Identifier: archaeologiacant02kent_0 (find matches)
Title: Archaeologia cantiana
Year: 1859 (1850s)
Authors: Kent Archaeological Society. cn
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Publisher: (London) Kent Archaeological Society

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ately one of these persons for whose souls weare invited to pray, has no cognizance by which we maybe assisted in filling up the gap, Eici... Gen. Bothname and tabard of the other indicate an individual ofan ancient family flourishing in the period of Edward II.,Brent of Charing: he was an ancestor of the Derings,and proprietor of the manor of Willesborough. Each ofthe above persons is praying before an open missal. Thecostume is that of the end of the fifteenth or beginningof the sixteenth century. Below these, the two figures kneeling present us withthe portraits of Bichmond Bare and his wife Juliana,for the repose of whose souls there occurs the usual in-vitation to pray: they are both in the civil costume ofthe early part of the sixteenth century. The Bareswere of an ancient family, whose ancestor, Sir JohnBare, was a knight of great reputation in the reigns ofRichard I. and Henry III. The Bare here representedwas of the Mote House, Sevington, who died in 1463,or possibly his son.
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Ill FABRIC ROLL OF ROCHESTER CASTLE. Among the documents deposited in the Public RecordOffice, there is a series of Ministers Accounts relatingto the repairs of Rochester Castle in the time of Ed-ward III., one of which we here present to our readers.Although on the Pipe, and in other miscellaneousRolls, we have general entries of repairs done to thisfortress, yet they furnish us with very few particulars.The Roll before us is the earliest record with which weare at present acquainted, in which the details of repairsto this Castle are minutely given.1 They are thusheaded:—2 Particule Conipoti Johaotis 2 Prioris Roffensis, CapitalisMagistri operacionum Regis apud Castrum Roffense. Dereceptis, misis, et expensis per ipsum factis in eisdem opera-cionibus_, ab xi die Junii, anno regni Regis Edwardi terciipost conquestum xli° (1367-8) nsque xi diem Januarii proximesequentem, anno xlij0 (1368—9), per visum et testificacionemWillelmi de Basyng magistri hospitalis de Strode, et GilbertiG

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