old the manor of
"Oakley," in the parish of Higham, near Rochester; and in whose possession
it was about the close of the reign of Queen Elizabeth or commencement of
James I.?

The above Kenne, by marrying Elizabeth, the daughter of Sir Roger
Cholmeley, and widow of Sir Leonard Beckwith, of Selby, in co. York,
acquired possession of the same manor in co. Kent.

After the death of his first wife, he married a Florence Stalling, who
survived him. He died in 1592.

F. T.

["Christopher Kenne of Kenne, in the county of Somerset, Esq., was
possessed of the manor of Little Okeley, in Higham, Kent, in the right
of his wife, the daughter and co-heir of Sir Roger Cholmeley, anno {81}
22 Eliz.; and then, having levied a fine of it, sold it to Thompson,
and he, in the reign of Charles I., alienated it to Best."--_Hasted._

Of course, the Christian name of Thompson, and other particulars if
required, can be obtained by a reference to the foot of the fine in the
Record Office, Carlton Ride.]

_Rents of Assize, &c._--In the _Valor Ecclesiasticus_, the following
varieties of income derived from rent of land constantly recur, viz.:

"De redditu (simply).
De redditu assisae.
De redditu libero.
De redditu ad voluntatem."

Can the distinction between these be exactly explained by any corresponding
annual payments for land according to present custom? And will any of your
readers be kind enough to give such explanation?

J.

[_Redditus._--Rents from lands let out to tenants; modern farm rents.

_Redditus Assisae._--Quit rents: fixed sums paid by the tenants of a
manor annually to the lord; as in modern times.

_Redditus Liberi._--Those quit rents which were paid to the lord by
"liberi tenentes," freeholders; as distinguished from "villani bassi
tenentes," &c.

_Redditus ad voluntatem._--Annual payments "ad voluntatem donatium;"
such as "confrana," &c. The modern Easter Offering perhaps corresponds
with them.]

_Edifices of Ancient and Modern Times._--Can any of your architectural or
antiquarian readers inform me where a chronological list of the principal
edifices of ancient and modern times can be found?

GETSRN.

[Consult _Chronological Tables of Ancient and Modern History
Synchronistically and Ethnographically arranged_, fol., Oxford, 1835.
For those relating to Great Britain, see Britton's _Chronological and
Historical Illu