GREEN MAN Pubs of Shatterling

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Earliest 1740

Green man

Latest 1996

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Shatterling

Staple

Above photo taken from www.staple-online.com and hopefully will be updated soon.

Above photo showing Sydney Curtis, his wife and daughter, circa 1965. Kindly sent by Jan Rafferty.

Above card issued April 1955. Sign series 5 number 23.

Green Man sign July 1991.

Above with thanks from Brian Curtis www.innsignsociety.com

Above menu circa 1975, kindly sent by Rory Kehoe.

The Green Man was built in 1728, in the reign of George II. It was originally a farm dwelling and comprised a main tenement with stable, outhouses, barn, hop-grounds, 9 acres of land with 1 acre of wooded land. It was part of the possessions of Christopher Ernest Kien, of Kensington Palace, a lieutenant colonel of the Horse Guards, who possessed certain estates, the manor of Polton and the hamlet of Shatterling in the parish of Staple. Not long after the house was built he leased part of his estate (including the house) to the Honourable Richard Ingoldsbey of Grosvenor Street, London. He subsequently re-leased this property to Abraham Larkins, a farmer of Staple.

The Wingham Division Ale Licence list, shows the "Green Man," although addressed at Staple, but should have been addressed Shatterling, being granted a new licence for the sum of 16 shillings in 1740. The new licence indicating that this was probably a new ale house in that year.

Christopher Ernest Kien died in 1744 and passed his estate, by the terms of his will, to his widow, Jane. She, in 1758, leased the house and part of her estate to Sumuel Joynes Esq. of London. In the same year he granted an extension of lease upon the house and its land to Naomi Larkin, widow of Abraham. Jane Kien died in 1762 and passed her estate, by will, to Evert George Cousemaker Esq. Of Westminster. However, he had little benefit from his bequest, for he died in the following year, whereupon his estate passed to his wife Mary, the daughter of Gervas Hayward, merchant and mayor of Sandwich.

Not long after the death of her husband, Mary Cousemaker married her second husband, Sir Thomas Pym Hales, Baronet of Howletts in the County of Kent, whereupon he became possessor of the house and her estate. At this point the house was occupied by the widow Larkin, who is described as her husband was, as a farmer. Sir Thomas Pym Hales died in 1773, and his estate reverted to his wife, Dame Mary Hales. She died in 1788, and her estate passed to her only son from her first marriage, George Kien Hayward Cousemaker, who is described as a Captain in His Majesty's Foot Regiment of First Guards. At this date, one Joseph White, gentleman of London, was tenant of his estate, whilst the house was in the occupation of Jacob Larkins.

George Kien Hayward Cousemaker married the Honourable Catherine Southwell, daughter of the late Edward Lord de Clifford, to whom the estate passed in 1794 upon the death of her husband. She passed it by will in 1797 to her son George. He possessed it until his death in 1820, whereupon it passed to his daughter Sophia. At this date (and for some years prior) there had been an ale house adjacent to this property, called the Green Man, which had once been part of the same estate, but at some time had reverted to Gervas Hayward, Mayor of Sandwich. There had occurred an infringement of the licence of that house and for some time the heirs of Gervas Hayward had petitioned to close it. Upon the achievement of this, a clause was written stating that the property should never be used as an ale house, and it never was again.

In 1820, the house was occupied by Filmer Larkins, farmer and son of Jacob. He, with the consent of the estate and two justices at Sandwich, was granted a licence to sell ales from the premises, which at the hearing he registered as The Green Man. The licence stated that: 'The ales sold or issued shall not be adulterated or impured upon, or issued from pots of illegal measure and shall not be consumed between the hours of divine service. The course of gaming shall not be permitted within the premises, nor shall there be drunkenness; and thieves shall not be harboured within the premises.' And so, having given two sureties of his good character to uphold the terms of his licence, Filmer Larkins opened the doors of the house and sold ale from it for the first time. In 1826 he was granted a full licence, and The Green Man became a registered tavern.

The Green Man at this date was in the possession of Sophia Russell, daughter of George Cousemaker, and her husband John who was a captain in the Royal Navy. They held the estate, along with the most noble Henry Charles, Duke of Beaufort, Knight of the most noble Order of the Garter, and Francis Russell, the Marquis of Tavistock. Though from this point other heirs and co-heirs became entitled to parts of the estate, and there followed lengthy arguments at law, which culminated in 1830 when Sophia Russell, then the Baroness de Clifford, petitioned Parliament; an act was passed amending the laws respecting conveyances and surrender of estates and funds vested in trustees and mortgages. Among those heirs were the family of Dyneley who had been granted the estate by Henry VIII, in 1530.

In 1841 Sophia Baroness de Clifford, the noble Francis, Duke of Bedford and Robert Hale Blagden Hale sold the Green Man 'with its land and all appurtenaces' to John Dadds Esq. Of Wingham. However, he in the same year accepted the promisary note of George Collard, victualler of Staple, for the sum of £450 for the Green Man, that it became payable over a period of time with interest. (Certain amounts of which remain unpaid to this day). George Collard kept the house until his death in 1863, whereupon his widow Clara sold it to the Gardner Godden Brewery of Ash-Next-Sandwich. The first tenanted keeper of the Green Man was Thomas Wyborn, a market Gardner, who during his time there carried on that business as well as the day to day running of the house, as did others that followed him. In 1951 the Gardner Brewery merged with Tomson & Wotton of Ramsgate, to form Combined Brewery Holdings, which in 1955 was taken over by the Whitbread Brewery. They in 1972 sold it as a Free House.

Kentish Gazette, 14 April 1857.

WINGHAM.

An Assault Case.

At the petty sessions, James Sully and George Solly were charged with having assault and beaten Wm. Thomas Tritton, of Staple, on the 19th ult.

The complainant deposed that on the evening on the 8th March, in company with his father, he went to the "Green Man" at Chattering, (sic) about a sale. They arrived there about seven o’clock, and left the house at midnight. When they had got 200 yards on the turnpike road leading to Wingham, they were saluted by the defendant, and after some words, the complainant’s father and James Solly scuffled together, and they both fell to the ground. He picked his father up, and told the defendants to go about their business. They then left. They were in liquor. Upon reaching the cottages, however, the defendant suddenly sprang upon them and knocked them both down with sticks, and then ran off. Complainant's father was wounded over the eye, and lay senseless for some little time, while complainant's jaw was slightly injured.

George Solly denied having struck the complainant at all, and James Solly admitted doing so, but it was in self defence, as they struck him first. He called his master, who proved that his face was covered with blood, the same morning at five o'clock, and that his lips were swollen, and a piece knocked off his nose.

The bench dismissed the case, as they did not think it was satisfactorily made out. They said they should have been better satisfied with the testimony of the complainant and his father if they had not been in the public house so long previous to the occurrence.

From the Whitstable Times and Herne Bay Herald, Saturday 15 September, 1883.

AS UNGRATEFUL WOMAN.

Mary Gray, a hop-picker, was charged, on remand, with stealing a large number of articles of clothing, bedding, pawnbroker's tickets, &c., to the value of £3 10s. the property of Charles Charlton, at Staple, on the 21st August.

Alice Charlton said her husband was a labourer, and they were staying at the "Green Man Inn," Staple. The articles produced, besides several others which had disappeared, where the property of her husband. She saw them in the outhouse, where they had been sleeping, safe on Tuesday morning, but in the evening they were gone.

Accused pleaded guilty to the theft.

Supt. Kewell said the prosecutor and his wife saw the woman on the road, and kindly gave her some assistance, this being the return she gave. She had undergone imprisonment for larceny in July last, and he believed, had also been to Maidstone Gaol. She said she belonged to London.

Sentenced to three months’ imprisonment.

From the Dover Express and East Kent News, Friday 14 September, 1888. 1d.

WINGHAM PETTY SESSIONS

The report of Superintendent Kewell showed that the ale houses, beer houses, and grocers, and others licensed to sell spirits, wine, and beer within part of the Wingham Division under his superintendence with the following exceptions have been well conducted:

The exceptions were the “Green Man,” Staple, kept by Eliza Setterfield, who was fined £1 and costs for opening her house for the sale on intoxicating liquor during prohibited hours on Sunday, 17th June, 1888.

This extract is from the book "Inns of Kent", Whitbread & Co. Ltd., published 1948:-

[...] The Sandwich road is regained, and in a mile or two "The Green Man" at Shatterling is passed, standing solitary amidst orchards and market gardens. [...]

LICENSEE LIST

PAINE Thomas 1740+ (Staple)