SEAL, (Kent) 2 m. N. of Sevenoke, whose liberty claims here, as the Duchy of Lancaster does over the manor. Its Ch. was
once a chapel to Kemsing. In the R. of Hen. IV. the manor came into the possession of the family of Fiennes; whose
descendant, James, was summoned to Pt, in the 25th of Hen. VI. as baron of Say and Seal. In the R. of Edw. IV. William Ld.
Say sold it to Geoffery Boleyn, grandfather to Sir Thomas; and it passed in right of Q. Anne of Boleyn to her daughter Q.
Eliz. who granted it to her kinsman, Hen. Gary; whose grandson, the E. of Dover, sold it to Rich. Sackville, E. of Dorset;
and he to Rich. Smith, commonly called Dog Smith, who bequeathed it to St. Thomas's-Hos. in Southwark.