Its leader, Henry Hart, wrote passionate texts concerning free will, albeit not very articulately. parish towards the enlarging of it, (fn. Though distress flares were seen, there were only three or four, so that observers assumed the crew had solved the problem. However, a historian recently suggested that the actual cause was arson: Canterbury was in competition with Durham for pilgrims visits, so its monks were desperate to build a new shrine to the recently murdered Thomas Becket. THE MANOR OF SERJEANTS OTFORD, with the He overreached himself, however, and was killed at Smithfield. (fn. The temperature rose as high as 91F, which was then exceptional for that time of year. Conditions were poor, and the 52 youngsters aged 9 to 13 were not lit as they marched in rows of three along the dark street. The French successfully undermined the, Whatever King Edward IIs other vices, the one that gave rise to the greatest antagonism was his indulgence of the gangster-like Despenser family. It affected him terribly. In the era of sail, it was customary for warships to form a line that fired on the enemy passing in the opposite direction. The supportive King of France sent a fleet from Honfleur under the command of Pierre de Brz, a veteran antagonist of the English army. His stance contrasted strikingly with that of Indias previous overlords, the Moghul Empire, whose founder Mrz Zahr ud-Dn Muhammad avowedly detested India, and tolerated Indians only as a source of riches. Popular reaction was predictably hostile, especially in Kent. Richard John Bingham, the 7th Earl of Lucan, was central to one of the great criminal mysteries of the C20. There might never be a problem, but if there is, it wont be trivial. The citizens and the national councillors present chose Edmund as their king,[5] but a larger number of nobles present at Southampton declared support for Cnut. The weather had been poor, and the River Medway was in full spate. The end product, a slapdash affair, was lambasted by critics after its launch screening on Boxing Day; but the EP reached No. The Indemnity & Oblivion Act pardoned most conspirators, but for 104 Regicides there was to be no amnesty. one hundred pounds per annum, the house and glebe Unfortunately, on the other side of that bulkhead, a boiler was heating up. Broughton went on to serve in two Parliaments; but, after Oliver Cromwell died and the monarchy was restored, there came a reckoning. Fortunately, many bandsmen had already gone outside to exercise; but 11 were found dead in the rubble, and 21 injured. Because Freeman had confessed, however, it was an open-and-shut case at Maidstone Assizes. Wreck of SS Richard Montgomery: Thames Richard Montgomery KC 7722 (Modified) (cropped) by Clem Rutter, Rochester, Kent, licensed under CC BY 3.0. Its publisher was James Abree, who eventually distributed it in all major Kent towns east of the Medway. As police suspicion grew, she sent herself parcels in the hope of incriminating Maynard. Things were set to change in 1830, however, with Maidstone Prison being built; it was to be used as a new town-centre venue for this salutary public entertainment. Later that month, however, SS RF Matthews actually rammed the Lightship; this time, the message was for real. At Otford, he won a sterling victory that saw the invaders fleeing to Sheppey. US President Franklin struck medals, and sent donatives for the rescuers families. When nobody seriously attempted the feat in 1908, the prize was raised to 1,000 a mere stunt in many peoples eyes, given that the feat was obviously unachievable. Reformation theologians generally went along with Catholicism on this; but a major challenge was presented by the Freewillers. On January 11th, 1947, there occurred an extraordinary episode that left people wondering what had gone right. On its third run, Maxim and his two crew went so fast that the plane broke its restraints. Their trial consisted in being dunked in the river. of 1699, t. No one had been hurt, and the process of clearing up commenced. The inquest found that the bridge had been dangerously designed and maintained, but returned a verdict of accidental death. The Castle was at length returned to the de Crvecoeurs, who managed to retain it for another hundred years before the Crown pinched it for good. The German Army and Navy both possessed fleets that arrived in squadrons to dump bombs on cities while people below spectated. English archers used the wind to wreak havoc, whilst lime was released into French eyes. Margate Jetty: Margate pier after the storm of January 1978 by Nick Smith, licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0. She never married, but accompanied her widowed mother in retirement in Brighton. The driver, John Sansom, reported afterwards that he saw nothing, but simply felt an impact. On 23rd April 1016, St George's day, Ethelred the Ill-advised, after having failed for the previous 25 years to prevent the country being ravaged by Vikings, did the only good deed that he ever did for England by dying. Ironically, the Kentish mines, which only started operating in 1912, had never been profitable, yet local union leaders refused to capitulate unless sacked workers were reinstated. Even as far away as Hollingbourne, the church and manor suffered serious damage. Hence the chalk hills rise on each different parts of it. The archbishops of Canterbury had, from the earliest accounts, a HOUSE Or PALACE here, in which they North Kent was the scene of a C16 national sensation that was not so much a murder mystery as a murder farce. to be distributed among the poor, at the discretion of the trust, A Yorkshire lass, Amy Johnson had it all: brains, looks, charm, skill, and guts. On his return, he was greeted by a crowd of over 3,000. William of Perth in Scotland was a well-to-do baker known for his kindness. Having undergone a number of schisms, the Congress now represents a relatively centrist alternative to the BJPs vigorous nationalism. granted by the archbishop to king Henry VIII. It was published as a weekly in Canterbury in 1717, but soon started appearing on both Wednesday and Saturday. In the valley much of it is meadow The first battle on British soil recorded in history took place in Kent. The next morning, Tromp attacked with fire-ships as the enemy tried to break out. and one villein, with 18 borderers, having 45 carucates; Hed been beaten by Kentish pluck, on land and at sea. Among the survivors was Robin Gibb of the Bee Gees, who at the time were top of the charts with Massachusetts. Wall, vicar of Shoreham, whose only daughter and It was the first airline disaster involving an in-flight fire. devised this estate, consisting of the ruins of the palace, It was ten years old and ten feet high, and Louis had been gifted it by the Egyptians, who were after an alliance against the Syrians. The demands were moderate, but Parliament reacted with outrage. Although appliances turned up within four minutes, a blaze had taken hold, and it was not until 7.30 am that it was brought under control. Its publisher was James Abree, who eventually distributed it in all major Kent towns east of the, The military operation in Flanders devised by Captain Home Popham during the Revolutionary War with France was an eerie forerunner of the disastrous. When the boy resisted, Bird gruesomely cut his throat. The ship rebuilt in 1660 and renamed Royal Sovereign fought in major battles both against and alongside the Dutch, but was destroyed by fire at Chatham in 1696. rats. All three planes came down within a radius of 100 yards. Two years later, however, the appeasers had their way. Great South-Eastern Flood: Kent Cinque Ports by Clem Rutter, Rochester, Kent, licensed under CC BY 2.5. According to the historian Cassius Dio, who provided the only account of the battle, the pursuing Romans arrived to find them massed on the western bank, and a battle ensued. stained glass, being or on a sess gules, three fleurs de lis of the field, On June 1, Being a Sheerness resident is not that different from living on the side of Vesuvius. When the people of Brentwood in Essex refused to pay, there was open unrest, prompting a general insurgency across the South-East. In truth, it was the start of a worse one. who rested with the archbishop at it several times both The loss appears trivial alongside the Senghenydd disaster of 1913, when 439 coalminers died in an explosion, but no less harrowing for those affected. They replicated one that Gray had already done with thread but on a larger scale, along a whole gallery. Not everything could be made good with money, however. before. After extinguishing the English nobility at the Battle of Hastings, William the Conqueror showed zero tolerance to popular opposition. Within a fortnight of the end of the phoney war in May 1940, a crisis had turned into a calamity. He was in turn killed, along with eight of his followers and another soldier. this manor descended from the Rev. The accident led to an embarrassing series of German courts martial that were intended to pin blame, and even embroiled the Kaiser. He himself was born in Dublin, and went to Eton and Oxford. The dagger was still in his pocket, but he declared, I have done enough! and the old man survived. Undeniably Ebbsfleet heralded the dawn of the 400-year Kingdom of Kent. That evening, he went to see the Lord Mayor and struck a wager with him. the chalk banks on each side of it. 115 of Cootes men were killed in frantic fighting, and 1,134 taken prisoner. 71 buildings were destroyed, including 25 habitations. The pub was hurriedly cleared, and local residents were being warned when the bomb went off. years by a branch of the family of Petley, and another Incredibly, the steamer silently backed away and disappeared into the night. the mansion itself, but vast heaps of rubbish and foundations, which cover near an acre of ground. The police revealed that the 40-year-old Decabral, from Pluckley, had had a long association with drugs, smuggling, and firearms, so the killing might have been linked to organised crime. By the end of the War, however, with Germany in ruins, Britain had a big lead in speed, as was demonstrated on November 7th, 1945. The high road from anno 1313, (fn. The two former sold their shares to Sir Two columns of flames seconds apart leapt 300 feet into the air, marking the spot where the 395-foot ship had lain moments before. After witnessing the 1857 Indian Mutiny, Allan Hume, the son of a Radical MP, came to the conclusion that Indians needed a forum to express discontent, especially concerning agrarian policy. Although Sandwichs population was already swollen by Dutch Protestant immigrants, poor Huguenot refugees were awarded 50 shillings by the authorities. De Burghs indomitability at Dover Castle tied up the invaders resources so seriously that Prince Louiss allies in the North were emphatically defeated at Lincoln. The ship was literally blown to pieces. The Battle of Otford was a battle fought in 776 between the Mercians, led by Offa of Mercia, and the Jutes of Kent.The battle took place at Otford, in the modern English county of Kent.. great and munificent, gave Otteford to the church of He permitted a formal inquiry by many of the top nobles in England, even including some Saxons. possessed by the Cobhams of Sterborough, which he After getting a degree at Sheffield University, she became an engineer, but an even better pilot. By the village pond, also a roundabout, there are pubs, cafes . Had the truth come out, the traitorous king might well have suffered the same fate as his father. The History and Topographical Survey of the County of Kent: Volume 3. 19). The impartial gentry of Kent presented a petition asking the Long Parliament to compromise with the King, particularly by renouncing its claim to controlling the militia. The first Navigation Act in 1651 aimed to hamper Dutch shipping, and inevitably stoked tensions. There was however a sting in the tail. After blustering about the Sword of Truth, he started a libel action. After leaving politics, he discovered God. The man with the noose was William Calcraft. of his son Charles Polhill, esq. He charged her with making it happen by witchcraft. pounds; what Richard de Tonbridge holds in his lowy is A man carrying a red warning-flag was positioned only 554 yards up the track, barely half the regulation distance, which was insufficient to allow the train to stop in time. His force at Maidstone amounted to 10,000 volunteers; but he made the mistake of sending the majority to defend other towns. daughter of Oliver Cromwell; he was one of the Kentish petitioners in king William III. Gillingham bus disaster: British Movietone, 1951. There was significant damage in Folkestone four miles away. join the river here. Six months later, he was killed in a training accident. That ship would be HMS Victory, and she would be built at Chatham. burst forth, where the well called from thence St. Thomas's Well, now is, which afterwards plentifully supplied Though 200 men battled frantically to put it out, the flames spread to the building, so all were ordered out. Despite its record, production of the Meteor continued until 1955. Nevertheless, one story has survived of an encounter between Normans and Kentishmen, possibly near Swanscombe, when the invaders did not have things their own way. high steward appointed to preside over it, and it remained with the view of frank-pledge, and the courts This story of outstanding heroism travelled around the world. see, in the 4th year of the Conqueror's reign, anno Sandwich, which had been Englands biggest trading port outside London, never got over it. She strangely agreed to marry Jim Mollison eight hours after meeting him, but they did set aeronautic records together before getting divorced. Soon afterwards there is evidence that the powerful King Offa of Mercia was having an unprecedented say in Kents internal affairs. His father, a nephew of Lord Beaverbrook, was born in Canada, and his mother in Peshawar. Consequently, a wooden jetty was erected in 1824; but it was wrecked by a storm in 1851. Taking a steamboat down the Thames for a day out in Gravesend remained a great London tradition until 1911. The authorities laid on a grand finale, hoping for a big Christmas crowd. As Tsar Nicholas II was discovering in Russia, however, liberality may serve as an incentive to revolt. The Battle of Brentford was fought in 1016 some time between 9 May (the approximate date Canute landed at Greenwich) and 18 October (the date of the later Battle of Assandun) between the English led by Edmund Ironside and the Danes led by Cnut. The Black Death of 1348 killed half the population of England. Its founder was Eadbald, King of Kent, and son of King Aethelberht I and Queen Bertha. The two ended up merging in 1981, running services out of Dover, whereupon the Ramsgate hoverport ceased operating. of Shoreham, by whom he had (fn. 9) but this afterwards the term of thirty years, which lease was renewed Though earthquake damage was worst in Northern France and Flanders, the tremors rendered Saltwood Castle uninhabitable, while in London two children were killed by falling stones. John (alias William) Nevison is barely remembered today, but was a scourge in his time and certainly did not lack ingenuity. A century earlier, Henry VIII had introduced a more liberal Witchcraft Act that redefined the offence as criminal, not religious, and outlawed burning as the punishment. Although the Castle fell, Matildas forces eventually engaged Stephen in 1141 at Lincoln, where he was captured; but popular resistance to her accession barred her from formally becoming monarch. Perhaps mercifully, it was never established who set off the fire too soon. Of the 26 buildings destroyed along with their contents, three were warehouses, four pubs, and 19 houses and shops. [8] This army pursued Cnut into Kent where Eadric forsook Cnut, and from where Cnut crossed the Thames into Essex and began raiding Mercia. He married a string of women at least nine to extract money from them, whatever it took. It was while teaching at Charterhouse School that he discovered he could make a charge migrate along a stick. After they had lodged for three days at Rochester, the lad led him astray, hit him over the head, cut his throat, robbed him, and disappeared. There was much wisdom after the event, with pundits especially blaming insufficient testing. (fn. There 11) As if the 1929 Gillingham Park fire disaster had not been enough, the town suffered another such calamity in 1951. Memorials for Bostock and Brasiers; a memorial on the south The Prince of Wales, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Rudyard Kipling all came to see it, and HG Wells based a sci-fi story on it; yet Maxim abruptly abandoned the project. 10s. As a political entity, it made slow progress until, in 1924, Even before its first pit was operational, the, Following the Indian Mutiny of 1857, Great Britain took over administration of the subcontinent from the East India Company and appointed a viceroy. Kent, with its long coastline and position between France and London, was the C18 Chicago. (fn. All were taken to the depot, where a multi-national gang armed with AK-47s was waiting. Sadly, Rolls was killed a month later when a control cable on his aeroplane broke, making him the first British aviator to die. They had left it late in the film production season; so, after spending a week on location in Devon, they turned to West Malling aerodrome to get the rest shot. Amid foul weather and poor visibility, the pilot attempted an emergency landing near Aldington, but hit a barn; he and two of the 13 passengers died. ONE OF THE FAMILY OF POLHILL gave by will, 20s. Donald Maclean was part of the Cambridge University tradition of serving ones country by working for a hostile foreign power. The rebels were met halfway by Audley, who took over command. On the keeper of the records in the Tower, in 1754, t. The Gardens were originally targeted at the gentry, but thrived when the price was dropped and the offering moved downmarket. Of the millions of hours of film ever made, the very first, in 1878, was Eadweard Muybridges short loop showing a horse galloping. [6] Edmund returned to London where Aethelred died on 23 April. Kent-born, Although the North-West of Europe is not normally associated with newsworthy seismic activity, an area of instability does exist to the east of Kent. It was late owing to a pea-souper, and at 6.20 pm was waiting at a red light near St Johns, only five miles out. Otford is a village and civil parish in the Sevenoaks District of Kent, England. The high stewardship of the honour of Otford has When Christopher Cockerells SR.N1 hovercraft first crossed the English Channel on July 25th, 1959, it was hailed as further proof of British invention leading the world. The name was not altogether propitious the last Victory had gone down with all hands but it seemed appropriate in 1759, when the world fell at Britains feet. Somehow or other, baby Mary had survived. whose son, Sir Charles Farnaby Radcliffe, bart. The first two likewise fled overseas, while the others death sentences were commuted to life imprisonment. Location within Kent. The owners of the Shakespeare Colliery at Dover had paid over the odds to attract experienced miners from far afield, but invested nothing in pumps. King John abandoned the county to its fate, and Louis marched unopposed to the capital. On the beach, he had their hands, noses and ears cut off. of Canterbury, and continued so till the same was 16). The Polhills afterwards became owners of this On May 21st, 1382, it was the epicentre of an earthquake that caused structural damage as far away as London. It prompted the German governments prolonged reluctance to invest in new warships. 349 men died; just one stoker survived. September 1967 was a watershed for the Beatles. Three rebels were arrested and executed. It was the highest ever death toll in Britain in the illegal-immigration industry. 1727. In its consequences, it was like Waterloo and Trafalgar combined. He had in mind a full-scale invasion. Six weeks later, the only other Blriot 155 in existence was carrying seven passengers on the same route. Aethelred was forced to flee to Normandy. What followed was something of a replay of 1381: a march on London, initial military successes and revolutionary justice, followed however by a lack of self-restraint that alienated the locals. . Saturday, August 7th, 1655 did not start well for widower Sir George Sondes of Lees Court in Sheldwich. On their release, the Kent five were banqueted in London, and hailed as heroes back in Maidstone. On May 25th, 1951, he met Burgess for a birthday celebration at his home at Tatsfield, near Westerham. He was executed at Penenden Heath on August 15th and buried at Bearsted, while old Sondes found himself heirless. in his last year, It was doubly auspicious that the locals should have won it. It only recovered when the growth of the Royal Dockyard added so much to the value of the Hospitals lands that the Crown even tried to sequestrate them. sixty acres of land, in trust, to be sold for the benefit Her life ended tragically. On April 23rd, 1918, Dover was the start and end point of one of the few memorable missions of WW1 outside the Western Front. the manor of Le Rye, in Otford, in the second year After the RAFs destructive and demoralising raid on Lbeck in March 1942, Hitler decided on a change of tactics. Two weeks after the Lumires staged their first commercial screening late in December 1895, he organised his own demonstration in London. They then overshot Calais and landed in a forest, where their achievement has a memorial. Despite the jet engine having been invented in England by Frank Whittle, Germany led the way in making jet fighters operational, its Me 262 claiming over 500 Allied aircraft. They eventually turned on him and sought to take possession of Kent. In July 1967, the crew of Folkestone Salvage attempted to retrieve the munitions on board. The Dutch admiral Michiel de Ruyter led a daring mission up the Medway, first capturing the unsuspecting defences at Sheerness and then jumping the Gillingham Chain that was supposed to bar entry to Chatham Dockyard. It was a false alarm, as the Elbe refloated. The fire service was unable to make much difference because the tide was out and there was no other water source. The Northfleet was a frigate, actually built in Northfleet, that on January 13th, 1873 set sail from Gravesend for Hobart in Tasmania with 34 crew, 342 emigrants, and four others on board. That historic event prompted the London-based American Birt Acres to create his own movies during the summer and autumn. Claude Ridley, flying from Joyce Green near Dartford, intercepted Zeppelin L15 and fired off a few rounds from a distance. In July 1216, he headed back east to remedy the omission. He equipped that ship, the East Goodwin Lightship, for radioing the South Foreland Lighthouse, which was instantly in touch with the Ramsgate lifeboat. (fn. The inquiry pinpointed five contributory factors. December 1703 saw the most destructive storm in English history. The 5 oclock service to Deal set off from Cannon Street with the usual load of commuters. the wall, ornamented with Gothic carved work, but the inscription is lost. at this place, made a great slaughter of them; after The US Secretary of State Cyrus Vance had called the meeting more in hope than expectation; yet it went off amiably enough and, incredibly, Egypt and Israel signed the historic Camp David Accords in Maryland seven weeks later. She somehow ended up ramming the Grosser Kurfrst, which sank in eight minutes. Edmunds sent parcels of chocolates to notable people, including the doctors unfortunate wife. In its crudest version, the invaders were chased out of Kent by a mob bearing staves. So dominant were North Kents shipbuilding yards, and for so long, that Dovers once thriving industry is usually overlooked. The barracks subsequently moved elsewhere, and the pub today is a haunt of football fans. There were three explosions so tremendous that they were heard in France, and windows were shattered in Southend. battle of otford 1016. battle of otford 1016. When the Queen persisted after predictably being refused entry, Margaret got her archers to fire on the royal party. Though witches are associated with the Middle Ages, settling scores with an allegation of witchcraft was still commonplace in the C17; and East Kent was a hotspot of indictments. On the narrow bridge, one of the horses spooked, causing a wheel to crash through the balustrade. It was derailed, and 50 people were injured, 10 of them fatally. Marching from Dover to London in October 1215, King John found his path blocked by Rochester Castle, which controlled the river crossing. Wishing to experiment further, he involved his friend Reverend Granville Wheler while visiting Otterden Place in June 1729. and the manor of Otford Stuyens, alias Sergeants Otford, with the chapel of Otford annexed to the parsonage of Shoreham, and all other his estates in Otford, 30th year of his reign; (fn. In 1015 Eadric killed Sigeferth and Morcar, the chief thanes of the Five Boroughs of the Danelaw, for unknown reasons, but it would seem that this prompted Edmund Ironside, Aethelred's eldest surviving son, to act to counter Eadric's growing influence. The calamity on July 11th, 1927 at the Gillingham charity fair was as harrowing as can be imagined, even in a nightmare. The encounter was all perfectly civilised. 17) all which were granted in the 1st and of Otford, he died 1719, Canterbury; (fn. Being heavily laden there were 340 tons of iron rails and 240 tons of other equipment on board the Northfleet sank within 30 minutes, before any nearby ships were even aware she had a problem. Otford, by Elizabeth, daughter of Henry Ireton, by Bridget, In March 1642, with hostilities looming, an initiative arose from Maidstone Assizes. On January 24, 1809, they found themselves together in the Downs off Deal, ready to make their way to Madras.

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