THROWLEY, a parish in the hundred of FAVERSHAM,
lathe of SCRAY, county of KENT, 4 miles (S.
S.W.) from Faversham, containing 607 inhabitants. The
living is a vicarage, in the archdeaconry and diocese of
Canterbury, rated in the king's books at £7.11. 8.,
and in the patronage of the Prebendary of Rugmere
in the Cathedral Church of St. Paul's, London. The
church is dedicated to St. Mary. Sir Thomas Sondes,
in 1592, endowed a free school for educating fourteen
boys. There are also three almshouses, founded by the
same family. The vicarage-house occupies the site of
a priory, founded as a cell to the abbey of St. Bertin,
at St. Omers in Artois, and granted, in the 22nd of
Henry VI., to the abbey of Sion.