Archaeologia cantiana . Mr. Streatfeild. It is carefully tricked withthe crest in vol. i. of his interleaved Hasted, at p. 93(Add. MS. 33,879). He obtained his information from the2nd vol. of the grants in the College of Arms. He notesthe hawthorn trees as proper, , vert, fructed gules, a detailnot in the grant. There is a copy of the grant at the British Museum inStowe MS. 677, fol. 6, and another in the MSS. at QueensCollege, Oxford. It is printed with an illustration in Mis-cellanea Genealogica et Heraldica, 5th Series, vol. i., p. 287. [Thanks are due to the authorities of the Public R
Archaeologia cantiana . Mr. Streatfeild. It is carefully tricked withthe crest in vol. i. of his interleaved Hasted, at p. 93(Add. MS. 33,879). He obtained his information from the2nd vol. of the grants in the College of Arms. He notesthe hawthorn trees as proper, , vert, fructed gules, a detailnot in the grant. There is a copy of the grant at the British Museum inStowe MS. 677, fol. 6, and another in the MSS. at QueensCollege, Oxford. It is printed with an illustration in Mis-cellanea Genealogica et Heraldica, 5th Series, vol. i., p. 287. [Thanks are due to the authorities of the Public RecordOffice for permission to reproduce the arms as shewn on thegrant; also to Mr. Mill Stephenson, , who has kindlyworked up the original photograph so as to make it possibleto reproduce it with clearness. Mr. A. W. Hughes Clarke,the editor of Miscellanea Genealogica et Heraldica, was goodenough to call attention to the fact that the grants had beenprinted in that work.] LOWER HALSTOW CHURCH. From the LOWER HALSTOW from the North-west of the Nave, toward the East. ( 157 ) LOWER HALSTOW CHURCH. BY THE REV. E. R. OLIVE, VICAR. This ancient building-, situated one and a half mile north ofNewington-next-Sittingbourne, stands almost at the edge ofthe Hal stow estuary, and near the site of the ancient Romanpotteries. It is not surprising, then, that its exteriormasonry, like that of St. Martins Church at Canterbury,should comprise a quantity of Roman material. Dr. Harris, in his History of Kent, states that the churchof Ha]stow (Halegestow, or the Holy Place), dedicated toSt. Margaret, was given by Archbishop Hubert to the con-vent of Christ Church in Canterbury. An ancient recordtells that Agnes, sister of Archbishop Thomas Becket, mar-ried Thomas, son of Theobald Helles, and that John ofLondon, son of the marriage, was instituted in 1184 byArchbishop Baldwin to the vicarage of Halstow, on the pre-sentation of Prior Alanus and the convent of Christ Ch
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