MRP: Bishop's Palace - Revision history

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 ==Location==
-The Bishop's palace or place, also known as Halling Hall, lay in the centre of the village of Lower Halling off what is now called Ferry Road. It bordered the western bank of the River Medway, and overlooked the Wouldham marshes to the east and south. A ferry linked the two banks of the Medway at this point, where the modern river is particularly narrow, as it turns with a sharp kink on the way from Snodland towards Chatham, Strood and Rochester.
+The Bishop's palace or place, also known as Halling Hall, lay in the centre of the village of Lower Halling off what is now called Ferry Road. It bordered the western bank of the River Medway, and overlooked the Wouldham marshes to the east and south. A ferry linked the two banks of the Medway at this point, where the modern river is particularly narrow, as it turns with a sharp kink on the way from Snodland towards Chatham, Strood and Rochester.  The surrounding land was not of high quality, being largely marshland, and, at higher levels, of chalk
-The topographer William Ireland, published in 1830, commented on the unhealthy situation of Lower Halling in comparison with the nearby village of Upper Halling, which was built on higher ground half a mile further west.  He suggested that the place was rendered "far from healthy and pleasant" as a result of the quantity of salt and freshwater marshland which lay between the chalk uplands and the river Medway.<ref>This is the footnote text</ref>  The land was not of high quality, being largely of chalk.  Francis Grose, published in 1782, preferred the name Halling hall over the Bishop's palace, and was more positive about the location, noting that the name of Halling signifies in Saxon "the wholesome low place or meadow."  He stated that it was one of four houses belonging to the bishops of Rochester and was "pleasantly situated on the western banks of the river Medway, about three miles south of Rochester."<ref>This is the footnote text</ref>  The parish of Halling itself was a small parish, with Ireland reporting in 1821 only fifty dwellings and three hundred and forty-six inhabitants in the parish.<ref>This is the footnote text</ref>
+The topographer William Ireland, published in 1830, commented on the unhealthy situation of Lower Halling in comparison with the nearby village of Upper Halling, which was built on higher ground half a mile further west.  He suggested that the place was rendered "far from healthy and pleasant" as a result of the quantity of salt and freshwater marshland which lay between the chalk uplands and the river Medway.<ref>This is the footnote text</ref>
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 ==Building==
-It is clear that the buildings were in somewhat poor condition by the early seventeenth century, and that they deteriorated further in following century.  Several early seventeenth century Chancery documents comment on the poor condition of the buildings of the Bishop's palace.<ref>This is the footnote text</ref>  Ireland states that in 1715 "a great part of the ruins remained, viz. the chapel, the hall, and a gate, with the arms of the see of Rochester in stone; in which state the fabric continued till within memory, but has since been destroyed for the sake of the materials."<ref>This is the footnote text</ref>  He appears to be paraphrasing Harris' comments on the buildings, which were actually published in 1719 according to Grose.<ref>This is the footnote text</ref>  Grose published an engraving subsequently reproduced elsewhere, which he writes reflects the state of the buildings in 1759.<ref>This is the footnote text</ref>
+It is clear that the buildings were in somewhat poor condition by the early seventeenth century, and that they deteriorated further in following century.
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 ===Halling House, Kent, Grose, 1784 (reflecting 1759)===

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 [[File:ENGRAVING_Halling_Hall_Kent_Grose_1784.png|thumbnail|500px|none]]
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 ===Halling Hall, Kent, Lowry, 1786===
 Halling Hall, Kent, Lowry, 1786<ref>‘Halling House, Kent’, engraved by Lowry, published in ''Picturesque Views of the Antiquities of England & Wales'', 1786. Copper engraved print, good condition. Size 17.5 x 13.5 cms including title, plus margins.  Digital image is courtesy of http://antiqueprints.com</ref>
 [[File:ENGRAVING_Halling_Hall_Kent_Lowry_1786.jpg|thumbnail|500px|none]]
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 ===Halling Palace, East View, 1783===
 [[File:ENGRAVING_East_View_Halling_Palace_BetwP2P3_Thorpe_J_Biblio_Top_Britannica_VolV1Pt1_1783.png]]
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 ==Bishop's palace link to Dallison/Dalyson family==

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 ==To do==
 ==Location==

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 ==Suggested links==
 See [[MRP: House in St. John Street, Clerkenwell|House in St. John Street, Clerkenwell]]
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 ==Location==

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 Halling Hall, Kent, Lowry, 1786<ref>‘Halling House, Kent’, engraved by Lowry, published in ''Picturesque Views of the Antiquities of England & Wales'', 1786. Copper engraved print, good condition. Size 17.5 x 13.5 cms including title, plus margins.  Digital image is courtesy of http://antiqueprints.com</ref>
 [[File:ENGRAVING_Halling_Hall_Kent_Lowry_1786.jpg|thumbnail|500px|none]]
 ==Bishop's palace link to Dallison/Dalyson family==
 The Bishop's palace or Halling hall came into the Dalyson family through the marriage of the lawyer William Dalyson to Silvester Dene of Halling.  On the death of Silvester's father the lease came to William Dalyson.  William predeceased Silvester, who married again to a fellow lawyer, William Lambarde, known also for his early county history of Kent.  Lambarde resided in Halling until Silvester's death in 1587, when he returned to East Greenwich, and the lease then was transferred to her son, Maximilian, the future [[MRP: Sir Maximilian Dallison|Sir Maximilian Dallison]], father of [[MRP: William Dallison| Elizabeth's husband, William]].  Sir Maximilian resided at the Bishop's palace, as did William and Elizabeth, but on the marriage of their son, Maximilian, to Frances Stanley in 1649/50, Maximilian and his wife moved to [[MRP: The Hamptons| the Hamptons]], Kent, somewhat further west, having leased that property from Frances' father, Thomas Stanley.
 A series of chancery records in the first half of the seventeenth century chart the financial problems of the [[MRP: Dallison family|Dallison family]] as it struggled with the lease on the Bishops palace and associated lands. The palace and lands were held by lease from the Bishop of Rochester.

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-===Suggested links===
+==Suggested links==
 See [[MRP: House in St. John Street, Clerkenwell|House in St. John Street, Clerkenwell]]
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-===Location===
+==Location==
 The Bishop's palace or place, also known as Halling Hall, lay in the centre of the village of Lower Halling off what is now called Ferry Road. It bordered the western bank of the River Medway, and overlooked the Wouldham marshes to the east and south. A ferry linked the two banks of the Medway at this point, where the modern river is particularly narrow, as it turns with a sharp kink on the way from Snodland towards Chatham, Strood and Rochester.
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 The topographer William Ireland, published in 1830, commented on the unhealthy situation of Lower Halling in comparison with the nearby village of Upper Halling, which was built on higher ground half a mile further west.  He suggested that the place was rendered "far from healthy and pleasant" as a result of the quantity of salt and freshwater marshland which lay between the chalk uplands and the river Medway.<ref>This is the footnote text</ref>  The land was not of high quality, being largely of chalk.  Francis Grose, published in 1782, preferred the name Halling hall over the Bishop's palace, and was more positive about the location, noting that the name of Halling signifies in Saxon "the wholesome low place or meadow."  He stated that it was one of four houses belonging to the bishops of Rochester and was "pleasantly situated on the western banks of the river Medway, about three miles south of Rochester."<ref>This is the footnote text</ref>  The parish of Halling itself was a small parish, with Ireland reporting in 1821 only fifty dwellings and three hundred and forty-six inhabitants in the parish.<ref>This is the footnote text</ref>
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-===Building===
+==Building==
 It is clear that the buildings were in somewhat poor condition by the early seventeenth century, and that they deteriorated further in following century.  Several early seventeenth century Chancery documents comment on the poor condition of the buildings of the Bishop's palace.<ref>This is the footnote text</ref>  Ireland states that in 1715 "a great part of the ruins remained, viz. the chapel, the hall, and a gate, with the arms of the see of Rochester in stone; in which state the fabric continued till within memory, but has since been destroyed for the sake of the materials."<ref>This is the footnote text</ref>  He appears to be paraphrasing Harris' comments on the buildings, which were actually published in 1719 according to Grose.<ref>This is the footnote text</ref>  Grose published an engraving subsequently reproduced elsewhere, which he writes reflects the state of the buildings in 1759.<ref>This is the footnote text</ref>
-<u>''Halling House, Kent, Grose, 1784 (reflecting 1759)''<ref>‘Halling House, Kent’ in Francis Grose, ''The antiquities of England and Wales'', vol. 3 (London, 1784), plate between pp. 52 & 53</ref></u>
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-[[File:ENGRAVING_Halling_Hall_Kent_Grose_1784.png|thumbnail|350px]]
+Halling House, Kent, Grose, 1784<ref>‘Halling House, Kent’ in Francis Grose, ''The antiquities of England and Wales'', vol. 3 (London, 1784), plate between pp. 52 & 53</ref>
-<u>''Halling Hall, Kent, Lowry, 1786''<ref>‘Halling House, Kent’, engraved by Lowry, published in ''Picturesque Views of the Antiquities of England & Wales'', 1786. Copper engraved print, good condition. Size 17.5 x 13.5 cms including title, plus margins.  Digital image is courtesy of http://antiqueprints.com</ref></u>
+[[File:ENGRAVING_Halling_Hall_Kent_Grose_1784.png|thumbnail|500px|none]]
-[[File:ENGRAVING_Halling_Hall_Kent_Lowry_1786.jpg|thumbnail|350px]]
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+===Halling Hall, Kent, Lowry, 1786===
-===Link to Dallison/Dalyson family===
 The Bishop's palace or Halling hall came into the Dalyson family through the marriage of the lawyer William Dalyson to Silvester Dene of Halling.  On the death of Silvester's father the lease came to William Dalyson.  William predeceased Silvester, who married again to a fellow lawyer, William Lambarde, known also for his early county history of Kent.  Lambarde resided in Halling until Silvester's death in 1587, when he returned to East Greenwich, and the lease then was transferred to her son, Maximilian, the future [[MRP: Sir Maximilian Dallison|Sir Maximilian Dallison]], father of [[MRP: William Dallison| Elizabeth's husband, William]].  Sir Maximilian resided at the Bishop's palace, as did William and Elizabeth, but on the marriage of their son, Maximilian, to Frances Stanley in 1649/50, Maximilian and his wife moved to [[MRP: The Hamptons| the Hamptons]], Kent, somewhat further west, having leased that property from Frances' father, Thomas Stanley.
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 See [[http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?ie=UTF&msa=0&msid=207879955198622961243.0004aa72c7a9d9d408cca - Map of North Weald Houses]]
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-===Image credits===
+==Image credits==
-[http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=GY1bAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false Plate VI. 'East view of the ruins of Halling palace' in John Thorpe, ''Bibliotheca Topographica Britannia'' (?London, 1782), vol. VI, pt. 1, between pp. 2 & 3]
+(1) 'Halling House, Kent' in Francis Grose, ''The antiquities of England and Wales'', vol. 3  (London, 1784), plate between pp. 52 & 53
-‘Halling House, Kent’ in Francis Grose, ''The antiquities of England and Wales'', vol. 3  (London, 1784), plate between pp. 52 & 53.  Source book and engraving are out of copyright.
+- Source book and engraving are out of copyright
-‘Halling House, Kent’, engraved by Lowry, published in ''Picturesque Views of the Antiquities of England & Wales'', 1786. Copper engraved print, good condition. Size 17.5 x 13.5 cms including title, plus margins.  Source book and engraving are out of copyright. Digital image is courtesy of [http://www.antiqueprints.com - antiqueprints.com] and has been made [http://www.antiqueprints.com/image-use.html - available for website reproduction on the basis of non-commercial use]
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-===Primary sources===
+==Primary sources==
 BL, MS. 28,000, Letter from Henry Oxinden (?of Barham) to John Warner, Bishop of Rochester, April 17th 1643, f. 243, printed in Dorothy Gardiner, ''The Oxinden and Peyton Letters, 1642-1670, being the Correspondence of Henry Oxinden of Barham, Sir Thomas Peyton of Knowlton and Their Circle'' (London, 1937), pp. 14-15
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-===Secondary sources===
+==Secondary sources==
 [http://www.archive.org/stream/englandstopogra02irelgoog#page/n307/mode/2up - W.H. Ireland, ''England's topographer: or A new and complete history of the county of Kent'', vol. 4 (London, 1830), pp. 271-277]
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-===Images===
+==Images==
 Plate of engraving of the ruins of the episcopal palace of Halling, between p. 270 & 271, in W.H. Ireland, ''England's topographer: or A new and complete history of the county of Kent'', vol. 4 (London, 1830)
 [http://www.antiqueprints.com/images/af2/f2808.jpg - ‘Halling House, Kent’, engraved by Lowry, published in ''Picturesque Views of the Antiquities of England & Wales'', 1786. Copper engraved print, good condition. Size 17.5 x 13.5 cms including title, plus margins]
 Plate of engraving of Halling Hall, Kent in Francis Grose, ''The antiquities of England and Wales'' (XXXX, 1784), plate between pp. 52 & 53.  This plate appears to be an earlier version of the plate engraved by Lowry in ''Picturesque Views of the Antiquities of England & Wales'', 1786
 Plate VI. 'East view of the ruins of Halling palace' in John Thorpe, ''Bibliotheca Topographica Britannia'' (?London, 1782), vol. VI, pt. 1, between pp. 2 & 3

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-==Dallison family house, Bishops palace (or place), Halling, Kent, also known as Halling hall==
+'''Dallison family house, Bishops palace (or place), Halling, Kent, also known as Halling Hall'''
 '''Editorial history'''
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 ===Location===
-The Bishop's palace or place, also known as Halling hall, lay in the centre of the village of Lower Halling off what is now called Ferry Road. It bordered the western bank of the River Medway, and overlooked the Wouldham marshes to the east and south. A ferry linked the two banks of the Medway at this point, where the modern river is particularly narrow, as it turns with a sharp kink on the way from Snodland towards Chatham, Strood and Rochester.
+The Bishop's palace or place, also known as Halling Hall, lay in the centre of the village of Lower Halling off what is now called Ferry Road. It bordered the western bank of the River Medway, and overlooked the Wouldham marshes to the east and south. A ferry linked the two banks of the Medway at this point, where the modern river is particularly narrow, as it turns with a sharp kink on the way from Snodland towards Chatham, Strood and Rochester.
 The topographer William Ireland, published in 1830, commented on the unhealthy situation of Lower Halling in comparison with the nearby village of Upper Halling, which was built on higher ground half a mile further west.  He suggested that the place was rendered "far from healthy and pleasant" as a result of the quantity of salt and freshwater marshland which lay between the chalk uplands and the river Medway.<ref>This is the footnote text</ref>  The land was not of high quality, being largely of chalk.  Francis Grose, published in 1782, preferred the name Halling hall over the Bishop's palace, and was more positive about the location, noting that the name of Halling signifies in Saxon "the wholesome low place or meadow."  He stated that it was one of four houses belonging to the bishops of Rochester and was "pleasantly situated on the western banks of the river Medway, about three miles south of Rochester."<ref>This is the footnote text</ref>  The parish of Halling itself was a small parish, with Ireland reporting in 1821 only fifty dwellings and three hundred and forty-six inhabitants in the parish.<ref>This is the footnote text</ref>