COWLING, (Kent) on the S. E. side of Cliff, below Gravesend, had a castle erected, by grant of Rich. II. by John Ld.
Cobham, Ld. of the adjacent territories; which came from his posterity, by the heir-female, to the Brookes, made also Ld.
Cobham on her account, in whose family it was not very long since.