NICHOLAS-at-WADE (ST.), a parish in the hundred
of RINGSLOW, or Isle of THANET, lathe of ST-AUGUSTINE,
county of KENT, 6 miles (W. S. W.) from
Margate, containing 590 inhabitants. The living is a
vicarage, in the peculiar jurisdiction and patronage of
the Archbishop of Canterbury, rated in the king's books
at £ 15. 19. 7., and endowed with £200 parliamentary
grant. Thomas Paramore, in 1636, gave a house and
land, also a rent-charge of £6, in support of a schoolmaster,
who, by the further aid of the parishioners,
instructs about forty-two children.