MALLING (EAST), a parish in the hundred of
LARKFIELD, lathe of AYLESFORD, county of KENT, 4
miles (W.N.W.) from Maidstone, containing 1403 inhabitants.
The living is a vicarage, in the peculiar jurisdiction
of the Archbishop of Canterbury, rated in the
king's books at £10. 8. 4., and in the patronage of Sir
J. Twisden, Bart. The church, dedicated to St. James,
is a handsome structure, with a square western tower.
A fair for pedlary is held on August 6th. James Tomlyn,
in 1752, bequeathed a rent-charge of £5, for teach-
in poor children; and the Rev.Edward Holme, in 1781,
erected, and endowed with lands, a school, in which
about fifty children are educated.