LYDSING, (Kent) near Gravesend, bel. formerly to the priory of Rochester; but at the Diss. K. Hen. VIII. gave it to the D.
and C. Here it was that Mr. Lambard says 600 Norman young gentlemen, who came over with the young Princes Alfred and
Edward, the sons of K. Ethelred, after the death of the Danish K. Canute, to take possession of their father's throne,
were massacred by Godwin Earl of Kent, who fought thereby to secure it to himself and his family. Here is a chapel of ease
to Gillingham.