HARTLIP, a parish in the hundred of MILTON, lathe
of SCRAY, county of KENT, .6 miles (E.S.E.) from
Chatham, containing 300 inhabitants. The living is a
vicarage, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Canterbury,
rated in the king's books at £9. 10. 10., and in the patronage
of the Dean and Chapter of Rochester. The
"church is dedicated to St. Michael. Mrs. Mary Gibbon, in
1678, bequeathed certain premises, now let for £52. 13.
per annum, which, except £1 paid to the vicar, is
given to a schoolmaster for teaching sixty children of
this and the adjoining parishes; the master resides in
a house, the gift of an individual unknown, duendffwn,
a long tract of land on the north side of the parish,
has been for many years a noted rabbit warren.
In Lower-Danefield, about a mile from the church, are
the remains of a large subterranean building/ the
rooms and passages of which are rudely constructed,
and contain a great quantity of Roman tiles. Other
foundations have been also discovered in the contiguous
grounds.