UPBERRY, (Kent) a manor of Gillingham, which bel. formerly to the nunnery in the Isle of Sheppey; but after the Diss. Hen. VIII. granted it to Sir Tho. Cheyney; whose son, Sir Henry, sold it in the R. of Eliz. to Dr. Newell, Dean of St. Paul's, who left it by will to Brazen-Nose-Coll. Oxford, on condition that the lessee of the college, should always be one of his relations, and pay 100 marks a year rent for it. The tenant not very long ago was Col. Thomas Blunt, and since Mr. John Simpson of Southwark.