Richard Kilburne

As a J.P. for the county he was deputed for three or four years during the Commonwealth to celebrate weddings at Hawkhurst without sacred rites, but married only two couples.

[2] Edward Hasted wrote in 1798: "He was a man of some eminence in his profession as a lawyer, having been five times principal of Staples-inn, and of as worthy a character, both as a magistrate and an historian.

"[4] Kilburne died on 15 November 1678, aged 73, and was buried in the north chapel of St Laurence's Church in Hawkhurst, where there is a ledger stone to his memory, in Latin.

After her death he married in 1653 Sarah Birchett, a widow, daughter of James Short; she brought several children from her previous marriage.

[2] After his death, there was published in 1680 Choice Presidents upon all Acts of Parliament relating to the office and duty of a Justice of Peace ... "as also a more usefull method of making up Court-Rolls than hath been hitherto known or published in print," of which a third edition, "very much enlarged," was "made publick by G. F. of Gray's Inn, Esq.," in 1685.