LYMING, (Kent) 2 m. S. of Elham, in the road to Hith, had a nunnery, the site of which was granted by K. Hen. VIII. to the
See of Canterbury; and upon the Abp's. exchange of it for another estate, the same K. granted it to Sir Anth. Aucher; in
whose family it continued till Sir Anthony sold it, in the last century, to Sir John Roberts of Canterbury.