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A series of chancery records in the first half of the seventeenth century chart the financial problems of the [[MRP: Dallison family|Dallison family]] as it struggled with the lease on the Bishops Palace and associated lands. The Palace and lands were held by lease from the Bishop of Rochester. | A series of chancery records in the first half of the seventeenth century chart the financial problems of the [[MRP: Dallison family|Dallison family]] as it struggled with the lease on the Bishops Palace and associated lands. The Palace and lands were held by lease from the Bishop of Rochester. | ||
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Revision as of 16:59, August 26, 2011
Dallison family house, Bishops place or palace, Halling, Kent
The Bishop's Palace or Place lay in the centre of the village of Halling off what is now called Ferry Road. It bordered the northern bank of the River Medway, and overlooked marshes to the south. Presumably a ferry plied linked the two banks of the Medway at this point, since the modern river is particularly narrow at this point, as it turns with a sharp kink on the way from Snodland towards Chatham and Rochester.
A series of chancery records in the first half of the seventeenth century chart the financial problems of the Dallison family as it struggled with the lease on the Bishops Palace and associated lands. The Palace and lands were held by lease from the Bishop of Rochester.
See [- Map of North Weald Houses]
Sources
C 2/Eliz/D1/45, C 2/Eliz/D2/45, C 2/Eliz/D5/59, C 2/Eliz/D6/57, C 9/49/48
Letter from Henry Oxinden (?of Barham) to John Warner, Bishop of Rochester, April 17th 1643, MS. 28,000, f. 243, printed in Dorothy Gardiner, The Oxinden and Peyton Letters, 1642-1670, being the Correspondence of Henry Oxinden of Barham, Sir Thomas Peyton of Knowlton and Their Circle (London, 1947), pp. 14-15
