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Herne, a parish in the hundred of Bleangate, lathe
of St Augustine, county of Kent, 5¾ miles NNE of Canterbury,
containing 1675 inhabitants. The living is a vicarage, in the peculiar
jurisdiction
and patronage of the Archbishop of Canterbury, rated in the king's
books at £20. 16. 3. The church, dedicated to St. Martin,
has a tower and other portions in the early style of English architecture,
with insertions in the later and decorated styles. There is a
place of worship for Independents and Wesleyan Methodists. In
the channel near the bay, numerous fragments of Roman earthenware
have been found, supposed to be the vestiges of a cargo of pottery
wrecked whilst the Romans were in Britain. At Herne Sheel is a
pleasure fair on Easter Monday. (Lewis)
Sciant p'sentes et futuri qd. ego Thomas
DANE de p'rochia de Herne in co'
Cantij dedi concessi & hac p'senti Carta mea confirmavi Thomas
BLIJSE et
Thomae QUEETE de predict p'rochia duas peceas terrae meae iacent
seperatim in
predict p'rochia in Burgo de Haghe data apud Herne predict. vicesimo
3o Die
Mensis Janu. Anno regni Regis Henrici sexti post conquestum Angliae
Vicesimo
tertio Hijs testibus Johanne NOTTINGHAM Johanne PERCIVALL Johanne
DOWNING
Jacobo HAMPTON, Willi'mo JOHNSON et multis alijs &c."
A rough translation of the above provided by Combs Researcher Joe Kendalll:
"I Thomas DANE of the Parish of Herne
in the county of Kent, by my charter i confirm unto Thomas BLISS
and Thomas QUEET of this parish two pieces of land of mine adjacent
and seperate in this parish in Burgo of Hage near Herne. 23 Jan
in the Reign of Henry the sixth after the conquest of England
in his reign the 23 year [ca 1445]. His witness John NOTTINGHAM,
John PERCIVALLO, John DOWNING, James HAMPTON, William JOHNSON
and many others."
