EAST LANGDON. LANGDON EAST Is a Sman Parish and Village Situate 3! Milesn.N.E

lAST LANGDON' I'ABISH. , , TIrn CORNILO HUNDRED is bounded on the north and west by , the Eastry bundred, on the south hy that of Bewsborough, and on the 'west by the Straits of Dover, It embraces the parishes of LangdoIi East; Mongebam Great, Mongeham Little, Northbourne, Oxney, Ringwold, Ripple, Sbolden or Shoulden, Sutton by Dover and Walmer. EAST LANGDON. LANGDON EAST is a sman parish and village situate 3! milesN.N.E. from Dover, which contains 1065 acres of land, and at the last census had 67 houses and 316 inhabitants. Population in 1801, 243; in 1831, 322. Rateable value, £1,664. The church is a small fabric-dedicated to St. Augustine-and consists of nave, chancel, and side ai~les, with a. tower at the west end surmouuted by a spire. The living is a rectory, valued in the King's books at £7: patron, the Earl of Guildford; incum bent, Rev. Frederick Dechair. In this chnrch lie interred many of the family of Master and lIIarsh, but most of the memorials are now gone. The church was enlarged in 1834 with 72 additional siltings, the expense of which was raised partly by rate and partly by subscriptions, aided by a gunt from the Incorporated Society. The tithes are commuted for £238 12s. 3d. This church has always been appurtenant to the manor. of East Langdon, and as such the present patron of it is the Right HOD. the Earl of Guilford. The demesne lands of the manor of East Langdon-about eighty acres, are exempt from the payment of great tithes, as are those of the ville or hamlet of Martin in this parish, being the larger moiety of it; but the rector is entitled to the small tithes arising from the whole of the lands within this parish. The principal landowners are the Earl of Guilford, Richard John Roffey, Esq, Rnd Mr. James Jenken. THE MAKOR OF EAST LANGDON anciently formed part of the posses sions of· the Abbot and convent of St. Augustine, from whom it was wrested by some of the powerful men in early tImes, as appears by the chronicle of it; but in the year 1100 Henry Hago, Abbot of the Monastery, recovered the lands of Langdon, among others, from Manasses Arsic, who had then unjustly the possession of them. After this the Abbot, with the consent of the convent, assigned this manor to the clothing of the monks there; in which situation this manor continued till its final dissolution in the 30th year of Henry VIll., when it was, with all its revenues, surrendered into the King's hands, who soon after granted this manor to Archbishop Cranmer: some time after, it was held by John Master, Esq., by Knigbt's service, whose SOD, James Master, Esq., rebuilt the mansion of Langdon Court. Richard Master, Esq., alienated this manor, with other posseSSions, to Sir Henry Furnese, Bart.... who died possessed of this manor in 1712; after which, his daughter, Catherine~ carried this estate in marriage-first, to Lewis Earl of Bockingham; and secondly, to Francis Earl of Guildford, in whose family it still continues. y 2 -.

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