JOHN DE BOIS

From an ancient and valuable pedigree, prepared by John Boys, Esq., of Margate, it appears that this Norman Bois, or John de Bois, or de Bosco, was the progenitor of the East Kent Boys's, who are described by Phillpot in his Villare Paulianum,1659, as a "numerous and knightley familie," and as "having been settled for seventeen prior descents at Bonyngton." One of the descendants, Colonel John Boys was governor of Donnington Castle, in Berkshire, in 1644, and was knighted by King Charles, for his gallant defence of that castle against the rebels, and received an augmentation to his bearing of a crown imperial or on a canton az. Sir John Boys of St. Gregories, Canterbury, founded Jesus Hospital there in 1612. The lineage of the East Kent Boys's is in the Supplemental Volume of Burke's "Landed Gentry."

--(This name appears on the Battle Abbey roll)