of Lenham, which suit the abbot released to him on his agreeing to pay the rent above-mentioned, and suit at the court of St. Augustine, at Canterbury.
His successor was Robert de Royton, who most probably assumed his name from his possessions at this place. He founded a free chapel here, and annexed it to the mansion, which thence acquired the name of Royton chapel.
In which name it continued till the reign of king Henry VI. when, by an only daughter and heir, it went in marriage to James Dryland, esq. of Davington, whose daughter and sole heir Constance, having married to Sir Thomas Walsingham, of Chesilhurst, entitled her husband to the possession of it, and he died possessed of it anno 7 Edward IV. (fn. 6) and one of his descendants, in the beginning of the reign of king Henry VIII. alienated this manor to Edward Myllys, who did homage to the abbot of St. Augustine's for it as half a knight's fee, which he had lately purchased in Royton, near Lenham. He bore for his arms, Party per fess, sable and argent, a pale and three bears erect, counterchanged, collared and chained, or, [Pedigree of Darell.] from which name it was not long afterwards sold to Robert Atwater, whose arms were, Sable, a fess wavy, voided azure, between three swans, proper, who leaving two daughters and coheirs, Mary, the youngest of them, carried it, with other estates at Charing and elsewhere in this neighbourhood, to Robert Honywood, esq. of Henewood, in Postling, eldest son of John Honywood, esq. by his second wife, daughter of Barnes, of Wye.
He afterwards resided at Pett in Charing, part of his wife's inheritance, and dying in 1576, was buried in Lenham church, bearing for his arms those of Honywood, with a crescent, gules, for difference. He left a numerous issue by his wife, who survived him near forty-four years, and dying in 1620, in the ninety-third year of her age, was buried near him, though a monument is erected to her memory at Markshall, in Essex. She had, as has been said, at her decease, lawfully descended from her 367 children, 16 of her own body, 114 grand-children, 228 in the third generation, and nine in the fourth. Their eldest son Robert Honywood, of Charing, and afterwards of Markshall, in Essex, was twice married; first to Dorothy, daughter of John Crook, LL. D. by whom he had one son, Sir Robert Honywood, of Charing, and a daughter Dorothy, married to Henry Thomson, gent. His second wife was Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Thomas Brown, of Beechworth-castle, in Surry, by whom he had several sons and daughters; the eldest of whom, Thomas, was of Markshall, in Essex, esq. and father of John Le Mott Honywood, esq. of that place.
¶Sir Robert Honywood, on his death, devised the manor of Royton to Dorothy, his daughter by his first wife, married to Mr. Henry Thomson, the second son of Mr. Tho. Thomson, of Sandwich, and younger brother of T. Thomson, esq. of Kenfield, in PeTham, who afterwards resided at Royton, bearing for his arms, Gules, two bars argent, a chief ermine, a crescent for difference. [Vistn. co. Kent, 1619. Pedigree Thomson.] His surviving son Anthony, was of Royton, of which he died possessed in 1682, leaving an only daughter Dorothy, who carried it in marriage to Richard Crispe, gent. of Maidstone, in whose descendants it continued down to William Crispe, gent. of Royton, who died in 1761, and by his will devised it to his surviving wife Elizabeth, for her life; and the fee of it to his nephew Samuel Belcher, who dying unmarried and intestate, his interest in it descended to his only brother Peter Belcher, and he by his will in 1772 devised it to his brother-in-law, Mr. John Foster, in fee. Mrs. Elizabeth Crispe, before-mentioned, died in 1778, and this estate then came into the possession of Mr. John Foster, who afterwards sold it to Thomas Best, esq. of Chilston, on whose death, s. p. in 1793, it came by his will, among his other estates, to his nephew George Best, esq. now of Chilston, the present owner of it.
From: 'Parishes: Lenham', The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent: Volume 5 (1798), pp. 415-445. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.aspx?compid=62922&strquery=thomson. Date accessed: 17 January 2008.
Royton Manor:
Latitude: 51.2205 / 51°13'13"N
Longitude: 0.725 / 0°43'29"E
British Listed Buildings:
Entry Name: Royton Manor
Listing Date: 26 April 1968
Last Amended: 14 December 1984
Grade: II*
Source: Historic England
Source ID: 1060984
English Heritage Legacy ID: 173927
Location: Lenham, Maidstone, Kent, ME17
County: Kent
District: Maidstone
Civil Parish: Lenham
Traditional County: Kent
Lieutenancy Area (Ceremonial County): Kent
Description
LENHAM LENHAM HEATH ROAD
TQ 95 SW (north side)
Lenham Heath
5/192 Royton Manor (formerly listed
26.4.68. as Chapel Farmhouse)
II*
House. 2nd half of C15, first half C16, second half C16, late
C16 or early C17, C18, early and late C19. Timber framed.
Main range: ground floor early C18 red brick in Flemish bond with
occasional grey headers on ground floor and, probably later, at
right end of first floor. Rest of first floor tile-hung.
Left wing: early C19 chequered red and grey brick, first floor
of right side elevation tile-hung. Left side elevation rendered
on ground floor with some close-studding, tile-hung above.
Right wing: brick in Flemish bond to ground floor, English bond
to first floor. Right side elevation roughly coursed galletted
stone to ground floor, tile-hung above. Rear right wing rendered.
Plain tile roofs. Plan: Late C15 open hall of 2 unequal-
length bays and storeyed bay to either end. Left bay originally
jettied to front and left side and possibly also to rear.
Separately framed early (or possibly late) C16 wing 2 bays deep
added to rear of right end bay. Hall floored in late C16 and
wing of 3 long bays added to left end in late C16 or early C17.
Projecting forward slightly from main range. Further wing
added to right end, probably in C19, also projecting slightly to
front. Ceilings of first floor of left wing and hall raised
probably in C19. Rear lean-to added C19. Facade: 2 storeys,
with cellar to left, on brick plinth. Plat band in Flemish bond
to front of left cross wing, and, in English bond, to right
end of main range. Cross-wing roofs hipped, with gablet to left
wing. Multiple brick ridge stacks towards rear of left wing,
to rear to centre of main range and in front slope of roof to
right gable end of original building (formerly projecting and
external). Irregular fenestration of 6 late C19 casements.
Timber-framed porch, with close-studded gable jettied on moulded
bressumer, to right end of hall. Outer door has 4-centred arched
head with moulded jambs and spandrels carved inside and out.
Heavy door, probably original, with multiple vertical roll and
cavetto moulding and circular iron handle pierced with trefoils.
Inner door has 4-centred arched head with carved spandrels, and
architrave with deep multiple roll moulding with large finely-carved
4-tiered pedestals to bases. Heavy boarded C19 door. Interior:
Moulded, brattished dais beam to left end of hall. Remains of
massive moulded central truss post. Principal posts with rebated
jowls to main range and to rear right wing. Door in rear wall of
hall, at left end, with 4-centred arched head, hollow spandrels
and moulded jambs, partly renewed. Stairs in right end probably
in original position. Staircase with solid triangular treads
re-set in right wing. Plain crown-post with 2 upward and 2 curved
downward braces to rear right wing. Inserted hall floor with
heavily moulded beams and joists. Moulded stone fireplace surrounds
on both floors of left cross-wing. Ribbed plaster ceiling to
ground floor front room of left cross-wing. Late C16 or early C17
ovolo-moulded mullion windows in rear right wing, one with
moulded internal cill. Narrow corridor formed along right side of
the wing, walls and window jambs painted with strapwork design
in ochres. Flemish Renaissance overmantle to fireplace in rear
wall of hall and linen-fold panelled door to back door of cross-
passage possibly introduced in C19. C19 square panelling in hall.
Exposed timbers throughout.
Listing NGR: TQ9038850340
External Links
Historic England Listing
Wikidata Q17545067
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- [S174] Visitation of the County of Kent taken in the Year 1619, John Philipott, Rouge Dragon , p. 23, 1619.
Buried in chancel of Lenham Church. Inscription:
"Here underlye the bodyes of Henry Thompson and Dorathy his wife, of Royton Chappel, in this parish. Hee was the sonne and co-heire of Thomas Thompson of Sandwich, Merchant; and she the eldest daughter of Robert Honiwood of Pett, in Charing, Esq. They had issue 5 sonns and 3 daughters. 1. Robert, 2. Marye, 3. Judith, 4. John, 5. Elizabeth, 6. Peter, 7. Anthony, 8. Charles. Living piously together sixty-three years, and being old and full of dyes, cheerfully resigned theire souls into the hands of the Almighty Creator.
"Hee being aged 78 an'o 1648
Shee aged 77 an'o 1649
ARMS: Gules, two bars argent, a chief ermine, a crescent for difference, impaling argent, a chevron between three falcons' heads erased azure beaked or.
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