on a Barn in Kent, &c. 109

Certain it is that in the reign of Edward the Hid there was a Thomas Colepeper refident at Prefton Hall ; but in the other parts of the fentence which I have cited Mr. Hafted did not attend to his notes of the family, made, as he fays, from a large MS. pedigree he had of the feveral branches of it, from a vifitation of the county of Kent in 1626, and from other MSS. in his poffeffion. From thefe documents it is evident [c] that Thomas Colepeper of Prefton Hall was the fon of Walter Colepeper, who died in the laft year of the reign of Edward the Ilnd, feized, as it is recorded in the in- quifition taken after his death, of eftates in Langley, Boughton, Eaft and Weft Farleigh, Yalding, Mailing, Brenchley, and Ship- borne. Joane was the chriftian name of the wife of Walter Cole- peper, and by her he had three fons. Thomas, the eldeft, was of Prefton Hall, and he dying without hTue, the eftate palled to his next brother fir Jeffery, who lived at Prefton Hall, and was fherifF of Kent in the 39th and 43d years of Edward the Hid, and he was the anceftor of the Colepepers, baronets, of Prefton Hall. But Thomas Colepeper, fon of John Colepeper, who married Elizabeth, heirefs of fir John Hardrelhull, fucceeded his father in the manor of Bayhall in Pembury, and there kept his mrievalty in the i^th and 1 8th years of king Richard the Ilnd. Nor can I collect from , any part of the pedigree, as detailed by Mr. Hafted, that there could have been refident in Prefton Hall any male defcendant from the Colepepers of Bayhall, who, as fuch, could have any pretenlion to the arms of Hardrelhull. The claim, as I conceive, mult have been founded on the marriage of Thomas Colepeper, who died in 1587, with Margaret Colepeper, daughter of Thomas Colepeper of Bedg- bury in Goudherft, who was lineally defcended from the Colepepers of Bayhall, and if fo, their fon Thomas Colepeper, who fucceeded 0] Hafted's Kent, V. II. p. 174. his