EASTWELL, a parish in the hundred of WYE,
lathe of SCRAY, county of KENT, 3 miles (N.) from
Ashford, containing 134 inhabitants. The living is a
discharged rectory, in the archdeaconry and diocese of
Canterbury, rated in the king's books at £9. 16. 8., and
in the patronage of the Earl of Winchelsea and Nottingham.
The church is an ancient structure, dedicated to
St. Mary. The register of this parish is said to have
contained the entry of the burial of Richard Plantagenet,
natural son to King Richard III., who, having fled
hither after the battle of Bosworth, was protected by Sir
Thomas Moyle, lord of the manor, and died in 1550, at
a small house erected by his permission, at the age of 81.