Archaeologia cantiana . example of domestic architecture of theperiod. The Rev. Thomas Austen (Kentish Collection,circa 1760, Add. MS. 24270, Brit. Mus.) says, great brick house in Crow Lane, I am told,was built by Sir T. Knight, whose family still exists * Sir Francis Gierke was one of the Commissioners on theChest at Chatham with Pepys in 1662. {Diary, Edit. Bohn,i., 349.) f One of the title-deeds, 26 Feb. 1693, transferring the propertyto William Bokenham, has the following : And all that Orchardor little piece of ground, planted with fruite trees, containeing byestimacon half

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Archaeologia cantiana . example of domestic architecture of theperiod. The Rev. Thomas Austen (Kentish Collection,circa 1760, Add. MS. 24270, Brit. Mus.) says, great brick house in Crow Lane, I am told,was built by Sir T. Knight, whose family still exists * Sir Francis Gierke was one of the Commissioners on theChest at Chatham with Pepys in 1662. {Diary, Edit. Bohn,i., 349.) f One of the title-deeds, 26 Feb. 1693, transferring the propertyto William Bokenham, has the following : And all that Orchardor little piece of ground, planted with fruite trees, containeing byestimacon half an acre more or lesse lying in St. Margaret afore-said, and adjoyneing or lying neare to the yard and gardensbelonging to the said capitall messuage, and now or late in theoccupacon of Roger Pilcher, gardener. Roger Pilcher paidhearth-tax, July 11,1662— recd of Roger Pilcher for 3 fire hearths,3s.—S. T. A. J This quotation from Pepys occurs only in the recent editionof the Diary by the Rev. Mynors Bright, 1875, etc,.

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