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Originally appearing in Volume V24, Page 709 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SEVENOAKS , a See also:

market See also:town in the Sevenoaks See also:parliamentary See also:division of See also:Kent, See also:England, 22 M. S.E. by S. of See also:London by the See also:South-Eastern and See also:Chatham railway. Pop. of See also:urban See also:district (1901) 81o6. It is beautifully situated on high ground among the wooded undulations of the See also:North See also:Downs, above the valley of the See also:river Darent. The town consists principally of two streets which converge at the south end, near which is the See also:church of St See also:Nicholas, of the 13th, 14th and 15th centuries. It contains monuments of the See also:Amherst See also:family and a tablet to See also:William Lambarde (d. 16os), which was removed from the old See also:parish church of See also:Greenwich when that was demolished. Lambarde was author of the Perambulation of Kent, and founded the See also:College of the Poor of See also:Queen See also:Elizabeth at Greenwich. The See also:grammar school founded in 1418 by See also:Sir William Sevenoke was reconstituted as a first-grade See also:modern school in 1877. There is also a school founded by See also:Lady See also:Margaret See also:Boswell, wife of Sir William Boswell, See also:ambassador to See also:Charles I. at The See also:Hague, and See also:alms-houses founded by Sir William Sevenoke in connexion with his school. See also:Close to Sevenoaks is Knole See also:Park, one of the finest old residences in England, which in the See also:time of See also:King See also:John was possessed by the See also:earl of See also:Pembroke, and after passing to various owners was bought by See also:Archbishop See also:Bourchier (d. 1486), who rebuilt the See also:house.

He See also:

left the See also:property to the see of Canter-See also:bury, and about the time of the See also:dissolution it was given up by See also:Cranmer to See also:Henry VIII. By Elizabeth it was conferred first on the earl of See also:Leicester and then on See also:Thomas See also:Sackville, afterwards earl of See also:Dorset. By this earl it was in See also:great See also:part rebuilt and fitted up in regard to decoration much as it now exists. The gateway in the See also:outer See also:court and the Perpendicular See also:chapel are from Archbishop Bourchier's time. The great See also:hall, with elaborately carved See also:music-See also:gallery, is mainly the See also:work of the first earl.

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