HISTORY & TOPOGRAPHY

KENT

HISTORY & TOPOGRAPHY Survey of Kent. Vol 11. Hasted E
Extracts:	a) John Chittenden. Possesses Lilsden in Hawkhurst. Page 147 b) Chittendens Page 460
	a) “At a small distance further southward (off Highgate on the road between Lamberhurst and Stonecrouch) is LILSDEN which at least as early as the reign of Queen Elizabeth was the    property of the Chittendens, eminent clothiers here, in which name it continued down to John Chittenden, gent, in which name it still continues”.
	b) CALEHILL HUNDRED. LITTLE CHART. Charities. “Thomas and Robert Chittenden, by indentures in 1698. Assigned a house and garden and half acre of land in Charing, to trustees for the use of the poor of this parish….. The present rent is about three guineas per annum”. LILSDEN. The Chittendens’ of Lilsden were eminent Clothiers at the time of Elizabeth 1. I have tried to find a location of Lilsden, but failed, and can only suppose either it no longer exists or the name has changed, or perhaps it is too small to be recorded. LILSDEN is less than one mile south of Hawkhurst and two and a quarter miles north of west of Sandhurst and four miles west of south of Benenden and four and three quarter miles south of Cranbrook almost on the Sussex border. LILLESDON - alternative spelling ??. Village near/part of Hawkhurst is mentioned in ‘A saunter through Kent Vol. XV’. Page 19. By Charles Igglesden. In the same book, page 20, reference is made to ‘the Chittendens of Lillesden were the clothier kings…’. The Church of St Nicholas, Sandhurst has five bells. The third is inscribed ‘William Hyall made me 1678 - Thomas Chyttenden, John Rysell: Church Warden’.
HISTORY OF THE COUNTY OF KENT - ALFRED JOHN DUNKIN
Part 1: Hundreds of Blackheath 1559 - 1565
Calender of the Extant Act Books of Detecta 1559 - 1565. Diocese of Canterbury
1565 July 19^th	@ St Margaret, Canterbury:
	156	James Fowle	Hawkhurst
	Keeping a Harlot delivered of a child in his house, be her brother-in-law now at Mardenwith one Chittenden
	156	Chittenden	Marden	A Harlot in his house
1565 September 20^th	159	Chittenden	Marden	A Harlot in his house
1565 October 4^th	160	Chittenden	Marden	A Harlot in his house
1565 October 9^th	161	Anne Grynte	Marden	Living with Chittenden
1563 May 27^th		Deanery of Sutton
	247	Dennys Chyttynden	Maidstone	She is with child.
	A Looker is the Marsh name for a Shepherd