. Archaeologia cantiana. net, Vincent, B. Sundridge 1718 Varenne, Joseph, B. Staplehurst 1824 One can hardly choose a better conclusion to this paper,which admits of so much diversity of treatment, than thewords of Canon Jenkins in his Diocesan History, when, 220 THE WEALD AND ITS REFUGEE ANNALS. enumerating other causes which facilitated the progress ofthe Eeformation in the Diocese of Canterbury, he says: The vast numbers of foreign Protestants who were re-ceived and tolerated in all the ports and towns of Kent,and who tended to leaven the population with which theyintermarried and held dail
. Archaeologia cantiana. net, Vincent, B. Sundridge 1718 Varenne, Joseph, B. Staplehurst 1824 One can hardly choose a better conclusion to this paper,which admits of so much diversity of treatment, than thewords of Canon Jenkins in his Diocesan History, when, 220 THE WEALD AND ITS REFUGEE ANNALS. enumerating other causes which facilitated the progress ofthe Eeformation in the Diocese of Canterbury, he says: The vast numbers of foreign Protestants who were re-ceived and tolerated in all the ports and towns of Kent,and who tended to leaven the population with which theyintermarried and held daily intercourse—added to the char-acteristic independence of the Kentish yeomanry, who hadestablished their industries among them, the clothiers ofthe Weald, the iron workers of the district bordering onSussex, and the gardening population of Sandwich and South-eastern Kent—all contributed to the signal and almostunparalleled success of a movement which brought at thesame time temporal prosperity and spiritual ( 221 ) CEANBROOK CHURCH.* BY REV. J. CAVE-BROWNE, The first thought that rises in the mind of an archaeologist,when he attempts to write the history of a parish church,is, What says Domesday P Now as to Cranbrook, Domes-day says nothing. The name does not occur. Its absencemay be accounted for on two grounds. First, that unrivalledRecord—the oldest of National Records in Europe—was notdesigned as a gazetteer, but as an authoritative Survey oflands held under the Crown, to shew for military and fiscalpurposes who was in each case the responsible tenant orowner, and what was his military service, and the amount ofrating and taxes his holding involved. Thus the existenceof a manor, or of a church attached to a manor, would notnecessarily be mentioned unless the manor or the advowsonbelonged to the Crown. The absence therefore of the nameis no evidence either way of the existence of a church , secondly, the state of the district would imply theim
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