pannage for a herd of hogs in the forest of Andred. "Possessio quedam est terre in regione que uocatur Cert, monasterii scilicet beatorum Petri et Pauli apostolorum, quod situm est (ad) orientem civitatis Dorouernis. In hac autem terra habetur molina, cuius quippe semis utilitas, id est dimidia pars molendinæ, a possessoribus prefati monasterii ac terre hums ad uillam regalem que uocatur Uuyth tradita est; pro hac uidelicet conditione at que commutatione, ut homo ille qui hanc terrain, in qua molina est, tributario iure tenet, unius gregis porcorum pascuam atque pastinationem in saltu Andoredo iugiter haberet." (Cod. Dipl. I, 132.) To which of the Charts this charter may apply is uncertain, but apparently the royal ville can be no other than Wye, of which the name is spelled Wy in (D. B.)
Great Chart.—Brasses: Will. Sharpe and five wives, 1499; Tho. Twisden and wife; man praying. (Hasted.) See Godeselle, below.
66. Chart, Little.—A church of chancel, nave, north aisle (the private chapel of the Darell family, whose seat, Cale Hill, stands in this parish), south porch, and square west tower with battlements and stair turret, similar to so many others of Mid-Kent. There are E.E., Dec., Perp., and some late Perp. portions. The windows contain many small remains of coloured glass. In the Darell chapel are a Perp. screen, and an alabaster effigy of a knight in armour, with a collar of SSS. Here, as in numerous other instances, the nave and chancel are older than the tower, which last and the porch seem of the same date. The east end of the chancel has been rebuilt.
67. Chart, next Sutton.—"Ibi tres arpendi vinese, et parcus silvaticus bestiarum. There are three arpents of vineyard, and a park of wild animals." (D.B.)
68. Chartham.—(Val. Eccl.), "Ecclia de Chartham cum capella de Horton;" i.e., Horton Parva, now desecrated. See the Note there. The church is described as large and handsome, with transepts, and a tower at the west end. It contains the brass of a Septvans in armour and cross-legged. (Hasted.) This figure is noticed by Mr. Boutell (in his Monumental Brasses and Slabs, Lond. 1847, 33, 34, 43.) Rickman pronounces this "a very curious church, of early Dec. character, with very fine windows, of singular and beautiful design," &c. Chartham was given to Christ's Church (the cathedral), Canterbury, by Alfred, a nobleman, about A.D. 970. (Lambarde.)
69. Chatham.—The present parish church of Chatham is a
