Villare Cantianum, or, Kent surveyed
I am highly dubious about this connection to the Raymond family and the Kent connection. The foreword in Philipot's tome and the association with the Battle Abbey Rolls is too suspicious
This page to re-submitted for indexing as it could contain misinformation regarding the Kent Connection. Thomas Wright gets his assertion that the Raymonds ancestors are from Kent from Villare Cantianum.
John Philipot - (Thomas)
I have a text file of the contents of Villare Cantianum, or, Kent surveyed and illustrated, by John Philipot b 1589 - d 1645. Thomas Philipot d. 1682 and collected by John Philipot
I cannot find the reference to Philip Raymond, but I can find a reference to the village of Wye, in Villare Cantianum, or, Kent surveyed. Thomas Wright quotes this a source. Wright does mention Philip at Hunsdon in Hertfordshire, but does not say where he gets that information.
When cited it is often referred to as "Philipots". Villare Cantianum came to my attention when it was mentioned by
the Duchess of Cleveland in her book "The Battle Abbey Roll".
The plural is because John published his father's work under his own.
Wye was a hundred of the county of Kent - it does not exist on modern maps or as an administrative region.
Villare Cantianum is not easy to decypher but the county of Kent was divided by the Tudors, Henry and Elizabeth.
Wye is an historic village in Kent, England, centred 12 miles (19 km) from Canterbury
Villare Cantianum: OR KENT SURVEYED and ILLUSTRATED. Being an exact DESCRIPTION of all the Parishes Burroughs,
Villages, and other respective Mannors Included in the County of KENT; And, the Original and Intermedial
Possessors of them, even until these Times.
Drawn out of Charters, Escheat-Rolls, Fines, and other
Publick Evidences; but especially out of Gentlemens
Private Deeds and Muniments.
By THOMAS PHILIPOTT Esq; formerly of Clare-Hall in Cambridge.
The Introduction to Villare Cantianum
To the Nobility and Gentry of KENT.
My Lords and Gentlemen,
I Have at last demolishd those difficulties which intercepted this Work, in that progress it endevoured to make,
to offer it self up both to yours and the publick view. Yet I do not deny, in a Peice made rugged with so many knots, several Mistakes and Omissions must (through Inadvertency and Mis-information) have slip'd in; some of which had their first extraction from the Presse,
and some their birth from my Pen:
All which I have collected into a Table of Addenda, which is immediately subsequent to the Preface, whither the Reader
may retire to disperse all scruples.
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Raymonds in Kent
Below is the text from Philipot's Villare Cantianum that quotes the reference to Raymonds and Wye.
Raymonds is the last place of Account in Wye, which afforded a Seat, and gave a Sirname to a Family so called,
and were eminent in this Parish many hundred years since, as being Stewards to the Abby of Battle for Lands
near this place, and it is probable this place was the original Seminary or Fountain from whence the
Raimonds of Essex, Norfolk, and other Counties in this Nation, deduced their primitive Extraction:
But to advance in my discourse:
this Family of Raymond having long since abandoned the Signory of this place, it hath been for sundry
Descents the Inheritance of Beck, and is still entituled to the propriety of one of this Name and Family.
Philipot also makes reference to "the Raimonds of Essex". I am suspicious of the fact that this is repeated in the Battle Abbey Roll, which is known to be somewhat a work of fiction.
Thomas Wright and Philipot's Villare Cantianum, p. 375.
Philipot's Villare Cantianum is where the "Kent Connection" came from.