[Illustration] The name is derived from Henewood, near Postling, in
this county, where the ancestors of this family resided as early as
the reign of Henry III. In the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries
the Honywoods removed to Hythe, which they often represented in
Parliament, and afterwards to Sene, in Newington, near Hythe.
Caseborne, in Cheriton, came from an heiress of that name before the
time of Henry VI.; Evington, by purchase, in the reign of Henry VII.
Younger branches were of Marks Hall, in Essex, and of Petts, in
Charing, in this county. Of the former family was Robert Honywood,
whose wife Mary, daughter of Robert Atwaters, or Waters, lived to
see 367 descendants: she died in 1620, aged 93.
See Topographer and Genealogist, i. 397, 568; ii. 169, 189, 256,
312, 433; Hasted's Kent, ii. 442, 449; iii. 308; Wotton's
Baronetage, iii. 105.
ARMS.--_Argent, a chevron between three hawk's heads erased azure_.
These arms, of the time of Richard II. are carved on the cloisters
of Canterbury Cathedral. See Willement, p. 101.
Present Representative, Sir Courtenay John Honywood, 7th Baronet.