BADLESMERE, (Kent) not far S. of Feversham, in the road to Wye, anciently bel. to a family who took their name and title
from it, one of whom, in the R. of Edward III. erected a mon. here. It went afterwards, by marriage, to the Veres, Es. of
Oxford. K. Hen. VIII. gave it to Sir Robert Southwell, who sold it to Sir Anthony Aucher; after which it passed, by
marriage to Sir Humphry Gilbert, who sold it to Sir Michael Sands, in whose family it was not long ago, if it be not now.