POSTLING, a parish in the hundred of HAYNE,
lathe of SHEPWAY, county of KENT, 3 miles (N. by W.)
from Hythe, containing 175 inhabitants. The living is
a vicarage, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Canterbury,
rated in the king's books at £6. 8. If., and in
the patronage of the Archbishop of Canterbury. The
church is in the early style of English architecture; in
it is a stone bearing an inscription stating that it was
consecrated to the Virgin Mary, 19th Kal. Sept., St.
Eusebius' day. White Kennett, Bishop of Peterborough,
tutor to the Duke of Gloucester, and author of the
Roman Antiquities, &c., was vicar of this parish; he
died in 1714.