The above written is a true Copy of ye Printed Proclamation sent from England for proclaiming of his Majestie King James ye second in ye Province in testimony whereof is affixed ye great seale of This sd Province this

June Annoq Dom 1685.

To ye Sheriff of Kent
County-These

SEC. 108

October ye 28th 1685.

Recorded

Day of

Elias King, Clk. Com. Kent.

At a special Court called this day, by virtue of a writt to the Sheriff appointing a day for Electing two Delegates for the said County for the Assembly to be convened the last Tuesday in March next. Present

Col. Henry Coursey,
Mr. John Hinson,

Mr. William Frisby,
Mr. Charles Tilden.

Ordered yt ye first Tuesday in November is appointed for electing the sd Delegates or Burgesses for the sd County and ordered yt the Sheriff make known the same in the sd County. Elias King, Clk.

Att a Court called and held for the electing Delegates for the sd county this third Day of November 1685 & likewise for Laying the County Levy

By virtue of a New Commission directed to Capt. Wm. Lawrence & others to be Commissioners and Justices of the Peace for the sd County of Kent,-Capt. Wm. Lawrence, Mr. John Hynson and Mr. Charles Tilden took the Oath of Commissioners and Justices of the Peace, and were duly sworne at the house of Mr. Allen Smyth in Kent Island the fourth of this November, and this day (November ye 10th 1685) were sworne on the sd Commission Mr. Cornelius Comegys, Mr. Hans Hanson and Mr. Daniel Norist.

Mr. Philip Conner being called to take the oath refused it. By a just and free Election of the Freemen of the sd County, Mr. Henry Hosier and Mr. Michael Miller were chosen Burgesses for this said County of Kent.

The Court adjourned untill to-morrow morning for Laying the County Levy.

Judges present

Mr. John Hinson,

Mr. Charles Tilden,

Mr. Hans Hanson,

Mr. Daniel Norist.

On Folio 39 is the following memorandum :

James Frisby son of William and Mary Frisby, born at Sassafras river in Cecil county on Thursday near nine of the clock at night, September ye third 1685. Baptized by Mr. John Tillingston at the house lately belonging unto Mr. Simon Carpenter ye 18th of April 1686.

Col. Henry Coursey & Mr. Henry Coursey Godfathers and Mrs. Elizabeth Coursey Godmother.

SEC. 108, A. CHARLES TILDEN, or more properly CHARLES TYLDEN, was the second son of MARMADUKE TYLDEN, who was seated at Great Oak Manor, in Kent County, Md., in or about the year 1658. Marmaduke Tylden was first cousin of Sir Richard Tylden, of Milsted, who d. in 1659, and a grandson of Sir William Tylden, of Great Tyldens, in the Parish of Marden, Kent County, England.

The following lineage is prepared from papers of the late Sir John Cotgreave, Knight, &c., copies of which were certified by his widow, Lady Harriet Cotgreave,-from the pedigrees of the Cotgreaves, Gamul and Cowper de Elton, and from memoirs collected with much care by Richard Tylden, Esq., of Milsted, and continued by his son, Sir John M. Tylden, who says:

"In relation to the Tildens of Great Oak Manor, County Kent, Maryland, and the founder of that branch of the "Tilden family, I have, after mature investigation and due "reflection, arrived at the conclusion that the head of that "branch of the family was at one period principal proprietor "of the large estate, Great Tyldens, near Marden, South "Kent, England, as the large means which he possessed and "the portion he transferred to America (these matters are set "forth in the records, both in the counties of Kent, England, "and Kent in Maryland) justify me in arriving at this con❝clusion. * * * * * The principal of the American "branch appears to have been a cousin of Sir Richard Tylden, "of Milsted, who d. in 1659, and is buried in Milsted church. 66 * * * It appears to have been the custom of the Tyldens, "who are descended from Nathaniel Tylden (who left Kent, "England, in 1628, as shown by the records in Tenterden, "Kent, and settled at Scituate, near Cape Cod, Massachusetts), "to write their name TILDEN. This is supposed to be owing "to the mutations of the English language, about the time of "the first planting of the colonies. The elder branch in Eng"land have never indulged in that practice, not seeing any advantage, but rather many objections.'

Sir Bernard Burke, in his Landed Gentry, says:

"The family of Tyldens, one of great antiquity, has been seated in Kent for several centuries. Of the three distinct branches into which it separated, the eldest branch became possessed of Milsted in that county; the second removed into Sussex, and one of its members, emigrating, founded the numerous Tildens of America, while the youngest branch settled at Ifield. The family anciently possessed lands in the parishes of Brenchly, Otterden, Kinnington and Tilmanstone, and as far back as the reign of Edward III, we find William Tylden paying aid for the lands in Kent, when the Black Prince was knighted."

Definition of the arms of the Tylden family, of Great Tyldens, Milsted, and Great Oak Manor, Maryland:

ARMS.-Azure, a saltier ermine, between four pheons, or. CREST.-A battle-axe, erect, entwined with a snake, proper. MOTTO.-Truth and Liberty.

SIR WILLIAM TYLDEN, of Great Tyldens, the grandfather of Marmaduke Tylden, of Great Oak Manor, Kent County, Maryland, was descended from Sir RICHARD TYLDEN, who was living in the reign of Henry II, and Richard I. He was seneschal to Hugh de Lacy, Constable of Chester, during the reign of Henry II, and afterwards accompanied Cœur de Lion to the Holy Land, and fought under him at ye battle of Ascalon against the Sultan Saladin, Anno 1190.

SIR RICHARD TYLDEN de Sittenbourne, in Kent and Congleton in Cheshire, m. Gertrude, dau. of Sir William Vernon, Lord de Frodsham in Cheshire.

SIR HENRY TYLDEN, son of the above, m. Phillipa, dau. of Sir Richard Boteler de Warrington, Lancaster.

SIR WILLIAM TYLDEN, son of Sir Henry, was living temp. Edward III, and fought in ye van of ye English armye, commanded by ye Lord Audley under ye Black Prince, at ye battle of Poictiers, Anno 1356." He m. Constance, dau. of Rudulphus Gamul, Lord de Mollington, Cheshire.

SIR WILLIAM TYLDEN, son of Sir William, m. Angharad, dau. of Sir Matthew Ellis, de Overleigh, near Chester, England.

SIR THOMAS TYLDEN, son of the above, m. Alice, dau. of Robert del Holme, Lord of Tranmore, Cheshire.

SIR JOHN TYLDEN, son of Sir Thomas, m. Isabel, dau. of Sir Roger Cotgreave, Lord de Hargrave, of Tarrin and Tuttenhall, Cheshire.

SIR WILLIAM TYLDEN, son of the above, m. Elizabeth, dau. of James Yonge, gentleman, of Tunstal, County Kent. He

was of Great Tyldens, in the parish of Marden. He sold a portion of Great Tyldens in the reign of Henry VI and bought Chatts Place, which continued in the family until the Revolution. He removed to Worms hill, in the early part of the reign of Queen Elizabeth, d. 23d June 1613, and is buried in the back chancel of the church. He was the ancestor of the Tyldens, of Milsted and of Great Oak Manor, Kent Co., Md.

This part of the Tylden pedigree was obtained from the "Papers of the late Sir John Cotgreave, Knight, &c., in which are found Pedigrees of the Cotgreaves, Gamul and Cowper de Elton; compiled by William Camden in 1591, and drawn out by Randal Holme in 1670. The armorial bearings are curious, and show that Sir Richard Tylden's ancestors had intermarried with the family of Fitzhugh, Baron Lord Malpas, and nephew to Hugh Lupers, first Norman Earl of Chester, temp. William the Conqueror; also with the family of Crews of Montel, now Mould, chez Flint." The remainder of the pedigree is compiled chiefly from Burke's Landed Gentry, and papers in the possession of the family, now living in England.

SIR RICHARD TYLDEN, son of Sir William Tylden and his wife Elizabeth Tonge, purchased 16th Sept. 9th Charles I, from Edward Chute, Esq., of Bethersden, the manor and advowson of Milsted, Kent Co., England, and m. Elizabeth, dau. of John Toke, Esq., of Godington, of consanguinity to Archbishop Chichele, the founder of All Souls' College. He d. in 1659, leaving a son, William Tylden.

WILLIAM TYLDEN, ESQ., of Milsted, son of Sir Richard and his wife, Elizabeth Toke, m. Hannah, dau. of Sir Thomas Manby, of Lincolnshire, and d. in 1703, leaving an only son, Richard Tylden.

RICHARD TYLDEN, ESQ., of Milsted, son of William and Hannah Manby Tylden, m. in 1710, Elizabeth, dau. of Thomas Osborne, Esq., of Place House, Kent Co., England, and coheir to her brother. She d. in 1766, aged 79. He d. in 1763, and had child., viz., Richard Osborne, his heir,- Hannah, who m. Edward Belcher, Esq., of Ulcomb, and had two child., viz., Mary, who m. in April 1748, Rev. Thomas Bland, A. M., Vicar of Sittenbourne, and Phillipa Tylden.

THE REV. RICHARD OSBORNE TYLDEN, of Milsted, and Rector thereof, son of Richard and Elizabeth Osborne Tylden, m. in Oct. 1754, Deborah, dau. and heiress of Daniel May, Esq., d. in 1766, aged 44 years, leaving his widow, who afterwards m. Rev. Edward Smith, Rector of Milsted, and had