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The Lowey of Tunbridge (Vol. iv., p. 294.).
—There still is, I believe, a district known by this name. In order to save the valuable space in "NOTES AND QUERIES," I will merely refer E. N. W. for information respecting it to the following works:
"A Perambulation of Kent; written in the yeere 1570 by William Lambarde of Lincolnes Inn, Gent. Imprinted at London by Edm. Bollisant, 1596."—Page 425.
This first I believe to be a somewhat scarce book.
"A Topographie or Survey of the County of Kent. By Richard Kilburne, London, 1659."—Pp. 276, 277.
"Tunbridge Wells and its Neighbourhood. By Paul Amsinck, Esq., London, 1810."—Pp. 97-99.
There are incidental notices of Tunbridge Lowey in Hasteds History of Kent. From the Parliamentary Gazetteer I extract the following (to which my attention has been directed by a friend):—
"Tunbridge Lowey, a division in the Lathe of Aylesford, County of Kent. Area, 20,660 acres; houses, 2,072; population in 1831, 12,233."
In 1841 the census returns for that district gave a population of 14,638.