[Footnote 10: “John Harman, Esquyer, one of the gentilmen hushers of the Chambre of our soverayn Lady the Quene, and the excellent Lady Dame Dorothye Gwydott, widow, late of the town of Southampton, married Dec. 21, 1557.” (Extract from the register of the parish of Stratford Bow, given in p. 499, vol iii. of Lysons’s _Environs of London_.)]
[Footnote 11: Philipott, p. 108. Henry Harman bore for his arms—Argent, a chevron between 3 scalps sable.]
[Footnote 12: Of whose daughters, Mary married John, eldest son of Wm. Lovelace, of Hever in Kingsdown, in this county; and Elizabeth married John Lennard, Prothonotary, and afterwards _Custos Brevium_ of the Common Pleas. See Chevening.]
[Footnote 13: See Robinson’s Gavelkind, p. 300.]
[Footnote 14: She was of consanguinity to Abp. Chicheley. _Stemm. Chich._ No. 106. Thomas Harman had three daughters: Anne, who married Wm. Draper, of Erith, and lies buried there; Mary, who married Thomas Harrys; and Bridget, who was the wife of Henry Binneman. _Ibid._]
The manor of Maxton, in the parish of Hougham “passed to Hobday, and thence to Harman, of Crayford; from which name it was sold by Thomas Harman to Sir James Hales. . . . . William Harman held the manor of Mayton, alias Maxton, with its appurtenances, of the Lord Cheney, as of his manor of Chilham, by Knight’s service. Thomas Harman was his son and heir: Rot. Esch. 2 Edw. VI.”—Hasted’s _History of Kent_, vi. p. 47.
“It is laid down as a rule, that nothing but an act of parliament can change the nature of gavelkind lands; and this has occasioned several [acts], for the purpose of disgavelling the possessions of divers gentlemen in this county. . . . . One out of several statutes made for this purpose is the 3rd of Edw. VI.”—Hasted’s _History of Kent_, vol. i. p. cxliii.
And in the list of names given,—taken from Robinson’s _Gavelkind_—twelfth from the bottom stands that of THOMAS HARMAN.
Of Thomas Harman’s aunt, Mary, Mrs William Lovelace, we find: “John Lovelace, esq., and William Lovelace, his brother, possessed this manor and seat (Bayford-Castle) between them; the latter of whom resided at Bayford, where he died in the 2nd year of K. Edward VI., leaving issue by Mary his wife, daughter of William Harman, of Crayford, seven sons. . . . ”—Hasted’s _History of Kent_, vol. ii. p. 612.