From the Kentish Gazette, Friday 10 February, 1789.

On Wednesday the 14th of Jan. died Mr. J. Topley, of the "Hare and Hounds" on Old Wives Lees, in the parish of Chilham, aged 39. And on Sunday last died his widow, who had lain in a fever seven days, and has left surviving the infant and other young children to deplore the untimely loss of both parents.

There have been left seven widows in the above parish of Chilham, since Michaelmas last.