ALDINGTON, (Kent) near Limme, is the place where the officers belonging to Romney-Marsh, and its manors, are yearly
elected. The A. Bs. of Canterbury had a seat here once, and a deer-park; but K. Hen. VIII. obliged A. B. Cranmer to grant
it to him; and K. Cha. I. gave the manor-house and farm-lands thereto belonging, to be held of his manor of East-Greenwich
in free-soccage. Since St. Leonard's church at Hurst fell to ruin, the Inh. come to this ch. at Aldington, which, in the
time of Hen. VIII. had two parsons bel. to it of a very different character, viz. the learned Erasmus of Rotterdam, and
the infamous Richd. Master, who adher'd to the imposter of this p. Eliz. Barton, called the Holy-Maid of Kent, and who,
with others in her conspiracy, was executed at Tyburn.