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MASTERS

Here lyeth interred ye body of Mrs. Ann MASTERS wido of Edward MASTERS Esq. late of this parish and only daughter of John NOWERS of Ashford Gen. She departed this lfe January ye 12th 1715/6 aged 73 yeares. (Masters Arms)

 

Helburgh - "..whose son Mr. Thomas Contry, almost in our memory, cast it by sale into the possession of Sir Edward Masters of Canterbury, whose son Richard Masters, Esquire, is entituled to the instant possession of it.

 

Shottlesfield is a manor, "..sold it to Bing, who, before the end of that reign, passed it away to Mr. John Masters, of Sandwich from whom it descended to Sir Edward Masters of Canterbury, who at his decease, soon after the death of Charles I, gave it to his second son, then LL.D. from whose heirs it was alienated to Hetherington, whose last surviving son the Rev. William Hetherington, of North Cray place, died possessed of it unmarried in 1778...."

 

A lease in the Essex Archives - August 25, 1648 "Edward Masters of Canterbury, gent., John ickens of W.Ham, gent. John benthall and Ann, his wife. Messuages and lands, Grays Thurck

 

In St. Michael's Chapel, Canterbury Cathedral

"Memoriae S. Edoardi Master equitis aurati primogeniti Jacobi Master de East Langdon prope Doroberniam in agro Cantiensi Arm. qui uxorem duxit Etheldredam Streynsham filiam natu maximam et cohaeredum alteram Roberti Streynsham de Ospring in eodem agro arm. cum hac quindena prole auctus quadraginta sex annos foeliciter convixit. ob. 3. Aug. 1648 aet.suae 74"

Above the inscription are two shields; on the dexter are represented the Master arms. The second shield bears the same arms, and on escocheon of pretence the arms of Streynsham and Wightman quarterly.

*Burials Jan. 17, 1757. Mrs. Margaret MASTER, wife of the Revd Streynsham MASTER, A.M., Rector of Crosten.

Burials March 23, 1759. Streynsham MASTER, A.M., Rector

 

Masters Baptisms, Marriages, Deaths in the Ospringe Register from 1604

Maidstone Assizes, 27 July 1686 - Justices of Peace - one of them is Sir Edward MASTERS

1661 List of the House of Commons, 13 Charles II. - Canterbury - Sir Edward Masters, Thomas Lovelace

 

Book - "Some Notices of the Family of Master, of east Langdon and Yotes in Kent, New Hall and Croston in Lancashire, and Barrow Green in Surrey." by Rev. George Streynsham Master, M.A., rector of West Dean in the County of Wilts. printed 1874

 

Canterbury Cathedral

Marriage June 24, 1644, Thomas MASTERS married Margaret Balden, by license

Marriage May 5, 1652, Edward MASTERS married An'e SIMONS

Burial August 11, 1648 Sir Edward MASTERS

 

 

 

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