HARRIETSHAM, a parish in the hundred of EYHORNE,
lathe of AYLESFORD, county of KENT, 7 miles
(E. by S.) from Maidstone, containing 707 inhabitants.
The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry and diocese
of Canterbury, rated in the king's books -at £11. 10..
and in the patronage of the Warden and Fellows of Ail
Souls College; Oxford. The church, dedicated to St.
John the Baptist, is principally in the early style of.
English "architecture. A fair for cattle, pedlary, and
toys, is held on the 5th of July. Almshouses for six
poor persons of Harrietsham, and six decayed members
of the FishmongersCompany, were founded in 1642, by
Mr. Mark Quested, citizen and fishmonger of London.
Sir Charles Booth, in 1792, bequeathed certain stock,
now producing upwards of £ 67 a year, for the support
of a schoolmaster and a schoolmistress, who .teach
thirty-five boys and twenty-six girls on the Madras
system.