TENTERDEN, (Kent) by the r. Rother, 6 m. E. of Cranbrook, 50 cm. 60 mm. from London, remarkable for its lofty steeple,
which had a beacon set upon it, in the R. of Q. Eliz. at the time of the alarm of the Spanish invasion, is an ancient Bor.
incorporated first by the name of the Barons of the T. and H. and then by that of bailiff and commonalty, by a charter of
Henry VI. and lastly by a mayor and jurats, in the R. of Eliz. of whom the former is chosen May 29. Here is a grammar fr.
sc. that was founded by Mr. Hayman, the ancestor of Sir Peter; and the T. was formerly noted for a mf. of cloth. Its Mt.
is F. Fair Ap. 25. This is a member of Rye, to which it was annexed in the R. of Hen. VI. See Goodwin-Sands.