The Battle Abbey Roll. Vol. III.
by
The Duchess of Cleveland.

Prepared by Michael A. Linton
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Paifrere : variously entered in Domesday as Paisfor, Paisforere, and Pastforeire: once a considerable name in Kent. It has long since passed away, and is now only retained by Lullingstone Peyforer—the moiety of the manor that was held by Osbert Peyforer in 1086. He was, under Bishop Odo, the mesne lord of several other Kentish manors, and his descendants were of great note in the county. Fulk Peyforer, Sheriff of Kent in 1259, was seated sometimes at North Court, in Ealing, or sometimes at Colebridge in Boughton-Maleherbe, and with his son William was knighted at the siege of Carlaverock. His name constantly recurs in the county history. He was a man of ample possessions, and had married the heiress of Leverland: twice served as knight of the shire, in 1307 and 1313; obtained license to castellate his manor-house of Colebridge the following year, and died in 1316. In the south chancel of Colebridge Church there remains "a very ancient figure in Bethesden marble of a man in armour, with his sword and shield, lying cross-legged: and on the opposite side a woman, full as ancient and of the like marble:" supposed to represent Sir Fulk and his rich wife.—Hasted's Kent. He was succeeded by his son Sir William. I can find no further mention of the family after 1390. There is some hint of an heiress, Juliana de Peyforer; at all events their large estates passed into other hands about the end of the fourteenth century.