Present Representative, George Henry Roper Curzon, 16th Baron Teynham. KNATCHBULL OF MERSHAM-HATCH, BARONET 1641. [Illustration] Hasted gives no detailed pedigree of this family before the purchase of the manor and estate of Hatch, by Richard Knatchbull, in the reign of Henry VII. It appears however that the first recorded ancestor, John Knatchbull, held lands in the parish of Limne, in this county, in the reign of Edward III., where some of the name remained in that of Charles I. There are pedigrees in the Visitations of Kent of 1574 and 1619. See Philpot's Kent, p.199; Hasted's Kent, iii. 286; and Wotton's Baronetage, ii. 228. ARMS.--_Azure, three cross-crosslets fitchée in bend or, cotised of the same_. Present Representative, Sir Norton Joseph Knatchbull, 10th Baronet. FILMER OF EAST-SUTTON, BARONET 1674. [Illustration] The Filmers were anciently seated at the manor of Herst, in the parish of Otterden, in this county, in the reign of Edward II., and there remained till the time of Elizabeth, when Robert Filmer, son of James, removed to Little-Charleton, in East-Sutton: the manor was purchased by his elder son. There are pedigrees of Filmer in the Kentish Visitations of 1574 and 1619. The Baronetcy was conferred by Charles II., as a reward for the loyal exertions of Sir Robert Filmer during the Usurpation. See Hasted's Kent, ii. 410; Wotton's Baronetage, iii. 581. ARMS.--_Sable three bars, and in chief three cinquefoils or_. Present Representative, Sir Edmund Filmer, 9th Baronet, late M.P. for West Kent. OXENDEN OF DENE, BARONET 1678. [Illustration] Solomon Oxenden, who lived in the reign of Edward III., is the first known ancestor. Dene, in the parish of Wingham, was purchased at the latter part of the reign of Henry VI. The family had previously been stated at Brook, in the same parish. Thomas Oxenden died seised of Dene in 1492. There is a pedigree in the Visitation of Kent in 1619. See Hasted's Kent, iii. 696; Wotton's Baronetage, iii. 638. ARMS.--_Argent, a chevron gules between three oxen sable_. Confirmed in the 24th of Henry VI. Present Representative, Sir Henry Chudleigh Oxenden, 8th Baronet. FINCH OF EASTWELL, EARL OF WINCHILSEA AND NOTTINGHAM 1628-1681. [Illustration] "The name of the Finches," writes Leland, "hath bene of ancient tyme in estimation in Southsex about Winchelesey, and by all likelyhod rose by sum notable merchaunte of Winchelesey." The name is said to be derived from the manor of Finches in the parish of Kidd. Vincent Herbert, alias Finch, married Joan, daughter and heir of Robert de Pitlesden, of Tenderden. His son was of Netherfield, in Sussex, in the reign of Richard II. and Henry IV.; and was the ancestor of this family, who were of the Moat, near Canterbury, by marriage with the heiress of Belknap before 1493. Eastwell came by the coheiress of Moyle about the reign of Elizabeth.