Tenterden & District Local History Society
Following on from our January Talk on "PLUTO", here is a map to show the route of the pipeline through Tenterden (dashed line),
From "Tenterden at War" by Ed Adams
A stunning page from
Tenterden's 1558 Cinque Port 'Custumal'
The "customs" or rules of the town
in Tudor Times
Of payeing of Scottes
If any straunge man be dwelling within the towne
reciant & not free, he shall paye to euery scott assessed
within the town, dobill, that a free mÓ‘ shall pay.
"Memento Mori"
The front cover of Dr Jeremiah Cliff's Death Notebook:
a nationally valuable medical and demographic record,
compiled in Tenterden 1712 - 1740.
Dr Cliff is buried in St Mildred's Churchyard.
Dr Cliff's Notes:
Here is a True and perfect and exact list as I have been Able to take In an Alphabeticall Order of all those Persons, Men, Women and Children, that have Dy'd in Tenterden, Beginning March the (?) 18th 1712/3 or thereaboutes, with their names, their Agis as nigh as could be guest at, and what day of the Month and year they dy'd of and also what distemper they dy'd of and also who was their docters that did [for] them in the Time of their sickness.