Knights of the Royal Oak
KING CHARLES II. at his restoration, intended to institute an order of knighthood, as a reward to
those who had adhered faithfully to him in his distresses. They were to be called, Knights of the Royal
Oak, and were to bear a silver medal with a device
of the king in the oak, pendant to a ribbon, about
their necks. But it was thought proper to lay it aside,
least it might open those wounds afresh which, at that
time were thought most prudent to be healed. The
names of the intended knights in Kent, with the value of their estates, were as follows:
|
| PER ANNUM. |
| £ | s. | d. |
| Edward Badbye of Hawley, esq. | 1000 | 0 | 0 |
| Edward Roper, esq. | 2000 | 0 | 0 |
| William Roper, esq. | 600 | 0 | 0 |
| Sir Richard Sandys of Norbourn, knt. | 1000 | 0 | 0 |
| William Dyke of Rolvenden, esq. | 1000 | 0 | 0 |
| Thomas English, esq. | 700 | 0 | 0 |
| Stephen Lennard, esq. of West Wickham | 1000 | 0 | 0 |
| Roger Twysden, second son of Sir Roger Twysden of East Peckham, bart | 1000 | 0 | 0 |
| John Clinkerd, esq. of Sutton Valence, esq. | 600 | 0 | 0 |
| Humphry Hide, junior, esq. of Sundridge | 600 | 0 | 0 |
| William Kenwricke, esq. | 600 | 0 | 0 |
| Sir Thomas Leigh of East Wickham, knt. | 1500 | 0 | 0 |
| Sir William Delaune of Sharsted, knt. | 2500 | 0 | 0 |