Lullingstone passed by marriage from the Peche family to the Hart family towards the end of the reign of Henry VIII, and in 1738 by marriage to the Dyke family of Sussex.
There is a brass to Sir William Peche, ob. 1487, and monuments to Sir John Peche, 31 Hen. VIII (Fig. 1657); Sir Percival Hart, ob. 1580 (Fig. 1658); Sir George Hart, ob. 1587; and Percival Hart, ob. 1738 (over whose monument are forty-four different shields of arms which he quartered in his own and his wife's right). MARGATE. (St. John.)
[Communicated by the Baron de Cosson.]
Helmet, Elizabethan, the visor, chin-piece, and gorget plate gilded. Tradition. Associated with the monument to Paul Cleybroke of Nash Court, ob. 1622, over which it hangs. It was formerly crested, a demi-swan with wings displayed ppr. holding in the beak a horse-*shoe or. (Cleybroke.) Cf. "N. and Q.," 6th series, vol. i, p. 466. MILTON REGIS. (Holy Trinity.)
[Communicated by Dr. G. C. Williamson, Hampstead.]
Helmet. One chancel of the church belonged to the manor of Northwood. Hasted says that there "were in the church . . . several crests, trophies and banners" of the Northwood and Norton families (vol. ii, p. 632 [2]). MONKS HORTON. (St. Peter.)
[Communicated by the Rev. S. K. Lockyear.]
Close helmet, Elizabethan, skull circa 1550, visor perhaps from an armet, with funerary mezeil and gorget plates, crested, a vambraced arm holding a pistol (Fig. 1659). Tradition. In the church are memorials to the families of Morris and Rooke. There is a hatchment of Morris. Arms. Arg. on a chevron engr. betw. three rooks sa., as many chessrooks of the first. (Rooke.) Crest. An arm embowed in armour ppr. garnished and holding in the gauntlet a pistol or, the arm environed with a trumpet arg.
Cf. "N. and Q.," 5th series, x, p. 130.
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Fig. 1658. Lullingstone
OTFORD. (St. Bartholomew.)
Close helmet, late Elizabethan, crested, out of a mural crown a hind's head (Fig. 1660).
Tradition. None, but there are several Polhill monuments in the church.
Crest. Out of a mural crown or, a hind's head ppr. betw. two acorn branches vert, fructed or. (Polhill.)
PEMBURY. (St. Peter.)
[Communicated with photograph by Colonel Mitchell.]
Close helmet, circa 1575-80 (all belonging), with spike (Fig. 1661).
Tradition. Associated with the Colepepper family. This helmet formerly rested on the Colepepper memorial now covered in under the floor of the chancel.
