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time partially hauling up their dredges and lowering them 

 again after passing over it. The Essex men, following on 

 what they supposed must be a profitable course, unconscious 

 of any danger, left their dredges down, and left they were 

 permanently, being entangled hard and fast in the wreck. 

 The only consolation to the Essex crew was to shout out a 

 promise to keep a treat in store for the Whitstable smack if 

 she ever paid a visit to the opposite shore. 



The Hundred of Whitstable, which in- 



Hundred of c i u( j es the parishes of Whitstable, Swale- 

 Whitstable. ,. 



clifte and Blean, is mentioned in Doomsday 



Book, and is there written Witenestaple, and also 

 Witestaple. The Manor of Whitstable, though called 

 in some ancient records the Manor of Northwood 

 alias Whitstaple, seems to have lost its first alternative 

 name, though there are about 250 acres in the 

 adjoining parish of Herne, known by the name of 

 "Northwood." The Manor, together with the Hundred 

 and the Church of Whitstable appendant to the Manor, 

 formed, in very early times, part of the possessions of 

 the owners of the Barony of Chilham, being included 

 among lands granted by William the Conqueror to Fulbert, 

 under an arrangement for the defence of Dover Castle. 



In the 23rd year of Queen Elizabeth, 



Manor of Thomas Heneage, with the royal license, 



alienated the Manor of Whitstable, and ten 



messuages in Whitstable, to Thomas Smith of Westenhanger, 



whose arms may be seen on the font cover in the present 



church. His grandson was, in 1628, created Viscount 



Strangford of Ireland, and in 1709 the Manor passed to 



Henry Roper, Lord Teynham, who had married a daughter 



of the grandson of the above-named Viscount Strangford. 



