HOTHFIELD, a parish in the hundred of CHART-and-LONGBRIDGE,
lathe of SCRAY, county of KENT,
3i miles (W. N. W.) from Ashford, containing 438 inhabitants.
The living is a rectory, in the archdeaconry
and diocese of Canterbury, rated in ihe king's books
at £17. 5., and in the patronage of the Earl of Thanet.
The church is dedicated to St. Mary. A school for girls
was endowed, in 1720, by Thomas, Earl of Thanet, and
his Countess, with a rent-charge of £ 15 per annum,
for a schoolmistress, and a tenement for her residence;
likewise with £100 in the four per cents.: twelve boys
and twelve girls are taught gratuitously. In this parish
is "Jack Cade's field," said to have been the
hiding-place of that rebel in the reign of Henry VI.,
whence he was dragged to execution by Alexander Iden,
Esq., sheriff of Kent.