BETSHANGER, (Kent) near Knowlton, was at the conquest the manor of Sir Robert Porch, afterwards that of the Marnay's
family. In the R. of Edw. III. it bel. to John de Soles, and in that of Richard II. to Bertram de Tenerey, whose
descendants sold it to Mr. Rutter, from whom it passed to Litchfield, and then to Thomas Cox, Esq; of Sandwich, who sold
it to Mr. Bois, in whose family it was lately, if it be not still.