LECTURE NOTES ON HYTHE.

ERWOOD, F.C. ELLISTON.

Published by [No date but c.1959-63], 1959

About this Item

Manuscript ruled exercise book, with press cuttings and insertions. 4to. 7 x 9 inches. 66 leaves, of which 36 are blank (one page removed and one inserted with the genealogy of Brockhill family); [60] pp. text in blue ink and pencil, with passages in black ink and red ball point. Book has been used at both ends by inverting it. Bound in stiff boards, marbled red and black. All edges marbled. Press cutting of 1959 on Cinque Ports mayors pasted on front pastedown and printed notice of history lectures on Hythe, 1959-60, on rear pastedown. Insertions: [12] pp. manuscript, mostly on Tournay family; single sheet of pencil notes on Tournays; press cutting on link with Eye, Suffolk and typescript letter of 1963 from General Secretary of Kent Archaeological Society, Lt.-Col. Meates to Elliston Erwood, regarding his election as Chairman of Council. These notes were probably assembled for the 1959-60 lectures by Frank Charles Elliston Erwood (1883-1968). From his home area of Shooter's Hill, his interests extended outward to South East London in general and eventually included all the turnpike roads of Kent, on which he became an authority. After the second world war he served as honorary curator and archivist of Hythe Corporation, the content of this notebook relating to that period. More details of his life and career may be found in Archaeologia Cantiana, Vol. LXXIV, 1969. Erwood's notes contain Extracts from the Hythe Session and Assembly Books, a list of licensed houses, 1695-1711 and covers topics such as the Tournay family (who furnished many mayors and town clerks in the eighteenth century and beyond), the town's water supply, the town's link with Yarmouth, the Dover Road, Royalists and Parliamentarians (in the 1640s) and the anti-invasion construction work of 1806-08. KENT HYTHE KENT - EAST KENT HISTORY CINQUE PORTS KENT. Seller Inventory # 21064

Bibliographic Details

Title: LECTURE NOTES ON HYTHE.

Publisher: [No date but c.1959-63]

Publication Date: 1959