TABLE OF CONTENTS
THE KENTISH POLHILLS
an account of an Old Kentish Family with some notes on the Senior Lineby
R. G. BENNETT
Companion: Order of the Bath Associates, Royal Historical Society.
PRIVATE CIRCULATION
for THE OTFORD & DISTRICT HISTORICAL SOCIETY
October. 15th. 1958
DEDICATED with kind permission to ELIZABETH MARY POLHILL-DRABBLE gracious lady, of Sundridge, Sevenoaks, last in the direct Kentish line of the ancient family of POLHILL, and descendant of HAMPDEN, CROMWELL and IRETON; without whose encouragement the research
would not have been undertaken.
"When to the sessions of sweet silent thought
I summon up remembrance of things past
I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought."
William Shakespeare. Sonnet No. 30
Six copies.
Kent County Archives, Maidstone.
Sevenoaks Public Library.
Major C.R.Polhill-Drabble,M.C.of Sundrige.
Mr. A.V.Polhill, of Palmers Green, Mx.
The Otford and District Historical Society
The Author.
THE KENTISH POLHILLS
TABLE OF CONTENTS
By R. G. Bennett October 15, 1958
| I. The Kentish Polhills | 1 |
| A. Detling | 2 |
| B. Leigh (Tonbridge) | 4 |
| C. Cornwall | 5 |
| D. Great Buckland Manor | 6 |
| E. Shoreham, Kent (Preston and Shoreham Castle) | 7 |
| F. The Senior Line | 8 |
| G. The Kentish Lines | 10 |
| H. The Shoreham Lines | 10 |
| I. Ightham - The Multons | 12 |
| J. Tonbridge | 14 |
| K. Maidstone | 15 |
| II. Otford (Broughton Manor) | 18 |
| A. John, The Landlord | 19 |
| B. John's Children | 21 |
| C. David II, The Lawyer | 23 |
| D. The Sons of David II | 27 |
| E. David III and Thomas (Chipstead Place) | 29 |
| F. David IV, the Politican | 31 |
| G. The Petition to Parliment | 33 |
| H. Charles (Chipstead) | 39 |
| I. George (Sunbridge) | 42 |
| J. Charles II (Sunbridge and King's Lynn) | 44 |
| III. The Polhills and the Church | 46 |
| IV. The Polhills and the Army | 52 |
| V. The Polhills and the Navy | 54 |
| VI. The Polhills in Parliment | 55 |
| A. David Polhill | 55 |
| B. Nathaniel Polhill | 58 |
| C. Frederick Polhill | 59 |
| D. Frederick Charles Polhill-Turner | 61 |
| VII. The Polhills and the Medical Profession | 62 |
| VIII.Some Notes on the Polhill Senior Line | 63 |
| A. Burwash, Sussex | 65 |
| B. Southwark | 69 |
| C. Bedford (Howbury Park and Hall) | 69 |
| D. The Brothers of Captain John Polhill | 72 |
| E. The Present Succession | 72 |
| Acknowledgements | A |
| Will of Thomas Polley (December 21, 1528) | B1 |
| Will of Edmond Polhill | B2 |
| Will of William Polhill | B3 |
| Will of Richard Polhill | B4 |
| Will of John Polhill | B5 |
| Will of Abraham Polhill | B6 |
| Will of Alice Polhill | B7 |
| Will of Elizabeth Polhill | B8 |
| Will of Richard Polhill | B9 |
| Will of Charles Polhill | B10 |
| Will of George Polhill | B11 |
| Tribute to David Polhill, the Petitioner | C |
| The Woodgates | D |
| BBC - Town and Country Magazine (1958) | E |
| Genealogical Tree of the Polhill Family (download image) | F |
TABLE OF CONTENTS
BOOK # 2
By R. G. Bennett THE KENTISH POLHILLS
SUPPLEMENTARY PAPERS, WRITTEN AFTER THE ORIGINAL
STORY OF 15th. OCTOBER, 1958
| A. The Kentish Polhills-Amendments to Appendix F, Book 1 |
| 1. CHIPSTEAD PLACE. survey of 1827. |
| Shoreham Parish tithes. |
| 2. THE POLHILLS OF HORTON KIRBY. |
| 'The genuine history of Gill Smith'. |
| 3. DUKE OF NEWCASTLE PAPERS |
| various letters by Polhills. |
| 4. CHANCERY SUIT of 1582 |
| Polhill v Polhill |
| 5. WILL OF DAVID POLHILL 1662. |
| 6. POLHILL v GRIFFITHS |
| re decay of a Manor House. |
| 7. INQUISITION POST MORTEM on DAVID POLHILL. 1578. |
| 8. INQUISITION POST MORTEM on JOHN POLHILL. 1588. |
| 9. INQUISITION POST MORTEM on THOMAS POLHILL. 1589. |
| 10. ONE OF DAVID POLHILL'S EARLY CASES. 1698. |
| 11. INQUISITION POST MORTEM on JOHN POLHILL, Junior, 1529. |
| 12. Appointment of DAVID POLHILL as KEEPER OF RECORDS |
| in the TOWER of LONDON. 1731-1754. |
| 13. WILLIAM POLHILL, 'poarcher' of Dartford. 1785. |
| 14. POLHILL v OLIVER. Re Woodlands at Luddesdown. |
| 15. THE RED BOOK OF THE EXCHEQUER and THE POLHILL ESTATES. |
| 16. INQUISITION POST MORTEM of JOHN POLHILL, 1613. |
| 17. BROUGHTON MANOR OTFORD |
| 18. THE POLHILL-BUCKLAND CHAPEL |
PHOTOGRAPHS included with this typewritten
account of the story of KENTISH POLHILLS.
*Portraits in possession of the Family at Sundridge.