DOWN, a parish in the hundred of RUXLEY, lathe
of BUTTON at HONE, county of KENT, 6 miles (S.S.E.)
from Bromley, containing 340 inhabitants. The living
is a perpetual curacy, annexed to the vicarage of Orpington,
in the peculiar jurisdiction of the Archbishop
of Canterbury. The church contains various sepulchral
memorials of the Petlees, lords of the manor from Edward
III. to Henry VIII., whose once sumptuous mansion
has been converted into a farm-house. There is a
place of worship for Baptists. George Phillips, Esq., in
1771, bequeathed £100, the interest of which is paid to
a schoolmistress for teaching eight children.